20th Sede Boqer Symposium on Solar Electricity Production

jointly with the
IKI Annual Nano-Day
and the
BGU-ENEA WORKSHOP

September 26-28, 2016


Speaker's Presentations available on-line (Speaker’s name in bold)

 

Monday, September 26, 2016

Session 1.1

Nanostructured Materials and Devices for Solar Energy Conversion

1.1.5

Heterojunction Based Hybrid Silicon Nanowire Solar Cell

M. Y. Bashouti, J. Ristein, S. H. Christiansen

Session 1.3:

Photonic Nanostructures and Light Management for Highly Efficient Solar Cells  

1.3.1

Thermally Enhanced Photo-Luminescence Device for Solar Energy Under Practical Conditions

N. Kruger, M. Kurtulik, A. Manor, T. Sabapathy and C. Rotschild

1.3.3

Non-Radiative Energy Transfer Mediated High Efficiency Radial p-n Junction Hybrid Solar Cells using Nanocrystalline Si Quantum Dots and Si Nanowires
M. Dutta

1.3.5

Ray optics light trapping beyond the Lambertian limit

A. Niv and I. Frenkel

Session 1.4.

Organic Photovoltaics

1.4.3

Some “Small" Molecules Applications in Photovoltaics

G. Zanotti, Q. Burlingame, L. Ciammaruchi, E. A. Katz, S. R. Forrest, N. Angelini, P. Imperatori, Giuseppe. Mattioli, Sara Notarantonio, A. M. Paoletti, G. Pennesi, D. Caschera, Luisa De Marco, G. Gigli

1.4.4

The Role of Contact Injection, Exciton Dissociation and Recombination – Revealed through Voltage and Intensity Mapping of the Quantum Efficiency of Polymer:Fullerene Solar Cells

L. Tzabari1, J. Wang2, Y.J. Lee2, J. W.P Hsu2 and N. Tessler1

 

 

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Session 2.1

Invited Keynote Lecture

 

 

Solution processable photovoltaics: Science and technology *

Prof. Guglielmo Lanzani

Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

 

Session 2.2

Research Topics in Solar Energy Conversion – BGU-ENEA WORKSHOP

 

2.2.1

Enea Activities in Solar Energy
F. Roca

2.2.2

Computer Modelling of Materials for PV Applications
M. Celino and S. Migliori

2.2.3

Biofuels and Biorefineries for Renewable Energy
V. Pignatelli

2.2.4

Solar Energy in MIB-Solar

M. Acciarri

 

2.2.6

Photovoltaic (PV) Modules Requirements from an Owner's Point of View

R. Avin

 

Session 2.3

Invited Keynote Lecture

State of the Art of Solar Tower Technology

Dr. Clifford Ho

Sandia National Laboratories, USA

 

Session 2.4

Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)

 

2.4.1

Solar Electricity with Thermo-Electro-Chemical Storage (TECS)

E. Wenger, M. Epstein and A. Kribus

 

2.4.2

Surface Roughness Metrics and its Relation to Heat Losses from Solar Vacuum Heat Collector Elements

D. Nakar and D. Feuermann

 

2.4.3

Developments in the Shikun&Binui project at Ashalim

C. Sugarmen

 

 

Session 2.5: Materials and Devices for Photo-Electrochemical and Photovoltaic Conversion of Sunlight

 

2.5.5

Structural, Optical and Photoelectric Properties of Femtosecond Laser-Modified a-Si:H Films

M. V. Khenkin, R. Drevinkas, P. Kazansky and A. G. Kazanskii

 

 

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Session 3.1 

Perovskite-based Photovoltaic Materials and Devices I

 

3.1.2

A Mesoporous-Planar Hybrid Architecture of MAPbI3 Provskite Based Photovoltaic Devices

R. K. Misra, M. Layani, S. Aharon, S. Magdassi and L. Etgar

 

Session 3.2

Perovskite-based Photovoltaic Materials and Devices II

 

3.2.2

Effect of Halide Composition on the Photochemical Stability of Perovskite Photovoltaic Materials

L. Ciammaruchi, Ravi K. Misra, Sigalit Aharon, Dmitry Mogilyansky, Lioz Etgar, Iris Visoly-Fisher and  Eugene A. Katz

 

 

Session 3.4: Photovoltaic Devices and Systems

 

3.4.2

Optimizing the Energy Output of Multi-Junction Solar Cells: A theoretical assessment

A. Vossier, L. Parent, A. Dollet, D. Chemisana, C. Gueymard