Session: Materials for Alternative Energy: Solar Cells (2010 Annual Meeting)

Wednesday, November 10, 2010: 12:30 PM

251 E Room (Salt Palace Convention Center)

Description:

This session discusses science and technology related to materials used in solar cells. It encompasses design, synthesis, fabrication, and analysis of all types of materials including bulk materials, coatings, and thin films, from basic as well as from application-oriented and manufacturing-related perspectives.

Sponsor:

Sustainable Energy

Co-Sponsor(s):

Electronics and Photonics (08E), Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum (22), Research and New Technology Committee (18j)

Chair:

Di Gao
Email: gaod@pitt.edu

Co-Chair:

Timothy J. Anderson
Email: tim@ufl.edu

- indicates paper has an Extended Abstract file available on CD.

12:30 PM

(472a) New Polypyridyl Ruthenium(II) Sensitizers Carrying Triphenylamine Units and Their Application in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
Haijun Lv, Xianggao Li, Shirong Wang and Wenzheng Gao

12:50 PM

(472b) Characterization of Recombination Barrier Layers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Thomas P. Brennan, Jonathan R. Bakke, Rajib Mondal, Chad E. Miller, Dennis Nordlund, Michael F. Toney and Stacey F. Bent

1:10 PM

(472c) Inexpensive Room Temperature Ionic Liquids for Low Volatility Electrolytes of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Shih-Yuan Lu and Shu-Yuan Ku

1:30 PM

(472d) Solid Organic Electrolytes and Ionic Liquids, with Poly(ethylene glycol) and Semifluorinated Alkyl Side Chains, for Photovoltaic and Energy Storage Applications
Sitaraman Krishnan, Lalitha V. N. R. Ganapatibhotla, Jianping Zheng and Dipankar Roy

1:50 PM

(472e) A New Thin Film Heterojunction Structure and Fabrication Process: Dual Backcontact CdS/CdTe Photovoltaics
Carlos Hangarter, Behrang Hamadani, Hua Xu, John Guyer, Need Ryan, Carlos Beauchamp, John Bonevich and Daniel Josell

2:10 PM

(472f) Electrochemical Deposition of Amorphous Si Thin Films
Ian Ivar Suni and Aarti Krishnamurthy

2:30 PM

(472g) Modeling the Horizontal Ribbon Growth of Solar Silicon Crystals
Parthiv Daggolu, Andrew Yeckel, Carl Bleil and Jeffrey J. Derby

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