Material Resarch Societyの１１月ボストンでのシンポジウム
です。
量子ドットの大家達がどっと参加します。
もちろん日本代表、世界チャンピオンの岡田先生も招待
講演です。
次世代を見渡したい人はそうど。
ちなみにＡ４サイズの太陽電池で一家の電気を賄える
ほど高効率でっせ。
http://www.mrs.org/s_mrs/bin.asp?CID=13669&DID=208287&DOC=FILE.PDF
MRS Symposium N: Next-Generation and Nano-Architectured Photovoltaics
This symposium will highlight recent discoveries in solid-state physics and materials science that can be used to substantially augment photovoltaic power conversion.
Next-generation and nanostructured solar cells have attracted significant recent interest since they offer the promise of both high efficiency and low cost. High efficiency is achievable because nanostructured and other novel materials may enable several advanced-concept solar cell designs that can exceed the one-junction Shockley-Queisser efficiency limit, such as solar cells utilizing multiple exciton generation or intermediate bands. Further, through processes such as up/down conversion, improvement of existing solar-cell efficiencies may be achieved through the addition of coatings, e.g., containing nanostructures. In addition to their efficiency potential, nanostructured solar cells offer the promise of low cost since substantial research efforts are focused on developing low-cost self-assembly approaches to fabrication. While generalized efficiency-limit calculations have predicted high efficiencies for next-generation and nanostructured solar cells, substantial fundamental theoretical and practical challenges still exist in their implementation. The goal of this symposium is to gather researchers with a diverse research expertise in order to evaluate the current status and future prospects of next-generation and nano-architectured solar-cell devices.
Topics will include:
• Multiple exciton generation
• Intermediate band and impurity photovoltaic materials and devices
• Hot-carrier solar cells
• Thermophotonic conversion
• Nano-architectured (e.g., quantum dot, quantum wire, quantum well, and nanotube) photovoltaic materials and devices
• Nanomaterial-sensitized and hybrid solar cells
• Plasmonics and nanophotonics-enhanced photovoltaic devices
• Up/down conversion in photovoltaic devices
• Materials development; modeling; characterization: for next-generation and nano-architectured photovoltaic materials and devices
Invited speakers include:
Harry Atwater (California Inst. of Technology), Stanislav Baluschev (Max Planck Inst. for Polymer Research-Mainz, Germany), Keith Barnham (Imperial College London, United Kingdom), Amanda Chatten (Imperial College London, United Kingdom), Randy Ellingson (National Renewable Energy Lab), Simon Fafard (Cyrium Technologies, Canada), Jean François Guillemoles (CNRS, France), Tony Heinz (Columbia Univ.), Brendan Kayes (California Inst. of Technology), Antonio Luque (Inst. de Energia Solar, Madrid, Spain), Yoshitaka Okada (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan), Richard Schaller (Los Alamos National Lab), Timothy Schmidt (Univ. of Sidney, Australia), Wladeslaw Walukiewicz (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab), and Alex Zunger (National Renewable Energy Lab).