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42ND IEEE PHOTOVOLTAIC SPECIALISTS CONFERENCE

TECHNICAL PROGRAM

MONDAY, JUNE 15TH

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MONDAY, JUNE 15TH

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Monday, June 15, 2015

Keynote - Keynote

8:15 - 8:30 AM Empire Ballroom Highlights & Announcements

Chair(s): Alexandre Freundlich

8:15 Conference Welcome Steven Ringel1, Alexandre Freundlich2 1General Conference Chair , 2Program Chair

8:20 IEEE Electron Device Society and IEEE Photonics Society Welcome Address

Dalma Novak1, Christopher Jannuzzi2 1IEEE Photonics Society , 2IEEE Electron Device Society

8:25 Technical Program Highlights

Alexandre Freundlich 42nd IEEE PVSC Program Chair

Area 3 - Plenary 8:30 - 9:00 AM Empire Ballroom

Area 3 Plenary

Chair(s): Paul Sharps

(1) Challenges and Perspectives of CPV Technology Andreas W. Bett Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany


Area 2 Plenary

Chair(s): Sylvain Marsillac

(2) Polarization Probes Polycrystalline PV Performance Precisely Robert W. Collins University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States


Area 9 Plenary

Chair(s): Clifford Hansen

9:30 (3) Challenges and Opportunities of High-Performance Solar Cells and PV Modules in Large Volume Production Pierre J. Verlinden State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology, Trina Solar, Changzhou, China

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Break 10:00 - 10:30 AM Empire Ballroom Foyer (Level 2)

Coffee Break

Keynote - Keynote 10:30 - 12:00 PM Empire Ballroom

Opening Keynotes

10:30 (4) Opening Remarks

Steven A. Ringel 42nd IEEE PVSC Conference Chair

10:40 (5) Keynote I: Changing our Energy Future Quietly with Utility Scale PV

Raffi Garabedian Chief Technology Officer, First Solar, Inc.

11:05 (6) Keynote II: How about Solar in the Great Global Energy Transition

Jeremy Leggett1, Susan Spencer2 1Founding Director, Solarcentury, Founder & Chairman, SolarAid, Chairman, CarbonTracker & Firefly Clean Energy , 2President and Founder, ROCSPOT, North American Ambassador for Solar Aid

11:30 (7) Cherry Award Introduction

Sarah Kurtz Cherry Award Chair

11:35 (8) Cherry Award Presentation

Christiana Honsberg Arizona State University

Area 1 - Orals 1:30 - 3:00 PM Strand 10 (Level 2)

Spectral Modification using Nanostructures

Chair(s): Antonio Marti, Louise Hirst, Sheila Bailey

1:30 (9) Colloidal Nanoparticles for Intermediate Band Solar Cells Gergely Zimanyi1, Marton Voros1,2, Giulia Galli2 1University of California, Davis, CA, United States, 2University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

1:45 (10) Novel non-radiative exciton harvesting scheme yields a 15% efficiency improvement in high-efficiency

III-V solar cells Mael Brossard1, Chung-Yu Hong2,3, Mumin Hung2, Peichen Yu2, Martin D. B. Charlton4, Pavlos G. Savvidis1,5,6, Pavlos G. Lagoudakis1 1School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, 2Department of Photonics, National Chiao Tung University, Hisnchy, Taiwan, 3Arima Photovoltaic & Optical Corp. Taiwan, Taoyuan, Taiwan, 4School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, 5Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 6IESL-FORTH, Heraklion, Greece

2:00 (11) A Kinetic Rate Model of Novel Upconversion Nanostructures for High-Efficiency Photovoltaics

Eric Y. Chen, Jing Zhang, Diane G. Sellers, Yujun Zhong, Joshua M. O. Zide, Matthew F. Doty University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States

2:15 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist

(12) Investigation of State-Filling and Carrier Collection of Doped InAs QDs through Direct Absorption Measurement Stephen J. Polly, Michael A. Slocum, Staffan Hellstroem, David V. Forbes, Seth M. Hubbard Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States

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2:30 (13) Design, synthesis, and photophysical properties of InP/CdS/CdSe and CdTe/CdS/CdSe (core/shell/shell) quantum dots for photon upconversion Diane G Sellers, Matthew F Doty University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States

2:45 (14) Design of Core/Shell Colloidal Quantum Dots for MEG Solar Cells

Stanko Tomic, Jacek Miloszewski, Edward Tyrrell University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom

Area 2 - Orals 1:30 - 3:00 PM Empire A (Level 2)

Progress in CdTe Technology

Chair(s): Chris Ferekides, Ayodhya Tiwari

1:30 (15) Invited: Resetting the Defect Chemistry in CdTe W.K. Metzger, J.M. Burst, D.S. Albin, E. Colegrove, J. Moseley, J. Duenow, A. Kanevce, S.B. Farrell, H. Moutinho, M.O. Reese, S. Johnston, T. Barnes, C. Perkins, H. Guthrey, S.H. Wei, M. Al-Jassim National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

2:00 (16) Current Enhancement of CdTe-based Solar Cells

Naba R Paudel, Yanfa Yan Department of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States

2:15 (17) The Effect of a Post-Activation Annealing Treatment on Thin Film CdTe Device Performance

Ali Abbas1, Drew Swanson2, Amit Munshi2, Kurt L Barth2, Walajabad S Sampath2, Geoff D West1, Jake W Bowers1, Piotr M Kaminski1, John M Walls1 1Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom, 2Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States

2:30 (18) ZnO nanowire radial CdTe solar cells

Jonathan D Major1, Ramon Tena-Zaera2, Eneko Azaceta2, Leon Bowen3, Ken Durose1 1Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2CIDETEC, San Sebastián, Spain, 3G. J. Russell Microscopy Facility, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom

2:45 (19) Twin Boundaries Enhanced Current Transport in 14.4%-Efficient CdTe solar Cells by RF Sputtering

Hui Li, Xiangxin Liu, Zhongming Du, Biao Yang The Key Laboratory of Solar Thermal Energy and Photovoltaic System, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, PR China, Beijing, China

Area 3 - Orals 1:30 - 3:00 PM Empire B (Level 2)

III-V Solar Cells - Metamorphic Multijunctions

Chair(s): Minjoo Larry Lee, Stephanie Tomasulo, Yoshitaka Okada

1:30 (20) Design Flexibility of Ultra-High Efficiency 4-Junction Inverted Metamorphic Solar Cells Ryan M. France1, John F. Geisz1, Ivan Garcia1,2, Myles A. Steiner1, William E. McMahon1, Daniel J. Friedman1, Tom E. Moriarty1, Carl Osterwald1, J. Scott Ward1, Anna Duda1, Michelle Young1, Waldo Olavarria1 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2Instituto de Energia Solar, Madrid, Spain

2:00 (21) Metamorphic III-V solar cells: recent progress and potential

Ivan Garcia1,2, Ryan M. France2, John F. Geisz2, William E. McMahon2, Myles A. Steiner2, Daniel J. Friedman2 1Instituto de Energía Solar, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Avda Complutense s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain, Madrid, Spain, 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA, Golden, CO, United States

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2:30 (22) Investigations of Metamorphic (Al)GaInP for III-V Multijunction Photovoltaics Drew W. Cardwell1, Nathan Vaughn1, Pran Paul1, Chris Ratcliff1, Santino D. Carnevale1, Dan Chmielewski1, Aaron R. Arehart1, Tyler J. Grassman2, Steven A. Ringel1,2,3 1Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, 2Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, Columbus, OH, United States, 3Institue for Materials Research, Columbus, OH, United States


(23) Direct-gap 2.1-2.2 eV AlInP Solar Cells on GaInAs/GaAs Metamorphic Buffers Michelle A Vaisman1, Kunal Mukherjee2, Taizo Masuda1, Kevin Nay Yaung1, Eugene A Fitzgerald2, Minjoo L Lee1 1Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States


Module Materials, Manufacturing and Production

Chair(s): Alex Bradley, Fatima Toor

1:30 (24) 335Watt World Record P-type Mono-crystalline Module With 20.6 % Efficiency PERC Solar Cells Shu Zhang, Weiwei Deng, Xiujuan Pan, Haijun Jiao, Hui Chen, Daming Chen, Hongwei Huang, Yanfeng Cui, Jianmei Xu, Jun Feng, Ming Zhong, Yifeng Chen, Zhiqiang Feng, Pierre J. Verlinden State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology, Changzhou Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd., Changzhou, China

2:00 (25) Invited: First Solar Quality & Reliability Strategy

Pat Buehler First Solar, Inc

2:15 (26) Online Education with PV Factory

Malcolm D. Abbott1, 2, Keith R. McIntosh1, Alison J. Lennon2, Yang Li2, Zhong Lu2, Alex Li2 1PV Lighthouse, Coledale, Australia, 2University of NSW, Sydney, Australia

2:30 (27) Low cost high energy yield solar module lines and its application

Thomas Soderstrom1, Yu Yao1, Maria Gragert1, Benjamin Strahm2, Jens Krause3, Pierre Papet2 1Meyer Burger, Gwatt, Switzerland, 2Meyer Burger Research, Hauterives, Switzerland, 3Roth and Rau, Germany, Germany

2:45 (28) Thermal Processes Driving Laser-Welding for Module Interconnection

Henning Schulte-Huxel1, Sarah Kajari-Schröder1, Rolf Brendel1,2 1Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin, Emmerthal, Germany, 2Institute of Solid-State Physics, Leibniz University of Hanover, Hanover, Germany

Area 11 - Orals

1:30 - 3:00 PM Strand 13 (Level 2) System and Balance-of-System Component Reliability

Chair(s): Chris Flueckiger, Jeff Newmiller

1:30 (29) A System Reliability Tradeoff Study for Centralized and Distributed PV Architectures Corey Bufi1, Ahmed Elasser2, Mohammed Agamy2 1GE Power and Water, Schenectady, NY, United States, 2GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY, United States

1:45 (30) Dominant Factors Affecting Reliability of Alternating Current Photovoltaic Modules

Patrick Chapman, Paul Parker, Phil Gilchrist SunPower Corp., Austin, TX, United States

2:00 (31) Recommendations for Isolation Monitor Ground Fault Detectors on Residential and Utility-Scale PV

Systems Jack D Flicker1, Jay Johnson1, Mark Albers2, Greg Ball3 1Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 2Sunpower Corporation, Richmond, CA, United States, 3DNV GL-Energy, Oakland, CA, United States

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2:15 (32) Arc-Fault Unwanted Tripping Survey with UL 1699B-Listed Products Jay Johnson1, Kenneth M. Armijo2, Daniel Eizips3, Bijay Shrestha4, Modi Avrutsky5 1Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 2Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 3Tigo Energy, Los Gatos, CA, United States, 4Tigo Energy, Los Gatos, CA, United States, 5Tigo Energy, Los Gatos, CA, United States

2:30 (33) Characterization of Fire Hazards of Aged Photovoltaic Balance-of-System Connectors

Eric Schindelholz, Benjamin B. Yang, Kenneth M. Armijo, Bonnie B. McKenzie, Jason M. Taylor, N. Robert Sorenson, Olga Lavrova Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States

2:45 (34) Ensuring the reliability of PV systems through the formation of the IECRE Conformity Assessment

System and the development of new International Standards George Kelly1, Adrian Haering2, Ted Spooner3, Greg Ball4, Sarah Kurtz5 1Sunset Technology, Mount Airy, MD, United States, 2SMA Solar Technology, Niestetal, Germany, 3UNSW, Sydney, Australia, 4DNV GL, Oakland, CA, United States, 5NREL, Golden, CO, United States

Joint Area Session - Orals 1:30 - 3:00 PM Empire C/D (Level 2)

Joint Area 4 & 8: Characterization of Si Photovoltaics

Chair(s): Mariana Bertoni, Allen Barnett

1:30 (35) Spatially Resolved Lifetime Spectroscopy from Temperature-Dependent Photoluminescence Imaging Ziv Hameiri, Mattias Klaus Juhl, Raymond Carlaw, Thorsten Trupke The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

2:00 (36) Contactless Electroluminescence Imaging for Cell and Module Characterization

Steve Johnston National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

2:15 (37) Investigation of Dapant Segregation induced Surface-Fields using THz Pulse Transmission

Markus Lenz, Amir Kianfar, Sven Nordmann, Simon Sawallich, Michael Nagel, Birger Berghoff, Joachim Knoch

2:30 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist (38) Frequency Division Multiplex Based Quantum Efficiency Determination of Solar Cells Thomas Mißbach, Christian Karcher, Gerald Siefer Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, Germany

2:45 (39) Finite Element Model Analysis of Solar Cell Luminescence Images

Johnson Wong, Vinodh Shanmugam Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore , Singapore, Singapore

Joint Area Session - Orals 1:30 - 3:00 PM Strand 12 (Level 2)

Joint Area 6 &1: Hybrid Materials and Devices

Chair(s): Vikram Dalal, Nicole Kotulak

1:30 (40) Invited: Overcoming the Absorption-Extraction Compromise in Colloidal Quantum Dot Photovoltaics Susanna M. Thon Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States


(41) Optical Loss Analysis of Monolithic Perovskite/Si Tandem Solar Cell Jonathan P Mailoa1, Colin D Bailie2, Austin J Akey1, Eric T Hoke2, Eric C Johlin1, William H Nguyen2, Sarah E Sofia1, Michael D McGehee2, Tonio Buonassisi1 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, 2Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

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2:15 (42) Perovskite and a-Si:H/c-Si tandem solar cell Fabio Matteocci1, Stefano Razza1, Simone Casaluci1, Narges Yaghoobiniya1, Aldo Di Carlo1, Luca Serenelli2, Massimo Izzi2, Galuco Stracci2, Alberto Mittiga2, Mario Tucci2 1CHOSE - Center for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy, Dept. Electr. Eng. University of Rome , Rome, Italy, 2ENEA Research Centre Casaccia, Rome, Italy

2:30 (43) Effect strategy for stabilized perovskite solar cells using thin film tandem device structure

Wei QIN1,3, Yuliang ZHANG1,4, Wei ZI2, Zhou YANG1, Dong YANG1, Pengcheng DING1, Wei YU1,3, Shengzhong (Frank) LIU1,2, Can LI1 1State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian, China, 2School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China, 3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 4Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

2:45 (44) Development of perovskite solar cells with nanophotonic front electrodes for improved light incoupling

Ulrich Wilhelm Paetzold1,2, Weiming Qiu1, Friedhelm Fingers2, Jef Poortmans1,3,4, David Cheyns1 1IMEC, Leuven, Belgium, 2IEK5-Photovoltaik, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Jülich, Germany, 3Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 4Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium

Break 3:00 - 3:30 PM Empire Ballroom Foyer (Level 2)

Coffee Break


Advances in Buffer Layers, Interface and Back Contact Engineering

Chair(s): Sylvain Marsillac, Tim Gessert

3:30 (45) Impact of Buffer Layer on Kesterite Solar Cells Homare Hiroi, Noriyuki Sakai, Yasuaki Iwata, Takuya Kato, Hiroki Sugimoto Solar Frontier K.K., Kanagawa, Japan

4:00 (46) Bifacial Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells with submicron absorber thickness: Back-contact passivation and light

management Wiebke Ohm1,2, Wiebke Riedel1,2, Ümit Aksünger2, Dieter Greiner3, Christian A. Kaufmann3, Martha Ch. Lux-Steiner1,2, Sophie Gledhill1,2 1Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Physics, Berlin, Germany, 2Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Institute for Heterogeneous Materials Systems, Berlin, Germany, 3Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Institute Competence Centre Photovoltaics Berlin (PVcomB), Berlin, Germany

4:15 (47) Cu rich domains and secondary phase in PVD-CdS/PVD-CuIn1-xGaxSe2 heterojunctions

Xiaoqing He1, Peter Ercius2, Jeff Bailey3, Geordie Zapalac3, Neil Mackie3, Atiye Bayman3, Joel Varley4, Vincenzo Lordi 4, Angus Rockett1 1University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, 2Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, National Center for Electron Microscopy, Berkeley, CA, United States, 3MiaSolé Hi-Tech, Santa Clara, CA, United States, 4Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , Livermore, CA, United States

4:30 (48) Temperature effect during Atomic Layer Deposition of Zinc Oxysulfide –Zn(O,S) buffer layers on

Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 synthesized by co-evaporation and electro-deposition techniques Cathy Bugot1, Cédric Broussillou2, Alexis Sorba2, Ludovic Parissi2, Nathanaëlle Schneider1, Daniel Lincot1, Frédérique Donsanti1 1Institut de Recherche et développement sur l'Energie Photovoltaïque-IRDEP (UMR 7174, EDF-CNRS-Chimie Paristech), IPVF, Chatou, France, 2NEXCIS Photovoltaic Technology, Rousset, France

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4:45 (49) Influence of the ZnS precursor thickness on high efficiency Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 thin-film solar cells grown by stacked-sputtering and selenization process Gee Yeong Kim1, Dae-Ho Son2, Trang Thi Thu Nguyen1, Seokhyun Yoon1, Minsu Kwon3, Chan-Wook Jeon3, Dae-Hwan Kim2, Jin-Kyu Kang2, William Jo1 1Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea, 2Advanced Convergence Research Center, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Daegu, South Korea, 3Department of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, South Korea


High Concentration PV - Systems

Chair(s): Scott Burroughs, Michael Wiemer, Matthew Lumb

3:30 (50) Ultra High Efficiency HCPV Modules Kanchan Ghosal, Brent Fisher, Doug Lilly, John Gabriel, Steve Seel, Scott Burroughs Semprius Inc., Durham, NC, United States

3:45 (51) Summary of Europe-Japan Collaborative Research on Concentrator Photovoltaics

Masafumi Yamaguchi1, Antonio Luque2 1Toyota Tech. Inst., Nagoya, Japan, 2UPM, Madrid, Spain

4:00 (52) Receiver-Module-Integrated Thermal Management of High-Concentration Photovoltaic Thermal Systems

Stephan Paredes1, Brian R. Burg1, Patrick Ruch1, Emanuel Loertscher1, Fabio Malnati2, Gianluca Ambrosetti2, Andrea Pedretti2, Bruno Michel1 1IBM Research - Zurich, Rüschlikon, Switzerland, 2Airlight Energy & Dsolar, Biasca, Switzerland

4:15 (53) Refractive Concentrator Optics Architectures, Tracker Precision, and Cumulative Energy Harvest

John P.D. Cook, Pratibha Sharma, Lianne de la Salle, Fred Carle, Patrick M. White, Viktar Tatsiankou, Nate Bosscher, Joan E. Haysom, Elena Dragomirescu, Henry Schriemer, Karin Hinzer SUNLAB, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

4:30 (54) Designing and Prototyping the Polyhedral Specular Reflector, a Spectrum-Splitting Module with

Projected >50% Efficiency Carissa N. Eisler, Pilar Espinet, Cristofer A. Flowers, Sunita Darbe, Emily C. Warmann, John Lloyd, Michelle Dee, Harry A. Atwater California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States


(55) A Novel Instrument for Cost-Effective and Reliable Measurement of Solar Spectral Irradiance Viktar Tatsiankou1, Karin Hinzer1, Henry Schriemer1, Joan Haysom1, Richard Beal2 1University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2COFOVO Energy, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Area 4 - Orals 3:30 - 5:00 PM Empire C/D (Level 2)

Surface Passivation

Chair(s): Giso Hahn, Ziv Hameiri

3:30 (56) Silicon Surface Passivation by Gallium Oxide Thomas G. Allen, James Bullock, Andres Cuevas Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

3:45 (57) Role of Hydrogen in the Permanent Passivation of Boron-Oxygen Defects in Czochralski Silicon

Nitin Nampalli, Brett Hallam, Catherine Chan, Malcolm Abbott, Stuart Wenham University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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4:00 (58) Interface optimization prior to amorphous-to-microcrystalline transition phase silicon thin film based on the passivation of crystalline silicon Liping Zhang1, Wanwu Guo1,2, Wenzhu Liu1, Jian Bao2, Jieyu Bian1, Jinning Liu1, Dongliang Wang2, Fanying Meng1, Zhengxin Liu1 1Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, 2State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology, Trina Solar, Changzhou, China

4:15 (59) Spray Coated Aluminum Oxide Thin Film For P-type Crystalline Silicon Surface Passivation

Kalaivani S, Anil Kottantharayil National Center for Photovoltaic Research and Education, and Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India

4:30 (60) ALD Al2O3 Based Nanolaminates For Solar Cell Applications

Daniel K Simon1, Paul M Jordan1, Martin Knaut2, Thomas Mikolajick1,2, Ingo Dirnstorfer1 1Nanoelectronic Materials Laboratory gGmbH (NaMLab), Dresden, Germany, 2TU Dresden, Institut für Halbleiter- und Mikrosystemtechnik, Dresden, Germany

4:45 (61) Reduction of the Interface Defect Density on Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell Substrates by Wet-chemical

Preparation of Ultrathin SiOx Passivation Layers Patrice Balamou1,2, Heike Angermann2, Bert Stegemann1 1HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Institut für Silizium-Photovoltaik, Berlin, Germany


Power Electronics, Storage and Balance of Systems

Chair(s): Jack Flicker, Sudipta Chakraborty

3:30 (62) Experimental Evaluation of Load Rejection Over-Voltage from Grid-Tied Solar Inverters Austin A. Nelson1, Anderson S. Hoke1, Sudipta Chakraborty1, Justin Chebahtah2, Trudie Wang2, Brian Zimmerly2 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2SolarCity, San Mateo, CA, United States


(63) Parallel-Input Series-Output Interleaved Flyback based Solar PV Module Integrated Micro-Inverter NATARAJ PRAGALLAPATI, TIRTHASARATHI LODH, MAHESH KUMBHAR, VIVEK AGARWAL INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MUMBAI, India

4:00 (64) Hybrid DC Switch for Solar Array Fault Protection

Tiefu Zhao, Vijay Bhavaraju, Peter Theisen Eaton - Corporate Research & Technology, Menomonee Falls, WI, United States

4:15 (65) A New Circuit of Modular Multilevel Inverter for Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Conversion Plants

Hamed Nademi1, Lars Norum2, Anandarup Das3 1Process Automation division, ABB AS, Oslo, Norway, 2Department of Electric Power Engineering, NTNU University, Trondheim, Norway, 3Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi , New Delhi, India

4:30 (66) Performance of Differential Power-Processing Submodule DC-DC Converters in Recovering Inter-Row

Shading Losses Kate Doubleday1, Chris Deline2, Carlos Olalla3, Dragan Maksimovic1 1University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 3Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

4:45 (67) Analysis of Different PWM Schemes for 3-Level Boost Converter to Reduce Current Stress in DC Link

Capacitors of Single Phase NPC Inverter Rajesh Farswan, Baylon Fernandes Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

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Sustainability

Chair(s): Gabrielle Gaustad, Annick Anctil

3:30 (68) Assessment of leaching tests for evaluating potential environmental impacts of PV module field breakage Parikhit Sinha1, Andreas Wade2 1First Solar, Tempe, AZ, United States, 2First Solar, Mainz, Germany


(69) Life cycle assessment of Silicon Solar Panels manufacturing in the United States Kayla Collins1, Brian Powell1, Annick Anctil2 1Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States, 2Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States

4:00 (70) GHG Emission and Energy Payback Time of AC Electricity Generated by SunPower® Oasis®

Photovoltaic Power Plant Loic FRANCKE1, Marie-Sophie ARMAND1, Marissa YAO2, Craig OESER2 1Total, Paris la Défense, France, 2SunPower Corporation, San Jose, CA, United States

4:15 (71) Price Volatility in PV-Critical Material Markets: Perspectives for Solar Firms, Consumers, and Policy

Makers Michele L Bustamante, Gabrielle Gaustad Golisano Institute for Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States

4:30 (72) Toxicity and Safety Aspects of Nanoparticle Spread in Third Generation Photovoltaic Device Processing

Environments Bahareh Sadeghimakki1, Yaxin Zheng1, Navid M.S. Jahed1, Phuc H. Pham2, Niels C. Bols2, Siva Sivoththaman1 1Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (CAPDS Lab), Waterloo, ON, Canada, 2Department of Biology,, Waterloo, ON, Canada

4:45 (73) Inexpensive and Environmentally Friendly Recycling of Photovoltaic Scrap

Wolfram J. Palitzsch, Ulrich M. Loser Loser Chemie GmbH, Langenweißbach, Germany

Joint Area Session - Orals 3:30 - 5:00 PM Empire B (Level 2)

Joint Area 2, 6 & 8: Characterization of Thin Film Photovoltaics

Chair(s): Mowafak Al-Jassim, Chaffra Affouda

3:30 (74) Recombination Analysis in Cadmium Telluride Photovoltaic Solar Cells with Photoluminescence Spectroscopy Darius Kuciauskas1, Pat Dippo1, Zhibo Zhao2, Long Cheng2, Wyatt Metzger1 1NREL, Golden, CO, United States, 2First Solar, Perrysburg, OH, United States


(75) Development of Two-photon Excitation Time-resolved Photoluminescence Microscope for Lifetime and Defect Imaging in Thin Film Photovoltaic Materials and Devices Alyssa M Allende Motz1, Darius Kuciauskas2, Steve Johnston2, Jeff Squier1, Dean H Levi1 1Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, 2National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO, United States

4:15 (76) Spectroscopic Ellipsometry Studies of CH3NH3PbX3 Thin Films and their Growth Evolution

Kiran Ghimire, Alex Cimaroli, Feng Hong, Tingting Shi, Nikolas Podraza, Yanfa Yan Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization & Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States

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4:30 (77) Using Combined Photoreflectance and Photoluminescence for Understanding Optical Transitions in Perovskites Carmen M Ruiz1, Victoria Gonzalez-Pedro2, Antonin Moreau1, Judikael Le Rouzo1, Jean-Jacques Simon1, Ivan Mora-Sero2, Ludovic Escoubas1 1Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Université de Toulon, IM2NP UMR 7334, Marseille, France, 2Photovoltaics and Optoelectronic Devices Group, Departament de Fisica, Universitat Jaume I, Castello, Spain

4:45 (78) Assessing the accuracy of imaging techniques for defect characterization on thin film solar cells

Andreas Vetter1,2, Bernhard Hofbeck1, Peter Kubis2, Christoph J. Brabec1,2 1ZAE Bayern (Bavarian Center of Applied Energy Research), Erlangen, Germany, 2i-MEET, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Joint Area Session - Orals 3:30 - 5:00 PM Strand 12 (Level 2)

Joint Area 1,3,4 &7: III-V on Si via Direct III-V/Si Heteroepitaxy

Chair(s): Kyle Montgomery, Stephanie Tomasulo

3:30 (79) Progress in the Development of Epitaxial GaAsP/Si Dual-Junction Solar Cells Tyler J Grassman1,2, Daniel J Chmielewski2, Santino D Carnevale2, John A Carlin3, Steven A Ringel2,3 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, 2Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, 3Institute for Materials Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States

4:00 (80) Investigation of GaP/Si heteroepitaxy on MOCVD prepared Si(100) surfaces

Emily L. Warren, Alan E. Kibbler, Ryan M. France, Andrew G. Norman, Jerry M. Olson, William E. McMahon National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Go, CO, United States


(81) High-Performance Metamorphic Tunnel Junctions on Si for III-V/Si Multijunction Solar Cells Daniel J. Chmielewski1, Tyler J. Grassman1,2, Santino Carnevale1, John A. Carlin3, Steven A. Ringel1,3 1Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, 2Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, 3Institute for Materials Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States

4:30 (82) Evolution of the Silicon Bottom Cell Photovoltaic Behavior during III-V on Si Multi-junction Solar Cells

Production Elisa García-Tabarés1, Diego Martín2, Ignacio Rey-Stolle1, Tyler J. Grassman3, John A. Carlin4, Steven A. Ringel3,4 1Instituto de Energía Solar, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2Área de Tecnología Electrónica. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, 3Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, 4Institute for Materials Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States

4:45 (83) Watching the formation of the GaP/Si(100) heterointerface in situ

Oliver Supplie1,2,3, Matthias M. May1,2,3, Sebastian Brückner1,2, Andreas Nägelein1, Peter Kleinschmidt1, Thomas Hannappel1,2 1Ilmenau University of Technology, Ilmenau, Germany, 2Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 3Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Social Activity 5:30 - 8:00 PM Elite Hall (Level 1)

Exhibitor's Reception

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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Keynote - Keynote 8:15 - 8:30 AM Empire Ballroom

Highlights & Announcements

8:15 Past Year PV Specialist Distinctions, Awards and Honors

Alexandre Freundlich

8:20 2015 PV Specialist EDS Fellows Christopher Jannuzzi IEEE Electron Device Society

8:25 Technical Program Highlights

Alexandre Freundlich


Area 5 Plenary

Chair(s): Arno Smets

(84) The Future of Thin Film Silicon Solar Modules Edward Hamers HyET Solar, Arnhem, Netherlands


Area 4 Plenary

Chair(s): Mariana Bertoni

(85) Skin care for healthy solar cells Andres Cuevas Australian National University, Canberra, Australia


Area 10 Plenary

Chair(s): Annick Anctil

(86) US PV market development trends: Where we are today and where we are going Robert Margolis NREL, Washington, DC, United States

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Break 10:00 - 10:30 AM Elite Hall (Level 1)

Coffee Break

Area 2 - Posters 10:30 - 12:00 PM Elite Hall B (Level 1)

Absorber Preparation and Material Properties (I)

Chair(s): James Sites, Bart Vermang, Lorelle Mansfield

C6 (87) Large performance improvement in Cu2ZnSnSe4 based solar cells by surface engineering with a nanometric Ge layer Sergio Giraldo1, Markus Neuschitzer1, Simón López-Marino1, Yudania Sánchez1, Haibing Xie1, Mónica Colina1, Marcel Placidi1, Paul Pistor1, Victor Izquierdo-Roca1, Alejandro Pérez-Rodríguez1,2, Edgardo Saucedo1 1Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), Sant Adriá del Besòs-Barcelona, Spain, 2Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

C10 (88) Solution Processed Cu2NiSnS4 Nanoparticles: Potential Absorber Material for Thin Film Solar Cells

Anvita Kamble1, Krishnaiah Mokurala1, Sudhanshu Mallick1, Parag Bhargava1 1Indian Institute of Technology bombay, Mumbai, India, 2Indian Institute of Technology bombay, Mumbai, India, 3Indian Institute of Technology bombay, Mumbai, India, 4Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

C14 (89) MgxCd1-xTe for II-VI/Si tandem solar cell applications

Shi Liu1,2, Xin-Hao Zhao1,3, Calli Campbell1,3, Maxwell Lassise1,2, Yuan Zhao1,2, Ernesto Suarez1,2, Yong-Hang Zhang1,2 1Center for Photonics Innovation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 2School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 3School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States

C18 (90) Study of Structural, Optical and Electrical Properties of Solution Processed Cu2CoSnS4 Absorber layer

for Thin Film Solar Cells Krishnaiah Mokurala1, Anvita Kamble2, Parag Bhargava3, Sudhanshu Mallick4 1Indian Institute of Technology bombay, Mumbai, India, 2Indian Institute of Technology bombay, Mumbai, India, 3Indian Institute of Technology bombay, Mumbai, India, 4Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

C22 (91) Differences between CuGa/In and Cu/Ga/In Films for Selenization

Christopher P. Muzzillo1,2, Lorelle M. Mansfield2, Clay DeHart2, Karen Bowers2, Robert C. Reedy2, Bobby To2, Kannan Ramanathan2, Timothy J. Anderson1 1University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

C26 (92) Fabrication of Single-Crystal Solar Cells from Phosphorous-Doped CdTe Wafer

Tursun Ablekim, Santosh K. Swain, Narendra S. Parmar, Kelvin G. Lynn Center for Materials Research, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States

D2 (93) Impact of the Stack Order in Cu-Zn-Sn Metal Precursors on the Properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 Thin Films

Mohamed Abusnina1,2, Mohammad Matin2, Helio Moutinho1, Mowafak Al-Jassim1 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL, Golden, CO, United States, 2University of Denver, Denver, CO, United States

D9 (94) Advances on CdTe thin film deposition using CdTe colloidal dispersions for photovoltaic applications

Antonio Arce-Plaza, Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Manuel Perez-Guzman, Mauricio Ortega-Lopez Research Center and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechic Institute, Mexico, Mexico

D13 (95) Solution-Deposited CuIn(S,Se)2 Absorber Layers From Metal Chalcogenides

Panagiota Arnou1, Carl S. Cooper2, Andrei V. Malkov2, John M. Walls1, Jake W. Bowers1 1CREST (Centre for Renewable Energy Systems and Technology), School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough , United Kingdom, 2Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University, Loughborough , United Kingdom

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D17 (96) Phosphorus doping of polycrystalline CdTe by diffusion

Eric Colegrove, David S. Albin, Harvey Guthrey, James Burst, Helio Moutinho, Stuart Farrell, Mowafak Al-Jassim, Wyatt Metzger, Steve Harvey National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

E1 (97) Effects Of Stoichiometry In Undoped CdTe Heteroepilayers On Si

Timothy A. Gessert1, Eric Colegrove2, Brian Stafford2, Wei Gao2, Siva Sivananthan2, Darius Kuciauskas1, Helio Moutinho1, Stuart Farrell1, Teresa M. Barnes1 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

E5 (98) High efficiency Cu2ZnSnSe4:In doped based solar cells

Sergio Giraldo1, Carmen M. Ruiz2, Moisés Espíndola-Rodríguez1, Yudania Sánchez1, Marcel Placidi1, Dario Cozza2, Damien Barakel2, Ludovic Escoubas2, Alejandro Pérez-Rodríguez1,3, Edgardo Saucedo1 1Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), Sant Adrià del Besòs-Barcelona, Spain, 2Aix-Marseille University - IM2NP, Marseille, France, 3Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

E9 (99) Fabrication and Characterization of Cu2ZnSn(S, Se)4 with Aluminum Doping by Spray Pyrolysis Followed

by Selenization Wei-Chih Huang1, Xin Zeng2, Shih-Yuan Wei1, Chung-Hao Cai1, Tzu-Ying Lin1, Lydia Helena Wong2, Chih-Huang Lai1 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2School of Materials Science & Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

E13 (100) In Situ Antimony Doping of CdTe

Md I Khan, Vamsi Evani, Vasilios Palekis, Prasad Bane, Shamara Collins, Don Morel, Chris Ferekides University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States

E17 (101) Structural and electrical characterisation of MgCl2 treated CdTe solar cells

Jonathan D Major1, Mohammed K Al Turkestani2, Ken Durose1 1Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2Department of Physics, Umm Al-Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia

E21 (102) The reduction of Cu2+ and crystal growth processes during colloidal synthesis of Cu2ZnSnS4

nanoparticles Kazuki Morishita, Hiroyuki Suto, Itaru Kamiya Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan

E25 (103) XPS Se 3d peaks in Bridgman CuInSe2+x

Sunyoung Park, Clifford H. Champness, Ishiang Shih Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

F1 (104) Cu2ZnSnSe4 based solar cells prepared at high temperatures on Si/SiO2 sodium-free substrate

Marcel Placidi1, Moisés Espíndola-Rodríguez1, Simón López-Marino1, Yudania Sánchez1, Markus Neuschitzer1, Victor Izquierdo-Roca1, Xavier Fontané1, Xavier Alcobé2, Alejandro Pérez-Rodríguez1,3, Edgardo Saucedo1 1Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, Sant Adrià del Besòs-Barcelona, Spain, 2Centres Científics i Tecnològics (CCiTUB), Barcelona, Spain, 3IN2UB, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

F5 (105) Synthesis and characterization of CZTS thin film and solar cell by stacked layer reactive sputtering

Om P. Singh1, J. S. Tawale2, Vidya N. Singh1 1National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India, 2National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India, 3National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India

F9 (106) A better understanding of reaction pathways of the formation of CZTSSe absorbers using co-sputtered

Cu-Zn-Sn-S precursors Solange Temgoua, Romain Bodeux, Laurent Michely, Stephane Borensztajn, Negar Naghavi IRDEP, Chatou, France

F13 (107) Evaluation of the CIGS precursor layer deposited by CuGa-NaF sputtering target and its effect for Na

distribution Keita Umemoto1, Ichiro Shiono1, Hajime Chiba2, Yuichi Kondo1, Shoubin Zhang1 1Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Sanda-Shi, Japan, 2Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Naka-Shi, Japan

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F17 (108) Fabrication of Cu2ZnSnS4 films by electrodeposition using Reline electrolyte Linsong Wu2, Jingyi Tan2, Kai Tan1, Peng Lin2, Gang Wang2, Shiping Jin 1, Yixin Lin1,2 1School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China, 2China-EU Institute for Clean and Renewable Energy, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

F21 (109) Emerging ternary chalcogenide thin film PV device development

Andriy Zakutayev1, Adam W. Welch1,2, Lauryn L. Baranowski1,2, Francisco W. S. Lucas1,3, Eric S. Toberer2, Colin A. Wolden2 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, 3Federal University of Sao Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil

F25 (110) Stability of the Solution for Single-step Electrodeposited Cu-Zn-Sn Metallic Precursors

Chao Zhang, Wei Hang, Chaowen Deng, Yitong Yang, He Wang, Zaixiang Qiao Tianjin Institute of power source, Tianjin, China

G1 (111) Optical properties of indium-doped CdTe/MgCdTe double heterostructures

Xin-Hao Zhao1,2, Shi Liu1,3, Yuan Zhao1,3, Calli M Campbell1,2, Maxwell B Lassise1,3, Ying-Shen Kuo1,3, Yong-Hang Zhang1,3 1Center for Photonics Innovation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 2School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 3School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States

Area 3 - Posters 10:30 - 12:00 PM Elite Hall C (Level 1)

III-V Solar Cells (I)

Chair(s): Masakazu Sugiyama, Alexander Haas, Corinne Packard

G23 (112) GaInNAs solar cell with back surface reflector Timo Aho, Arto Aho, Antti Tukiainen, Ville Polojärvi, Jussi-Pekka Penttinen, Marianna Raappana, Mircea Guina Optoelectronics Research Center, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland

G26 (113) The Stability of Metallized, Thin, Flexible III-V Structures for High Temperature Applications and Wafer

Bonding Tingyu Bai, Brett Beekley, Michael Jackson, Mark Goorsky UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States

G29 (114) On the use of Sb to Improve the Performance of GaInP Subcells of Multijunction Solar Cells

Laura Barrutia1, Enrique Barrigón1, Francesca Peiró2, Lluis López-Conesa2, José Manuel Rebled2, Sonia Estradé2, Ignacio Rey-Stolle1, Carlos Algora1 1Instituto de Energía Solar, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2Laboratory of Electron Nanoscopies (LENS)-MIND/IN2UB, Barcelona, Spain

G32 (115) Development Of Wet Etch Processing For InxAl1-xAsySb1-y Solar Cells Grown On InP

Mitchell F. Bennett1,2, Maria Gonzalez1,2, Matthew P. Lumb1,3, Michael K. Yakes1, Kenneth J. Schmieder1, Stephanie Tomasulo1, Joshua Abell1, Jerry R. Meyer1, Robert J. Walters1 1Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, 2Sotera Defense Solutions, Herndon, VA, United States, 3George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States

H3 (116) Design Principles of Nanostructured Window Solar Cells

Yusi Chen1, Yangsen Kang1, Dong Liang2, Jieyang Jia1, Li Zhao3, Yijie Huo1, James S. Harris1,3,4 1Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, 2Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, 3Department of Material Science and Engineering, Stanford, CA, United States, 4Department of Applied Physics, Stanford, CA, United States

H6 (117) Ultrathin GaAs solar cells with a nanostructured back mirror

Stéphane Collin1, Nicolas Vandamme1, Julie Goffard1, Andrea Cattoni1, Aristide Lemaître1, Jean-François Guillemoles2 1Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures (LPN-CNRS), Marcoussis, France, 2Institut de Recherche et Développement sur l'Energie Photovoltaïque, Chatou, France

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H9 (118) Structure of the Acceptor Defects in P-type GaAsN Grown by Chemical Beam Epitaxy Omar Elleuch, Li Wang, Kan-Hua Lee, Koshiro Demizu, Kazuma Ikeda, Nobuaki Kojima, Yoshio Ohshita, Masafumi Yamaguchi Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan

H12 (119) High Temperature InGaN Solar Cell Modeling

Y. Fang1, D. Vasileska2, C. Honsberg2, S.M. Goodnick2 1Department of Physics, Arizona State University, TEMPE, AZ, United States, 2School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, TEMPE, AZ, United States

H15 (120) High Separation Rate of Epitaxial Lift-Off Using Hydrophilic Solvent for III-V Solar Cell and Reusable

Ray Hua Horng, Fan-Lei Wu, Sin-Liang Ou, Yu-Cheng Kao National Chung Hsing Univrsity, Taichung, Taiwan

H18 (121) The Bias-dependence of Luminescent Coupling Efficiency in Multijunction Solar Cells

Jieyang Jia1, Yu Miao2, Yangsen Kang1, Yijie Huo1, Mojgan Mazouchi4, Yusi Chen1, Li Zhao3, Huiyang Deng1, James S. Harris1,3 1Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, 2Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics, Beijing, China, 3Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, Stanford, CA, United States, 4Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

H21 (122) Epitaxial Growth and Layer Transfer of InP via Electrochemically Etching / Annealing of Porous Buried

InP Layers: A Pathway for III-V Substrate Re-Use Xiaolu Kuo, Mark S Goorsky UCLA MSE, Los Angeles, CA, United States

H24 (123) Adjusting the conductivity of GaInNAs solar cells from p- to n-type with the As/III ratio

Fabian Langer1, Svenja Perl1, Sven Höfling1,2, Martin Kamp1 1Technische Physik, Physikalisches Institut and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Research Center for Complex Material Systems, Universtiy of Wuerzburg, Würzburg, Germany, 2SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland

H27 (124) Prospect of InGaAsN Solar Cells Grown By Chemical Beam Epitaxy For High-Efficiency Multi-Junction

Solar Cells Kan-Hua Lee, Kazuma Ikeda, Omar Elleuch, Li Wang, Koshiro Demizu, Nobuaki Kojima, Yoshio Ohshita, Masafumi Yamaguchi Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan

H30 (125) Coreshell InGaN/GaN MQW Nanopillar Photovoltaic Device

Yun-Jing Li Li1, Yuh-Lin Tsai1, Jet-Rung Chang1, Shih-Pang Chang2, Chien-Chung Lin2,3, Yuh-Jen Cheng4, Hao-Chun Kuo2, Peichen Yu2, Chun-Yen Chang1 1Department of Elctronics Engineering and Institute of Electronics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan, 2Department of Photonics and Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchun 300, Taiwan, 3Institute of Lighting and Energy Photonics, National Chiao Tung University, Tainan 711, Taiwan, 4Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan

I1 (126) High Temperature Characterization of GaAs Single Junction Solar Cells

Aymeric Maros, Srikanth Gangam, Justin Smith, Stephen Goodnick, Mariana Bertoni, Christiana B. Honsberg School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States

I3 (127) Germanium Solar Cells Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy for Lattice-matched, Four-junction Solar

Cells Taizo Masuda, Joseph Faucher, Minjoo Larry Lee Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

I5 (128) Luminescent Coupling Effects in Double-Junction Solar Cells

Mojgan Mazouchi1, Jieyang Jia2, Yijie Huo2, Yu Miao3, Yangsen Kang2, Yusi Chen2, James S. Harris2, Mitra Dutta1 1University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, 2Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, 3Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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I7 (129) Effects of Arsenic Source Molecule on N-H related Defects Formation in GaAsN Grown by Chemical Beam Epitaxy Yoshio Ohshita1, Koshiro Demizu1, Omar Elleuch1, Kazuma Ikeda1, Nobuaki Kojima1, Hideaki Machida2, HIroshi Sudoh2, Masafumi Yamaguchi1 1Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan, 2Gas-Phase Growth Ltd., Koganei, Japan

I9 (130) Indium Gallium Antimonide a better bottom subcell layer in III-V multijunction solar cells.

Raja A Penumaka1, Bibek Tiwari1, Indranil Bhattacharya1, Simon Foo2 1Tennessee Technological University , Cookeville , TN, United States, 2Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States

I11 (131) Development of a 2.0 eV AlGaInP Solar Cell Grown by OMVPE

Emmett E. Perl1,2, John Simon1, John F. Geisz1, Waldo Olavarria1, Michelle Young1, Anna Duda1, Pat Dippo1, Daniel J. Friedman1, Myles A. Steiner1 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

I13 (132) Single and Multijunction Solar Cells with 1.0 eV Si-Ge-Sn Junction

Radek Roucka1, Andrew Clark1, Barbara Landini2 1Translucent Inc., Palo Alto, CA, United States, 2Sumika Electronic Materials, Phoenix, AZ, United States

I15 (133) Defect-Induced Performance Enhancement in Moderately Dislocated (1E8cm-2) GaAs Tunnel Diodes

Kaveh Shervin, Akhil Mehrotra, Alex Freundlich University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States

Area 4 - Posters 10:30 - 12:00 PM Elite Hall D (Level 1)

Surface Passivation

Chair(s): Shubham Duttagupta , Sachit Grover, Stuart Bowden

I17 (134) Metal-assisted etching of high aspect ratio structures for solar cell applications: Controlling the porosity of Au thin films. Katherine M. Booker, Maureen Brauers, Erin L. Crisp, Shakir Rahman, Klaus J. Weber, Andrew W. Blakers Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

I21 (135) Implementation of Printed-AlOx PERC Technology on Multi-crystalline Silicon Solar Cells: Impact of

Wafer Quality Tsung-Cheng Chen, Chen-Hao Ku, Yung-Sheng Lin, Cheng-Shun Hu, Ching-Chang Wen E-TON SOLAR TECH CO., LTD., Tainan, Taiwan

I25 (136) Impact of Ozone-Based Cleaning on Surface Recombination with Different Passivation Materials

Kristopher O. Davis1,2,3, Ismail Kashkoush4, Adrienne Blum5, Kortan Öğütman1,3,6, Eric Schneller1,3, Ronald A. Sinton5, Winston V. Schoenfeld1,2,3,6 1Florida Solar Energy Center, University of Central Florida, Cocoa, FL, United States, 2CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States, 3c-Si Division, U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium, Orlando, FL, United States, 4Akrion Systems, LLC, Allentown, PA, United States, 5Sinton Instruments, Boulder, CO, United States, 6Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States

I29 (137) Progress with Surface Passivation of Heavily Doped n+ Silicon by Industrial PECVD SiNx films

Shubham Duttagupta1, Bram Hoex3, Armin G. Aberle1,2 1Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 3School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE), UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia

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I33 (138) Microstructure of hydrogenated amorphous silicon layers studied by spectroscopic ellipsometry for the surface passivation in heterojunction solar cells Wanwu Guo1,2,3, Liping Zhang1, Jian Bao1, Fanying Meng1, Yifeng Chen2, Esther Lee2, Zhiqiang Feng2,4, Pierre Verlinden2, Zhengxin Liu1,3 1New Energy Technology Center, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, China, 2State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology (SKL-PVST), Trina Solar,, Changzhou, China, 3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 4Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering, Changzhou University, , Changzhou, China

I37 (139) Effects of Stacking Passivation Structure with Interface Tuning Layer for Crystalline Si Solar Cell

Applications Norihiro Ikeno1,5, Takakaaki Katsumata1,2,4, Yoshihiro Yamashita1, Shin-ichi Satoh3,4, Haruhiko Yoshida3,4, Koji Arafune3,4, Toyohiro Chikyow2, Atsushi Ogura1,4 1Meiji Univ., Kawasaki, Japan, 2NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan, 3Univ. of Hyogo, Himeji, Japan, 4JST-CREST, Saitama, Japan, 5JSPS Research Fellow , Tokyo, Japan

I41 (140) New and Effective Anti Reflection (AR) Coating Of SiC-SiO2 Nano Composite for P-Type Silicon Solar Cell Azmira Jannat1,2, Woojin Lee1, M. Shaheer Akhtar1,3, Zhen Yu Li1, O-Bong Yang1,3 1School of Semiconductor and Chemical Engineering, Solar Energy Research Center Chonbuk National University, 567 Baekjedaero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju,Jeonbuk 561-756, South Korea, 2Solar Energy Engineering, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Jeonbuk 561-756, South Korea, 3New & Renewable Energy Material Development Center (NewREC), Chonbuk National University, Jeonbuk 561-756, South Korea

J1 (141) SiOx(C)/SiNx Dual-Layer Anti-Reflectance Coating For Improving Solar Cell Efficiency

Xiaojie Jia1, Chunlan Zhou1, Yehua Tang2, Wenjing Wang1 1The Key Laboratory of Solar Thermal Energy and Photovoltaic System, Institute of Electrical Engineering, CAS, Beijing, China, 2Eoplly New Energy Technology Co., Ltd, Nantong, China

J5 (142) Ultraviolet-Induced Degradation of PECVD SiNx:H Passivation

Takefumi Kamioka, Daisuke Takai, Tomihisa Tachibana, Takuto Kojima, Yoshio Ohshita Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan

J9 (143) Photo-Carrier Generation at a-Si Layer in SiNx/a-Si Stacked Passivation with Extremely Low Surface

Recombination Velocity Koichi Koyama, Koichi Higashimine, Keisuke Ohdaira, Hideki Matsumura Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Japan

J13 (144) Al2O3/SiON stack structure for n-type c-Si solar cells

Youngseok Lee1, Seunghwan Lee2, Nagarajan Balaji1, Cheolmin Park1, Sungyoun Chung2, Jungmo Kim2, Junsin Yi2 1Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea, 2College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea

J17 (145) An Excellent Encapsulation of Silicone on an Optimized-ZnO-nanowires anti-reflection layer for

Crystalline-Si photovoltaic devices Siou-Yi Lin1, Shoou-Jinn Chang1, Yu-En Wu2, Hau-Cheng Wu2, Ting-Jen Hsueh3 1Institute of Microelectronics & Department of Electrical Engineering National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 2Department of Electrical Engineering, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 3National Nano Device Laboratories, Tainan, Taiwan

J21 (146) Inverted and upright pyramid textures for high light trapping in thin crystalline silicon solar cells

Xianqin MENG, Rafael Kleiman Engineering Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

J25 (147) Interface investigations of hydrogen plasma etched silicon surfaces for heterojunction silicon solar cell

applications Thomas Mueller, Muzhi Tang, Jia Ge, Johnson Wong Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS), Singapore, Singapore

J29 (148) SiO2/SiNx Stacking Layer for Rear Surface Passivation of PERC

Kyotaro Nakamura1, Keitarou Okamoto2, Yusuke Kawamoto3, Yasushi Yoshino3, Yoshio Ohshita4 1Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan, 2MITSUBOSHI DIAMOND INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD, Settsu, Japan, 3NORITAKE CO., LIMITED, Miyoshi, Japan, 4Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan

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J33 (149) Rear Contact Solar Cell With ZrO2 Nano Structured Front Surface For Efficient Light Trapping and Enhanced Surface Passivation Rahul Pandey, Rishu Chaujar Delhi Technological University , New Delhi, India

J37 (150) New Concept of PECVD Reactor for Efficient Production of Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Omid Shojaei1, Antoine Descoeudres2, Ulrich Kroll1, Loris Barraud2, Fabrice Jeanneret1, Arnaud Limouzin1, Matthieu Despeisse2, Christophe Ballif2 1INDEOtec, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 2CSEM, Neuchatel, Switzerland

J40 (151) Modified Silicon nanotips with improved carrier lifetime by using solution process for efficient solar

cells applications Thiyagu Sunbramani1, Hong-Jhang Syu1, Chen-Chih Hsueh1, Chien-Ting Liu1, Song-Ting Yang2, Ching-Fuh Lin1,2,3 1Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 3Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

J43 (152) Recombination lifetime estimation at crystalline defects layer induced by SiNx deposition using plasma

CVD Tomihisa Tachibana1, Takuto Kojima1, Daisuke Takai1, Atsushi Ogura2, Yoshio Ohshita1 1Toyota Tech. Inst, Nagoya, Japan, 2Meiji Univ., Kawasaki, Japan

K2 (153) The Influence of ALD SiOx/AlOx stacks passivation on Interdigitated Back Contact Solar Cells

Yun Kuo Tsao, Chia Chih Chuang Motech Industries, Inc. Science Park Branch, Tainan, Taiwan

K5 (154) Industrial applications of a novel technology for commercial multicrystalline silicon solar cells

Enyu Wang1, Hong Yang1, He Wang1, Jianming Dong2, Jin Liu2, Kewei Zhao2, Chun Gong2, Andreas Teppe2 1Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, 2Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, 3Xi'an Jiaotong University, xi'an, China, 4Lu'an Photovoltaics Technology CO.,LtdLu'an Photovoltaics Technology CO.,Ltd, Changzhi, China, 5Lu'an Photovoltaics Technology CO.,Ltd, Changzhi, China, 6Lu'an Photovoltaics Technology CO.,Ltd, Changzhi, China, 7Lu'an Photovoltaics Technology CO.,Ltd, Changzhi, China, 8Lu'an Photovoltaics Technology CO.,Ltd, Changzhi, China

K7 (155) Optimization of local contact formation on Screen-printed Al2O3 Passivated Solar Cells

Xusheng WANG1,2, Guoqiang Xing1 1Canadian Solar Inc, Suzhou, China, 2Photovoltaic Research Institute of Soochow University, Suzhou, China

K9 (156) Raman Spectroscopy Study of Crystalline Damage Induced by PECVD SiN

Yoshihiro Yamashita1, Norihiro Ikeno1, Nagisa Aizawa1, Tomihisa Tachibana2, Yoshio Ohshita2, Atsushi Ogura1 1Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan, 2Toyota technological institute, Nagoya, Japan

K11 (157) Electrical and Optical Characterization of Crystalline-Si Solar Cell with Down Shifting Eu-Doped Silicate

Phosphors Film Depending on the Coverage of Phosphors Particles Using Spin-on Film Process Guo-Chang Yang, Wen-Jeng Ho, Chien-Wu Yeh, Yu-Tang Shen, Ruei-Siang Sue, Chia-Hua Hu, Yu-Jie Deng National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

K13 (158) Transparent conducting oxide-based, passivated contacts for high efficiency crystalline Si solar cells

Woojun Yoon1, Eunhwan Cho2, Jason D. Myers1, Youngwoo Ok2, Matthew P. Lumb1,3, Jesse A. Frantz1, David Scheiman1, Phillip P. Jenkins1, Ajeet Rohatgi2, Robert J. Walters1 1U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, 2University Center of Excellence for Photovoltaic Research and Education, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, 3The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States

K15 (159) A New Method to Determine Surface Recombination Velocity for Point Contact Solar Cells

Z ZHOU, A LIAO, I Perez-Wurfl UNSW, Sydney, Australia

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Area 5 - Posters 10:30 - 12:00 PM Elite Hall E (Level 1)

Thin-Film Silicon PV Technology

Chair(s): Rajiv O Dusane, Nikolas Podraza, Matthias Meier

K20 (160) EFFECT OF OXIDATION ON WETTING BEHAVIOR BETWEEN SILICON AND SILICON CARBIDE zineb benouahmane, lifeng zhang

K21 (161) Methods of Nano-crystallization of Thin Silicon Films

Michal Kolodziej1, Tomasz Kolodziej2, Andrzej Kolodziej2 1AGH University of Science and Technology, Department of Automatics and Biomedical Engineering, Krakow, Poland, 2AGH University of Science and Technology, Department of Electronics, Krakow, Poland

K22 (162) Passivated interfaces in fluorinated microcrystalline silicon thin film solar cells

Josua Stuckelberger, Simon Hänni, Bjoern Niesen, Franz-Josef Haug, Christophe Ballif École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Neuchâtel, Switzerland

K23 (163) Quantum Efficiency Simulations with Inputs from Spectroscopic Ellipsometry for Evaluation of Carrier

Collection in a-Si:H Solar Cells Puruswottam Aryal, Zhiquan Huang, Nikolas J. Podraza, Robert W. Collins Center for Photovoltaics Innovation & Commercialization and Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States

K24 (164) ~23% Increase in Efficiency of 100nm Thin Film a-Si Solar Cells Using Combination of Si/InN and Au

Nanoparticles Farsad Imtiaz Chowdhury1, Aaesha Alnuaimi1, Sabri Alkis2, Ali Kemal Okyay2,3, Munir Nayfeh4, Ammar Nayfeh1 1Institute Center for Microsystems (iMicro), Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2UNAM – National Nanotechnology Research Center and Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 3Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 4Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States

K25 (165) Symmetry-Breaking Nanostructures for Enhanced Light-Trapping in Thin Film Solar Cells

Swapnadip Ghosh, Seok Jun Han, Brittany R Hoard, Ethan C Culler, Jose E Bonilla, Eric J Martin, John K Grey, Sang M Han, Sang E Han University of New Mexico , Albuquerque, NM, United States

K26 (166) Roadmap for Multi-functional PV Contacts

David Ginley1, John Perkins 1, Inna Kozinsky2, Joe Berry1 1NREL, Golden, CO, United States, 2DOE EERE, Washington, DC, United States

K27 (167) Study of Prolonged Light-Soaking (~400 Hrs) Effect on Pm-Si:H Solar Cell Structures

Leon Hamui1, B. Marel Monroy1, Guillermo Santana1, Pere Roca i Cabarrocas2 1IIM-UNAM, Mexico, Mexico, 2CNRS-LPICM, Palaiseau, France

K28 (168) Solar cell composed of colossal magneto-capacitance and SiGe/Si thin film

C.-F. Hsieh Center for Measurement Standards, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan

K29 (169) Numerical Analysis and Optimal Design of Efficient Si/SiC Thin-film Solar Cells

Mohamed H Ibliha1, Leonardo Bueno2, Bruno Vizcarra3, Ghulam M Chaudhry4, Mahbube Khoda Siddiki5 1Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States, 2Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States, 3Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States, 4Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States, 5Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States

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K30 (170) Fabrication of Flexible Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells and Modules with Monolithic Series Structure on Flexible Glass Substrate Wang Li1,2, Guoping Du3, Shiyong Liu1,2, Lu Liu1, Shipeng Wang1, Weizhi Han1, Haiyan Huang1, Chuan Lu1, Xinwei Niu1 1Chint Solar (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, China, 2Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 3Nanchang University, Nanchang, China

K31 (171) Performance of Inorganic Photovoltaic Structures Employing Heterojunctions with Large Band Gap

Materials Rosendo Lopez Delgado1,2, Arturo Ayon1, Mario Enrique Alvarez Ramos2 1University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, 2University of Sonora, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico

K32 (172) Highly Conductive TCO by RF Sputtering of Al:ZnO for Thin Film Photovoltaics

Navid Mohammad Sadeghi Jah, Mohsen Mahmoudysepehr, Siva Sivoththaman Centre for Advanced Photovoltaic Devices and Systems,Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Waterloo, ON, Canada

K33 (173) a-Si:H Based Photovoltaic Cell with MoOx Hole Collection Layer

Erenn Ore1, Jimmy Melskens2, Arno Smets2, Miro Zeman2, Gehan Amaratunga1 1Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2EWI Faculty, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

K34 (174) ZnO:Al for thin-film solar cell application: Optimization and prediction of conductivity on textured

substrates Nicolas Sommer1, Jürgen Hüpkes1, Noel Wilck2, Florian Lentz1, Uwe Rau1 1IEK-5 Photovoltaics, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany, 2Institute of Semiconductor Electronics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

K35 (175) Correcting the inherent distortion in luminescence images of silicon solar cells

Anthony S. Teal, Mattias K. Juhl University of NSW, Sydney, Australia

K36 (176) Improving surface passivation capability of silicon heterojunction solar cells with amorphous silicon by

optical emission spectrometry Guanghong Wang1, Ge Wang2, Ruidan Hu3, Lei Zhao4 , Hongwei Diao5, Wenjing Wang6 1Institute of Electrical Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2Institute of Electrical Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 3Institute of Electrical Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 4Institute of Electrical Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 5Institute of Electrical Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 6Institute of Electrical Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

K37 (177) Changing in irradiation behavior and temperature-coefficient variation caused by light-induced

degradation of a-Si/µc-Si solar cells Johannes A. Weicht, Frank U. Hamelmann, Grit Behrens University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, Minden, Germany

Area 9 - Posters 10:30 - 12:00 PM Elite Hall F (Level 1)

Modules, Manufacturing, Systems and Applications (I)

Chair(s): Olga Lavrova, Dan Riley, Clifford Hansen

N17 (178) A technique for tracking the global maximum power point of photovoltaic arrays under partial shading conditions jawad ahmad, Alessandro Ciocia, Paolo D Leo, Filippo Spertino politecnico di torino, torino, Italy

N20 (179) MPP Tracking of PV Based Low Voltage DC Microgrid System with Adaptive Droop Algorithm.

Sijo Augustine, Mahesh K. Mishra, N. Lakshmi Narasamma, T. Sreekanth IIT Madras, Chennai, India

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N23 (180) Flexible silicon heterojunctions solar cells and modules André Augusto, Luc Reboulet, Stanislau Y Herasimenka, Stuart Bowden Arizona State University, Electrical Engineering, Tempe, AZ, United States

N26 (181) Experimental Performance Investigation of Uniform and Non-uniform Cooling Techniques for

Photovoltaic Systems Haitham M.S. Bahaidarah King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

N29 (182) Design and implementation of electronic equipment that emulates photovoltaic panels

Lina M Barrera Gamboa1, Ricardo Andrés Osorio Muñoz2, César Leonardo Trujillo Rodriguez3 1Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Columbia, 2Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Columbia, 3Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Columbia

N32 (183) PV System Power Loss and Module Damage due to Partial Shade and Bypass Diode Removal Depends

on Cell Behavior in Reverse Bias Adria E Brooks, Daniel Cormode, Alexander D Cronin University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States

O3 (188) Tessera: Scalable, Shade Robust Module

Anna Carr1, Koen De Groot1, Mark Jansen1, Evert Bende1, John Van Roosmalen1, Lars Okel1, Wilma Eerenstein1, Rudi Jonkman2, Robert Van der Sanden2, Jan Bakker3, Bart De Gier3, Adriaan Harthoorn4 1ECN, Petten, Netherlands, 2Heliox, Best, Netherlands, 3Eurotron, Bleskensgraaf, Netherlands, 4Stafier Solar systems, Zevenaar, Netherlands

N35 (184) A Novel Single Stage Zero Leakage Current Transformer less Inverter for Grid Connected PV Systems

Phani Kumar Chamarthi, Mini Rajeev, Vivek Agarwal Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

N38 (185) A Convergence Algorithm for Maximum Power Point Tracking of Photovoltaic Arrays with Bypass

Diodes Brandon M Contino1, Guangyong U Li2 1University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 2University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

N41 (186) Design and Thermal Testing of a Power Supply Prototype for the Space Plasma Ionic Charge Analyzer

(SPICA) CubeSat Rachid Darbali-Zamora1, Eduardo I. Ortiz-Rivera1, Amilcar A. Rincon-Charris2 1University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR, United States, 2Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Bayamon, PR, United States

N44 (187) Ultra-Dense Energy Storage Utilizing High Melting Point Metallic Alloys and Photovoltaic Cells

Alejandro Datas, Antonio Martí, Carlos del Cañizo, Antonio Luque Instituto de Energía Solar - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

O6 (189) Development and Prototype Validation of a Novel Bidirectional Intelligent Conversion and Connection

Unit (BICC) for Grid-Connected Photovoltaic-Storage Systems Antonia Sonia A. C. Diniz1, Lauro V. B. Machado Neto1, Suellen C. S. Costa1, Thiago A. Silverio1, Marcio E. M. Souza2, Denio A. Cassini2, Francisco H. A. F. Souza2, Danilo D. S. Alves2, Wilton de C. Padrão3, Flavio M. C. Michel3, Delly Oliveira Filho4 1GREEN Solar-IPUC, Pontificia Universidade Catolica Minas Gerais –PUCMinas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais – CEMIG-D, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 3Engetron Ltda, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 4Universidade Federal de Viçosa - UFV, Viçosa, Brazil

O9 (190) Partial Shading Abatement through a Two-Stage Power Electronic System Topology for Photovoltaic

Modules Mark Elliott, Michael McIntyre, Joseph Latham University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States

O12 (191) Development of a Solar Photovoltaic Module Emulator

Yunus Erkaya, Paul Moses, Isaac Flory, Sylvain Marsillac Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States

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O15 (192) A Multivariate Approach to Utilizing Mid-sequence Process Control Data Rhett Evans1,3, Matthew Boreland2 1Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, 2School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, Sydney, Australia, 3Solinno Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia

O18 (193) Printed module interconnects

Jeremy D. Fields1, Gregory Pach1,2, Maikel F.A.M. van Hest1 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States

O21 (194) Electrical Power System Support-Function Capabilities of Residential and Small Commercial Inverters

Sigifredo Gonzalez, Jay Johnson, Jason Neely Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States

O24 (195) Low-cost Copper Conductive Grids for Thin-film Solar Cells Formed by Screen Printing and Laser

Sintering. Simon J Henley1, Miroslaw Kula1, Adam N Brunton1, C. W. Aaron Chan2, Richard Dixon2, Brendan Dunne3 1M-Solv Ltd., Oxford, United Kingdom, 2Intrisiq Materials Ltd., Farnborough, United Kingdom, 3Nexcis Photovoltaic Technology, Rousset, France

O27 (196) Advanced Maximum Power Point Tracking Scheme for Centralized Inverters for Large Solar

Photovoltaic Power Plants Prashant Jain1, Vivek Agarwal2, Bishnu Prasad Muni3, Deepak Gehlot4, Gautam S5 1Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Hyderabad, India, 2Fellow, IEEE, Bombay, India, 3Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Hyderabad, India, 4Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Hyderabad, India, 5Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Hyderabad, India

O29 (197) Micro Chiplet Printer For Micro-scale Photovoltaic System Assembly

Jeng Ping Lu1, Gregory L. Whiting1, David K. Biegelsen1, Sourobh Raychaudhuri1, Rene A. Lujan1, Janos Veres1, Eugene M. Chow1, Patrick Y. Maeda1, Vipin Gupta2, Gregory N. Nielson3, Scott M. Paap2 1PARC, a Xerox company, Palo Alto, CA, United States, 2Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, United States, 3Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States

O31 (198) Module-based Storage for Regulating PV Power Intermittency at the Point of Generation

Doug L Maskell, Srivatsan Ramasubramanian, Qing Xu NTU, Singapore, Singapore

O33 (199) Chaos Control DC-DC boost converter by FPGA

Ammar N Natsheh1, Mohammed S Al-Habibah2 1Middle East University, Amman, Jordan, 2Solutions Company, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

O35 (200) Reliability Prediction of PV Inverters Based on MIL-HDBK-217F N2

Firas Abdullah Obeidat 1, manchester, United Kingdom

O36 (201) Comparison study on MPPT techniques for PV module using MATLAB/Simulink

Sagar P Patel1, Homraz Amrolia1, Amar Hinduja2 1Institute of Technology,Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India, 2Kolorrol Energy Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad, India

O37 (202) Performance Enhancement of a Shaded Light Trapping Solar Module

Cheng-Yu Peng, Zhong-Jia Ji, Shang-Yeh Wen, Huei-Ting Yan Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan, Taiwan

O38 (203) Expedited Nonlinear Equivalent Resistance MPPT via Solar Power Prediction

Chaitanya Poolla1, Abraham Ishihara1, Rodney Martin2, Steve Rosenberg1 1Carnegie Mellon University (SV), Mountain View, CA, United States, 2NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, United States

O39 (204) Development of an Ion-Barrier Film on Solar Panel Glass

Sergiu C. Pop1, Ralf Schulze1, Brenor Brophy2, Sina Maghsoodi2, Y. Sam Yang2, Ze'ev R. Abrams2, Peter Gonsalves2 1Yingi Green Energy Americas Inc., San Francisco, CA, United States, 2Enki Technology Inc., San Jose, CA, United States

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O40 (205) Novel Solar PV-Fuel Cell fed Dual-Input-Dual-Output DC-DC Converter for DC Microgrid Applications Prajof Prabhakaran, Vivek Agarwal Indian Insitute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

O41 (206) Novel Boost-SEPIC type Interleaved DC-DC Converter for Low-Voltage Bipolar DC Microgrid-tied Solar

PV Applications Prajof Prabhakaran, Vivek Agarwal Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

O42 (207) Novel Transformer-Less Inverter Topology for Single-Phase Grid Connected Photovoltaic System

Mini Rajeev, Vivek Agarwal Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

O43 (208) Design and Implementation of a Low Cost Solar Panel Emulator

Ahmed Sanaullah, Hassan A Khan EE Dept. Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan

O44 (209) A Single Stage Coupled Inductor Based High Gain DC-AC Buck-Boost Inverter for PhotoVoltaic (PV)

Applications T. Sreekanth, N. Lakshmi Narasamma, Mahesh K. Mishra, Sijo Augustine IIT Madras, chennai, India

P1 (210) A Novel Maximum Power Extraction Technique for Rapidly Changing NUI Conditions

ASWANI UPPADA1, Siddhartha P Duttagupta2, Eldho T I2 1RESEARCH SCHOLAR, MUMBAI, India, 2PROFESSOR, MUMBAI, India

P2 (211) Analytical model of stress distribution of solder strip of crystalline silicon cells under temperature field

Ao Wang, He Wang, Hong Yang, Dingyue Cao Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

P3 (212) High Temperature Stability of Broadband Anti-Reflection Coatings on Soda Lime Glass for Solar

Modules Gerald Womack1,2, Piotr M Kaminski1, John M Walls1 1CREST (Centre for Renewable Energy Systems and Technology), School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom, 2National Structural Integrity Research Centre (NSIRC Ltd.), Granta Park, Great Abington, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Area 10 - Posters 10:30 - 12:00 PM Elite Hall G (Level 1)

PV Deployment and Sustainability

Chair(s): Kristen Ardani, Gabrielle Gaustad, Mike Coddington

P4 (213) Impacts of Retail Electricity Rate Feedback, Rate Design, and Photovoltaic Compensation Mechanisms on Distributed Solar Deployment in the United States Naïm R. Darghouth, Ryan Wiser, Galen Barbose, Andrew D. Mills Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States

P5 (214) “Nanogrids in India: A conceptual solution for off grid/rural electrification”

Alpesh Dharamsinh Desai1, Indrajit Mukhopadhyay1 1School of Solar Energy,Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, India, 2School of Solar Energy,Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, India

P6 (215) BOS Cost Reduction via Direct PV Charging of Electrical Vehicles

S Krauter1,2 1University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany, 2Photovoltaik Institut Berlin, Berlin, Germany

P7 (216) Planning and Designing of distributed PV of Suzhou Industrial Park

Tao Li1, Wenjing Wang2 1CAS, beijing, China, 2CAS, beijing, China

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P8 (217) Grid-connected Solar Photovoltaic for Petrol Stations in Kuwait Ahmad AL-Otaibi1, Yehya AL-Hadban1, Khaled Al-Mazeedi2, Ayman Al-Qattan1 1Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Shuwaikh, Kuwait, 2Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, Shuwaikh, Kuwait

P9 (218) IEEE 1547 Standards Advancing Grid Modernization

Thomas Basso National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

P10 (219) Enhancement of Grid Connected Storage Systems

Richard John Bravo1, Chuong Ly2, Victor Tran1 1Southern California Edison, Westminster, CA, United States, 2Southern California Edison, Pomona, CA, United States

P11 (220) Distributed Energy Resources Challenges for Utilities

Richard John Bravo1, Roger Salas2, Chase Sun3, Thomas Bialek4 1Southern California Edison, Westminster, CA, United States, 2Southern California Edison, Pomona, CA, United States, 3Pacific Gas and Electric, San Francisco, CA, United States, 4San Diego Gas and Electric, San Diego, CA, United States

P12 (221) Economic analysis of a grid connected photovoltaic system in Recife, Brazil

Alvaro Calazans1, Ghulam M Chaudhry2, Mahbube K Siddiki3, Michael Kelly4 1Department of Electrical Engineering Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil, 2Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States, 3Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States, 4Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States

P13 (222) Economic Competitiveness of U.S. Utility-Scale Photovoltaics Systems: Regional Cost Modeling of

Installed Cost ($/W) and LCOE ($/kWh) Ran Fu1, Ted James2, Donald Chung1, Douglas Gagne1, Anthony Lopez1, Aron Dobos1 11National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO, United States, 2Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E), San Francisco, CA, United States

P14 (223) Methodology for Technical Analysis to Massify PV Systems as an Option for Distributed Energy

Generation in Low-Tension Voltage Systems Johann Hernández1, Carlos Arredondo2, William vallejo3 1Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Columbia, 2Universidad de Medellín, Medellín, Columbia, 3Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Columbia

P15 (224) Photovoltaic Projects Developed in Non-Interconnected Zones in Colombia

Johann Hernández, Cesar Trujillo, Francisco Santamaría Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Columbia

P16 (225) A Simple Green Process to Recycle Si from Crystalline-Si Solar Cells

Wen-Hsi Huang1, Meng Tao2 1School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 2School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States

P17 (226) Real Time Estimation of PV Output in Distribution Systems Based on Smart Meters and Irradiance

Measurement Kyohhei Kamono1,2, Yuzuru Ueda1,2 1Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan, 2CREST, JST, Saitama, Japan

P18 (227) Field Verification and Data Analysis of High PV Penetration Impacts on Distribution Systems

Farid Katiraei1, Barry Mather2, Ahmadreza Momeni1, Li Yu1, Gerardo Sanchez1 1Quanta, Markham, ON, Canada, 2NREL, Denver, CO, United States

P19 (228) Effective large scale PV integration: Methods to match load profile with actual PV output

Stefan Krauter1,2 1University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany, 2Photovoltaik Institut Berlin, Berlin, Germany

P20 (229) A Study on the Maximum Use of PV Power in a Residential Community –the case of Utilizing of Demand

Response Program– Hiroto Kuroiwa1, Tomohide Yazamazaki1, Shinji Wakao1, Kei Morita2, Yasuo Nakatsuka2 1Waseda University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 2JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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P21 (230) Solar Power Simulations for a Renewable Integration Study in New Mexico Using Sparse Input Data

Matthew Lave1, Abraham Ellis2 1Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, United States, 2Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States

P22 (231) Open Use Solar PV Plant Power Production Data Sets

Rick Meeker, James Langston, Ruturaj Soman Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States

P23 (232) Solar on US Tribal Lands

Paula J Mints1, Curt Shannon2 1SPV Market Research, San Jose, CA, United States, 2Conation Energy, Phoenix, AZ, United States

P24 (233) Photovoltaic Crystalline and Thin film Capacity, Production, Shipments and Inventory, 1982-2019, Past

and Future Trends Paula J Mints SPV Market Research, San Jose, CA, United States

P29 (238) Impact of Micro-inverter Reactive Power Support Capability in High Penetration Residential PV

Networks Ibrahima Ndiaye, Xinhui Wu, Mohammed Agamy GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, NY, United States

P25 (234) Sizing Considerations Based on Name plate specifications of photovoltaic (PV) module

PG Nikhil1, D Subhakar2, Supinder Jeet Singh3 1National Institute of Solar EnergyA, HARYANA, India, 2Vellore Institute of Technology, TAMIL NADU, India, 3Ministry of New and Renewable EnergyC, NEW DELHI, India

P26 (235) Displacing California's Coal and Nuclear Generation With Solar PV and Wind by 2022 Using Vehicle-To-

Grid Energy Storage Larry D Partain1, Lewis M Fraas2 1Solar Cell Electricity, Los Altos, CA, United States, 2JX Crystals, Issaquah, WA, United States

P27 (236) PV-Induced Low Voltage and Mitigation Options

Jimmy E. Quiroz, Matthew J. Reno, Robert J. Broderick Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States

P28 (237) "ALTERNATIVES BUSINESS MODELS FOR DEPLOYMENT OF SOLAR PV APPLICATIONS IN RURAL

INDIA" Saumya Anand Srivastava2, A. B. Rao1 1A.B. Rao, Mumbai, India, 2Saumya Anand Srivastava, Mumbai, India

P30 (239) The Modeling of Distribution Feeders Enhanced by Distributed Generation in DIgSILENT

Insu Kim1, Raeey Regassa2, Ronald Harley2 1Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL, United States, 2Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States

P31 (240) The Investigation of the Maximum Effect of the Volt/Var Control of Distributed Generation on Voltage

Regulation Insu Kim1, Ronald Harley2, Raeey Regassa2 1Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL, United States, 2Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States

P32 (241) Practical Considerations in Application of Correlation-Based Islanding Detection with Synchrophasors

Michael E. Ropp1, Scott J. Perlenfein1, Dustin D. Schutz1, Chris A. Mouw1, Sigifredo Gonzalez2, Jason Neely2, Michael A. Mills-Price3 1Northern Plains Power Technologies, Brookings, SD, United States, 2Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 3Advanced Energy, Bend, OR, United States

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Joint Area Session - Posters 10:30 - 12:00 PM Elite Hall A (Level 1)

Joint Area 1,3,4 & 7: III-V on Si and Other Alternative Substrates

Chair(s): Tyler Grassman, Ken Schmeider, Ignacio Rey-Stolle

R14 (242) The Design of Single-Junction GaAs and Dual-Junction GaAs/Si in the Presence of Threading Dislocation Density Ibraheem Almansouri1, Stephen Bremner1, Anita Ho-Baillie1, Steven A. Ringel2,3, Martin A. Green1 1Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP), School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, 3Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States

R15 (243) Potential Performance of "Out-of-Sequence" Multi-junction Solar Cells: III-V on virtual Ge substrates

with active Si bottom sub-cell Ibraheem Almansouri, Stephen Bremner, Anita Ho-Baillie, Martin A. Green Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP), School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

R16 (244) GaP/Si Heterojunction Solar Cells

Christopher T Chen1, Rebecca Saive1, Hal S Emmer1, Shaul Aloni2, Harry A Atwater1 1California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, 2Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States

R17 (245) Zinc Oxide and Silicon Based Heterojunction Solar Cell Model

Babar Hussain1, Abasifreke Ebong1, Ian Ferguson1,2 1University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States, 2Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, United States

R18 (246) Study on Effects of Intermediate Buffer Layer Structures for Growth of GaAs on GaP Substrates

Mitsuru Imaizumi1, Masumi Hirotani2, Tetsuo Soga3 1JAXA, Tsukuba, Japan, 2Daido Steel, Nagoya, Japan, 3Nagoya Inst. Tech., Nagoya, Japan

R19 (247) Towards a Monolithic, an All-Epitaxial and a Reusable-Substrate Design for III-V-on-Si Solar Cells

Nikhil Jain, Michael Clavel, Patrick Goley, Mantu K. Hudait Bradley Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States

R20 (248) Suppression of Twin Formation in Layered In2Se3 Grown on GaAs(111)

Nobuaki Kojima, Hiroya Nakamura, Yoshio Ohshita, Masafumi Yamaguchi Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan

R21 (249) Optical and Electrical Analysis of Graded Buffer Layers in III-V/SiGe on Silicon Tandem Solar Cells

Dun Li1, Xin Zhao1, Martin Diaz1, Brianna Conrad1, Li Wang1, Anastasia H. Soeriyadi1, Andrew Gerger2, Anthony Lochtefeld2, Allen Barnett1, Ivan Perez-Wurfl1 1UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia, 2AmberWave Inc., Salem, NH, United States

R22 (250) Light Management in Mechanically-Stacked GaAs/Si Tandem Solar Cells: Optical Design of the Si

Bottom Cell Zhe Liu1, Zekun Ren2, Haohui Liu1, Jonathan P. Mailoa3, Nasim Sahraei2, Sin-Cheng Siah3, Sarah E. Sofia3, Fen Lin1, Tonio Buonassisi2,3, Ian Marius Peters3 1Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 2Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology, Singapore, Singapore, 3Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

R23 (251) Alternatives for Rear-Surface Passivation in III-V on Si Multi-junction Solar Cells

Diego Martín1, Elisa García-Tabarés2, Ignacio Rey-Stolle2 1Área de Tecnología Electrónica. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles (Madrid), Spain, 2Instituto de Energía Solar, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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R24 (252) Numerical analysis of photon recycling and luminescent coupling in III-V/Si tandems ZEKUN Ren1, Jonathan Mailoa3, Zhe Liu2, Haohui Liu2, SinCheng Siah3, Tonio Buonassisi3, Ian Marius Peters3 1Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology (SMART), Singapore, Singapore, 2Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS), , Singapore, Singapore, 3Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

R25 (253) 3 µm Thick GaSb Membrane Diodes Integrated with CVD Diamond Heat Spreaders for Thermally

Managed TPV Systems Emma J. Renteria, Sadhvikas J. Addamane, Darryl M. Shima, Christopher P. Hains, Ganesh Balakrishnan Center for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States

R26 (254) Thin Film III-V Photovoltaics using Single-Crystalline-Like, Flexible Substrates

Venkat Selvamanickam1, Pavel Dutta1, Monika Rathi1, Yao Yao1, Ying Gao1, N Zheng2, Phil Ahrenkiel2, Jae-Hyun Ryou1 1University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, 2South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD, United States

R27 (255) Indium Zinc Oxide Mediated Wafer Bonding for III-V/Si Tandem Solar Cells

Adele C Tamboli, Maikel Van Hest, Myles Steiner, Emmett Perl, Stephanie Essig, Andrew Norman, Paul Stradins National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

R28 (256) Self-Catalyzed High-Quality Core-Shell GaAsP NWs and the Application on Photovoltaics

Yunyan Zhang1, Jiang Wu1, Marin Aagesen2, Huiyun Liu1 1University College London, London, United Kingdom, 22. Gasp Solar ApS, Gregersensvej 7, Denmark

R29 (257) Short Circuit Current Improvement of SiGe Solar Cell in a Gallium Arsenide Phosphide-Silicon

Germanium Dual Junction Solar Cell on Silicon Substrate xin Zhao1, dun Li1, li Wang1, brianna Conrad1, anastasia H. Soeriyadi1, martin Diaz1, anthony Lochtefeld2, andrew Gerger2, ivan Perez-wurfl1, allen Barnett1 1School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW Australia, sydney, Australia, 2AmberWave Inc, Salem, NH, United States


Hot Carrier Solar Cells

Chair(s): Gavin Conibeer, Stephen Bremner

1:30 (258) Hot-carrier effects in type II heterostructures Louise C. Hirst1, Michael K. Yakes1, Christopher G. Bailey2, Joseph G. Tischler1, Vincent R. Whiteside3, Ian R. Sellers3, Matthew P. Lumb4, David V. Forbes5, Robert J. Walters1 1U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, 2Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States, 3The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, 4The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, 5Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States

2:00 (259) Broadband Photoelectric Hot Carrier Collection with Wafer-Scale Metallic-Semiconductor Photonic

Crystals Jeffrey B. Chou1, David P. Fenning1, Yu Wang1, Miguel A.M. Polanco1, Jonathan Hwang1, Firas Sammoura2, Jaime Viegas2, Mahmoud Rasras2, Asmaa El-Faer3, Alexie Kolpak1, Yang Shao-Horn1, Sang-Gook Kim1 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, 2Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Masdar City, United Arab Emirates, 3University of Dammam, Dammam, Saudi Arabia


(260) Carrier Dynamics and Phonon Properties of Hafnium Nitride: Potential Hot Carrier Solar Cell Absorber Simon Chung, Santosh Shrestha , Xiaoming Wen, Hongze Xia, Yu Feng, Shujuan Huang, Neeti Gupta, Gavin Conibeer School of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering. UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia

2:30 (261) Effects of hot carriers at elevated temperatures in Type-II InAs/AlAs0.84Sb0.16 quantum wells.

Jinfeng Tang, Vincent R Whiteside, Hamidreza Esmaielpour, Sangeetha Vijeyaragunathan, Tetsuya D Mishima, Michael B Santos, Ian R Sellers University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States

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2:45 (262) Theoretical investigation of plasmon enhanced optically-coupled hot carrier extraction

Jianfeng Yang, Yu Feng, Robert Patterson, Shujuan Huang, Santosh Shrestha, Gavin Conibeer School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia


Advances in Chalcogenides solar cells

Chair(s): Marika Edoff, Wyatt Metzger

1:30 (263) Invited: Point defect characteristics in quaternary chalcogenide compound semiconductors Susan Schorr HZB, Berlin, Germany

2:00 (264) Significantly improved interface recombination velocity and minority carrier lifetime for CdTe/MgCdTe

double heterostructures Shi Liu1,2, Xin-Hao Zhao1,3, Calli Campbell1,3, Maxwell Lassise1,2, Yuan Zhao1,2, Yong-Hang Zhang1,2 1Center for Photonics Innovation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 2School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 3School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States


(265) A stochastic model for Cu(InGa)(SeS)2 absorber growth during selenization/sulfization Robert J Lovelett1,2, William N Shafarman2,3, Robert W Birkmire2,3, Babatunde A Ogunnaike1 1Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, 2Institute of Energy Conversion, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, 3Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States

2:30 (266) Statistical Process Control for Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 electrodeposition-based manufacturing process of

60x120cm² modules up to 14,0% efficiency Cedric Broussillou, Cedric Viscogliosi, Alexandre Rogee, Pierre-Philippe Grand, Sylvie Bodnar, Christophe Debauche, Jean-Louis Allary, Bertrand Bertrand, Cyrille Guillou, Ludovic Parissi, Stephane Coletti NEXCIS Photovoltaic Technology, Rousset, France

2:45 (267) Control of CIGS Roughness By Initial Selenization Temperature

Marsha Langhorst1, Eugene Bykov2, Qiongzhong Jiang2, John Kim2, Steve Rozeveld1, Melissa Mushrush1, Art Wall2, Ankur Khare1, Rebekah Feist1 1The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI, United States, 2NuvoSun, Inc., Milpitas, CA, United States


Advanced Cell Structures

Chair(s): Brett Hallam, Ron Sinton

1:30 (268) Advances in crystalline silicon heterojunction research and opportunities for low manufacturing costs Christophe Ballif1,2, Matthieu Despeisse1, Stefaan De Wolf2 1CSEM, PV-center, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 2PV-lab, IMT, EPFL, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

2:00 (269) 20.76% Efficient PERC Solar Cell on a p-Type Multi-Crystalline Silicon Substrate

Weiwei Deng, Daming Chen, Zhen Xiong, Jianwen Dong, Feng Ye, Hui Li, Huijun Zhu, Ming Zhong, Yang Yang, Yifeng Chen, Zhiqiang Feng, Pierre J. Verlinden State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology, Trina Solar, Changzhou, Jiangsu, Changzhou, China

2:15 (270) Approaching efficiencies above 25% with both sides-contacted silicon solar cells

Martin Hermle1, Frank Feldmann1, Johannes Eisenlohr1, Armin Richter1, Jan Benick1, Benjamin Lee2, Ajeet Rohatgi3, Paul Stradins2, Stefan W. Glunz1 1Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany, 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory , Golden, CO, United States, 3Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta, GA, United States

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2:30 (271) >20% Efficient 80 µm Thin Industrial-Type Large-Area Solar Cells from 100 µm Sawn c-Si Wafers

Yvonne Schiele, Nils Brinkmann, Jan Ebser, Renate Horbelt, Alexander Frey, Josh Engelhardt, Giso Hahn, Barbara Terheiden University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

2:45 (272) 730 mV Implied Voc Enabled by Tunnel Oxide Passivated Contact with PECVD Grown and Crystallized

n+ Polycrystalline Si Yuguo Tao1, Elizabeth Lori Chang1, Ajay Upadhyaya1, Brian Roundaville1, Young-Woo Ok1, Keeya Madani1, Chia-Wei Chen1, Keith Tate1, Vijaykumar Upadhyaya1, Francesco Zimbardi1, Jim Keane1, Adam Payne2, Ajeet Rohatgi1, 2 1Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, 2Suniva Inc., Norcross, GA, United States


Advances in Thin Film Silicon Materials and Solar Cells

Chair(s): Christophe Ballif, Hitoshi Sai

1:30 (273) Liquid Phase Crystallized Silicon Solar Cells on Glass: Material Quality and Device Design Daniel Amkreutz1, William D. Barker1, Sven Kühnapfel1, Paul Sonntag1, Jan Haschke1, Stefan Gall1, Jan Schmidt2, Onno Gabriel3, Bernd Rech1 1Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin fuer Materialien und Energie GmbH - Silicon Photovoltaics, Berlin, Germany, 2Institut für Solarenergieforschung Hameln, Emmerthal, Germany, 3Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin fuer Materialien und Energie GmbH - PVcomB, Berlin, Germany

2:00 (274) Microstructure Model for Nanocrystalline Hydrogenated Silicon Oxide Thin-Films in Silicon

Heterojunction Solar Cells Alexei Richter, Lei Zhao, Friedhelm Finger, Kaining Ding IEK-5 Photovoltaik, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

2:15 (275) Characterization of Structure and Growth Evolution for nc-Si:H in the Tandem Photovoltaic Device

Configuration Zhiquan Huang, Lila R. Dahal, Maxwell M. Junda, Puruswottam Aryal, Robert W. Collins, Nikolas J. Podraza Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization & Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States

2:30 (276) Ultrathin nanostructured c-Si solar cells by low temperature and scalable processes.

Alexandre Gaucher1, Andrea Cattoni1, Ines Massiot1, Christophe Dupuis1, Wanghua Chen2, Romain Cariou2, Martin Foldyna2, Pere Roca i Cabarrocas2, Loic Lalouat3, Emmanuel Drouard3, Christian Seassal3, Stephane Collin1 1Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures (LPN), Marcoussis, France, 2Laboratoire de Physique des Interfaces et Couches Minces (LPICM), Palaiseau, France, 3Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon (INL), Ecully, France

2:45 (277) Highly controlled microcrystalline silicon growth using in-situ Raman spectroscopy

Thomas Fink, Stefan Muthmann, Matthias Meier IEK5 - Photovoltaics, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany


Solar Resource Measurement and Modeling

Chair(s): Matthew Lave, Charles McBrearty

1:30 (278) Satellite-to-Irradiance Modeling – A New Version of the SUNY Model Richard Perez1, James Schlemmer1, Karl, Jr. Hemker1, Sergey Kivalov1, Adam Kankiewicz2, Christian Gueymard3 1Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, SUNY,, Albany, NY, United States, 2Clean Power Research, Napa, CA, United States, 3Solar Consulting Services, Colebrook, NH, United States

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1:45 (279) A Sky Radiance-Based Approach to Diffuse Irradiance Transposition Owen W Westbrook juwi solar Inc, Boulder, CO, United States

2:00 (280) Comparison of Methods for Estimating the Impact of Spectrum on PV Output

Benjamin C Duck, Christopher J Fell 1CSIRO Energy Technology, Newcastle, Australia

2:15 (281) Evaluation of Spectrally Distributed Irradiance in the Netherlands Regarding the Energy Performance of

various PV technologies Luna Mutiara, Kaj Pegels, Angèle Reinders University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands

2:30 (282) Field Spectra Binning for Energy Yield Calculations and Solar Cell Design

Ivan Garcia1,2, William E. McMahon2, Aron Habte2, John F. Geisz2, Myles A. Steiner2, Manajit Sengupta2, Daniel J. Friedman2 1Instituto de Energía Solar, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Avda Complutense s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain, Madrid, Spain, 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA, Golden, CO, United States


(283) Research on Impacts of Distributed versus Centralized Solar Resource on Distribution Network Using Power System Simulation and Solar Now-casting with Sky Imager Dung A Nguyen, Jan Kleissl UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States


Trends in PV Deployment: Market, Policy, and Financing Insights

Chair(s): Kristen Ardani, Geoff Klise

1:30 (284) The Impacts of Net Metering on Utility Profits and Rates: Case Studies of Two Prototypical Utilities Galen Barbose, Andy Satchwell, Andrew Mills, Ryan Wiser, Pete Cappers, Naim Darghouth Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States


(285) Peak Coincidence Benefits of Distributed PV Generation on PJM Philip R Diefenderfer, Edward R Prescott, Peter Mark Jansson Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, United States

2:00 (286) Interconnection Assessment Methodology and Cost Benefit Analysis for High-Penetration PV

Deployment in the Arizona Public Service System Murali Baggu1, Julieta Giraldez1, Tom Harris1, Nicholas Brunhart-Lupo1, Lars Lisell1, David Narang2 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2Arizona Public Service, Phoenix, AZ, United States

2:15 (287) PV Market in Japan and Impacts of Grid Constriction

Haruki YAMAYA, Takashi OHIGASHI, Hiroshi MATSUKAWA, Izumi KAIZUKA, Osamu IKKI RTS Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

2:30 (288) Applications and Economics of Combined PV and Battery Systems for Commercial & Industrial Peak

Shifting Daniel Katz1, Rob van Haaren2, Vasilis Fthenakis1,3 1Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, 2First Solar, Bridgewaters, NJ, United States, 3Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, NY, United States

2:45 (289) PV-Battery Systems for Increasing the Share of Renewable Energy and Avoiding Repowering Lines in

Islands where Grid-Parity Is Reached Ricardo Guerrero-Lemus1, José M. Valle2, Benjamín González-Díaz3 1Departamento de Física, La Laguna, Spain, 2ENDESA, S/C Tenerife, Spain, 3Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, La Laguna, Spain

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Joint Area Session - Orals

1:30 - 3:00 PM Strand 10 (Level 2) Joint Area 1,3,7 & 8: Characterization of Multijunction and Concentrator Cells

Chair(s): David Wilt, Alex Haas

1:30 (290) Cross-Sectional Transport Imaging in a Multijunction Solar Cell Nancy M Haegel1, Chi-Wen Ke2, Hesham Taha3, Harvey Guthrey1, Chris M. Fetzer4, Richard R. King4 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States, 3Nanonics Imaging Ltd, Jerusalem, Israel, 4Boeing Spectrolab, Sylmar, CA, United States

1:45 (291) Photoluminescence Imaging Characterization of Thin-Film InP

Steve Johnston1, Alyssa Allende Motz1,2, James Moore3, Maxwell Zheng4, Ali Javey4, Peter Bermel3 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, 3Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, 4University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States

2:00 (292) Absolute Electroluminescence Imaging of Multi-Junction Solar Cells and Calibration Standards

Masahiro Yoshita1, Lin Zhu1, Changsu Kim1, Hidefumi Akiyama1, Shaoqiang Chen2, Toshimitsu Mochizuki3, Hidehiro Kubota4, Tetsuya Nakamura5, Mitsuru Imaizumi5, Yoshihiko Kanemitsu6 1ISSP, Univ. of Tokyo, JST-SENATN, and JST-CREST, Kashiwa, Japan, 2East China Normal Univ., Shanghai, China, 3Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute, AIST, Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan, 4ATTO Corp. and JST-SENTAN, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 5Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, 6ICR, Kyoto Univ. and JST-CREST, Uji, Kyoto, Japan

2:15 (293) Determining Subcell Carrier-Collection Efficiencies of Triple-Junction Solar Cells Using Time-Resolved

Photoluminescence David M. Tex1, Toshiyuki Ihara1, Hidefumi Akiyama2, Mitsuru Imaizumi3, Yoshihiko Kanemitsu1 1Institute for Chemical Research and JST-CREST, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan, 2Institute for Solid State Physics and JST-CREST, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan, 3Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan


(294) Extending Characterization Applications of Electron Channeling Contrast Imaging Julia I. Deitz1, Santino D. Carnevale1, Steven A. Ringel1,2, David W. McComb1,2, Tyler J. Grassman1 1The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, 2Institute for Materials Research, Columbus, OH, United States

2:45 (295) A High-Concentration Programmable Solar Simulator for Testing Multi-Junction Concentrator

Photovoltaics Tasshi Dennis1, Brent Fisher2, Matt Meitl2, John Wilson2 1National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, United States, 2Semprius, Inc., Durham, NC, United States

Break 3:00 - 3:30 PM Elite Hall (Level 1)

Coffee Break

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Quantum Well Devices

Chair(s): Jessica Adams, Masakazu Sugiyama

3:30 (296) Investigation of InAlGaAs / InGaAs Quantum Well Solar Cells Christopher G. Bailey1, David V. Forbes2, Matthew P. Lumb3, Raymond Hoheisel3, Maria Gonzalez4, Seth M. Hubbard2, Louise C. Hirst5, Ken Schmeider5, Michael K. Yakes6, Phillip P. Jenkins6, Robert J. Walters6 1Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States, 2Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester , NY, United States, 3George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, 4Sotera Defense Solutions, Annapolis Junction, MD, United States, 5National Research Council, Washington, DC, United States, 6U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States

4:00 (297) Comparison of Electron and Hole Mobilities in Multiple Quantum Well Solar Cells Using a Time-of-Flight

Technique Kasidit Toprasertpong1, Taizo Tanibuchi3, Hiromasa Fujii1, Tomoyuki Kada3, Shigeo Asahi3, Kentaroh Watanabe2, Masakazu Sugiyama1, Takashi Kita3, Yoshiaki Nakano1 1School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, 3Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

4:15 (298) Measurement of Energy Distribution of Conduction Electrons in Superlattice by Visible-Light

Photoemission Spectroscopy Fumiaki Ichihashi1, Kenji Nishitani1, Xinyu Dong1, Takahiko Kawaguchi2, Makoto Kuwahara1, Takahiro Ito1, Shunta Harada1, Miho Tagawa1, Toru Ujihara1 1Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, 2Venture Business Laboratory, Nagoya, Japan

4:30 (299) Demonstration of Record Open Circuit Voltage III-V Dilute Nitride Solar Cells Using Resonantly Coupled

Multi Quantum Wells Alexandre Freundlich1, Gopi Vijaya1, Dinghao Tang2, David J. Smith2 1University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, 2Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States

4:45 (300) Effect of Carrier Confinement and Doping in Quantum Well Tunnel Junctions

Chaffra A Affouda1, Matthew P Lumb1,2, Mitchell F Bennett1,3, Kenneth J Schmieder1, Maria Gonzalez1,3, Michael K Yakes1, Robert J Walters1 1Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, 2The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, 33Sotera Defense Solutions, Annapolis Junction, MD, United States


Progress in CZTS Technology

Chair(s): Dr. Aaron Arehart, Theresa Magorian Friedlmeier

3:30 (301) Investigations of the main loss mechanisms in Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 solar cells spray-coated from water-ethanol based ink: Reducing the density of defects to reach efficiencies close to 10% Gilles DENNLER1, Gerardo LARRAMONA1, Stéphane BOURDAIS1, Christophe CHONE1, Bruno DELATOUCHE1, Camille MOISAN1, Sergiu LEVCENKO2, Thomas UNOLD2 1IMRA Europe, Sophia Antipolis, France, 2Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB), Berlin, Germany

4:00 (302) Flexible Kesterite Solar Cells on Ceramic Substrates for Advanced Thermal Processing

Teodor K Todorov1, John Olenick2, Kathy Olenick2, Oki Gunawan1, Talia Gershon1, Charles Sturdevant1, Yun Seog Lee1, Liang-yi Chang1, Supratik Guha1 1IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, United States, 2ENrG Inc., Buffalo, NY, United States


(303) Combinatorial Screening of Group-I Dopants in Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 Andrew D Collord, Hugh W Hillhouse University of Washington Department of Chemical Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States

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4:30 (304) The effect of Ag incorporation on the phase stability, crystallinity and band structure on the (Cu,Ag)2ZnSn(S,Se)4 kesterite solar cells Shih-Yuan Wei, Chung-Hao Cai, Wei-Chih Huang, Tzu-Hsuan Yeh, Chih-Huang Lai National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

4:45 (305) Improvement of Voc in Cu2ZnSnS4 Monograin Layer Solar Cells with Tin Oxide Inter-Layer

Kaia Ernits1, Li Xianglin2, Lydia H. Wong2, Dieter Meissner1,3, Axel Neisser1,3 1crystalsol OU, Akadeemia tee 15a, Tallinn, Estonia, 2Energy Research Institute@Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, 3crystalsol GmbH, Simmeringer Hauptstrasse 24, 1110, Tallinn, Austria


High, Medium, & Low Concentration PV - Cells to Systems

Chair(s): Karin Hinzer, Roland Winston, Damien Buie

3:30 (306) Field Investigation of the Effect of Spectral Response upon Photovoltaic Energy Yields Matthew S. Norton1, Vasiliki Paraskeva2, Robert P. Kenny1, George E. Georghiou2 1European Commission, Ispra, Italy, 2University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus


(307) Performance and Reliability Evaluation of Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) Power Plants Christopher Raupp, Sai Tatapudi, Bulent Bicer, Govindasamy TamizhMani ASU-PRL, Mesa, AZ, United States


(308) Optimization of a four junction solar cell CPV system using ray tracing and SPICE modeling Pratibha Sharma, Matthew. M. Wilkins, Henry Schriemer, Karin Hinzer University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

4:15 (309) Introducing novel light management to design a hybrid high concentration photovoltaic/water splitting

system José JH Videira1, Keith WJ Barnham1, Anna Hankin2, Matthew Leak1, Jonathan Johnson1, Geoff H Kelsall2, Robert Airey3, Amanda J Chatten1 1Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 2Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 3EPSERC National Centre for III-V Technologies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

4:30 (310) Micro-concentrator Module for Microsystems-enabled Photovoltaics: Optical Performance

Characterization, Modelling and Analysis Tian Gu1, Gautam Agrawal1, Alyssa Vessey1, William C Sweatt2, Bradley H Jared2, Jose Luis Cruz-Campa2, Ronald Goeke2, William K Miller2, David L Zamora2, Eric Langlois2, Murat Okandan2, Gregory N Nielson2, Michael W Haney1 1University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, 2Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States

4:45 (311) Flat-Plate Photovoltaics with Solar-Tracking Origami Micro-Concentrator Arrays

Chih-Wei Chien1, Kyusang Lee1, Matthew Shlian2, Stephen Forrest1, Max Shtein3, Pei-Cheng Ku1 1Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, 2School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, 3Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States


Device Stability, Scale-up and applications

Chair(s): Ching-Fuh Lin, Susan Spencer

3:30 (312) Invited: R2R Production and Low Light Applications of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Kethinni Chittibabu1, 2 1Molecular Photovoltaics, Shrewsbury, MA, United States, 2G24 Power Ltd, Newport, Wales, United Kingdom

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4:00 (313) Invited: OPV stability: Designed to last Ronn Andriessen1, Eszter Voroshazi2, Tom Aernouts2, Yulia Galagan1, Jan Kroon3, Sjoerd Veenstra3, Jean Manca4, René Janssen5 1Solliance/Holst Centre , Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2Solliance/imec, Leuven, Belgium, 3Solliance/ECN, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 4Solliance/UHasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium, 5Solliance/TUe, Eindhoven, Netherlands

4:30 (314) Comparative Indoor and Outdoor Degradation of Organic Photovoltaic Cells via Inter-laboratory

Collaboration Charles A Owens1, Gretta M Ferguson1, Martin Hermenau 2, Eszter Voroshazi 3, Yulia Galagan 4, Birger Zimmermann 5, Roland Rösch 6, Dechan Angamo 7, Gerardo Teran 8, Christian Uhrich 9, Ronn Andriessen 4, Harald Hoppe 6, Uli Würfel 5, Monica Lira-Cantu8, Frederik C Krebs7, David M Tanenbaum1 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, United States, 2Institut f€ur Angewandte Photophysik, Technische Universit€at , Dresden, Germany, 3Imec, Leuven, Belgium, 4Holst Centre, High Tech Campus , Eindhoven, Netherlands, 5Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, Germany, 6Institute of Physics, Ilmenau University of Technology, Ilmenau, Germany, 7Dept. of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark, Roskilde, Denmark, 8Centre d'Investigaci_o en Nanoci_encia i Nanotecnologia (CIN2, CSIC), ETSE, Campus UAB, Barcelona, Spain, 9Heliatek GmbH, Dresden, Germany


(315) Blade Coating of Diketopyrrolopyrrole Based Organic Photovoltaics from Non-halogenated Solvent Systems Jeffrey G Tait1,2, Tamara Merckx2, Wenqi Li1,2, Cindy Wong2,3, Robert Gehlhaar2, David Cheyns2, Mathieu Turbiez4, Paul Heremans1,2 1KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2imec, Leuven, Belgium, 3The Cooper Union, New York, NY, United States, 4BASF Schweiz AG, Basel, Switzerland


Models for Power and Energy Prediction

Chair(s): Ken Sauer, Joshua S Stein, Sara MacAlpine

3:30 (316) Performance Model for Characterizing AC Modules and Predicting Their Power Daniel M Riley Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States

3:45 (317) Modeling Maximum Power Point Tracking Efficiency for PV Systems

Owen W Westbrook juwi solar Inc, Boulder, CO, United States

4:00 (318) Experimental and Numerical Study of the Influence of String Mismatch on the Yield of PV Modules

Augmented By Static Planar Reflectors Marko Pavlov1,2, Anne Migan2, Vincent Bourdin1, Michel Pons1, Martial Haeffelin3, Jordi Badosa3 1LIMSI, Orsay Cedex, France, 2GeePs, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France, 3LMD, Palaiseau Cedex, France

4:15 (319) Comparison of the Effects of Spectrum on Cadmium Telluride and Monocrystalline Silicon Photovoltaic

Module Performance Mitchell Lee1, Lauren Ngan2, William Hayes1, Alex F. Panchula1 1First Solar , San Francisco, CA, United States, 2First Solar, Tempe, AZ, United States

4:30 (320) Data Requirements for Calibration of Photovoltaic System Models Using Monitored System Data

Clifford W. Hansen, Katherine A. Klise, Joshua S. Stein Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States

4:45 (321) Accuracy of Energy Assessments in Utility Scale PV Power Plant using PlantPredict

Kendra Passow, Lauren Ngan, Mitchell Lee, Alex Panchula First Solar, San Francisco, CA, United States

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PV Interconnection - Working with Utilities

Chair(s): Michael Coddington, Ward Bower

3:30 (322) PV Impact Assessment for Very High Penetration Levels Danling Cheng1, Barry Mather2, Richard Seguin1, Joshua Hambrick1, Robert P. Broadwater3 1Electrical Distribution Design Inc., Blacksburg, VA, United States, 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 3Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States

3:45 (323) PV Systems on Secondary Network Distribution Systems; Utilizing Advanced Inverters and Utility

Grade Relays to Control Reverse Power Flow Michael H Coddington, Blake Lundstrom NREL, Golden, CO, United States

4:00 (324) Low-Cost Variability Sensors for Ubiquitous Deployment

Matthew Lave1, Joshua Stein2, Robert Broderick2 1Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, United States, 2Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States

4:15 (325) Field Demonstration of Using Advanced PV Inverter Functionality to Mitigate the Impacts of High-

Penetration PV Grid Integration on the Distribution System Barry Mather National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

4:30 (326) Technical Evaluation of the 15% of Peak Load PV Interconnection Screen

Matthew J. Reno, Robert J. Broderick Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States


(327) Maximum PV Size Limited by the Impact to Distribution Protection John A. Seuss1, Matthew J. Reno1,2, Robert J. Broderick2, Santiago Grijalva1 1Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, 2Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States

Joint Area Session - Orals 3:30 - 5:00 PM Empire C/D (Level 2)

Joint Area 4 & 5: Junction Formation

Chair(s): Nils Peter-Harder, Zachary Holman

3:30 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist (328) Development of p-type silicon solar cells with molybdenum oxide rear contacts James Bullock, Andrés Cuevas, Di Yan, Yimao Wan, Christian Samundsett , Thomas G Allen The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

3:45 (329) Evaluation of metal oxides prepared by reactive sputtering as carrier-selective contacts for crystalline

silicon solar cells Mathieu Boccard, Laura Ding, Priyaranga Koswatta, Mariana Bertoni, Zachary Holman Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States

4:00 (330) Silicon heterojunction solar cells with nanocrystalline Silicon Oxide emitter: Insights into charge carrier

transport Simon Kirner, Luana Mazzarella, Lars Korte, Bernd Stannowski, Bernd Rech, Rutger Schlatmann Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

4:15 (331) Development of High Efficiency Rear-emitter n-type Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Yu Cao1, Miao Yang1, Yue Zhang1 1Hanergy Thin Film Solar Group, Chengdu, China, 2Longi Silicon Materials Corp, Xi'an, China

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4:30 (332) Impact of Acid Texture Roughness on Ion Implanted Emitters Nicholas Bateman1, Manav Sheoran1, Jeannie Yong2, Rob Steeman2 1Applied Materials, Varian Semiconductor Equipment, Gloucester, MA, United States, 2REC Solar Pte. Ltd., Singapore, Singapore

4:45 (333) Screen-Printed Dopant Paste Interdigitated Back Contact Solar Cells

Giuseppe Scardera, Daniel Inns, Gonghou Wang, Shannon Dugan, Jeffrey Dee, Francesco Lemmi, Homer Antoniadis DuPont Silicon Valley Technology Center, Sunnyvale, CA, United States

Social Activity 5:30 - 7:00 PM Celestin E (Level 3)

Cherry Award Reception & PV Jobs Fair

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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Keynote - Keynote


Chair(s): Alexandre Freundlich, Sarah Kurtz

Technical Program Highlights Alexandre Freundlich1, Sarah Kurtz2 142nd IEEE PVSC Program Chair , 242nd IEEE PVSC Deputy Program Chair

Lunch Poster Sessions Details/Logistics

Alex Howard1, Maria Gonzalez2 142nd IEEE PVSC Operations Chair , 242nd IEEE PVSC Posters Chair


Area 1 Plenary

Chair(s): Seth Hubbard

8:30 (334) High-efficiency solar cells by nanophotonic design Albert Polman FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands


Area 7 Plenary

Chair(s): David Wilt, Claus Zimmerman, Mitsuru Imazumi

9:00 (335) Flexible Blanket Solar Arrays: Next-Generation Game-Changing Technology Brian R. Spence Deployable Space Systems, Inc. (DSS), Goleta, CA, United States


Area 8 Plenary

Chair(s): Angus Rockett

9:30 (336) Across all photovoltaic generations : universal characterization by hyperspectral luminescence imaging Laurent Lombez1, Amaury Delamarre1, Jean Rodière1, Pierre Rale1, François Gibelli1, Gilbert El Hajje1, Myriam Paire1, Daniel Ory1, Jean-François Guillemoles1,2 1Insitute of R&D on Photovoltaics Energy, UMR CNRS EDF Chimie ParisTech, Chatou, France, 2Next PV, LIA CNRS-RCAST Université de Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan


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Break

10:00 - 10:30 AM Elite Hall (Level 1) Coffee Break


Light Management

Chair(s): Peichen Yu, Albert Polman, Jeremy Munday

10:30 (337) Multi-resonant light trapping: new paradigm, new limits Stéphane Collin1, Julie Goffard1, Andrea Cattoni1, Clément Colin1, Christophe Sauvan2, Philippe Lalanne3, Jean-François Guillemoles4 1Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures (LPN-CNRS), Marcoussis, France, 2Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Palaiseau, France, 3Laboratoire Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences, Talence, France, 4Institut de Recherche et Développement sur l'Energie Photovoltaïque, Chatou, France

10:45 (338) Resonant dielectric high-contrast gratings as spectrum-splitting optical elements for ultrahigh

efficiency (>50%) photovoltaics Sunita Darbe, Harry A. Atwater California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States

11:00 (339) 3D-Printed and Milled External Light Traps for Solar Cells

Lourens van Dijk1, Ulrich W. Paetzold2, Gerhard A. Blab1, E.A. Pepijn Marcus1, A. Jolt Oostra3, Jorik van de Groep4, Albert Polman4, Ruud E.I. Schropp5, Marcel Di Vece1 1Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2Forschungszentrum Jülich, Julich, Germany, 3University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, 4AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 5Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) and Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands


(340) Optimized metal free back reflectors for high efficiency open rear c-Si solar cells Andrea Ingenito1, Stefan Luxembourgb2, Pierpaolo Spinelli2, Arthur Weeber2, Olindo Isabella1, Miro Zeman1 1Delft University of Technology, delft, Netherlands, 2ECN Solar Energy, Petten, Netherlands

11:30 (341) Freeform Surface Relief Diffractive Optic for Photovoltaic Spectrum Splitting

Shelby D Vorndran1, Silvana Ayala2, Yuechen Wu3, Juan M Russo4, Melissa A Zaverton5, Tom Milster6, Raymond K Kostuk7 1University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, 2University of Arizona Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tucson, AZ, United States

11:45 (342) Condition for Perfect Resonant Antireflection in Solar Cells

Ken X. Wang1, Zongfu Yu1,2, Sunil Sandhu1, Victor Liu1,3, Shanhui Fan1 1Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, 2University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, 3Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA, United States


Progress in CIGS Technology

Chair(s): William N. Shafarman, Thibaud Hildebrandt

10:30 (343) Improved Photocurrent in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Solar Cells: from 20.8% to 21.7% Efficiency Theresa Magorian Friedlmeier, Philip Jackson, Andreas Bauer, Dimitrios Hariskos, Oliver Kiowski, Roland Wuerz, Michael Powalla Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (ZSW), Stuttgart, Germany


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(344) Correlation between grain composition and charge carrier collection in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells Bradley West1, Sebastian Husein1, Michael Stuckelberger1, Barry Lai2, Jorg Maser2, Benjamin Stripe2, Volker Rose2,3, Harvey Guthrey4, Mowafak Al-Jassim4, Mariana Bertoni1 1Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 2Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United States, 3Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United States, 4National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

11:15 (345) Optoelectronic Investigation of Sb-doped Cu(In, Ga)Se2

Lorelle M Mansfield, Darius Kuciauskas, Patricia Dippo, Jian V Li, Karen Bowers, Bobby To, Clay DeHart, Kannan Ramanathan National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

11:30 (346) Gas flow sputtering of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 for thin film solar cells

Marika Edoff, Johan Lindahl, Timo Wätjen, Tomas Nyberg Ångström Solar Center, Department of Engineering Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

11:45 (347) Optimizing the Growth Path for Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Thin Films Co-Evaporated at Low Temperatures on

Flexible Polyimide Foil Dieter Greiner, Jakob Lauche, Susanna Harndt, Reiner Klenk, Rutger Schlatmann, Christian A. Kaufmann Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany


III-V Solar Cells - Wafer Bonding; Transfer Printing

Chair(s): Dan Friedman, Daniel Derkacs, Harry Atwater

10:30 (348) Four-Junction Wafer Bonded Concentrator Solar Cells Frank Dimroth1, Thomas N.D. Tibbits1, Markus Niemeyer1, Felix Predan1, Paul Beutel1, Christian Karcher1, Eduard Oliva1, Gerald Siefer1, David Lackner1, Andreas W. Bett1, Rainer Krause2, Charlotte Drazek2, Eric Guiot2, Jocelyne Wasselin2, Aurélie Tauzin3, Thomas Signamarcheix3 1Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, Germany, 2Soitec S.A., Bernin, France, 3CEA-LETI, Grenoble, France

11:00 (349) Mechanically stacked four-junction concentrator solar cells

Myles A. Steiner1, John F. Geisz1, J. Scott Ward1, Ivan Garcia1,2, Daniel J. Friedman1, Richard R. King3, Philip T. Chiu3, Ryan M. France1, Anna Duda1, Waldo J. Olavarria1, Michelle Young1, Sarah R. Kurtz1 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2Instituto de Energia Solar, Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 3Boeing-Spectrolab, Sylmar, CA, United States

11:30 (350) Electrical Conductivity Across InP and GaAs Wafer-Bonded Structures with Miscut Substrates

Mark K Seal, Jeff Mc Kay, Mark S Goorsky Department of Materials Science, University of California, Los Angeles , CA, United States

11:45 (351) Transfer-Printing for the Next Generation of Multi-junction Solar Cells

Matthew P Lumb1,2, Matthew Meitl3, Scott Burroughs3, Kenneth J Schmieder2, Maria Gonzalez2,4, Michael K Yakes2, Shawn Mack2, Raymond Hoheisel1,2, Mitchell F Bennett2,4, Chris W Ebert5, David V Forbes6, Christopher G Bailey2, Robert J Walters2 1The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, 2US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, 3Semprius Inc., Durham, NC, United States, 4Stera Defense Solutions, Annapolis Junction, MD, United States, 5Veeco Process Equipment Inc., Somerset, NJ, United States, 6Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States


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Area 4 - Orals

10:30 - 12:00 PM Empire C/D (Level 2) Passivated Contacts

Chair(s): Andres Cuevas, Bonna Newman

10:30 (352) Ion Implanted Screen Printed N-type Solar Cell with Tunnel Oxide Passivated Back Contact Ajay Upadhyaya1, Young Woo Ok1, Elizabeth Chang1, Vijaykumar Upadhyaya1, Keeya Madani1, Keith Tate1, Brian Rounsaville1, Vinodh Chandrasekaran2, Vijay Yelundur2, Atul Gupta2, Ajeet Rohatgi1,2, Eunhwan Cho1 1Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, 2Suniva Inc, Norcross, GA, United States

10:45 (353) Tunnel Oxide Passivated Carrier-Selective Contacts based on ultra-thin SiO2 Layers grown by Photo-

Oxidation or Wet-Chemical Oxidation in ozonized Water Anamaria Moldovan, Frank Feldmann, Martin Zimmer, Jochen Rentsch, Martin Hermle Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany


(354) Transparent Conductive Oxides in Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells: Influence on Carrier Recombination Andrea Tomasi1, Florent Sahli1, Lorenzo Fanni1, Johannes Peter Seif1, Silvia Martin de Nicolas1, Niels Holm1, Jonas Geissbühler1, Bertrand Paviet-Salomon2, Philipp Löper1, Sylvain Nicolay2, Stefaan De Wolf1, Christophe Ballif1,2 1Pv-Lab, EPFL, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 2PV-center, CSEM, Neuchâtel, Switzerland


(355) Carrier-Selective Contacts in Silicon Solar Cells Priyaranga Koswatta, Mathieu Boccard, Zachary Holman Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States

11:30 (356) N-type Silicon Solar Cells Featuring an Electron-Selective TiO2 Contact

Xinbo Yang, Qunyu Bi, Klaus Weber Research School of Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

11:45 (357) Ion Implanted Passivated Contacts for Interdigitated Back Contacted Solar Cells

David L. Young1, William Nemeth1, Vincenzo LaSalvia1, Robert Reedy1, Nicholas Bateman2, Pauls Stradins1 1NREL, Golden, CO, United States, 2Applied Materials, Gloucester, MA, United States


Blankets, Space Experience and Mobile Power

Chair(s): Theodore Stern, Phillip jenkins, Rao Tatavarti

10:30 (358) Recent Space PV Concentrator Advances: More Robust, Lighter, and Easier to Track Mark O'Neill1, A.J. McDanal1, Henry Brandhorst2, Kevin Schmid3, Peter LaCorte3, Michael Piszczor4, Matt Myers4 1Mark O'Neill, LLC, Keller, TX, United States, 2Carbon-Free Energy, LLC, Auburn, AL, United States, 3Deployable Space Systems, Inc., Goleta, CA, United States, 4NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, United States

10:45 (359) Encapsulated Photovoltaic Blankets and Modules for Deployable Solar Arrays

Matthew B Wrosch, Nicholas E Walmsley, Eric P McNaul Vanguard Space Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA, United States

11:00 (360) Flexible and Lightweight Epitaxial Lift-Off GaAs Multi-Junction Solar Cells for Portable Power and UAV

Applications Christopehr L. Stender1, Jessica Adams1, Victor Elarde1, Todd Major1, Haruki Miyamoto1, Mark Osowski1, Noren Pan1, Rao Tatavarti1, Francis Tuminello1, Andree Wibowo1, Christopher Youtsey1, Sabrina Rawlings2 1MicroLink Devices, Inc, Niles, IL, United States, 2US Army RDECOM CERDEC, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD, United States


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11:15 (361) Development of Space Solar Sheet with Inverted Triple-junction Cells

Hiroshi Yamaguchi1, Ryo Ijichi1, Yoshiyuki Suzuki1, Sachiyo Ooka1, Keiji Shimada1, Naoki Takahashi1, Hidetoshi Washio1, Kazuyo Nakamura1, Tatsuya Takamoto1, Mitsuru Imaizumi2, Taishi Sumita2, Kazunori Shimazaki2, Tetsuya Nakamura2, Takeshi Oshima3 1SHARP Corporation, Yamatokoriyama, Japan, 2Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan, 33 Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Takasaki, Japan

11:30 (362) Post-Flight Analysis of MISSE-8 Advanced Photovoltaic Technologies

David Wilt1, Tracy Wisler2, Alex Howard1, Philip Jenkins3, David Scheiman3, Justin Lorentzen3 1ARFL, KAFB, NM, United States, 2ATA, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 3NRL, Washington DC, DC, United States

11:45 (363) Trade Study of Power Options for Jupiter and Outer Planet Missions

Geoffrey A. Landis, Jeremiah S. McNatt NASA John Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, United States


Field Reliability Experience and Soiling

Chair(s): Kent Whitfield, Ralph Gottschalg

10:30 (364) Fundamental Studies of the Adhesion of Dust to PV Module Surfaces: Chemical and Physical Relationships at the Microscale Lawrence L. Kazmerski1, Antonia Sonia A.C. Diniz2, Christiana M. Brasil2, Lauro V. Neto2, Leila de Oliveira Cruz3 1Renewable and Sustainable Energy Instutute (RASEI), University of Colorado Boulder and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, 2Pontificia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUCMinas), Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, 3Instituto Militar de Engenharia (IME), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


(365) Performance Restoration of Dusty Photovoltaic Modules using Electrodynamic Screen Arash Sayyah, Mark Horenstein, Malay Mazumder Boston University, Boston, MA, United States

11:00 (366) Soiling and self-cleaning of PV modules under the weather conditions of two locations in Arizona and

South-East India Werner Herrmann1, Markus Schweiger1, Govindasamy Tamizhmani2, Bill Shisler2, Kamalaksha CS3 1TÜV Rheinland Energie und Umwelt GmbH, Cologne, Germany, 2TÜV Rheinland PTL, Tempe, AZ, United States, 3TÜV Rheinland India, Bangalore, India

11:15 (367) Evaluation of PV Module Field Performance

John H Wohlgemuth, Timothy Silverman, David C. Miller, Peter McNutt, Michael D. Kempe, Michael Deceglie National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

11:30 (368) The Reliability Investigation of PV Junction Box based on 1GW Worldwide Field Database

Maoyi Chang, Chienyu Chen, C. H. Hsueh, W. J. Hsieh, Eva Yen, K. L. Ho, H. P. Chuang, C. Y. Lee, Haomin Chen AU Optronics, Taichung, Taiwan

11:45 (369) RPN analysis of field exposed mono crystalline Silicon PV modules under composite climate of India

O.S. Sastry, Birinchi Bora, Yogrsh Kumar Singh, Manander Bangar, Rashmi Singh, Renu Dahiya, Mithilesh Kumar, Kamlesh Yadav, Ramayan Singh, Avinash Kumar, Supriya Rai National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurgaon, India


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10:30 - 12:00 PM Empire B (Level 2) Joint Area 8 & 9: PV Cell & Module Testing Methods and Quantification

Chair(s): Dennis Tasshi, Clifford Hansen

10:30 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist (370) Hyperspectral laser beam induced current system for solar cell characterization Ahsan Ashraf1,2, Kristopher O. Davis3,4,5, Kortan Öğütman3,5, Winston V. Schoenfeld3,4,5, Matthew D. Eisaman1,2,6 1Sustainable Energy Technologies Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, 3Florida Solar Energy Center, University of Central Florida, Cocoa, FL, United States, 4CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States, 5c-Si Division, U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium, Orlando, FL, United States, 6Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States

10:45 (371) Quantifying and Reducing Curve-Fitting Uncertainty in Isc

Mark Campanelli1, Benjamin Duck2, Keith Emery1 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2CSIRO Energy Flagship, Mayfield West NSW, Australia


(372) Process-to-Panel Modeling of a-Si/c-Si Heterojunction Solar Cells Raghu Vamsi K. Chavali1, Eric C. Johlin2, Jeffery L. Gray1, Tonio Buonassisi2, Muhammad A. Alam1 1School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

11:15 (373) Quantum Efficiency Measurement of Concentrator Photovoltaic Modules

Markus Mundus, Christoph Rapp, Thomas Missbach, Gerald Siefer, Jochen Hohl-Ebinger, Andreas Walter Bett, Wilhelm Warta Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany


(374) Comparison of Energy Yield Data of Fifteen PV Module Technologies Operating in Five Different Climates Markus Schweiger1, Werner Herrmann1, Uwe Rau2 1TÜV Rheinland AG, Cologne, Germany, 2Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

11:45 (375) Quantifying Solar Cell Cracks in Photovoltaic Modules by Electroluminescence Imaging

Sergiu V. Spataru1, Peter Hacke2, Dezso Sera1, Stephen Glick2, Tamas Kerekes1, Remus Teodorescu1 1Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory , Golden, CO, United States

Area 1 - Posters 12:00 - 2:15 PM Elite Hall A (Level 1)

Light Management and Avant Garde Concepts

Chair(s): Stéphane Collin, Laurent Lombez , Stephen Goodnick

A1 (376) Theoretical Efficiency Limits of a 2 Terminal Dual Junction Step Cell Sabina Abdul Hadi1, Tim Milakovich2, Mayank Bulsara2, Evelina Polyzoeva2, Eugene A. Fitzgerald2, Judy L. Hoyt2, Ammar Nayfeh1 1Institute Center for Future Energy Systems (iFES) Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 54224, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, United States

A4 (377) Enhanced Optical Absorption of Glancing Angle Deposited CIGS Nanorods

Matthew Brozak, Hilal Cansizoglu, Tansel Karabacak


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A7 (378) Enhanced forward scattering and transmitted light diffraction with a low aspect-ratio silicon nanopillar

for high efficiency thin Si solar cell Jeayoung Choi, Natasa Vulic, Stephen Goodnick, Christiana Honsberg Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States

A10 (379) Wide Spectral Response and Ambient Air-Stable Nanowire Window-Absorber Type Solar Cells

Hongmei Dang, Vijay P Singh, Sai Guduru University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States

A13 (380) Non-reciprocal metasurfaces for nanophtonic light trapping: optical isolators versus solar cells

Sze Ming Fu1, Yan Kai Zhong1, Sheng Lun Yan1, Nyan Ping Ju1, Po Yu Chen1, Ming-Hsuan Kao2, Chang-Hong Shen2, Jia-Min Shieh2, Yi-Chun Lai3, Peichen Yu3, Albert Lin1 1Department of Electronic Engineering, National Chiao-Tung Univeristy, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2National Device Laboratory(NDL), Hsinchu, Taiwan, 3Department of Photonics, National Chiao-Tung Univeristy, Hsinchu, Taiwan

A16 (381) Photonic Density of State (PDOS) Enhancement by Brillouin Zone Engineering

Sze Ming Fu1, Yan Kai Zhong1, Sheng Lun Yan1, Nyan Ping Ju1, Po Yu Chen1, Ming-Hsuan Kao2, Chang-Hong Shen2, Jia-Min Shieh2, Yi-Chun Lai3, Peichen Yu3, Albert Lin1 1Department of Electronic Engineering, National Chiao-Tung Univeristy, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2National Device Laboratory(NDL), Hsinchu, Taiwan, 3Department of Photonics, National Chiao-Tung Univeristy, Hsinchu, Taiwan

A19 (382) Photovoltaic Characteristics of GaAs Solar Cells with Selective Filters

Chung-Yu Hong1,2, Mu-Min Hung1, Tung-Ting Yang1, Yi-Chin Wang1, Yu-Chen Lin2, Peichen Yu1 1National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2Arima Photovoltaic & Optical Corporation, Taoyuan, Taiwan

A22 (383) Estimating the Theoretical Limit of the Power Conversion Efficiency of a Luminescent Solar

Concentrator Device from the Perspective of Shockley-Queisser Limit Yilin Li1, Wen-Ji Dong2 11, Pullman, WA, United States, 22, Pullman, WA, United States

A25 (384) Numerical Study of Surface-dependent performances of Nano-scale Solar Cells

Shih-Li Lin1, Hung-Ruei Tseng2, Shun-Chieh Hsu2, Yin-Han Chen1, Chien-Chung Lin1 1Institute of Lighting and Energy Photonics, National Chiao-Tung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 2Institute of Photonic System, National Chiao-Tung University, Tainan, Taiwan

A28 (385) Optimization of Thin Film Coatings for Textured Silicon Solar Cell Above Low Band Gap Solar Cell

Christine M Longhitano , Keith W Goossen University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States

B3 (386) Study of Close Space Sublimation (CSS) Grown SnS Thin-films for Solar Cell Applications

Naba R Paudel, Chuanxiao Xiao, Yanfa Yan Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States

B6 (387) Effect of Quantum Efficiency on the Performance of Multijunction Tandem Cells

Tor O. Saetre University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway

B9 (388) Potential of transition metal nitrides and metal hydrides as Hot Carrier solar cell absorbers

Santosh Shrestha, simon Chung, Neeti Gupta, Pei Wang, Xiaoming Wen, Gavin Conibeer School of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW Australia, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia

B12 (389) Spectral and Temperature Sensitivity of Area De-Coupled Double Tandem Modules

Rune Strandberg Department of Engineering Sciences, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway

B15 (390) HIGH EFFICIENT SOLAR SYSTEW BY CURRENT MATCHED PARTITIONS

Don Wagner1, Lili He2 1Sol Solution, Inc., , Los Gatos,, CA, United States, 2San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States

B18 (391) Impact of Structure Symmetry on the Light Trapping Properties of Periodic Nanostructures for Ultra-

thin Silicon Solar Cells PUQUN WANG1,2, Marius Peters3 1Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 2NUS Graduate School for Integrative Science and Engineering, Singapore, Singapore, 3Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Boston, MA, United


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B21 (392) Wide-angle Antireflective Nanopillar Array Solar Cell for Increasing Annual Power Output Keiji Watanabe, Tetsufumi Kawamura, Jiro Yamamoto, Masatoshi Morishita, Mieko Matsumura, Wei Sun, Takashi Hattori, Taro Osabe, Yasuhiro Shimamoto Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

B24 (393) Improved Voltage Response in III-V Solar Cells Based on Engineered Spontaneous Emission

Yunlu Xu, Edo Waks, Jeremy Munday University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States


Absorber Preparation and Material Properties (II)

Chair(s): Dr. Sylvain Marsillac, Dr. Andriy Zakutayev, Dr. Aaron Arehart

C7 (394) Non-vacuum route for CIGS thin film absorber on flexible glass substrates Amol C Badgujar1, Madhuri Kukkadapu1, Sean Garner2, Sanjay R Dhage1, Shrikant V Joshi1 1International Advanced Research Center for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), PO Balapur, Hyderabad-500005, India, 2Corning Incorporated, SP-AR-01-1 Corning, NY 14831, NY, United States

C11 (395) Enhancing the Efficiency of CdTe Solar Cells Using a Nanocrystalline Iron Pyrite Film as an Interface

Layer Khagendra P. Bhandari, Paul J. Roland, Prakash Koirala, Naba R. Paudel, Robert W. Collins, Yanfa Yan, Michael J. Heben, Randy J. Ellingson The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States

C15 (396) Comparative study of structural and electronic properties of CZTSe and CZTS based solar cells grown

by cosputtering and reactive annealing Romain Bodeux, Julien Leguay IRDEP, Chatou, France

C19 (397) Uniformity assessment of a 6-inch Copper-Zinc-Tin-Sulfide solar cell sputtered from a quaternary

compound target Patrice Bras1,2, Léo Mauvy1, Jan Sterner1, Erik Särhammar2, Charlotte Platzer-Björkman2 1Midsummer AB, Järfälla, Sweden, 2Uppsala University, Solid State Electronics, Uppsala, Sweden

C23 (398) Influence of NaF addition on Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 thin film solar cells

Chung-Hao Cai, Shih-Yuan Wei, Wei-Chih Huang, Chih-Huang Lai National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

C27 (399) Study of Cu2SnS3 Thin Films for Photoactive Applications

Sandra Dias, S.B. Krupanidhi Materials Research Centre,Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

D5 (400) Depth resolved preferential orientation of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 thin films based on the 112 peak model

Tomasz Drobiazg1,2, Ludovic Arzel2, Nicolas Barreau2, Paweł Zabierowski1 1Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, 2Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN)—UMR 6502, Université de Nantes, CNRS, Nantes, France

D10 (401) Effect of Cu and Cl on EVT-CdTe Solar Cells

Vamsi Evani, Md I Khan, Shamara Collins, Vasilios Palekis, Prasad Bane, Don Morel, Christos Ferekides University Of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States

D14 (402) The Effect of Sputtering Target Preparation and Deposition Temperature on ZnTe:Cu Film Properties

Brooke R Faulkner1, James M Burst2, Timothy A Gessert2, Timothy R Ohno1, Bobby To2, Craig L Perkins2, Joel N Duenow2 1Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States


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D18 (403) Hybrid Functional Calculations on the Na and K Incorporation in Substitutional and Interstitial Positions

in Cu2ZnSnSe4 . Elaheh Ghorbani1,2, Janos Kiss3, Hossein Mirhosseini3, Thomas D. Kühne4, Claudia Felser3 1Johannes Gutenberg univesity, 55122 , Mainz, Germany, 2IBM, Mainz, Germany, 3MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany, 4Department of Chemistry, University of Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, 33098 , Paderborn, Germany

E2 (404) Selecting CdS:F or CdS:O for window layer application in CdTe-based solar cells.

Eric Hernández 1, Victor Rejón1, Mariely Loeza1, Inés Riech2, Juan Luis Peña1 1Applied Physics Department, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, 2Materials Science Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, University of Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico

E6 (405) Effects of Se flux on the properties of the quaternary-sputtered CIGS thin film solar cells

Chia-Hao Hsu, Wei-Hao Ho, Chih-Huang Lai Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

E10 (406) Internal Stress Analysis in Thin Film CdTe Deposited by Magnetron Sputtering

Piotr M Kaminski, Ali Abbas, Chao Chen, Sibel Yilmaz, Francesco Bittau, Jake W Bowers, John M Walls CREST (Centre for Renewable Energy Systems and Technology), School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, United Kingdom, Loughborough, United Kingdom

E14 (407) Order-disorder related band gap changes in Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4: Impact on solar cell performance

Christoph Krämmer1, Christian Huber1, Thomas Schnabel2, Christian Zimmermann1, Mario Lang1, Erik Ahlswede1, Heinz Kalt1, Michael Hetterich1 1Institute of Applied Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany

E18 (408) The influence of the degree of Cu–Zn disorder on the radiative recombination transitions in

Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 solar cells Mario Lang1, Christian Zimmermann1, Christoph Krämmer1, Christian Huber1, Thomas Schnabel2, Tobias Abzieher2, Erik Ahlswede2, Heinz Kalt1, Michael Hetterich1 1Institute of Applied Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsuhe, Germany, 2Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (ZSW), Stuttgart, Germany

E22 (409) Ga-Grading CIGS Solar Cell by One-Step Sputtering from a Quaternary Target without Post-selenization

Tzu-Ying Lin, Chih-Huang Lai 101, Sec. 2, Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu 30013,Taiwan, R. O. C. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Hsinchu, Taiwan

E26 (410) Continous Wave Laser Assisted Post Deposition Chlorine Treatment of CdTe

Sudhajit Misra1, Md I. Khan2, Vasilios Palekis2, Christos Ferekides2, Michael A. Scarpulla1 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, 2Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States

F2 (411) Cu Profiles in CdTe Solar Cells

Andrew Moore1, Tian Fang2, Jim Sites1 1Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, 2First Solar, Inc., Perrysburg, OH, United States

F6 (412) Bandgap Control of ZnSnP2 via Phase Transition between Chalcopyrite and Sphalerite

Shigeru Nakatsuka, Yoshitaro Nose, Yasuharu Shirai Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

F10 (413) Photoelectrical properties of undoped and Na-doped Cu2ZnSnS4 single crystals measured by optical

time-resolved spectroscopy Le Quang Phuong1,2, Makoto Okano1, Yasuhiro Yamada1, Akira Nagaoka1,3, Kenji Yoshino3, Yoshihiko Kanemitsu1,2 1Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan, 2JST-CREST, Uji, Kyoto, Japan, 3Department of Applied Physics and Electronic Engineering, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

F14 (414) Microestructural and optical characterization of CZTS thin films deposited in one step by spray

pyrolysis Edwin Ramirez, Asdrubal Ramirez, Mikel Hurtado, Gerardo Gordillo National University of Colombia, Bogota, Columbia


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F18 (415) Growth of CuInSe2 thin films by a chemical spray pyrolysis/co-evaporation hybrid method

Pablo Reyes-Figueroa1,2, Thomas Painchaud1,2, Ludovic Arzel2, Nicolas Barreau2, Velumani S1 1Department of Electrical Rngineering(SEES), Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico City, Mexico, 2Université de Nantes, Nantes, France

F22 (416) Cu2SnS3-based thin film solar cell from electrodeposition-annealing route

Erika V. C. Robert, Jessica de Wild, Phillip J. Dale University of Luxembourg, Physics & Material Sciences, Laboratory for Energy Materials , Belvaux, Luxembourg

F26 (417) Characterization of Cu2SnSe3 Thin Films fabricated by Coevaporation

Tooru Tanaka1, Satoshi Tokunaga1, Shun Sakamoto1, Katsuhiko Saito1, Qixin Guo1, Mitsuhiro Nishio1, Xiuxun Han2 1Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Saga University, Saga, Japan, 2Laboratory of Clean Energy Chemistry and Materials, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China

G2 (418) Physicochemical Study of Synthetic Dyes Adsorption on TiO2 Thin Films for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

william vallejo1, Carlos Diaz1, Catalina Fajardo1, Karen NAvarro1, Johann Hernandez2, Carlos Arredondo3 1Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Columbia, 2Universidad Distrital, BOgotá, Columbia, 3Universidad de Medellin, Medellin, Columbia

G5 (419) Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Thin Films and Solar Cells Fabricated on Polyimide Foils Using Thermal Cracked

Selenium H Wang, ZX Qiao, C Zhang Tianjin Institute of Power Sources, Tianjin, China

G8 (420) Device Fabrication Using Crystalline CdTe and CdTe Ternary Alloys Grown by MBE

Katherine N. Zaunbrecher1,2, James M. Burst2, Shahram Seyedmohammadi3, Roger J. Malik3, Jian V. Li2, Timothy A. Gessert2, Teresa M. Barnes2 1Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 3First Solar, Santa Clara, CA, United States

G11 (421) Synthesis, Optical Spectroscopy and Electronic Structures of FeS2 Nanocrystals and Solid Films for

Photovoltaic Application Guangmei Zhai1,2,3, Rongwei Xie1,2,3, Heng Wang1, Jitao Zhang1, Yongzhen Yang1, Hua Wang1, Xuemin Li1, Xuguang Liu1, Bingshe Xu1 1Key Laboratory of Interface Science and Engineering in Advanced Materials of Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China, 2Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Solar Cell Materials and Technology, Changzhou University, Changzhou, China, 3State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China


III-V Solar Cells (II)

Chair(s): Minjoo Larry Lee, Andrew Gerger, Stephanie Tomasulo

G24 (422) Low-Cost Growth of III-V layers on Si Using Close-Spaced Vapor Transport Jason W. Boucher1, Ann L. Greenaway1, Andrew J. Ritenour1, Allison L. Davis1, Benjamin F. Bachman1, Shaul Aloni2, Shannon W. Boettcher1 1Materials Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, 2Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States

G27 (423) Comparison of top and bottom n-contact GaAs solar cell performance

Naresh Das Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, United States

H13 (429) Laser-based Measurement of Tunnel Junctions in Triple-junction Solar Cells: Lab-scale

Characterization and In-line Screening Kristine Drew, Pascal Dufour, Stefan Myrskog Morgan Solar Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada


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G30 (424) Native Oxide and Optical Constant Determination of InP Lattice-Matched Quaternary Materials using

Variable Angle Spectroscopic Ellipsometry Nicole A. Kotulak1, Matthew P. Lumb1, Michael K. Yakes1, Kenneth J. Schmieder1, Maria Gonzalez1, Chris Ebert2, Robert J. Walters1 1US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, 2Veeco MOCVD, Somerset, NJ, United States

H1 (425) Epitaxial and Non-epitaxial Large Area GaSb-based Thermophotovoltaic (TPV) Cells

Nassim Rahimi1, Daniel J Herrera1, Shaimaa Abdallah1, Veronika Stelmakh2, Walker Chan2, Ivan Celanovic2, Luke Lester1 1Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

H4 (426) Tunable GaInP Solar Cell Lattice Matched to GaAs

Islam E Hashem Sayed, C. Zachary Carlin, Brandon Hagar, Peter C. Colter, Salah Bedair North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States

H7 (427) Modeling of Gas Curtains in a Dual Chamber Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxial Photovoltaic Growth

Reactor Kevin L Schulte, John Simon, David L Young, Aaron J Ptak National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

H10 (428) Impacts of optical properties of anti-reflection coatings on characteristics of InGaP/GaAs/Si hybrid

triple-junction cells Naoteru Shigekawa, Jianbo Liang Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan

H16 (430) Development of an InAlAsSb top cell material for a lattice matched triple junction solar cell to InP

Michael A Slocum, David V Forbes, Nichole M Hoven, Brittany L Smith, Seth M Hubbard Rochester Institute of Technologyu, Rochester, NY, United States

H19 (431) Lattice-matched 3-junction cell with 1.2-eV InGaAs/GaAsP superlattice middle cell for improved current

matching Hassanet Sodabanlu1, Hiromasa Fujii2, Kentaroh Watanabe1, Ryusuke Onitsuka3, Takaaki Agui3, Hiroyuki Juso3, Tatsuya Takamoto3, David Lackner4, Frank Dimroth4, Andreas W. Bett4, Masakazu Sugiyama2, Yoshiaki Nakano1, 2 1Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, 2School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 3Sharp Corporation, Nara, Japan, 4Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg, Germany

H22 (432) Studying Anomalous Open-Circuit Voltage Drop-Out in Concentrated Photovoltaics Using

Computational Numerical Analysis Margaret A. Stevens1, Chandler Downs1, David Emerson2, James Adler2, Scott Maclachlan2, Thomas Vandervelde1 1The Renewable Energy and Applied Photonics Laboratory, Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States, 2Math Department, Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States

H25 (433) The effect of luminescence coupling in external quantum efficiency measurement of multi-junction

solar cells Mitsunobu Sugai1, Mitsuru Imaizumi2, Tetsuya Nakamura2 1Advanced Engineering Services, Tsukuba, Japan, 2Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Japan

H28 (434) Modeling Wide Bandgap GaInP Photovoltaic Cells For Conversion Efficiencies Up to 16.5%

Yubo Sun1, Kyle H. Montgomery2, Xufeng Wang1, Stephanie Tomasulo3, Minjoo Larry Lee3, Peter Bermel1 1Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, 2University of California-Davis, Davis, CA, United States, 3Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

H31 (435) Engineering controlled spalling in (100)-oriented GaAs for wafer reuse

Cassi A. Sweet1, Joshua E. McNeely1, Brian Gorman1, David L. Young2, Aaron J. Ptak2, Corinne E. Packard1,2 1Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

I2 (436) Determination of the Cooling Requirements for Single Cell Photovoltaic Receivers under Variable

Atmospheric Parameters Marios Theristis1,2, Cameron Stark2, Tadhg S. O'Donovan1 1Institute of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2Center for Sustainable Energy Systems, Fraunhofer USA, Albuquerque, NM, United States


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I4 (437) Time-Resolved Photoluminescence of MBE-Grown 1eV GaAsSbN for Multi-Junction Solar Cells

Tomos Thomas1, Naofumi Kasamatsu2, Kian Hua Tan3, Satrio Wicaksono3, Wan Khai Loke3, Soon Fatt Yoon3, Andrew Johnson4, Takashi Kita2, Nicholas J Ekins-Daukes1 1Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 2Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, 3Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, 4IQE plc., Cardiff, United Kingdom

I6 (438) A Novel GaP/InGaAs/InGaSb Triple Junction Photovoltaic Cell with Optimized Quantum Efficiency

Bibek Tiwari1, Raja Penumaka1, Indranil Bhattacharya1, Satish M. Mahajan1, Simon Foo2 1Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, United States, 2Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States

I8 (439) Quantum dot array based intermediate band solar cell: effect of light concentration

Stanko Tomic1, Tomah Sogabe2, Yoshitaka Okada2 1University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

I10 (440) Effects of High Energy Proton Implantation on the Luminescence Properties of InAs Sub-Monolayer

Quantum Dots Sourabh Upadhyay1, Arjun Mandal1, N.B.V Subrahmanyam2, Pitamber Singh2, Subhananda Chakrabarti1 1Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai, India, 2Bhabha Atomic Research Center, Mumbai, India

I12 (441) Evaluation of strained InAlAs as a window layer for wide bandgap materials lattice matched to InP

Michael K. Yakes1, Kenneth J. Schmieder1, Matthew P. Lumb1,2, Mitchell F. Bennett1,3, Maria Gonzalez1,3, Paul D. Cunnigham1, Ani Khachatrian1,3, Louise C. Hirst1, Stephanie Tomasulo1, Nicole A. Kotulak1, Joseph S. Mellinger1, Robert J. Walters1 1Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, 2George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, 3Sotera Defense Solutions, Arlington, VA, United States

I14 (442) Identifying Representative Spectra for which Multi-Junction Solar Cells Should be Optimized to

Maximize Annual Energy Yield Mark D. Yandt, Karin Hinzer, Henry Schriemer Sunlab, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

I16 (443) Influence of High Growth Rate on GaAs-based Solar Cells Grown by Metalorganic Chemical Vapor

Deposition Chaomin Zhang1, Yeongho Kim1, Chris Ebert2, Nikolai Faleev1, Christiana B. Honsberg1 1School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 2Veeco MOCVD, Somerset, NJ, United States


Junction Formation and Device Physics

Chair(s): Mathieu Boccard , Martin Hermle, Christophe Ballif

I18 (444) Crystalline Si solar cells fabricated by CO2 laser doping Yasuaki Ishikawa1, Tatsuki Honda1, Seiya Yoshinaga1, Yunjian Jiang1, Yukiharu Uraoka1, Yosuke Watanabe2, Hiroshi Ikenoue2 1Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan, 2Kyusyu University, Fukuoka, Japan

I22 (445) Mercury: Industrial IBC Cell With Front Floating Emitter For 20.9% and Higher Efficiency

Agnes Mewe1, Pierpaolo Spinelli1, Teun Burgers1, Gaby Janssen1, Nicolas Guillevin1, Bas van de Loo2, Erwin Kessels2, Ard Vlooswijk3, Bart Geerligs1, Ilkay Cesar1 1ECN Solar Energy, Petten, Netherlands, 2Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 3Tempress Systems, Vaassen, Netherlands

I26 (446) Implementation of Tunneling Pasivated Contacts into Industrially Relevant n-Cz Si Solar Cells

William Nemeth, Vincenzo LaSalvia, Matthew Page, Emily Warren, Arrelaine Dameron, Andrew Norman, Benjamin Lee, David L. Young, Paul Stradins NREL, Golden, CO, United States


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I30 (447) Temperature dependent analysis of heterojunction silicon solar cells: Role of intrinsic layer thickness

Mohit Agarwal, Rajiv O Dusane Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science,Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

I34 (448) Metal-Thin Insulator-Semiconductor Inversion Layer (MIS-IL) solar cells on exfoliated Silicon Foils

JAEHYUN AHN1, DONGHYI KOH1, EMMANUEL ONYEGAM1, SAYAN SAHA1, RAJESH RAO2, LEO MATHEW2, SANJAY BANERJEE1 1The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, 2Applied Novel Devices, Austin, TX, United States

I38 (449) 21 % p-Type Industrial PERC Cells with Homogeneous Emitter Profile and Thermally Grown Oxidation

Layer Lung-Chieh Cheng, Ming-Chun Kao, Hsi-Hao Huang, Po-Sheng Huang, Li-Wei Cheng Topcell Solar International Co., LTD, Taoyuan Country, Taiwan

I42 (450) Lowly Doped Emitters for Crystalline Solar Cells

Vanesa Fano1, Muhammad Azam Rasool1, Ahmed Habib1,2, Aloña Otaegi1, Jose Ruben Gutierrez1, Juan Carlos Jimeno1, Nekane Azkona1 1Technological Institute of Microelectronics (TiM) (UPV/EHU), Zamudio, Spain, 2Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

J6 (452) Measurement of metal induced recombination in solar cells

Daniel Inns, Dmitry Poplavskyy Dupont Silicon Valley Technology Center, Sunnyvale, CA, United States

J10 (453) Relevance Of TCO Workfunction In n-Silicon Oxide Emitter – c-Si (p) Heterojunction Solar Cell

Massimo Izzi1, Luca Serenelli1, Pietro Mangiapane1, Enrico Salza1, Mario Tucci1, Marco Della Noce2, Iurie Usatii2, Eugenia Bobeico2, Lucia V. Mercaldo2, Laura Lancellotti2, Paola Delli Veneri2, Domenico Caputo3, Giampiero de Cesare3 1ENEA Casaccia Research Centre, Rome, Italy, 2ENEA Portici Research Centre, Portici, Italy, 3DIET, University of Rome “ La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

J14 (454) Double-Heterojunction Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell with Electron-Selective TiO2 Cathode Contact

Fabricated at 100ºC with Open-Circuit Voltage of 640 mV. Janam Jhaveri1,2, Ken A. Nagamatsu1,2, Alexander H. Berg1,2, Gabriel Man1,2, Girija Sahasrabudhe1,3, Sigurd Wagner1,2, Jeffrey Schwartz1,3, Antoine Kahn1,2, James C. Sturm1,2 1Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM), , Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, 2Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, 3Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Pinceton, NJ, United States

J18 (455) Investigation of Laser Pattern for High Efficiency PERC Mono Silicon Solar Cells

Cheng-Wen Kuo, Ta-Ming Kuan, Shin-ing Peng, Chih-Chiang Huang, Li-Guo Wu, Cheng-Yeh Yu TSEC Corporation, Hsinchu, Taiwan

J22 (456) Silicon Epitaxy by Low-Temperature RF-PECVD using SiF4/H2/Ar Gas Mixtures for Emitter Formation in

Crystalline Solar Cells Ronan Léal1,2, Jean-Christophe Dornstetter1,2, Farah Haddad1, Jean-Luc Maurice1, Gilles Poulain2, Pere Roca i Cabarrocas1 1LPICM, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, 2TOTAL - New Energies, Paris La Défense, France

J26 (457) Numerical investigation for thin film photovoltaics cells with coupled optical and electrical method

Chuanhong Liu, Junfeng Qiao, Zhaoyu Zhang School of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China

J30 (458) Modeling of Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Pietro Luppina, Paolo Lugli, Stephen Goodnick Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

J34 (459) A Kinetic Monte Carlo Study of Transport in Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Pradyumna Muralidharan, Dragica Vasileska, Stephen M Goodnick, Stuart Bowden Arizona State University, TEMPE, AZ, United States


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J38 (460) High Implied Voc (>715 mV) and low emitter saturation current density (~10fA/cm2) from a lightly B

doped implanted emitter Young-Woo Ok1, Ajay D Upadhyaya1, Brian Rounsaville1, Keeya Madini1, Keenan Jones1, Kyungsun Ryu1, Chandrasekaran Vinodh2, Arnab Das2, Bruce McPherson2, Atul Gupta2, Ajeet Rohatgi1,2 1Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, 2Suniva Inc., Norcross, GA, United States

J41 (461) Laser-Induced Damage for Silicon Solar Cells

Alona Otaegi, Vanesa Fano, Muhammad Azam Rasool, Jose Ruben Gutierrez, Juan Carlos Jimeno, Eneko Cereceda Technological Institute of Microelectronics (TiM), University of the Basque Country, Zamudio, Spain

J44 (462) Epitaxial Emitter Reverse Saturation Current Density:Modeling and Experimental Validation

John S Renshaw, James M Gee Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA, United States

K3 (463) Considerations in the Extraction of Physically Significant Parameters for Various c-Si Cell

Architectures Eric Schneller1,2, Krisopher O. Davis1,2,3, Kortan Öğütman1,2, Winston V. Schoenfeld1,2,3 1Florida Solar Energy Center, Cocoa, FL, United States, 2c-Si Division, U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium, Orlando, FL, United States, 3CREOL. the College of Optics and Photonics, Orlando, FL, United States

K6 (464) Griddler 2: Two Dimensional Solar Cell Simulator with Facile Definition of Spatial Distribution in Cell

Parameters and Bifacial Calculation Mode Johnson Wong, Ranjani Sridharan Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore , Singapore, Singapore

K8 (465) Application of ion implanted emitter in PERC solar cells

Jian Wu1,2, Yunyu Liu1,2, Xusheng Wang1,2, Guoqiang Xing1 1Canadian Solar Inc., 199 Lushan Road, SND, Suzhou, China, 2Photovoltaic Research Institute of Soochow University, Suzhou, China

K10 (466) Investigation of Light-Induced Degradation on P-type Multi-Crystalline Silicon PERC Cells

Kuo-Yi Yen1, Shao-Peng Su2, Sean H.T. Chen3, Li-Wei Cheng4 1Topcell Solar International Co., LTD., Taoyuan, Taiwan, 2Topcell Solar International Co., LTD., Taoyuan, Taiwan, 3Topcell Solar International Co., LTD., Taoyuan, Taiwan, 4Topcell Solar International Co., LTD., Taoyuan, Taiwan

K12 (467) Modeling of Hydrogen Selective Emitter for n-type Silicon Solar Cells

Matthew G Young1, Larry Cousar1, Hafeezuddin Mohammed1, Ralf Schulze2, Jianming Wang3, Sergiu C Pop2, Douglas Hutchings1, Seth Shumate1 1Picasolar, Inc., Fayetteville, AR, United States, 2Yingli Green Energy Americas Inc., San Francisco, CA, United States, 3Yingli Group Co. Ltd., Baoding, China

K14 (468) Experimental and simulated analysis of p a-Si:H defects on silicon heterojunction solar cells: trade-offs

between Voc and FF Lei Zhang1,2, Ujjwal K Das1, Shu Zhan1,4, Hsiang-Yu Liu1,3, Steven S Hegedus1,2, Robert W Birkmire1,3,4 1Institute of Energy Conversion, Newark, DE, United States, 2Department of Electrical & Comupter Engineering, University of Delware, Newark, DE, United States, 3Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, 4Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Delware, Newark, DE, United States

K16 (469) The influence of the substrate lifetime and wafer thickness on n-type interdigitated back contact solar

cells Wei Zhang, Chen Chen, Rui Jia, Yun Sun, Zhao Xing, Zhi Jin Institute of Microelectronics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

K17 (470) Effects of N-type Hydrogenated Microcrystalline Silicon Oxide Film on Performance of a-Si/c-Si

Heterojunction Solar Cell Yue Zhang1, Cao Yu2, Miao Yang2, Hui Yan1, Jinyan Zhang2, Xixiang Xu2 1Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China, 2Hanergy Thin Film Solar Group, Chengdu R&D Center, Chengdu, China

K18 (471) Reasons for Low Fill Factor of Amorphous/Crystalline Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cell

Lei Zhao, Guanghong Wang, Ge Wang, Hongwei Diao, Wenjing Wang Key Laboratory of Solar Thermal Energy and Photovoltaic Systems of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of


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Electrical Engineering, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

K19 (472) A Through Way of Mapping Efficiency With Photoluminescence Kortan Öğütman, Kris Davis, Eric Schneller, Vijay Yelundur, Winston V Schoenfeld


Characterizaion of Photovoltaics

Chair(s): Harvey Guthrey, Keith Emery, Michael Gostein

M3 (473) Theory and analysis of temperature coefficient of open-circuit voltage (dVoc/dT) in heterojunction solar cells Sachit Grover1, Jian V. Li2 1Scifiniti, Inc. (currently at First Solar Inc.), San Jose, CA, United States, 2NREL, Golden, CO, United States

M5 (474) Comparison of Physical and Electrical Equivalent Circuits of Solar Cells

Michael A. Slonim1,2 1Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, 2Israeli Independent Academy for Development of Sciences, Beer-Sheva, Israel

M7 (475) Applications of The Green's Expression for Saturation Current vs. Bandgap in Si and CIGS Solar Cells

Luigi Abenante, Mario Tucci ENEA, Rome, Italy

M9 (476) Efficient Approximation of Photovoltaic Model Using Dependent Thevenin Equivalent circuit based on

exponential sums function Mohamed Abd-ElHakeem Mohamed Faculty of Engineering, Electric Eng.Al-Azhar University,, Qena, Egypt

M11 (477) An Active Subspace Analysis of the Single-Diode Model

Brian R. Zaharatos1, Mark Campanelli2, Paul Constantine1 1Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, 2National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), Golden, CO, United States

M13 (478) Models for Low Energy Electron Beam Induced Current Experiments in polycrystalline thin film

photovoltaics Paul Haney, Heayoung Yoon, Nikolai Zhitenev National Institute for Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, United States

M15 (479) Minority Carrier Diffusion Length Measurements in Solar Cells by Electron Beam Induced Current

Sergey Maximenko, Robert Walters Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States

M17 (480) Identification of EL2 as the Lifetime-Limiting Defect using Temperature-Dependent Photoluminescence

Decay with Linearization Method to Decouple Effects of Diffusion and Surface Recombination Martin W. Gerber, Rafael N. Kleiman McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

M19 (481) Effect of series resistance on degradation of Isc, Power output and Fill Factor of HIT technology

Rashmi Singh, Birinchi Bora, Kamlesh Yadav, O.S. Sastry, Mithilesh Kumar, Avinash Kumar, Renu Dahiya, Manander Bangar, Supriya Rai, Arun Kumar National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurgaon, India

M21 (482) Analyses of Diamond Wire Sawn Wafers: Effect of Various Cutting Parameters

Bhushan Sopori1, Prakash Basnyat1, Srinivas Devayajanam1, Rekha Schnepf1, Santosh Sahoo1, Lynn Gedvilas1, Helio Moutinho1, James Gee2, Ferdinando Severico2, Antoine Manens2, Hubert Seigneur3, Winston Schoenfeld3, Steve Preece3 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA, United States, 3PVMC, Orlando, FL, United States


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M23 (483) Characterization of silicon solar cells by means of their luminescence under high frequency sinusoidal

excitations Nekane Azkona, Federico Recart, Pedro Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Jimeno UPV/EHU - Institue of Microelectronic Technology, Zamudio, Spain

M25 (484) State-of-the-Art Multiparameter Characterization of the Chemical and Field Effect Passivation of Very

High Lifetime n-Si with n+ Front Surface Field (FSF) Marshall Wilson, Andrew Findlay, John D'Amico, Alexandre Savtchouk, Jacek Lagowski Semilab SDI, Tampa, FL, United States

M27 (485) More Accurate Imaging of the Local Saturation Current Density in Solar Cells by Using Alternative PL

Evaluation Methods Otwin Breitenstein1, Jan Bauer1, David Hinken2, Karsten Bothe2 1Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany, 2Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH), Emmerthal, Germany

M29 (486) Direct Measurement of Dopant Distribution Depth in an Individual Silicon Micropillar

Amal A. Kabalan Bucknell University, Lewsiburg, PA, United States

M31 (487) New metrology method for homogeneity assessment in epitaxial layers grown at low temperature

Ronan Leal1, Vamsi Velidandla3, Gilles Poulain2, Perine Jaffrennou2, Jim Xu3, Pere Roca i Cabarrocas1 1LPICM CNRS, Cedex, France, 2TOTAL, Paris, France, 3Zeta Instruments, San Jose, CA, United States

M33 (488) Recent Advances in Glow Discharge Optical Emission Spectroscopy for characterization of layers/film

used in the Photovoltaic field Philippe HUNAULT1, Christophe MORIN1, Patrick CHAPON2 1HORIBA Scientific, Edison, NJ, United States, 2HORIBA Scientific, Lonjumeau, France

M35 (489) Determination of the Optical Absorption Coefficients of a Weakly Absorbing Film on a Transparent

Substrate by Spectrophotometry Geordie Zapalac MiaSole, Santa Clara, CA, United States

M37 (490) The Characterization of Al2O3 and TiO2 Antireflection Coatings with a Novel X-Ray Reflectivity Method

and Other Experimental Techniques Chao Li, Firouz Shahriarian, Mark S. Goorsky Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

M39 (491) Methods for sheet resistance and thickness measurements of highly resistive interfacial layers in

photovoltaic TCO thin films Christian Hagendorf, Kai Kaufmann, Volker Naumann, Martina Werner, Stephan Großer, Tommy Tänzer Fraunhofer Center for Siliscon Photovotlaics CSP, Halle, Germany

M41 (492) Study of Recombination in CdMgTe/CdTeSe Heterostructures Using Photoluminescence Intensity and

Lifetime Measurements with Confocal Photoluminescence Microscopy Craig Swartz1, Madhavie Edirisooriya1, Olanrewaju Ogedengbe1, Bobby Hancock1, Sandeep Sohal1, Elizabeth LeBlanc1, Pathiraja Jayathilaka1, Mark Holtz1, Thomas Myers1, Katherine Zaunbrecher2, Odille Noriega1 1Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, United States, 2NREL, Golden, CO, United States

M43 (493) Photoluminescence of Crystalline CdTe Double Heterostructures Grown by MBE

Katherine N. Zaunbrecher1,2, Pat Dippo2, Darius Kuciauaskas2, Timothy A. Gessert2, Teresa M. Barnes2, Thomas H. Myers3, Madhavie Edirisooriya3, Pathiraja A.R.D. Jayathilaka3, Olanrewaju S. Ogedengbe3 1Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 3Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, United States

N1 (494) Photoluminescence Imaging of Large-Grain CdTe for Grain Boundary Characterization

Steve Johnston1, Alyssa Allende Motz1,2, Matthew O. Reese1, James M. Burst1, Wyatt K. Metzger1 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States


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N3 (495) Analysis of Alloying and Built-in Voltage in Thin Film Chalcogenide Solar Cells using Modulation

Spectroscopy Alan E. Delahoy1, Zimeng Cheng1, Jingong Pan2, Shou Peng3, Ken K. Chin1 1New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, United States, 2CNBM Optoelectronic Materials Co. Ltd., Chengdu, China, 3Bengbu Design & Research Institute for Glass Industry , Bengbu, China

N5 (496) Local Photocarrier Dynamics in CdTe Solar Cells Under Optical and Electron Beam Excitations

Heayoung P. Yoon1,2, Paul M. Haney1, Yohan Yoon1,2, Sangmin An1,2, James I. Basham1, Nikolai B. Zhitenev1 1National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, United States, 2Maryland NanoCenter, College Park, MD, United States

N7 (497) Alkali segregation and matrix concentrations in thin film Cu(In,Ga)Se2 at targeted interfaces

characterized in 3-D at the nanoscale Adam W Stokes 1,2, Mowafak Al-Jassim2, David Deircks1, Brian Gorman1 1Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

N8 (498) Characterization and Post-Processing of Cadmium Sulfide Polycrystalline Thin Films

Hang Xu, Lili Wu, Wenwu Wang, Guanggen Zeng, Wei Li, Jingquan Zhang, Bing Li, Lianghuan Feng Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

N9 (499) Reconstruction of the charge collection probablity in a CIGS solar cell by the regularization method

Yutong Pang1,2, Harry Efstathiadis3, Daniel Dwyer3, Eisaman Matthew1,2,4 1Sustainable Energy Technologies Department, Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, NY, United States, 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, 3Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, Albany, NY, United States, 4Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States

N10 (500) Effects of Back Contact Resistance, Depletion Width and Relaxation Time Distributions in Admittance

Spectroscopy of CZTSe Devices Anna E Caruso1, Dennis S Pruzan2, Elizabeth A Lund3, Michael A Scarpulla1,2 1Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, 2Materials Science and Engineering Department University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, 3Chemical Engineering Department University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

N11 (501) Accurate and Rapid Measurement of High-Capacitance PV Cells and Modules Using Dark and Light I-V

Characteristics with 10ms Pulse - Part 2 Junichiro Abe1, Hisashi Kojima1, Kazutaka Iwamoto1, Yuji Fujita1, Yoshihiro Hishikawa2 1Kyoshin Electric, Kyoto, Japan, 2AIST, Ibaraki, Japan

N12 (502) Real-time Growth Assessments of Size Orientation and Facet Asymmetries of Self-assembled Quantum

Dots Manori V. Gunasekera, Alexandre Freundlich University of Houston, HOUSTON, TX, United States

N13 (503) Ultrafast Transient Absorption Study of Hot Carrier Dynamics in Hafnium Nitride and Zirconium Nitride

xiaoming wen University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

N14 (504) Improved performance of GaInNAs Solar Cell after UV-activated hydrogenation

Vincent R Whiteside1, Miwa Fukuda1, Joel C Keay1, Mohamed Al Khalfioui2, Mathieu Leroux2, Khalid Hossain3, Terry D Golding3, Ian R Sellers1 1University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, 2CRHEA-CNRS, Valbonne, France, 3Amethyst Research Inc., Ardmore, OK, United States

N15 (505) Electroluminescence Imaging of PV devices: Determining the Image Quality

Karl G Bedrich, Martin Bliss, Tom R Betts, Ralph Gottschalg Loughborough University, CREST, Loughborough, United Kingdom

N16 (506) Numerical Investigation of Capacitance Frequency Technique for Perovskite based Solar Cells

Vikas Nandal, Pradeep R. Nair Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India


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Modules, Manufacturing, Systems and Applications (II)

Chair(s): Adria Brooks, Owen Westerbrook, Bruce King

N18 (507) An Experimental Study of the Effect of Converging Channel Heat Exchanger on PV System Ahmer A.B. Baloch, Haitham M.S. Bahaidarah, Palanichamy Gandhidasan King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

N21 (508) Analysis of Spectrum Variations in different Seasons in Composite Climate zone of India

Manander Bangar, Birinchi Bora, Renu Dahiya, Arun Kumar, O.S. Sastry National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurgaon, India

N24 (509) Performance modeling of three PV module technologies based on clearness index and air-mass using

contour map Birinchi Bora, O.S. Sastry, Arun Kumar, Manander Bangar, Renu Dahiya National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurgaon, India

N27 (510) Impact of time- and spatial discretization on the agreement between measured and modeled

performance of large photovoltaic power plants Hugo Capdevila1, Tobias Gerstmaier2 1capdevila ite, Stuttgart, Germany, 2Soitec Solar GmbH, Freiburg, Germany

N30 (511) Solar Irradiance Prediction Model based on a Statistical Approach for Microgrid Application

Rachid Darbali-Zamora1, Carlos J. Gómez-Mendez1, He Li2, Eduardo I. Ortiz-Rivera1, Jin Wang2 1University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR, United States, 2The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States

N33 (512) Characterization of Global Irradiance Sensors for use with PV Systems

Anton Driesse1, Wim Zaaiman2 1PV Performance Labs, Freiburg, Germany, 2European Solar Test Installation, Ispra, Italy

N36 (513) PVLIB Python 2015

William F. Holmgren1, Robert W. Andrews2, Antonio T. Lorenzo3, Joshua S. Stein4 1Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, 2Heliolytics, Toronto, ON, Canada, 3College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, 4Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States

N39 (514) Understanding Next Generation Cadmium Telluride Photovoltaic Performance due to Spectrum

Mitchell Lee1, Lauren Ngan2, William Hayes1, Jim Sorensen1, Alex Panchula1 1First Solar , San Francisco, CA, United States, 2First Solar, Tempe, AZ, United States, 3First Solar, Perrysburg, OH, United States

N42 (515) Field Testing of Flat-Plate and Concentrator Photovoltaic Systems at the Solar Technology Acceleration

Center Cara S. Libby1, Sarah R. Kurtz2, Steven Coley3 1Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, United States, 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 3Electric Power Research Institute, Knoxville, TN, United States

O1 (516) A Novel 24 Kalman Filter Bank Estimator For Solar Irradiance Prediction For PV Power Generation

Conor J Lynch1, Michael J O'Mahony1, Richard A Guinee2 1Dept. of Process, Energy and Transport, Cork, Ireland, 2Dept. of Process, Energy and Transport, Cork, Ireland, 3Adjunct Faculty, Dept. of Process, Energy and Transport, Cork, Ireland

O4 (517) Addressing PV Plant Performance Test Uncertainties - Case Studies with Data Analysis

Jitendra Morankar, Amine Alami, Igor Koshkin RES Americas, Broomfield, CO, United States

O7 (518) Incidence-angle dependent external quantum efficiency: laboratory characterization and use in

irradiance-to-power modeling. B.G. Potter1, C.W. Hansen2, J.H. Simmons3, B.H. King2 1University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, 2Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 3Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers, FL, United States


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O10 (519) Modeling the performance of HIT technology for composite climatic zone of India

Supriya Rai, Birinchi Bora, O.S. Sastry, Manander Bangar, Y.K. Singh, Avinash Kumar, Kamlesh Yadav, Mithilesh Kumar, Rashmi Singh, Renu Dahiya, Arun Kumar National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurgaon, India

O13 (520) Improved PV Performance modelling by combining the PV_LIB Toolbox with the Loss Factors Model

(LFM) Juergen Sutterlueti1, Steve Ransome2, Joshua S. Stein3, Joerg Scholz1 1Gantner Instruments, Zwoenitz, Germany, 2SRCL, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom, 3Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States

O16 (521) Clustering Techniques for Photovoltaic System Simulations Under Nonuniform Irradiance Conditions

Tomas Tinoco De Rubira, Oliver Toole Aurora Solar Inc, Palo Alto, CA, United States

O19 (522) Hierarchical Development of Simulator for Photovoltaic System with Commercial Photovoltaic Modules

Huan-Liang Tsai, P. Truomglhu Le Da-Yeh University, Chang-Hua, Taiwan

O22 (523) Modeling The Performance Of Amorphous Silicon Photovoltaic Modules For Different Geographical

Locations In North-America Alessandro Virtuani1, Artur Skoczek2, Davide Strepparava1 1SUPSI, Canobbio, Switzerland, 2GEOMODEL, Bratislava, Slovakia

O25 (524) Improvement of Prediction Interval Estimation Algorithm with Just-In-Time Modeling for PV System

Operation Tomohide Yamazaki1,3, Shinji Wakao1,3, Yu Fujimoto2,3, Yasuhiro Hayashi1,3 1Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Bioscience, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 2Institute for Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Ohkubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 3JST, CREST, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan

Area 11 - Posters 12:00 - 2:15 PM Elite Hall G (Level 1)

System Reliability and Soiling

Chair(s): Chris Flueckiger, Jeff Newmiller

Q1 (525) Spread of Flame Testing of Glass – Backsheet c-Si Solar Modules: Degradation Progression and Effect of Module Laminate Materials Tim D Fletcher, Nancy Phillips 3M Company, Renewable Energy Division, St. Paul , MN, United States

Q3 (526) Accurately Measuring PV Soiling Losses with Soiling Station Employing Module Power Measurements

Michael Gostein1, Tim Düster2, Christopher Thuman2 1Atonometrics, Austin, TX, United States, 2E.ON Climate & Renewables North America, San Francisco, CA, United States

Q5 (527) Modeling of Soiled Photovoltaic Modules With Neural Networks Using Particle Size Composition of Soil

Fani Mani1, Subrahmanyam Pulipaka2, Rajneesh Kumar3 1Birla Institute of Technology Science, Pilani, India, 2Birla Institute of Technology Science, Pilani, India, 3Birla Institute of Technology Science, Pilani, India

Q7 (528) DC Risk Managment for Photovoltaic Assets

Robert W. Andrews, Michael T. Yan Heliolytics, Toronto, ON, Canada

Q9 (529) Predictive Reliability for AC Photovoltaic Modules Based on Electro-Thermal Phenomena

Kenneth M Armijo1, Benjamin Yang2, Olga Lavrova3, Daniel Riley4, Sigifredo Gonzalez5 1Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 2Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 3Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 4Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 5Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States


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Q11 (530) Failure Modes and Effect Analysis of Module Level Power Electronics

Raja Ayyanar1, Siddharth Kulasekaran1, Jinia Roy1, Arkanatha Sastry M R1, GovindSamy TamizhMani3, Jack D Flicker2, Devarajan Srinivasan4, Ian Tilford5 1Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 2Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 3TUV Rheinland PTL, Tempe, AZ, United States, 4Poundra, Tempe, AZ, United States, 5Bosch, San Mateo, CA, United States

Q13 (531) Working towards the Development of a Standardized Artificial Soiling Method

Sravanthi Boppana, Vidyashree Rajasekar, GovindaSamy TamizhMani ASU, Mesa, AZ, United States

Q15 (532) The efficacy of fire-fighting foams for disrupting power generation from silicon solar panels

Jeffrey P. Bosco1, Zuki Tanaka2, Brian A. Ott1, Daren T. Slee2 1Exponent, Inc., Thermal Sciences Practice, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 2Exponent, Inc., Electrical Engineering Practice, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Q17 (533) Initial Results of a Five Site Study Comparing Spatial Variability of Soiling and Ambient Particulate

Concentrations Liza Boyle1, Patrick Burton2, Holly Flinchpaugh1, Victoria Danner1, Charles Robinson2, Ken Blackwell3, Bruce King2, Michael P Hannigan1 1University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, 2Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 3Florida Solar Energy Center, Cocoa, FL, United States

Q19 (534) Advanced Smart Grid Distribution Testing

Richard John Bravo, James Hernandez, Victor Tran Southern California Edison, Westminster, CA, United States

Q21 (535) Macro- and Microscale Particle Size Effects of Soil on Photovoltaic Surfaces

Patrick D. Burton, Alex Hendrickson, Bruce H. King Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States

Q23 (536) Photovoltaic Module Performance and Soiling Analysis for Field Environment

ChienYu Chen, Haomin Chen, C.H Hsueh, MaoYi Chang AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION, Taichung, Taiwan

Q25 (537) Analysis of Temperature effect on Optimum Sizing of Solar Photovoltaic Water Pumping System

Renu Dahiya, Birinchi Bora, Kamlesh Yadav, Manander Bangar, Arun Kumar, O.S. sastry National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurgaon, India

Q27 (538) Photovoltaic System Performance Monitoring for Manufacturing Quality Assurance

Neelkanth G Dhere1, Subhash V Ghaisas2, Adinath Funde2, Priyadarshini Karve3 1Florida Solar Energy Center, Cocoa, FL, United States, 2University of Pune, Pune, India, 3Samuchit Enviro Tech Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India

Q29 (539) Performance Evaluation of Photovoltaic Modules and Systems: Results after 10 years of Field Exposure

in Brazil Antonia Sonia A. C. Diniz1, Marcelo M. Viana1, Cristiana B. Maia1, Suellen C. S. Costa1, Thiago A. Silverio1, Marcio E. M. Souza2, Denio A. Cassini2, Francisco H. A. F. Souza2, Lawrence L. Kazmerski3 1GREEN Solar-IPUC, Pontificia Universidade Catolica Minas Gerais –PUCMinas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais – CEMIG-D, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 3Renewable and Sustainable Energy Instutute (RASEI), University of Colorado Boulder and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

Q31 (540) Energy and Economic Losses due to Soiling on Utility Scale PV Systems to Guide Timing of Cost

Effective Cleaning Dale S.L. Dolan, Vladimir Prodanov, Taufik Taufik California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States

R1 (541) The Effect of Saharan Dust on PV System Yields in the Tropical Environment of Barbados

Darlene Field1, Thomas Rogers1, Andrea Sealy2 1University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, St. Michael, Barbados, 2Caribbean Institute of Meterology and Hydrology, St.James, Barbados


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R3 (542) Performance and Reliability of PV Inverter Component and Systems due to Advanced Inverter Functionality Jack D Flicker, Jason Neely, Sigifredo Gonzalez Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States

R5 (543) Availability of Utility-Scale Photovoltaic Power Plants

Kirby Hunt, Anthony Blekicki, Robert Callery First Solar, Tempe, AZ, United States

R7 (544) Evaluation and Prediction of Soiling Loss on PV modules with Artificially Deposited Dust

Jim J John, Sonali Warade, Abhishek Kumar, Anil Kottantharayil Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

R9 (545) Regional Soiling Stations for PV: Design, Calibration and Installation

Bruce H. King1, Govindasamy TamizhMani2, Sai Tatapudi2, Vidyashree Rajasekar2, Sravanthi Boppana2 1Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 2Arizona State University Photovoltaic Reliability Laboratory, Mesa, AZ, United States

R10 (546) Dust mitigation on PV modules in western Saudi Arabia

Elisabeth Klimm1, Karl-Anders Weiss1, Karolina Slamova1, Jan Hermann1, Michael Koehl1, Albraa A Jaber2, Abdiaziz A Farah2 1Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany, 2SABIC CRI, Jeddah Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

R11 (547) Environmental Degradation of the Optical Surface of PV Modules and Solar Mirrors by Soiling and High

RH and Mitigation Methods for Minimizing Energy Yield Losses Malay Mazumder1, Mark Horenstein1, Calvin Heiling1, Jeremy Stark1, Arash Sayyah1, Julius Yellowhair2, Atri Raychowdhury1 1Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, 2Sandia National Laboratories , Albuquerque, NM, United States

R12 (548) Cleaning Frequency Optimization for Soiled Photovoltaic Modules

Mohammad Naeem, Govindasamy TamizhMani Photovoltaic Reliability Laboratory (ASU-PRL)Photovoltaic Reliability Laboratory (ASU-PRL), Mesa, AZ, United States

R13 (549) Angle of Incidence Effect on Five Soiled Modules from Five Different PV Technologies

Vidyashree Rajasekar, Sravanthi Boppana, GovindaSamy TamizhMani Arizona State University-Photovoltaic Reliability Lab, Mesa, AZ, United States


Quantum Dot and Intermediate Band Solar Cells

Chair(s): Chris Bailey, Stanko Tomic

2:30 (550) Intermediate Band Solar Cell Design using InAs quantum dots in AlAsSb Cladding Seth Hubbard1, Staffan Hellstroem1, Zachary Bittner1, Ramesh Laghumavarapu2, Diana Huffaker2 1Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States, 2University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

2:45 (551) Investigation of Room Temperature Non-linear Sub-bandgap Photocurrent Generation in InAs/GaAs

Quantum Dot Solar Cells Tian Li, Mario Dagenais University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States

3:00 (552) Saturable Two-step Photocurrent Generation in Intermediate-band Solar Cells Including InAs Quantum

Dots Embedded in Al0.3Ga0.7As/GaAs Quantum Wells. Shigeo Asahi, Haruyuki Teranishi, Naofumi Kasamatsu, Tomoyuki Kada, Toshiyuki Kaizu, Takashi Kita Kobe University, Kobe, Japan


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3:15 (553) High Si Content SRO/SiO2 Bilayer Superlattices with Boron and Phosphorus Doping for Next Generation Si Quantum Dot Photovoltaics Terry Chien-Jen Yang, Keita Nomoto, Ziyun Lin, Lingfeng Wu, Binesh Puthen-Veettil, Tian Zhang, Xuguang Jia, Gavin Conibeer, Ivan Perez-Wurfl Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

3:30 (554) Ultrafast Photocarrier Transport Dynamics in InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Superlattice Solar Cell

Taizo Tanibuchi, Tomoyuki Kada, Naofumi Kasamatsu, Takuya Matsumura, Shigeo Asahi, Takashi Kita Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

3:45 (555) Carrier Collection in Quantum Dots Solar Cells with Barrier Modification

Yushuai Dai, Stephen Polly, Staffan Hellstroem, David. V. Forbes, Seth. M Hubbard NanoPower Research Laboratory, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester , NY, United States


Worldwide Industry Advances

Chair(s): Robert W. Collins, BJ Stanbery

2:30 (556) Invited: Current Status at Solar Frontier: From Fundamental Research to Industrial Mass Production of Cd-free Cu(In,Ga)(Se,S)2 Solar Cell Motoshi Nakamura, Takuya Kato, Rui Kamada, Hiroki Sugimoto Technology Development Division, Atsugi Research Center, Solar Frontier K.K., Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan

3:00 (557) Wait-time effects in CIGS PV module production

Philipp Kratzert1, Sebastian Jander1, Jovana Djordjevic-Reiss1, Ralf Hunger1, Erik Wallin2, tobias jarmar2, Dirk Herrmann1, Olle Lundberg2, Lars Stolt2 1Solibro Hi-Tech GmbH, Leipzig, Germany, 2Solibro Research AB , Uppsala, Sweden

3:15 (558) Methodology for improved cell integration design based on distributed-element circuit analysis

Gregory M. Kimball MiaSolé Hi-Tech Corp., Santa Clara, CA, United States

3:30 (559) Controlling the Thermal Impact of ns Laser Pulses for the Preparation of the P2 Interconnect by Local

Phase Transformation in CIGSe Christof Schultz1, Manuel Schüle1, Kamil Stelmaszczyk1,2, Moshe Weizman1, Orman Gref3, Felice Friedrich3, Christian Wolf2, Christian A. Kaufmann2, Björn Rau2, Rutger Schlatmann1,2, Frank Fink1, Bert Stegemann1 1PVcomB / HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany, 2PVcomB / Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin, Germany, 3PVcomB / Technical University, Berlin, Germany

3:45 (560) Assessing the Cost and Potential of Monolithic CIGS Modules

Kelsey A. W. Horowitz, Michael Woodhouse National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) , Golden, CO, United States


III-V Solar Cells - Lower Cost

Chair(s): Aaron Ptak, Homan Yuen, Frank Dimroth

2:30 (561) A GaAs Nanowire Array Solar Cell with 15.3% Efficiency at 1 Sun Ingvar Åberg, Giuliano Vescovi, Damir Asoli, Umear Naseem, James P. Gilboy, Christian Sundvall, Andreas Dahlgren, K. Erik Svensson, Nicklas Anttu, Mikael T. Björk, Lars Samuelson Sol Voltaics AB, Lund, Sweden


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3:00 (562) High Performance Ultrathin GaAs Solar Cells Sung-Min Lee1, Anthony Kwong1, Daehwan Jung3, Joseph Faucher3, Lang Shen1, Roshni Biswas2, Minjoo Larry Lee3, Jongseung Yoon1,2 1Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 2Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 3Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

3:15 (563) Relationship Between EL2 Density, SRH Lifetime, and Photovoltaic Device Performance in GaAs at

High MOCVD Growth Rates Kenneth J Schmieder1, Matthew P Lumb1,3, Michael K Yakes1, Maria Gonzalez1,4, Paul D Cunningham1, Ani Khachatrian1,4, Mitchell F Bennett1,4, Louise C Hirst1, Nicole A Kotulak1, Ziggy Pulwin2, Christopher G Bailey5, Seth M Hubbard6, Joseph S Melinger1, Chris W Ebert2, Robert J Walters1 1U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, 2Veeco MOCVD, Somerset, NJ, United States, 3George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, 4Sotera Defense Solutions, Annapolis Junction, MD, United States, 5Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States, 6NanoPower Research Labs, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States

3:30 (564) Modeling of Effects of Using Polycrystalline Substrates for Low Cost III-V Photovoltaics

Zachary S. Bittner, Elisabeth L. McClure, Stephen J. Polly, David V. Forbes, Seth M. Hubbard Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States

3:45 (565) Low Cost GaAs Solar Cells Grown by Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy and the Development of GaInP

Cladding Layers John Simon, Kevin L. Schulte, David L. Young, Aaron J. Ptak NREL, Golden, CO, United States


Device Physics and Analysis

Chair(s): Keith McIntosh , Paul Basore

2:30 Best Student Presentation Award Finalist (566) Experimental assessment of temperature coefficient theories for silicon solar cells Olivier Dupré1,2, Rodolphe Vaillon1, Martin A. Green2 1Université de Lyon, CNRS, INSA-Lyon, UCBL, Centre for Energy and Thermal Sciences (CETHIL), UMR5008, F-69621, Villeurbanne, France, 2Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP), School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

2:45 (567) Interdigitated Back-Contacted Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells using Semi-Industrial Processing

Equipment Paula C.P. Bronsveld1, Maciej K. Stodolny1, Leo A.A. Duval2, Petra Manshanden1, Lambert J. Geerligs1 1ECN, Petten, Netherlands, 2EindhovenTechnical University, Eindhoven, Netherlands

3:00 (568) Deriving the generation profile for silicon solar cells from lumped optical parameters

Andreas Fell1, Keith R. McIntosh2 1Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 2PV Lighthouse, Coledale, Australia

3:15 (569) Investigation of Light-Induced Regeneration Phenomena on P-type Cz PERC Cells

Jun-Rui Huang, Yi-Feng Lin, Kai Liang, Spencer Su, Sean H.T. Chen, Li-Wei Cheng Topcell Solar International Co., LTD., No. 1560, Zhongshan Rd., Guanyin Township, Taoyuan Country, R.O.C. (Taiwan), Taiwan

3:30 (570) A New Expression for Intrinsic Fill Factor of Silicon Solar Cells

Mehdi Leilaeioun, Zachary Holman Arizona state university, Tempe, AZ, United States

3:45 (571) High Efficiency N-type Silicon Solar Cells with Local Back Surface Fields Formed by Laser Chemical

Processing Xinbo Yang, Andreas Fell, Lujia Xu, Evan Franklin, Daniel Macdonald, Klaus Weber Research School of Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia


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Area 7 - Orals

2:30 - 4:00 PM Strand 12 (Level 2) Space Arrays and Structures

Chair(s): Jeremy Banik, Bao Hoang

2:30 (572) Solar Electric Propulsion for Future NASA Missions Geoffrey A. Landis, Steven R. Oleson, Carolyn R. Mercer NASA John Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, United States

2:45 (573) Analytic Representation of Space Solar Array Performance: A Structural Based Alternative to Historical

Metrics Jeremy A Banik1, Bernie F Carpenter2 1AFRL, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 2Aerospace, Albuquerque, NM, United States

3:00 (574) UltraFlex and MegaFlex – Development of Highly Scalable Solar Power

David M. Murphy, Michael I. Eskenazi, Michael E. McEachen, James W. Spink Orbital ATK, Goleta, CA, United States

3:15 (575) Flexible Solar Array With Structural Photovoltaic Assembly

Theodore Stern, Kenneth Steele Alliance Spacesystems, Los Alamitos, CA, United States

3:30 (576) Advancements of the Lightweight Integrated Solar Array and Transceiver (LISA-T) Small Spacecraft

System Tiffany Russell1, Armando Martinez1, Darren Boyd1, Michael SanSoucie1, Brandon Farmer2, Todd Schneider1, Greg Laue2, Leo Fabisinski1, Les Johnson 1, John A. Carr1 1NASA MSFC, Huntsville, AL, United States, 2ManTech NeXolve Corporation, Huntsville, AL, United States

3:45 (577) Development and Implementation of Unique Testing Methods for the Solar Probe Plus Array

Andrew P Gerger, Paul Sharps, Richard Stall, Christopher Sulyma, Karen de Zetter, Paul Johnson, Kevin Crist SolAero Technologies Corporation, Albuquerque, NM, United States


System Performance Modeling

Chair(s): Kendra Passow, Steve Ransome

2:30 (578) Investment Risks of Utility-scale PV: Opportunities and Limitations of Risk Mitigation Strategies to Reduce Uncertainties of Energy Yield Predictions Björn Müller, Wolfgang Heydenreich, Nils Reich, Christian Reise, Boris Farnung Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany

2:45 (579) Revisiting the Model Parameters of an Existing System Using the Photovoltaic System Analysis

Toolbox (PV_SAT) Ian C. Tse, Kenneth J. Sauer, Ryan A. Desharnais, Venkata R. Abbaraju Yingli Green Energy Americas, Inc., San Francisco, CA, United States


(580) Estimation of annual performance loss rates of grid-connected photovoltaic systems using time series analysis and validation through indoor testing at standard test conditions Alexander Phinikarides, George Makrides, George E. Georghiou FOSS Research Centre for Sustainable Energy, Photovoltaic Technology Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

3:15 (581) Dependence on Geographic Location of Air Mass Modifiers For Photovoltaic Module Performance

Models Katherine A. Klise, Clifford W. Hansen, Joshua S. Stein Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States


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3:30 (582) Simplified Method for Modeling the Impact of Arbitrary Partial Shading Conditions on PV Array

Performance Sara MacAlpine, Chris Deline National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States


Joint Area 2 & 8: Characterization of CdTe Photovoltaics

Chair(s): Dean Levi, Harvey Guthrey

2:30 (583) A Fundamental Study of the Effects of Grain Boundaries on Performance of Poly-Crystalline Thin Film CdTe Solar Cells Tadas Paulauskas1, Chris Buurma1, Cyrus Sun2, Maria Chan3, Moon Kim2, Fatih Sen3, Robert Klie1 1University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, 2Universty of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States, 3Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States

3:00 (584) Creation and Analysis of Atomic Structures for CdTe Bi-crystal Interfaces by the Grain Boundary Genie

Christopher Buurma1, Fatih Sen2, Tadas Pauluaskas1, Ce Sun3, Moon Kim3, Sivalingam Sivananthan1, Robert Klie1, Maria Chan2 1University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, 2Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United States, 3University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States

3:15 (585) Atomistic simulations of grain boundaries in CdTe

Fatih G. Sen1, Christopher Buurma2, Tadas Paulauskas2, Ce Sun3, Moon Kim3, Sivalingam Sivanantham2, Robert F. Klie2, Maria K.Y. Chan1 1Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United States, 2University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, 3University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States

3:30 (586) Opto-Electronic Characterization of CdTe Solar Cells from TCO to Back Contact with Nano-Scale CL

Probe John M Moseley1,2, Mowafak M Al-Jassim1, Naba Paudel3, Hasitha Mahabaduge1, Darius Kuciauskas1, Harvey L Guthrey1, Joel Duenow1, Yanfa Yan3, Wyatt K Metzger1, Richard K Ahrenkiel1,2 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, 3University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States

3:45 (587) Bulk Lifetime, Doping and Recombination in CdTe:P Single Crystals

James M. Burst1, Stu B. Farrell1, Matthew O. Reese1, David S. Albin1, Joel N. Duenow1, Eric Colegrove1, Teresa M. Barnes1, Steve W. Johnston1, Tursun Ablekim2, Santosh Swain2, Kelvin G. Lynn2, Darius Kuciauskas1, Wyatt K. Metzger1 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2Center for Materials Research, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, United States

Break 4:00 - 4:30 PM Elite Hall (Level 1)

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Novel Material Systems and Concepts

Chair(s): Tyler Grassman , Andrea Ingenito , Arno Smets

A2 (588) Effective Counter Electrode based on Mesoporous Carbon Materials for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells: Enhanced Plasma treatment ZHEN YU LI1, M.Shaheer Akhtar1,2, Jin-Ho Song1, Azmira Jannat1, O-Bong Yang1,2 1School of Semiconductor and Chemical Engineering & Solar Energy Research Center, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea, 2New and Renewable Energy Materials Development Center (NewREC), Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea

A5 (589) Novel 3C-SiC Encapsulated Coaxial Silicon Nanowire Solar Cell For Optimal Photovoltaic Performance

Rahul Pandey, Rishu Chaujar Delhi Technological University , Delhi, India

A8 (590) Low Temperature ALD grown ZnO as emitter and TCO for a thin-film a-Si PIN Solar cells

Aaesha Alnuaimi1, Burak Tekcan2,3, Ali Okyay2,3, Ammar Nayfeh1 1Institute Center for Microsystems – iMicro, EECS, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,UNAM-National Nanotechnology Research Center, Ankara, Turkey, 3Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

A11 (591) Cross-sectional electric field distributions in BaSi2 homo and BaSi2/Si hetero pn junctions

Masakazu Baba1, Kentaro Watanabe1,2, Kosuke O. Hara3, Takashi Sekiguchi2, Weijie Du1, Ryota Takabe1, Kaoru Toko1, Noritaka Usami4,5, Takashi Suemasu1,5 1Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, 2National Institute for Materials Science, Ibaraki, Japan, 3Graduated School of Medical and Engineering Science, Yamanashi University, Yamanashi, Japan, 4Graduated School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, 5Japan Science and Technology Agency, CREST, Tokyo, Japan

A14 (592) Special dispersion chiral nematic reflectors for luminescent solar concentrators

Michael G. Debije1, Dick K. G. De Boer2, Dirk J. Broer1, Paul P. C. Verbunt1 1Eindhoven Univeristy of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2Philips Research, Eindhoven, Netherlands

A17 (593) Ion Exchanged Glass Frits For Enhanced Front Side Paste Performance

Markus Eberstein, Stefan Koerner Fraunhofer IKTS, Dresden, Germany

A20 (594) ab initio Electronic Transport Model for Photovoltaics

Alireza Faghaninia1, Joel W Ager2, Cynthia S Lo1 1Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, 2Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States

A23 (595) Alloying ZnS to Create Transparent Conducting Materials

Alireza Faghaninia1, Kunal R Bhatt2, Cynthia S Lo1 1Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, 2Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Mumbai, India

A26 (596) Amorphous Cu-Sb-S Based Semiconductors for Thin-Film Solar Cell Applications

Nicholas D. Franzer, Naba R. Paudel, Yanfa Yan University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States

B1 (597) Rapid Thermal Annealing of InAlAsSb Lattice-Matched to InP for Top Cell Applications

Maria Gonzalez1,2, Matthew P. Lumb2,3, Louise C. Hirst4, Stephanie Tomasulo4, Joseph G. Tischler2, Woojun Yoon2, Joshua Abell2, Igor Vurgaftman2, Mitchell F. Bennet2, Kenneth J. Schmieder4, Nicole A. Kotulak4, Michael K. Yakes2, Jerry R. Meyer2, Robert J. Walters2 1Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc., Annapolis Junction, MD, United States, 2US. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington , DC, United States, 3The George Washington University, Washington , DC, United States, 4NRC residing at the US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington , DC, United States


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B4 (598) Interface Engineered Wetting Layer Free InAs QDs on GaAs(001) Manori V. Gunasekera1, Dinghao Tang2, Alexandre Freundlich1, David A. Smith2, Irene Rusakova1 1University of Houston, HOUSTON, TX, United States, 2Arizona State University, Arizona, TX, United States

B7 (599) Optical Properties of InN-Based Photodetection Devices

Lung-Hsing Hsu1, Chien-Chung Lin2, Yi-Chia Hwang2, Chen-Fung Su2, Shih-Yen Lin3, Hao-Chung Kuo4 1Institute of Lighting and Energy Photonics, National Chiao Tung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 2Institute of Photonic System, National Chiao Tung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 3Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 4Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

B10 (600) Nickel Oxide Carrier Selective Contacts for Silicon Solar Cells

Raisul Islam, Pranav Ramesh, Ju Hyung Nam, Krishna Saraswat Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

B13 (601) Solution Processed Titanium Oxide for Si Heterojunction Solar Cells

Yu-Tsu Lee1, Ting-Chun Lin1, Fang-Ru Lin2, Chien-Hsun Chen4, Zingway Pei1,2,3 11. Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, 22. Graduate Institute of Optoelectronic Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, 33. Research Center for Sustainable Energy and Nanotechnology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, 44. Green Energy and Environment Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Chutung, Taiwan

B16 (602) Copper Oxide Thin Films prepared by Chemical Bath Deposition Technique

Zheng-Dong Lin1, Shoou-Jinn Chang1, Yi-Hao Chen1, Ting-Jen Hsueh2 1Institute of Microelectronics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 2National Nano Device Laboratories, Tainan, Taiwan

B19 (603) Single Crystal Cu2O Photovoltaics by the Floating Zone Method

Stefan T. Omelchenko1,2, Yulia Tolstova2, Samantha S. Wilson2, Harry A. Atwater1,2, Nathan S. Lewis1,2 1Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, Pasadena, CA, United States, 2California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States

B22 (604) Atmospheric Pressure Processed Silver-Nanowire (Ag-NW) / ZnO Composite Transparent Conducting

Contacts John D. Perkins1, Shruti Aggarwal11,2, Maikel van Hest1, Tom Gennett1, David S. Ginley1 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India

B25 (605) Fabrication and Characterization of ZnSnxGe1-xN2Alloys for Light Absorbers

Amanda Shing, Naomi Coronel, Nathan S. Lewis, Harry A. Atwater California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States

B27 (606) Comparison of V2O5 and WO3 sandwicheds, via Sol-Gel, to Development as Photovoltaics Cells

Guilherme Elias Silva1, Kayo Vinycyus de Sou Oliveira1, Rodrigo Fernando Bianchi2, Dane Tadeu Cestarolli1, Elidia Maria Guerra1 1Federal University of São João Del Rei, Ouro Branco, Brazil, 2Federal University of Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Brazil

B28 (607) Development of Al doped ZnO as TCO by Atomic Layer Deposition

Soumyadeep Sinha, Sandeep K Maurya, Balasubramaniam R. Kavaipatti, Shaibal K Sarkar Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

C1 (608) Fabrication and Characterization of BaSi2 Films on Ge(111) Substrates by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Ryota Takabe1, Kaoru Toko1, Kosuke O. Hara2, Noritaka Usami3,4, Takashi Suemasu1,4 1University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, 2University of Yamanashi, Yamabashi, Japan, 3Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, 4JST-CREST, Chiyoda-ku, Japan

C2 (609) Growth and Characterization of Highly Mismatched Zn1-xCdxTe1-yOy Alloys for Intermediate Band Solar

Cells Tooru Tanaka1,2, Kosuke Mizoguchi1, Toshiki Terasawa1, Yuuki Okano1, Katsuhiko Saito1, Qixin Guo1, Mitsuhiro Nishio1, Kin Man Yu3,4, Wladek Walukiewicz3 1Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Saga University, Saga, Japan, 2PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi, Japan, 3Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, 4Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong


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C3 (610) Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Cu2O Heterostructures for Photovoltaics Yulia Tolstova, Samantha S. Wilson, Stefan T. Omelchenko, Nathan S. Lewis, Harry A. Atwater California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States

C4 (611) Molecular beam epitaxy of InAlAsSb for the top cell in high-efficiency InP-based lattice-matched triple-

junction solar cells Stephanie Tomasulo1, Maria Gonzalez1,2, Joseph G. Tischler 1, Joshua Abell1, Matthew P. Lumb1,3, Michael K. Yakes1, Louise C. Hirst1, Francisco J. Delgado-Gonzalez4, Miriam Herrera4, Sergio I. Molina4, Igor Vurgaftman1, Jerry R. Meyer1, Robert J. Walters1 1Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, 2Sotera Defense Solutions , Annapolis Junction, MD, United States, 3George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, 4Universidad de Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain

C5 (612) Control carrier recombination of multi-scale textured black silicon surface for high performance solar

cells Guodong Yuan1, Miao Hong2, Yan Peng2, Yiming Zhu2, Jinmin Li1 1Institute of semiconductors, Beijing, China, 2University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China


Contacts, Buffers, Substrates and Interfaces

Chair(s): Chris Ferekides, Harin Ullal, Katherine Zaunbrecher

C8 (613) Molybdenum Oxide Contacts for Nanowire CdS-CdTe Solar Cells Hongmei Dang, Vijay P Singh University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States

C12 (614) Properties of ZnO thin films prepared by reactive evaporation

Asdrubal Ramirez, Edwin Ramirez, Gerardo Gordillo National University of Colombia, Bogota, Columbia

C16 (615) THE GROWTH MODEL OF CDTE THIN FILM BY CLOSE SPACED SUBLIMATION

Guogen Liu1,2, Zimeng Chen1, Alan Delahoy1, George Georgiou1, Ken Chin1 1CNBM New Energy Materials Research Center, Newark, NJ, United States, 2Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Newark, NJ, United States

C20 (616) Effect of different Conducting Oxides (TCOs) on CdTe layers

Dahiru G. Diso

C24 (617) CIGS Solar Cell on Silicon Substrate Yi-Hao Chen1, Shoou-Jinn Chang1, Ting-Jen Hsueh2 1Institute of Microelectronics,National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 2National Nano Device Laboratories, Tainan, Taiwan

C28 (618) Effect of Substrate Temperature on Sputtered Molybdenum Film as a Back Contact for Cu(In,Ga)Se2

Solar Cells Tasnuva Ashrafee1, Krishna Aryal1, Grace Rajan1, Shankar Karki1, Vikash Ranjan2, Angus Rockett3, Robert W. Collins4, Sylvain Marsillac1 1Virginia Institute of Photovoltaics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States, 2Pilkington North America, 2401 East Broadway, , Northwood , OH, United States, 3Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, 4Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States

D6 (619) Development of Co-evaporated In2S3 Buffer Layer for Cu2ZnSnSe4 Thin Film Solar Cells

Marie Buffiere1,2, Nicolas Barreau3, Guy Brammertz4,5, Sylvester Sahayaraj1,6, Marc Meuris4,5, Jef Poortmans1,2 1imec, Leuven, Belgium, 2KUL-ESAT, Leuven, Belgium, 3IMN, Univ. Nantes, Nantes, France, 4imec-imomec, Hasselt, Belgium, 5Univ. Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium, 6KUL-MTM, Leuven, Belgium

D11 (620) ZnS top layer to enhance the crystallinity of CZTS absorber during the annealing

Andrea Cazzaniga1, Rebecca B. Ettlinger1, Andrea Crovetto2, Ole Hansen2, Jørgen Schou1 1DTU Fotonik, Roskilde, Denmark, 2DTU Nanotech, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark


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D15 (621) Effects of Oxygen Plasma Treatment on the Performance of CdTe Thin- Film Solar Cells Alexander J Cimaroli1, Naba R Paudel1, Brooke E Paquin1, Drew E Swanson2, Yanfa Yan1 1University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States, 2Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States

D19 (622) Efficient Bifacial Cu2ZnSnSe4 Solar Cells

Moises Espindola-Rodriguez1, Yudenia Sánchez1, Simon López-Marino1, Victor Izquierdo-Roca1, Diouldé Sylla1, Markus Neuschitzer1, Osvaldo Vigil-Galán2, Edgardo Saucedo1, Marcel Placidi1 1IREC, Jardins de les Dones de Negre, 1 2, Sant Adrià del Besòs (Barcelona), Spain, 2IREC, Jardins de les Dones de Negre, 1 2, Sant Adrià del Besòs (Barcelona), Spain, 3IREC, Jardins de les Dones de Negre, 1 2, Sant Adrià del Besòs (Barcelona), Spain, 4IREC, Jardins de les Dones de Negre, 1 2, Sant Adrià del Besòs (Barcelona), Spain, 5IREC, Jardins de les Dones de Negre, 1 2, Sant Adrià del Besòs (Barcelona), Spain, 6IREC, Jardins de les Dones de Negre, 1 2, Sant Adrià del Besòs (Barcelona), Spain, 7Instituto Politécnico Nacional , México DF, Mexico, 8IREC, Jardins de les Dones de Negre, 1 2, Sant Adrià del Besòs (Barcelona), Spain, 9IREC, Jardins de les Dones de Negre, 1 2, Sant Adrià del Besòs (Barcelona), Spain

E3 (623) Co−electroplated Kesterite Bifacial Thin Film Solar Cells

Jie Ge, Yue Yu, Yanfa Yan The university of toledo, Toledo, OH, United States

E7 (624) The Formation of the MOSe2 Layer at CIGS/Mo Interface and its Effect on the CIGS Device Performance

Falah S. Hasoon , Hamda A. Al-Thani National Energy & Water Research Center, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

E11 (625) Optimization of Buffer Layer/i-Layer Band Alignment

Yukari Inoue1, Matej Hála2, Susanne Siebentritt2 1TDK Corporation Technical Center, Chiba, Japan, 2Laboratory for Photovoltaics, Physics and Materials Science Research Unit, Université du Luxembourg, Belvaux, Luxembourg

E15 (626) Comparison of DC and RF Sputtered Aluminium-Doped Zinc Oxide for Photovoltaic Applications

Patrick J M Isherwood1, Michael N Gona1, Jake W Bowers1, Nuno Neves2, Paul Newbatt2, John M Walls1 1CREST, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom, 2Innovnano SA, Coimbra, Portugal

E19 (627) Gallium-doped Magnesium Zinc Oxide (GMZO) Transparent Conducting Oxide Layers for CdTe Thin-

film Photovoltaics Jason M. Kephart, W.S. Sampath Department of Mechanical Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States

E23 (628) Thermal treatment improvement of CuSbS2 absorbers

Francisco W. S. Lucas1,2, Adam W. Welch1,3, Lauryn L. Baranowski1,3, Patricia C. Dippo1, Lucia H. Mascaro2, Andriy Zakutayev1 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2Federal University of Sao Carlos, Sao Carlos, Brazil, 3Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States

E27 (629) Study of a Low Power Plasma reactor for synthesis of doped and undoped Zinc oxide as the window

layer in CIGS solar cells Alexandre Ma1,2,3, Frédérique Donsanti2, Frédéric Rousseau1, Daniel Morvan1 1Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris (IRCP), Equipe 2PM (Procédés, Plasmas, Microsystèmes) , Paris, France, 2Institut de Recherche et Développement sur l'Energie Photovoltaïque (IRDEP) , Chatou, France, 3Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Énergie (ADEME) , Angers, France

F3 (630) The Effect of Back Contact and Rapid Thermal Processing Conditions on Flexible CdTe Device

Performance H. P. Mahabaduge1, D. M. Meysing2, W. L. Rance1, J. M. Burst1, M. O. Reese1, C. A. Wolden2, T. A. Gessert1, W. K. Metzger1, S. Garner3, T. M. Barnes1 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, 3Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY, United States

F7 (631) Chemical and Mechanical Techniques Enabling Direct Characterization of CdS/CdTe Heterojunction

Region in Completed Devices Daniel M Meysing1, Jiaojiao Li1, Matthew O Reese2, Hasitha Mahabaduge2, Wyatt K Metzger2, James M Burst2, Teresa M Barnes2, Colin A Wolden1 1Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States


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F11 (632) Effects of annealing temperatures on the properties of Zinc-doped Cadmium Sulfide thin films grown by the SILAR technique. P.A. NWOFE, P.E. AGBO, C.N. UKWU

F15 (633) The Role of the Intrinsic Zinc Oxide Layers on the Performance of Wide-bandgap (AgCu)(InGa)Se2 Thin-

Film Solar Cells. Uwadiae Obahiagbon1,3, Christopher P. Thompson3, William N. Shafarman2,3, Steve S. Hegedus1,3 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, 2Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, 3Institute of Energy Conversion (IEC), University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States

F19 (634) Thermal Behavior of ITO/TiO2/CdS/CdTe Solar Cells

Juan L. Peña1, Eric Hernández-Rodríguez1, Victor Rejón1, Ricardo Mis-Fernández1, Inés Riech2 1Applied Physics Department, CINVESTAV-IPN U. Mérida, Mérida, Mexico, 2Materials Science Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, University of Yucatán, Mérida, Mexico

F23 (635) Evolution of the Optical Response of Sputtered CdS:O as a Function of Temperature and the

Implications for Thin Film Photovoltaics Adam B. Phillips, Jon M. Stone, Zhaoning Song, Geethika K. Liyanage, Corey R. Grice, Naba R. Paudel, Yanfa Yan, Michael J. Heben University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States

F27 (636) Effect of Molybdenum Deposition Temperature on the Performance of CuIn1-xGaxSe2 Based Solar

Cells Puja Pradhan1, Puruswottam Aryal1, Abdel R Ibdah1, Prakash Koirala1, Jian Li1, Nikolas J Podraza1, Angus A. Rockett2, Sylvain Marsillac3, Robert W Collins1 1University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States, 2University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, 3Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States

G3 (637) The CdS/CdTe Solar Cells With Reactively Sputtered a-MoOx/Mo Back Contact

Victor Rejón1, Ricardo Mis-Fernández1, Eric Hernández-Rodríguez1, Inés Riech2, Juan L. Peña1 1Applied Physics Department, CINVESTAV-IPN U. Mérida, Mérida, Mexico, 2Materials Science Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, University of Yucatán, Mérida, Mexico

G6 (638) Interfacial engineering and nanoscale characterization of Zn(S,O) alternative buffer layer for CIGS thin

film solar cells. Purvesh Soni, Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin, Dierk Raabe Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany

G9 (639) Studies on Process Induced Optoelectronic and Structural Modifications of CdS/CZTS Heterojunction

Interface Affecting Solar Cell Efficiency Ratheesh R Thankalekshmi , Alok C Rastogi Binghamton University,State University of New York , Binghamton, NY, United States

G12 (640) Fabrication of CdS/CdTe solar cells with transparent p-type conductive SrCuSeF back contact

Takahiro Wada1, Shuya Kitabayashi1, Koichi Yamamoto1, Hiroshi Sakakima1, Yohei Ogawa2, Aikyo Hosono2, Tamotsu Okamoto2 1Ryukoku University, Otsu, Japan, 2Kisarazu National College of Technology, Chiba, Japan

G14 (641) Theoretical Exploration of Cd-free CIGS Solar Cells with A Charged Tunneling Electron Collector Layer

William Xu, Cangming Ke, Selvaraj Venkataraj, Johnson Wong, Rolf Stangl Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

G16 (642) Boost efficiency of pure sulfide CZTS solar cell via hybrid buffer

Chang Yan, Fangyang Liu, Kaiwen Sun, Ning Song, Fangzhou Zhou, Xiaojing Hao UNSW Australia, sydney, Australia

G18 (643) Efficiency improvement of ammonia-free CBD-ZnS Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells by sulfur treatment

Tzu-Hsuan Yeh, Chia-Hao Hsu, Wei-Hao Ho, Shi-Yuan Wei, Chih-Huang Lai Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan


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G20 (644) Material stability study of (Zn)CdTe/MgCdTe double heterostructures grown on InSb substrates using MBE Xin-Hao Zhao1,2, Shi Liu1,3, Calli M Campbell1,2, Yong-Hang Zhang1,3 1Center for Photonics Innovation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 2School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 3School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States


Contact Formation and Module Integration

Chair(s): Abba Ebong , Marius Peters, Alison Lennon

I19 (645) Silver Flake Interactions with Organics in Photovoltaic Backside Tabbing Paste Cerise Baker, Lindsey Karpowich, Weiming Zhang Heraeus Photovoltaic Technology, W. Conshohocken, PA, United States

I23 (646) A new approach: low cost masking material and efficient copper metallization for higher efficiency

silicon solar cells Marco Balucani1,2, Konstantin Kholostov1, Aliaksei Klyshko1, Roberto Pagliucci2, Dario Bernardi2, Luca Serenelli3, Massimo Izzi3, Mario Tucci3 1DIET, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, 2Rise Technology S.r.l., Rome, Italy, 3ENEA Casaccia Research Centre, Rome, Italy

I31 (648) Improved adhesion for plated solar cell metallisation

C.M Chong1, A Wenham2, R Chen3, J Ji4, Z Shi5, L Mai6, A Sugianto7, S Wenham8 1University of New South Wales, Sydeny, Australia, 2University of New South Wales, Sydeny, Australia, 3University of New South Wales, Sydeny, Australia, 4University of New South Wales, Sydeny, Australia, 5University of New South Wales, Sydeny, Australia, 6University of New South Wales, Sydeny, Australia, 7University of New South Wales, Sydeny, Australia, 8University of New South Wales, Sydeny, Australia

I35 (649) Analysis of Copper Penetration in Selective-Emitter Silicon Solar Cells using Laser Ablation

Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Jack Colwell, Alison Lennon School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

I39 (650) The impact of rapid thermal processing (RTP) on crystalline silicon solar cell performance and light

induced degradation (LID) Abasifreke Ebong1, Nian Chen1, Ahrar Chowdhury1, Unsur Veysel1 1University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States, 2University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States, 3University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States, 4University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States

I43 (651) Investigating Light-Induced Plating of Silicon Solar Cells Using In-Situ Current-Voltage Analysis

Pei-Chieh Hsiao, Zi Ouyang, Xi Wang, Alison Lennon The School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

J3 (652) Innovative Methods for Low-Temperature Contact Formation For Photovoltaics Applications

April M Jeffries1, Jignesh Vanjaria1, Jacob Clenney2, Laura Ding2, Owen Hildreth1, Mariana Bertoni2 1School For Engineerinng of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 2School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Tempe, AZ, United States

J7 (653) Electrical Characterization of Thermally-formed Nickel Silicide for Nickel-Copper Plated Solar Cell

Contacts Joseph Karas1, Sangpyeong Kim1, Lynne Michaelson2, Krystal Munoz2, Tom Tyson2, Stuart Bowden1 1Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 2Technic Inc., Cranston, RI, United States

J11 (654) Metal contact open by using green 532nm nano-laser ablation on back-contact n-type silicon solar cells

Kuang-Chieh Lai, Zong-Liang Yao, Chia-Chih Chuang, Chi-Chun Li , Chien-Chun Wang Motech industries, Inc., Tainan, Taiwan


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J15 (655) Metal-free c-Si Solar Cells in Module Jacques Levrat, Kilian Thomas, Antonin Faes, Jonathan Champliaud, Christophe Allebé, Nicolas Badel, Loris Barraud, Fabien Debrot, Antoine Descoeudres, Agata Lachowicz, Mohammad M. Kiaee, Matthieu Despeisse, Christophe Ballif PV-Center, Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM) SA, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

J19 (656) Formation of Metal-Metal Oxide Patterns using Masked Light-Induced Anodization

Zi Ouyang, Derwin Lau, Pei Hsuan Lu, Jie Cui, Alison Lennon The School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

J23 (657) Cu Backside Busbar Tape: Eliminating Ag and Enabling Full Al Coverage in Crystalline Silicon Solar

Cells and Modules Nelson T. Rotto1, Scott R. Meyer1, Mark J. Votava1, Daniel L. Meier2 13M Renewable Energy Division, 3M Center, St. Paul, MN, United States, 2Lightdrop Harvest, LLC, St. Marys, PA, United States

J27 (658) Electroplated Al as the Front Electrode in Crystalline-Si Solar Cells

Wen-Cheng Sun, Haifeng Zhang, Laidong Wang, Clarence J. Tracy, Meng Tao Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States

J31 (659) Inkjet Patterned ALD Aluminium Oxide for Rear PERC Metal Contacts

Alexander To1, Rasmus Davidsen2, Xinrui An1, Alison Lennon1, Allen Barnett1 1UNSW, Sydney, Australia, 2Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

J35 (660) The Effects of Nano Ag Particles on Gridline Sintering for Silicon Solar Cells

Veysel Unsur, Ahrar A Chowdhury, Nian Chen, Abasifreke Ebong University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States


Space Photovoltaics

Chair(s): Claus Zimmermann, Scott Billets, Takeshi Ohshima

L30 (661) Recovery of high energy proton defects in GaInP2/GaAs/Ge triple junction solar cells by isothermal annealing Christian Brandt1, Waqaas Rehman1, Claus Zimmermann1, Stephen Taylor2, Carsten Baur2, Thomas Andreev1 1Airbus DS GmbH, 85521 Ottobrunn, Germany, 2ESA/ESTEC, 2200 Noordwijk, Netherlands

L31 (662) Solar cell measurements at high temperature

Jonathan Grandidier1, Pawan K Gogna1, Michael J Errico1, Bill J Nesmith1, David E. Lee1 1Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, 2Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, 3Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, 4Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, 5Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA, United States

L32 (663) Defects in GaAs Solar Cells with InAs Quantum Dots Created by Proton Irradiation

Shin-ichiro Sato1, Kenneth J. Schmieder2, Seth M. Hubbard3, David V. Forbes3, Jeffery H. Warner2, Takeshi Ohshima1, Robert J. Walters2 1Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Takasaki, Japan, 2U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, 3Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States

L33 (664) Temperature Dependence of Triple Junction Solar Cells After High Fluence Irradiations

David A Scheiman1, Justin Lorentzen1, Raymond Hoheisel2, Scott R Messenger3, Phillip P Jenkins1 1Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, 2George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, 3University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States

L34 (665) Carbon Nanotube Metal Matrix Composites for Solar Cell Electrodes

Nathanael D Cox1,2, Jamie E Rossi1, Brian J Landi1,3 1NanoPower Research Laboratory, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States, 2Department of Microsystems Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States, 3Department of Chemical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States


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L35 (666) Novel Environmental Protection for Multi-Junction Solar Cells

Carol Martinez , Samuel Pellicori Optical Coating Solutions, Inc., Camarillo, CA, United States

L36 (667) Predicting Failure Modes and Computing Reliability for the Solar Probe Plus Solar Array

Edward M. Gaddy Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States

L37 (668) Charging/Discharging Test to Arraying Structure of IMM3J Solar Cell

Masamichi Ohira1, Teppei Okumura1, Yohei Hagiwara2, Mitsunobu Sugai2, Jirou Harada2, Mitsuru Imaizumi1 1JAXA, Tsukuba, Japan, 2AES, Tsukuba, Japan

L38 (669) Flight Results for the Passive MISSE 7 Coatings and Coverglass Panel Experiment

Paul E. Hausgen1, Geoffrey K. Bradshaw1, David Wilt1, Phil Jenkins2 1Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States, 2Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C, DC, United States

L39 (670) Modular Solar Array Flight Experiment A Platform for Rapid Technology Evaluation

Nathan D Gapp1, Bernard F Carpenter2 1Air Force Research Lab, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States, 2Aerospace Corporation, Albuquerque, NM, United States

L40 (671) Additive Manufacturing of Titanium 6Al-4V Alloy Structural Brackets for Primary Structure and Solar

Array Applications on Spacecraft Christopher Stahl, Jordan Croom, Gregory Dudder, Sarah Li Space Systems/Loral LLC, Palo Alto, CA, United States

L41 (672) Thermal Characterization of Hybrid Photovoltaic Module for the Conversion of Sunlight into Microwave

in Solar Power Satellite Daisuke Sato1, Noboru Yamada1, Koji Tanaka2 1Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Japan, 2Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan

L42 (673) Space Environment Testing of Photovoltaic Array Systems at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center

Todd A Schneider1, Jason A Vaughn1, Kenneth H Wright Jr.2, Brandon S Phillips3 1NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL, United States, 2University of Alabama Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, 3Aerodyne Inc, Huntsville, AL, United States

L43 (674) Evaluation of Radiation Tolerance of Perovskite Solar cell For Use in Space

Yu Miyazawa1, Masashi Ikegami2, Tsutomu Miyasaka2, Takeshi Ohshima3, Mitsuru Imaizumi4, Kazuyuki Hirose1 1Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, 2University of Toin Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan, 3Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Takasaki, Japan, 4Aerospace Researches and Development Directorate, JAXA, Tsukuba, Japan

L44 (675) The “V-Array” High Performance Solar Array

David Rohweller1, Geoffrey W Marks1, Mark A Kruer2 1Astro Aerospace, Carpinteria, CA, United States, 2Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA, United States

M1 (676) Behavior of Silicon Bypass Diodes in Proton and High Temperature Environments for Mercury Probe

MMO Hiroyuki Toyota1, Mitsuru Imaizumi2, Hironori Maejima1, Hajime Hayakawa1 1ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan, 2ARD/JAXA, Tsukuba, Japan

M2 (677) Dark Current Characterization of Irradiated Solar Cells

Don Walker, Yao Yue, Colin J. Mann, John Nocerino, Simon H. Liu The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, United States


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Photovoltaic Testing Methods & Quantification

Chair(s): Angus Rockett, Keith Emery, Matthew Norton

M4 (678) Stability of Isotype Reference Cells used for Multi-Source Solar Simulator Calibration Geoffrey K. Bradshaw1, David M. Wilt1, Don Walker2, Colin J. Mann2 1Air Force Research Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 2The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, United States

M6 (679) Temperature-Dependent Light-Stabilized States in Thin-Film PV Modules

Michael G. Deceglie, Timothy J Silverman, Bill Marion, Sarah R. Kurtz National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

M8 (680) Spectral Responsivity of WPVS Reference Cells under varied Temperatures and its Influence on

Performance Measurements beyond STC Sebastian Dittmann, Mauro Pravettoni, Loris Manni, Gabi Friesen University of Applied Sciences and Art of Southern Switzerland, Canobbio, Switzerland

M10 (681) Measurement of Temperature Coefficient of Photovoltaic Modules in Field and Comparison with

Laboratory Measurements Rajiv Dubey, Pranjal Batra, Shashwata Chattopadhyay, Anil Kottantharayil, Brij Arora, K. L Narasimhan , Juzer Vasi National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education, IIT Bombay, MUMBAI, India

M12 (682) A New Method to Characterize c-Si PV Cell and Module

Shu-Tsung Hsu, Yean-San Long, Teng-Chun Wu 30011, Hsinchu, Taiwan

M14 (683) Contact Resistance Measurement – Observations on Technique and Test Parameters

Rob Janoch1, Christopher E. Dube2, Andrew M. Gabor1, Andrew Anselmo1 1BrightSpot Automation LLC, Westford, MA, United States, 2Applied Materials, Gloucester, MA, United States

M16 (684) Recent Advancements in Outdoor Measurement Techniques for Angle of Incidence Effects

Bruce H. King1, Daniel Riley1, Charles D. Robinson1, Larry Pratt2 1Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 2CFV Solar Test Lab, Albuquerque, NM, United States

M18 (685) Spectrum Sensitivity, Energy Yield, and Revenue Prediction of PV and CPV Modules

Geoffrey S Kinsey U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC, United States

M20 (686) The First Proficiency Testing for Primary Calibration of Terrestrial Photovoltaic Reference Cells

Haitao Liu1, Shiyu Sang1, Liqing Zhou2, Yonghui Zhai1 1Institute of Electrical Engineering, CAS, Beijing, China, 2Tibet Institute of Energy Research, Lhasa, China

M22 (687) Impact of Solar Simulator Spectrum on Multi-Junction Solar Cell Measurement

Justin R Lorentzen1, David A Scheiman1, Raymond Hoheisel2, Robert J Walters1, Philip P Jenkins1 1US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, 2George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States

M24 (688) Rapid, enhanced IV characterization of multi-junction PV devices under one sun at NREL

Tom E. Moriarty, Ryan M. France, Myles A. Steiner National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

M26 (689) Interleaving as a Best Practice for Outdoor Comparative Performance Testing of Photovoltaic Panel

Technologies Bennet Myers SunPower Corp., Richmond, CA, United States

M28 (690) ER-2 High Altitude Solar Cell Calibration Flights

Matthew G. Myers, David S. Wolford, David B. Snyder, Michael F. Piszczor NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, United States


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M30 (691) On the Reliability of Photovoltaic Short-Circuit Current Temperature Coefficient Measurements

Carl R Osterwald1, Mark Campanelli1, George J Kelly2 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2Sunset Technology Inc., Mount Airy, MD, United States

M32 (692) Comparison of curve correction procedure of current and voltage as per IEC 60891for thin film

technology Sarah Sowmya Priya1, O.S. Sastry2, Birinchi Bora2, Avinash Kumar3 1Karunya University, Coimbatore, India, 2National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurgaon, India, 3Tezpur University, Tezpur, India

M34 (693) Evaluation of Protocols for Temperature Coefficient Determination

Sandra B. Schujman, Jonathan R. Mann, Gary Dufresne, Linda M. LaQue, Crispin Rice, John Wax, David J. Metacarpa, Pradeep Haldar U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC), SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Albany, NY, United States

M36 (694) Sensor placement optimization in on-site photovoltaic module inspection robot for fast and robust

failure detection Kyohichiro Tada1, Syuhei Kawamoto1, Noboru Yamada1, Tetsuya Kimura1, Masahiro Iwahashi1, Toshiya Tadaumi2, Kazuhiko Kato3 1Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Japan, 2ATOX Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Japan, 3Research Center for Photovoltaic Technologies, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan

M38 (695) Toward a set of Integrated and Portable Facilities for Solar Simulators' Key Parameters Calibration

Junchao Zhang, Haifeng Meng, Limin Xiong, Yingwei He, Bifeng Zhang National Institure of Metrology, Beijing, China

M40 (696) Industry’s First Class A+++AA LED Solar Simulator and I-V / EQE Testing System for Accurate

Measurement of Solar Cell Performance Mohan K Bhan, Evan Palmer OAI, San Jose, CA, United States

M42 (697) On-site Detection of Defected Panels in Mega Solar Systems by Handy Electroluminescence

Surveillance Takashi Fuyuki, Ayumi Tani Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Takayama, Ikoma, Japan

M44 (698) Non-Contact Measurement of Electric Potential of PV Modules

Yoshihiro Hishikawa, Kengo Yamagoe AIST, Tsukuba, Japan

N2 (699) New Technology for Precise Outdoor PV Module Performance Measurements

Yoshihiro HISHIKAWA1, Kengo YAMAGOE1, Hisashi KOJIMA2 1AIST, Tsukuba, Japan, 2Kyoshi Electric Co Ltd, Kyoto, Japan

N4 (700) Effects of a Neutral Density Filter in Measuring Low Light Performance With a Pulsed Light Xe arc Solar

Simulator Nicholas Riedel1, Larry Pratt1, Alexander Edler2 1CFV Solar Test Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 2h.a.l.m Elektronik GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany

N6 (701) The Impact of Atmospheric Parameters on the Spectral Performance of Multiple Photovoltaic

Technologies Marios Theristis1,2, Cameron Stark2, Tadhg S. O'Donovan1 1Institute of Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2Center for Sustainable Energy Systems, Fraunhofer USA, Albuquerque, NM, United States


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Modules, Manufacturing, Systems and Applications (III)

Chair(s): Will Holmgren, Jessica Forbess, Clifford Hansen

N19 (702) Photovoltaic system fault detection and diagnostics using laterally primed adaptive resonance theory neural network C. Birk Jones, Joshua Stein, Bruce H. King Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States

N22 (703) Users’ Interaction with PV-powered Products: an Evaluation of 6 products by 100 end-users

Georgia Apostolou1, Angele Reinders1,2 1Design for Sustainability, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, 2Department of Design, Production and Management,Faculty of Engineering Technology University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands

N25 (704) Feasibility analysis of a solar photovoltaic array integrated on façades of a commercial building

Leonardo Bueno1, Bruno O Vizcarra2, Mohamed H Ibliha2, Ghulam M Chaudhry2, Mahbube K Siddiki2 1Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States, 2Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States

N28 (705) A New Design for Luminescent Solar Concentrating PV Roof Tiles

Guillaume Doudart de la Grée1, Argyrios Papadopoulos1, Michael Debije1, Mark Cox1, Zachar Krumer2, Angèle Reinders2, Alex Rosemann1 1Technical University of Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands

N31 (706) High Efficiency Bifacial Modules in Outdoor Testing

Christoph Erben, Jiunn B. Heng, Zhigang Xie, Junaid Fatehi, Bobby Yang Silevo, Fremont, CA, United States

N34 (707) Central Inverter Topology Issues in Large-Scale Photovoltaic Power Plants: Shading and System

Losses Nicole C. Foureaux1, Alysson A. P. Machado2, Érico V Silva1, Igor A. Pires5, Braz de J. Cardoso Filho3, José A. Brito4 1Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering - UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2Undergraduate Program in Automation Engineering - UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 3Dept. of Electrical Engineering /UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 4COELBA S.A, Salvador, Brazil, 5Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

N37 (708) Modelling of Integrated Standalone Streetlamp PV system

Siyu Guo1, Changsheng Wu1,2, Manuel Danner1, Marius Peters1,3 1Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 2Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, 3Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, United States

N40 (709) Development of a Photovoltaic Panel Model to Find the Solar Cells Optimal Reconfiguration under

Partial Shading Condition Johann Hernández, Alvaro Romero , Jeisson Gamba Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Columbia

N43 (710) Performance Evaluation of a Mono-Crystalline PV Module Cooled By a Flat Plate Solar Collector in

Thermosyphon Mode Johann Hernández, Hugo Arias, Javier Cabrera Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá, Columbia

O2 (711) Lightweight, Zero-Penetration, Pre-formed Support Molds Adapted for Rigid Thin-Film Solar Modules

Graeme Housser1, Ankush Halbe1, Kevin Sharpe1, Pradeep Haldar1, Francis Babineau2 1PVMC, Albany, NY, United States, 2Johns Manville, Littleton, CO, United States

O5 (712) The research on a new type of BIPV modules constructed by Thin-film Photovoltaic Panel(or

Module)/PU/Color organic-coated Steel Plate Yu Huacong1,2, Wang Qi2, Lu Chuanda2, Wei Chenggang2 1 Hanergy PV Science & Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing, China, 2Nanjing Hanergy Solar PV CO., Ltd, Nanjing, China


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O8 (713) Outdoor performance comparison of concentrator photovoltaic and flat-plate systems Kenta Imai, Yasuyuki Ota, Kensuke Nishioka Faculty of Engineering, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

O11 (714) Performance of grid-connected PV system in Southern Norway

Anne G. Imenes1,2, Rolf E. Grundt3, Kjetil Boysen4, Jan O. Odden5, Hans G. Beyer1 1Faculty of Engineering and Science, the University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway, 2Teknova AS, Kristiansand S, Norway, 3Agder Energi Nett, Arendal, Norway, 4Eltek AS, Kristiansand S, Norway, 5Elkem Solar AS, Kristiansand, Norway

O14 (715) Cost, Performance and Yield Comparison of eight different Micro-Inverters

Stefan Krauter1,2, Jörg Bendfeld1 1University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany, 2Photovoltaik Institut Berlin, Berlin, Germany

O17 (716) A cost analysis was completed using PVMC’s Balance of System Cost Analysis Tool (BOS-CAT) for

Lightweight PV (LPV) applications to evaluate mounting installation methods and associated BOS costs of flat membrane commercials roofs. David J Metacarpa, David Fobare, Adam A Garney, Fadong Yan, Daniel J Dwyer, Eric Holton, Pradeep Haldar PVMC, Albany, NY, United States

O20 (717) Effect of spectrum and temperature on seasonal Performance of CdTe technology in composite climate

of India Yogesh Kumar Singh1, Birinchi Bora1, Ramayan Singh1, Swati Agaria1, Vikrant Sharma1, Avinash Kumar2, O.S. Sastry1 1National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurgaon, India, 2Tezpur University, Tezpur, India

O23 (718) Study on Attached PV Roof's Temperature with FEM Simulation

Yunlin Sun1,2, Siming Chen1, Shuquan Chen1, Hui Shen1,2 1ShunDe SYSU Institute for Solar Energy, Foshan, China, 2Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

O26 (719) Reduced Silicon Usage in Flat Photo-Voltaic Panels

William Sweatt, Gregory Nielson, Murat Okandan Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States

O28 (720) Module to Module Monitoring System, M3S, a new strategy for PV-System monitoring

Alena Ulasenka, Juan C. Jimeno, Gorka Obieta, Ruben Gutierrez, Maria Jose Saenz UPV/EHU, Zamudio, Spain

O30 (721) Solar Irradiance, Wind and Temperature Monitoring for Residential Photovoltaic Applications

Muhammad Usama, Muhammad N Qaiser, Hassan A Khan EE Dept. Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan

O32 (722) Demonstration and performance of colored PV modules for BIPV applications.

Zeger Vroon1, Michiel Ritzen1, Barend Vermeulen2, Harmen Rooms2 1Zuyd University, Heerlen, , Netherlands, 2TNO-Solliance, Eindhoven, , Netherlands

O34 (723) Design and Analysis of Capacity Ratio of Large-scale Photovoltaic/Battery Station for Smoothing

Fluctuation Wang Yibo1,2, Cao Rui1,2, Yang Zilong1,2, Wang Haoyi1,2, Xu Honghua1,2 1Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Beijing, China, 2Solar Thermal Technology and Photovoltaic System Laboratory, CAS, Beijing, China


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Deployment and Resiliency panel

Chair(s): Robert Walters

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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Keynote - Keynote


Chair(s): Alexandre Freundlich, Steven A. Ringel, Kyle Montgomery

8:15 Technical Program Highlights Alexandre Freundlich 42nd IEEE PVSC Program Chair

8:25 Introduction of 42nd PVSC Young Investigator Award Recipient

Kyle Montgomery1, Steven Ringel2 142nd IEEE-PVSC Awards Chair , 2General Conference Chair

8:25 PVSC Young Investigator Award Presentation

Steven A. Ringel 42nd IEEE PVSC General Chair


Area 6 Plenary

Chair(s): Woojun Yoon

8:30 (728) From Nanostructured to Thin-film Perovskite Solar Cells Henry Snaith Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom


Area 11 Plenary

Chair(s): Charlie Hasselbrink

9:00 (729) Quantifying Reliability - The Next Step for a Rapidly Maturing PV Industry Sarah R Kurtz NREL, Golden, CO, United States

Keynote - Plenary 9:30 - 10:00 AM Empire Ballroom

Special Plenary

Chair(s): Alex Freundlich

(730) A Changing Vision for U.S. PV Research Becca Jones-Albertus U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC, United States

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Break 10:00 - 10:30 AM Elite Hall (Level 1)

Coffee Break


Quantum Confined Materials and Devices

Chair(s): Matt Lumb, Tom Vandervelde , Ammar Nayfeh

A3 (731) Photo-Conductance Properties of Ultrahigh-Density InAs/GaAsSb Quantum Dots Naoki Akimoto, Shunsuke Uchida, Koichi Yamaguchi University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

A6 (732) Effect of Shell Coating Technique on Carrier Collection Properties of Core/Shell Nanostructures

Hilal Cansizoglu, Mehmet F. Cansizoglu, Tansel Karabacak University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, United States

A9 (733) Theoretical investigation of the carrier escape in InGaN quantum well solar cells

Nicolas Cavassilas, Clémentine Gelly, Fabienne Michelini, Marc Bescond IM2NP - CNRS - AMU, Marseille, France

A12 (734) Optical and electrical properties of CuInS2 Quantum Dot layers for photovoltaic applications

Filip Granek1, Magdalena Wozniak1, Marek Basta1, Michal Dusza1,2 1Wroclaw Research Centre EIT+, Wroclaw, Poland, 2Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Science, Wroclaw, Poland

A15 (735) Positioning Effect of Type-II GaSb/GaAs Quantum Ring Layer on Solar Cell Performances

shun-chieh hsu1, Yin-Han Chen2, Hsuan-An Chen3, Shih-Yen Lin3, Tien-Lin Shen4, Hao-Chung Kuo4, Cheng-Lun Shih5, Jinn-Kong Sheu5, Chien-Chung Lin1 1Institute of Photonic System, National Chiao-Tung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 2Institute of Lighting and Energy Photonics, National Chiao-Tung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 3Research Center For Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 4Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 5Department of Photonics, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

A18 (736) Two-Step Photocarrier Generation in InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Superlattice Intermediate Band Solar Cell

Tomoyuki Kada1, Taizo Tanibuchi1, Shigeo Asahi1, Toshiyuki Kaizu1, Yukihiro Harada1, Takashi Kita1, Ryo Tamaki2, Yoshitaka Okada2, Kenjiro Miyano2 1Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, 2The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

A21 (737) Effect of InGaAsSb capping layer on the structural properties of InAs/InGaAsSb quantum dots

Yeongho Kim, Nikolai Faleev, Christiana B. Honsberg Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States

A24 (738) Stain compensation in multi-stack InAs/AlAsSb QD solar cells

Ramesh B Laghumavarapu1, Paul J Simmonds2, Zhexin Zhao3, Mukul Debnath4, Baolai L Liang4, Zhachary S Bittner5, Staffan Hellstrom5, Seth M Hubbard5, Andrew Norman6, Diana L Huffaker1,4 1Electrical Engineering Department, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 2Department of Physics/Materials Science and Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, 3Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 4California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 5Department of Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States, 6National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

A27 (739) Modified Shockley-Queisser Limit for Quantum Dot Solar Cells

Tian Li, Mario Dagenais University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States

B2 (740) Nanoscale Band Engineering of Quantum Dot Solar Cells

Yanshu Li1, Andrei Sergeev1, Vladimir Mitin1, Kimberly Sablon2 1the State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, NY, United States, 2Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, United States

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B5 (741) Physical and Optoelectronic Properties of VxInySz Intermediate Band Semiconductors Deposited by

Atomic Layer Deposition Robert F. McCarthy, Richard D. Schaller, Alex B. F. Martinson Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States

B8 (742) How does energy filtering improve quantum-dot based photovoltaic devices

Fabienne Velia Michelini1, Adeline Crépieux2, François Gibelli3, Jean-François Guillemoles3, Nicolas Cavassilas1, Robert Whitney4 1Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IM2NP UMR 7334, Marseille, France, 2Aix-Marseille et Toulon Universités, CNRS, CPT UMR 7332, Marseille, France, 3EDF, CNRS, Chimie Paristech, CNRS, IRDEP UMR 7174, Chatou, France, 4Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS, LPMMC UMR 5493, Grenoble, France

B11 (743) Mechanism for formation of ultra thin SiNx on a-Si - XPS and FTIR studies

Dharmendra Kumar Rai1, Ashish K. Panchal2, Dayanand S. Sutar3, Chetan S. Singh1, K. R. Balasubramaniam1 1Department of Energy Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, 2Electrical Engineering Department, S. V. NIT, Surat, India, 3Department of Physics and Central Surface Analytical Facility, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India

B14 (744) Challenges with Balancing Excitations in Intermediate-Band Solar Cells

Tor O Saetre University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway

B17 (745) HIT Intermediate-Band Solar Cells with Self- Assembled Colloidal Quantum Dots and Metal

Nanoparticles Ignacio Tobías1, Manuel J Mendes1,3, Alfredo Boronat2, Esther López1, Pablo García-Linares1,4, Irene Artacho1, Antonio Martí1, Santiago Silvestre2, Antonio Luque1 1Instituto de Energía Solar - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2Departament d'Enginyeira Electrònica, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya , Barcelona, Spain, 3CENIMAT/I3N, Departamento de Ciencia dos Materiais, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, 4CEA-LITEN, LPMV, Le Bourget du Lac, France

B20 (746) Improving Efficiency in Intermediate Band Solar Cells by Introducing Carrier Losses to Optimize the

Intermediate Band Position Qiaoyi WANG, Judy Rorison University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

B23 (747) Investigation on Stabilities of Halide Treated PbSe Quantum Dots Thin Films for Photovoltaic Devices

Zhilong Zhang, Robert Patterson, Santosh Shrestha, Gavin Conibeer, Shujuan Huang University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

B26 (748) Does Below-Bandgap Absorption Improve Solar Cell Efficiency?

Yuan Zhao1,2, Yong-Hang Zhang1,2 1Center for Photonics Innovation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 2School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States


Device Characterization, Modeling and Manufacturing Progress

Chair(s): Sylvain Marsillac, BJ Stanbery, Ana Kanevce

C9 (749) Diode Laser Annealing of CZTS Thin Film Solar Cells Mohammad S Ahmmed1, Xiaojing Hao2, Jongsung Park3, Evatt R Hawkes4, Martin A Green5 1School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Sydney, Australia, 2School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Enginnering, Sydney, Australia, 3School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Enginnering, Sydney, Australia, 4School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering/School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Enginnering, Sydney, Australia, 5School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Enginnering, Sydney, Australia

C13 (750) Simulating Cl Diffusion in Polycrystalline CdTe

Richard Akis1, Daniel Brinkman2, Da Guo1, Dragica Vasileska1, Christian Ringhofer2 1School of ECEE, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 2School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States

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C17 (751) Efficiency enhancement in Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells with silica nanoparticles embedded in absorber layer Balakrishna Ananthoju1,2, Sundara Murthy Mopurisetty3,4, Himanshu Tyagi2, D. Bahadur1,5, N.V. Medhekar1,6, Swaroop Ganguly3,4, M. Aslam1,2,4 1IITB-Monash Research Academy, Mumbai, India, 2Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, 3Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, 4National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, 5Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, 6Department of Materials Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

C21 (752) Process variability in Cu2ZnSnSe4 solar cell devices: Electrical and structural investigations

Guy Brammertz1,2, Marie Buffiere3,4, Christophe Verbist5, Souhaib Oueslati3,6,7, Jonas Bekaert8, Hossam ElAnzeery3,6,9, Khaled Ben Messaoud3,6,10, Sylvester Sahayaraj1,2,4, Maria Batuk5, Joke Hadermann5, Christine Koeble11, Marc Meuris1,2, Jozef Poortmans2,3,4 1imec division IMOMEC - partner in Solliance, Diepenbeek, Belgium, 2Institute for Material Research (IMO) Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium, 3imec- partner in Solliance, Leuven, Belgium, 4Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU LeuvenDepartment of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 5Electron Microscopy for Materials Science (EMAT), University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, 6KACST-Intel Consortium Center of Excellence in Nano-manufacturing Applications (CENA), Riyad, Saudi Arabia, 7Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia, 8Department of Physics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, 9Microelectronics System Design Department, Nile University, Cairo, Egypt, 10Université de Tunis El Manar, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Unité de Physique des dispositifs à semiconducteurs, Tunis, Tunisia, 11Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin, Germany

C25 (753) Effect of SiO2 passivation on CdTe based solar cells

Vinay Budhraja1, Srinivas Devayajanam2 1ITM University Gurgaon, Gurgaon, India, 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

D1 (754) Light trapping for ultra-thin CIGS solar cells

Andrea Cattoni1, Julie Goffard1, Fabien Mollica2, Marie Jubault2, Clement Colin1, Daniel Lincot2, Negar Naghavi2, Stephane Collin1 1Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures (LPN/CNRS), Marcoussis, France, 22IRDEP, UMR EDF-CNRS-Chimie Paristech, EDF R&D, Chatou, France

D8 (755) 1D and 2D numerical simulations of Cu2ZnSnSe4 solar cells

Dario Cozza1, Carmen Ruiz1, David Duché1, Markus Neuschitzer2, Edgardo Saucedo2, Jean-Jacques Simon1, Ludovic Escoubas1 1IM2NP - CNRS, Marseille, France, 2IREC, Barcelona, Spain

D12 (756) CZTS Solar Cell Device Simulations with Varying Absorber Thickness

Christopher Frisk, Yi Ren, Shuyi Li, Charlotte Platzer-Björkman Ångström Solar Center, Division of Solid State Electronics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

D16 (757) Strategies for Designing High Efficient Thin-Film Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells

Ahmadreza Ghahremani, Aly E. Fathy University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States

D20 (758) Using Computational Simulation to Model Sublimation-Based CdS/CdTe Processing

Davis R Hemenway1,2, Anthony P Nicholson1, Kurt L Barth1,2, Walajabad S Sampath1 1Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, 2Direct Solar, Fort Collins, CO, United States

E4 (759) Compositional Dependence Photoluminescence Study of Polycrystalline CuGaSe2 Thin Films

Muhammad M. Islam1, Hajime Shibata2, Koji Matsubara2, Shigeru Niki2, Takeaki Sakurai1, Katsuhiro Akimoto1 1University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, 2National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan

E8 (760) Evaluation of “rollover” in Cu(In,Ga)(Se,S)2 thin film solar cells using Suns–Voc measurements

Rui Kamada, Motoshi Nakamura, Shunsuke Adachi, Takuya Kato, Hiroki Sugimoto Solar Frontier K.K., Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan

E12 (761) Performance Analysis of Cu(In,Ga)(Se,S)2 Thin Film Solar Cells

Tetiana Lavrenko, Kerstin Marzinzig, Thomas Walter University of Applied Sciences Ulm, Ulm, Germany

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E16 (762) Substrate Heating Effects on Properties of CdS Thin Films Prepared by Thermal Evaporation for Photovoltaic applications Won-Jae Lee, Gilberto A. Umana-Membreno, John Dell, Lorenzo Faraone The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

E20 (763) Non-Sulfurized CZTS(Cu2ZnSnS4) Compound Solar Cell by Non-Vacuum Chemical Bath Stacking

Deposition Method Shih-Mao Lin1, Ting-Jen Hsueh2, Shoou Jinn Chang1, Chih-Hung Lin1, Shih-Chih Chen3 1Institute of Microelectronics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 2National Nano Device Laboratories, Tainan, Taiwan, 3Graduate School of electronic and Optoelectronic Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan

E24 (764) CZTS nanocrystals: preparation, characterization and band gap regulation

Frank (Shengzhong) Liu1,2 1Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, China, 2Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, National Ministry of Education Institute for Advanced Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China

E28 (765) On the magnitude of the persistent photoconductivity (PPC) effect in CIGS layers with and without

sodium Marek Maciaszek, Pawel Zabierowski Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warszawa, Poland

F4 (766) Dependence of defect signature on conductivity of polycrystalline Cu(In,Ga)Se2 layers by photocurrent

spectroscopy Karolina Macielak1, Małgorzata Igalson1, Aleksander Urbaniak1, Paweł Zabierowski1, Nicolas Barreau2 1Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, 2Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN), Université de Nantes, Nantes, France

F8 (767) Current Voltage Analysis of Band Tail Effects in CZTSSe through Numerical Simulation

James E. Moore, Charles J. Hages, Nathaniel J. Carter, Rakesh Agrawal, Jeffery L. Gray, Mark S. Lundstrom Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States

F12 (768) Broad-band absorption enhancement in lower absorption coefficient region in CZTS solar cells with

embedded Aluminum nanoparticles into absorber layer Sundara Murthy Mopurisetty1,2, Balakrishna Ananthoju3,4, Mohit Bajaj5, M. Aslam2,3,4, Swaroop Ganguly1,2 1Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, 2National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, 3IITB-Monash Research Academy, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, 4Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, 5IBM Semiconductor Research and Development Center, Bangalore, India

F16 (769) Modeling and Simulation of CZTS/CTS Tandem Solar Cell using wxAMPS Software

Muteeu A. Olopade, Olusola O. Oyebola, Adeyinka D. Adewoyin, David O. Emi-Johnson

F20 (770) Sub-100 nm resolution 3D Tomography of CZTSe Using Transmission X-Ray Microscopy Dennis S Pruzan1, Anna E Caruso2, Yijin Liu3, Ingrid Repins4, Carolyn Beall4, Michael Toney3, Michael Scarpulla1,2 1University of Utah Materials Science and Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, 2University of Utah Computer and Electrical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, 3Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Stanford, CA, United States, 4NREL, Golden, CO, United States

F24 (771) Optimization of Antireflective coatings for CIGS solar cells via Real Time Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

Grace Rajan1, Krishna Aryal1, Tasnuva Ashrafee1, Shankar Karki1, Abdel-Rahman Ibdah2, Vikash Ranjan3, Robert W. Collins2, Sylvain Marsillac1 1Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States, 2University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States, 3Pilkington North America, Northwood, OH, United States

F28 (772) On the temperature behavior of shunt-leakage currents in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells: the role of grain

boundaries and rear Schottky contact Giovanna Sozzi1, Roberto Menozzi1, Nicholas Cavallari2, Matteo Bronzoni2, Filippo Annoni2, Marco Calicchio2, Massimo Mazzer2 1Department of Information Engineering - University of Parma, Parma, Italy, 2IMEM-CNR Institute, Parma, Italy

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G4 (773) Electrical and Structural Functionality of CIGSe Solar Cells Patterned with Picosecond Laser Pulses of Different Wavelengths Bert Stegemann1, Manuel Schüle1, Christof Schultz1, Kamil Stelmaszczyk1,2, Moshe Weizman1, Christian Wolf2, Christian A. Kaufmann2, Björn Rau2, Rutger Schlatmann1,2, Frank Fink1 1PVcomB / HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany, 2PVcomB / Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin, Germany

G7 (774) A physics-based compact model for CIGS and CdTe solar cells: from voltage-dependent carrier

collection to light-enhanced reverse breakdown Xingshu Sun1, John Raguse2, Chris Deline3, Timothy Silverman3, Muhammad A. Alam1 1Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, 2Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, 3National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

G10 (775) The film morphology evolution and growth simulation of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) solar cells during

electrodeposition Kai Tan1, Peng Lin2, Linsong Wu2, Jingyi Tan2, Gang Wang2, Shiping Jin 1, Yixin Lin1,2 1School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China, 2China-EU Institute for Clean and Renewable Energy, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

G13 (776) Degradation of CIGS solar cells due to the migration of alkali-elements

Mirjam Theelen1,2,3, Vincent Hans1, Nicolas Barreau4, Henk Steijvers1, Zeger Vroon1, Miro Zeman2 1TNO Solliance, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, 3M2i, Delft, Netherlands, 4Institut des Máterieaux Jean Rouxel (IMN)-UMR, Nantes, France

G15 (777) Characterization and numerical modeling of Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 solar cells

Christopher P Thompson1, William N. Shafarman1, Dongho Lee2 1Institute of Energy Conversion, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, 2SDI Samsung, Yeongtong-gu Suwon-si, Korea

G17 (778) 11.3% CdS Ferroelectric-Semiconductor Coupling Solar Cell

Biao Yang, Jiali Shuai, Fang Huang, Xiangxin Liu, Hui Li Institution of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

G19 (779) Achievement of 16.5% Total Area Efficiency on 1.09m2 CIGS Modules in TSMC Solar Production Line

Sean Yang, Kwang-Ming Lin, Wen-Chin Lee, Wen-Shun Lo, Chia-Hsiang Chen, Jyh-Lih Wu, Chi-Yu Chiang, Chung-Hsien Wu, Yu-Lun Sun, Henry Lo, Chin-Hsiang Chang, Liham Chu TSMC Solar Ltd., Taichung, Taiwan

G21 (780) Cu2ZnSnS4 thin film growth optimization and post rapid thermal annealing of solar cells and its

influence on device performance Liyuan Zhang , Sreejith Karthikeyan, Mandip J. Sibakoti, Stephen A. Campbell University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States

G22 (781) Simulated Performance of Monocrystalline CdTe/MgCdTe Double Heterostructure Solar Cells

Yuan Zhao1,2, Yong-Hang Zhang1,2 1Center for Photonics Innovation, Tempe, AZ, United States, 2School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Tempe, AZ, United States


High, Medium, and Low Concentration - Cells to Systems

Chair(s): Kanchan Ghosal, Eckart Gerster, Daniel Derkacs

G25 (782) Concentrated Photovoltaic Electrochemical Cell (CPEC): A Route toward High-Efficiency, Cost-Effective Solar Hydrogen Production Masakazu Sugiyama1, Akihiro Nakamura1, Kentaroh Watanabe2, Yasuyuki Ota3, Kensuke Nishioka3, Yoshiaki Nakano1, Katsushi Fujii2 1School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2Global Solar plus Initiative, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 3Department of Applied Physics and Electronics Engineering, Miyazaki University, Miyazaki, Japan

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G28 (783) Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells with Plated Contacts for Low Concentration Photovoltaics Christophe Allebé1, Jacques Levrat1, Jonathan Champliaud1, Matthieu Despeisse1, Antoine Descoeudres1, Loris Barraud1, Antonin Faes1, Agatha Lachowicz1, Nicolas Badel1, Fabien Debrot1, Jonas Geissbuhler2, Stefaan De Wolf2, Christophe Ballif1, 2 1PV-Center, Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM) SA, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 2Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Institute of Microengineering (IMT), Photovoltaics and thin film electronics laboratory (PV-Lab), Neuchatel, Switzerland

G31 (784) Burner, Emitter, and Recuperator Development For Lightweight Thermophotovoltaic Power Supply

Lewis M Fraas1, Leonid Minkin1, James Avery1, Hui She1, Luke Ferguson2, Fatih Dogan3 1JX Crystals Inc, Issaquah, WA, United States, 2C12 Advanced Technologies LLC, Everett, WA, United States, 3Missouri U Science & Technology, Rolla, MO, United States

H2 (785) Transmissive Spectrum Splitting Multi-junction Solar Module for Hybrid CPV/CSP System

Yaping Ji1, Adam Ollanik1, Nicholas Farrar-Foley1, Xu Qi1, Leila Madrone2, Pete Lynn2, Vince Romanin2, Daniel Codd3, Matthew Escarra1 1Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, United States, 2Otherlab, San Francisco, CA, United States, 3University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States

H5 (786) Design and fabrication of a concentrating system adapted to microcells array

Sebastien Jutteau, Myriam Paire, Florian Proise, Laurent Lombez, Jean-François Guillemoles IRDEP, Chatou, France

H8 (787) New-Type Solar Concentrator Concept – Approach to Reduced-Cost CPV Module Technology

Nina Khuchua1, Revaz Melkadze2, Aleksandre Moseshvili3, Kakha Chitaia4, Giorgi Melikidze5 1Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, 3Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, 4SolConEnergy Ltd , Tbilisi, Georgia, 5SolConEnergy Ltd, Tbilisi, Georgia

H11 (788) Repair of damaged lens surface of CPV using silica based coating

Shota Kurogi, Takuya Hirohata, Ahmad Nawwar, Yasuyuki Ota, Kensuke Nishioka Faculty of Engineering, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

H14 (789) Design Optimizations for a Lens-to-Channel Waveguide Solar Concentrator

Yuxiao Liu, Ran Huang, Christi K. Madsen Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States

H17 (790) Optimization of the Least-Material Approach for Passive Ultra-High CPV Cooling

Leonardo Micheli1, Eduardo F. Fernández1,2, Florencia Almonacid2, K. S. Reddy3, Tapas K. Mallick1 1Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, TR10 9FE, UK , Pernyn, United Kingdom, 2Centre of Advanced Studies in Energy and Environment, University of Jaen, Jaen 23071, Spain, Jaen, Spain, 3Heat Transfer and Thermal Power Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600 036, India, Chennai, India

H20 (791) Losses of Luminescent Solar Concentrators Unveiled and the Potential of Quantum Dot/Organic Dye

Molecule Linking Clemens Tummeltshammer, Alaric Taylor, Anthony J Kenyon, Ioannis Papakonstantinou University College London, London, United Kingdom

H23 (792) Optimizing Defocus to Increase Efficiency in Concentrator Photovoltaic Modules

Brent A Wacaser1, Abdulaziz Alyahya2, Peter D. Kirchner1, Abdullah Alowais2, Yves Martin1, Mohammad Halawani2, Robert L. Sandstrom1, Nunilo N. Eugenio2, Mazzen Aljuwaied2, Alhassan Badahdah2, Theodore G. VanKessel1, Hussam Khonkar2 1IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, United States, 2King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

H26 (793) Pushing the Limits of a Hybrid Thermal / PV System

Mark C. A. York, Simon Fafard, Julien Sylvestre, Richard Arès, Vincent Aimez Laboratoire Nanotechnologies Nanosystèmes (LN2) - CNRS UMI-3463, Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Innovation Technologique (3IT), Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

H29 (794) PVMirror: A Tandem Solar Cell that Collects Diffuse Light

Zhengshan J. Yu, Kathryn C. Fisher, Zachary C. Holman Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States

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H32 (795) Fabrication of Highly Transparent CPV Module for Efficient Dual Land Use in Middle DNI Region Daiki Hirai, Kazuya Okamoto, Noboru Yamada Nagaoka university of technology, Nagaoka, Japan


Silicon Material: Technology and Analysis

Chair(s): Florian Schindler, Jason Tan, Andreas Fell

I20 (796) Optimization of Pulling Speed for Decreasing Thermal Stress in Different Quartz Crucible Size with Czochralski Method Kwanghun Kim, Sungsun Baik R&D Center, WoonginEnergy, Daejeon, Korea

I24 (797) Modeling of Silicon Solar Cells Voltage Increase on Localized Emitter Area Approach

Peinan Teng, Xinrui An, Alexander To, Allen Barnett UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia

I28 (798) Efficiency Improvement Employing CdTe Quantum Dot Based Luminescent Down Shifting

Nanostructures on c-Silicon Solar Cells Arturo A Ayon1, Ulises Tronco2, Emmanuel Saucedo2, Ruben Ruelas2, Rosendo Lopez1 1UT San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, 2U. of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico

I32 (799) Low-Temperature Ozone-Ambient Grown Native Oxide Passivation of Crystalline Silicon

David Barchet1, Heidi Potts1, Mitchell Brocklebank2, Zahidur R. Chowdhury1, Lyudmila Goncharova2, Nazir P. Kherani1 1Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, London, ON, Canada

I36 (800) Reduction of Temperature Coefficients in Multicrystalline Silicon Solar Cells after Light-Induced

Degradation Charly Berthod1, Rune Strandberg1, Jan O Odden2, Tor O Sætre1 1University of Agder, grimstad, Norway, 2Elkem Solar AS, Kristiansand, Norway

I40 (801) Investigating the Benefits of Multi Bus-bars for Industrial Al-BSF Silicon Solar Cells

Nian Chen, Abasifreke Ebong University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States

I44 (802) High quality tunneling oxides for passivated contacts and Heterojunctions for high efficiency silicon

solar cells Karim Mohamed Gad1, Daniel Vössing1, Daniel Hiller1, Patrice Balamou2,3, Bert Stegemann3, Heike Angermann3, Martin Kasemann1 1University of Freiburg, Department of Microsystems Engineering – (IMTEK), 79110 Freiburg, Germany , Freiburg, Germany, 2Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW), Wilhelminenhofstr. 75 a, 12459 Berlin, Germany , Berlin, Germany, 3Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB), Institute for Photovoltaics, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

J4 (803) Nano-precipitates … a New Recombination Model

Janet Jacobs, Bruce Hamilton, Simon Leonard, Vladimir Markevich, Tony Peaker Photon Scienec Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

J8 (804) Lifetime Limitations of Epitaxial P- and N-type Si Foils

Stefan Janz, Nena Milenkovic, Marion Drießen, Stefan Reber Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg, Germany

J12 (805) Ingot Pulling with Electron Beam Heating: Process Enhancements

Anatoly Kravtsov1, Alexey Kravtsov1, Rihards Fuksis2, Mihails Pudzs2 1SIA KEPP EU, Riga, Latvia, 2Institute of Electronics and Computer Science, Riga, Latvia

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J16 (806) High efficiency Si-heterojunction technology – it’s ready for mass production Boris Legradic1, Benjamin Strahm1, Damien Lachenal1, Derk Bätzner1, Walter Frammelsberger1, Jérôme Meixenberger1, Pierre Papet1, Guillaume Wahli1, Jun Zhao2, Daniel Decker2, Egbert Vetter2 1Meyer Burger Research, Hauterive, Switzerland, 2Roth & Rau AG, Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Germany

J20 (807) 19.1 % Laser-Doped Selective Emitter P-type Multi-crystalline UMG Silicon Solar Cell

Pei Hsuan Doris Lu, Brett Hallam, Catherine Chan, Alison Wenham, Malcolm Abbott , Daniel Chen, Moon Yong Kim, Ly Mai, Sisi Wang, Nino Borojevic, Chee Mun Chong, Stuart Wenham UNSW, Sydney, Australia

J24 (808) Monocrystalline Upgraded Metallurgical Grade Silicon Obtained through Vacuum Degassing and

Czochralski growth for Solar Cell Application Francisco Marques1, Andresa Côrtes2, Rafael Merlo1, Douglas Silva1, Gustavo Viana1, Paulo Mei2 1Physics Institute Gleb Wataghin, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, 2Mechanial Engineering Institute, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

J28 (809) A New Method for Bulk Passivation of Multicrystalline-Si by Sulfur

Arunodoy Saha, Haifeng Zhang, Wen-Cheng Sun, Meng Tao School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States

J32 (810) Imaging of carrier lifetime variation during c-Si solar cell fabrication

Ashok Kumar Sharma, S Saravanan, Balraj A, Firoz Ansari, Gurappa Burkul, Sandeep Kumbhar, K L Narasimhan, B M Arora, Anil Kottantharayil National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education (NCPRE), Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), Mumbai, India

J36 (811) Using Minority Carrier Lifetime Measurement to Determine Saw Damage Characteristics on Si Wafer

Surfaces Bhushan Sopori, Srinivas Devayajanam, Prakash Basnyat National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

J39 (812) Efficiency Dispersion in Production of Crystalline-Si Solar Cells by Numerical Simulation

Laidong Wang, Haifeng Zhang, Wen-Cheng Sun, Meng Tao School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States

J42 (813) Stability Of Hydrogen Passivated UMG Silicon With Implied Open Circuit Voltages Over 700mV

Sisi Wang, Alison Wenham, Phillip Hamer, Brett Hallam, Ly Mai, Catherine Chan, Nitin Nampalli, Chee Mun Chong, Stuart Wenham , Lihui Song, Malcolm Abbott The School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

K1 (814) Fabrication of 40 µm Thin Silicon Solar Cells with Different Crystal Orientation by SLiM-cut Process

Teng-Yu Wang1, Chien-Hsun Chen1, Sung-Yu Chen1, Chen-Hsun Du1,2 1Green Energy and Environment Research Labs, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2Institute of NanoEngineering and MicroSystems, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

K4 (815) Investigation of high performance slicing wafer was fabricated with various cycle time and tension in

fixed abrasive wire saw technology Tim Wang Moteh, Taiwna, Taiwan


Organic, Hybrid and Perovskites materials and devices

Chair(s): Sam Stranks, Susanna Thon, Peichen Yu

K38 (816) Induction of photocurrent through polyaniline as hole transporting layer to photoactive perovskite sensitized TiO2 thin film: Application to solar cells Sadia Ameen, M. Nazim, Hyung-Kee Seo, Hyung-Shik Shin Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea

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K39 (817) The effect of the molar ratio of PVP to AgNO3 on Synthesis of AgNWs Ayse Bedeloglu1, Gokcenur Saglam1, Ismail Borazan2,3,4, H. Levent Hosgun5, Nimet Canli Yilmaz6, Ali Demir2,3 1Department of Fiber and Polymer Engineering, Bursa, Turkey, 2Faculty of Textile Technologies and Design, Istanbul, Turkey, 3TEMAG Laboratory, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 4Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials, Winston-Salem, NC, United States, 5Department of Chemical Engineering, Bursa Technical University, Bursa, Turkey, 6Yildiz Technical University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of Physics, Istanbul, Turkey

K40 (818) The Effect Of Acid Treatment Of PEDOT:PSS Anode For Organic Solar Cells

Ismail Borazan1, 2, Ayse Bedeloglu3, Ali Demir1, David Carroll2 1Department of Textile Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials, Winston-Salem, NC, United States, 3Department of Fiber and Polymer Engineering, Bursa, Turkey

K41 (819) Low Temperature Two-Step Solution Process for Perovskite Solar Cells with Planar Structure

Sheng-Kai Chang, Hsin-Che Lee, Sheng-Pang Lin, Ching-Fuh Lin Room405, EEBuilding, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 10617, Taiwan (R.O.C.), Taipei, Taiwan

K42 (820) The Minority Carrier Lifetime Measurements: An Electrical Passivation Study

Meixi Chen, James Hack, Abhishek Iyer, Robert Opila University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States

K43 (821) Profile and interface control of hybrid organic-silicon nanorod solar cells

Yu Cheng Chen, Yi Cheng Lin, Liang Chian Yu, Peichen Yu National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu , Taiwan

K44 (822) Cu2SnS3 Nanostructures for Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Photonic Applications

Sandra Dias, S.B. Krupanidhi Materials Research Centre,Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

L1 (823) Metal Doped Titanium Dioxide Electrode for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

DuanYang Dong1,2, Yuan Lin1, Jia Liu1 1Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2School of Advanced Materials, Peking University, Peking University Shenzhen, GuangDong, China

L2 (824) Low Cost Spin Coating Fabrication Of Efficient Perovskite Thin Film Layers

Jose J Galindo, Donato Kava, Shaimum Shahriar, Cheik O Sana, Robert Cotta, David Buck, Luis Echegoyen, Deidra R Hodges The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States

L3 (825) Numerical Analysis of Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells with Various Inorganic Hole Conducting Materials

Mohammad I. Hossain, Fahhad H. Alharbi, Nouar A. Tabet Qatar Environment & Energy Research Institute , Doha , Qatar

L4 (826) Imaging surface potential and internal electric fields across heterojunction solar cells using scanning

Kelvin probe microscopy Rachelle Ihly, Joseph M Luther, Sanjini U Nanayakkara NREL, Golden, CO, United States

L5 (827) A Strategy for Increasing Dielectric Constant of Fullerene Derivatives

Fatemeh Jahani1,2, Solmaz Torabi2, L. Jan Anton Koster2, Jan C. Hummelen1,2 1Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG, Groningen, Netherlands, 2Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG, Groningen, Netherlands

L6 (828) Optimization of MoO3 Buffer Layer Thickness for Short Circuit Current Enhancement in Ag Nanoparticle

Incorporated CuPc Organic Solar Cell Devika Kataria, S.Sundar Kumar Iyer Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Kanpur, India

L7 (829) Role of Halide Anion on Exciton Binding Energy and Disorder in Hybrid Perovskite Semiconductors

Aravindh Kumar2, Naresh K. Kumawat1, Parul Maheshwari1, Dinesh Kabra1 1Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, 2Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

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L8 (830) Molecular Alignment and Rashba Splitting in Organometal Halide Perovskite CH3NH3PbI3 Absorbers Junwen Li1,2, Paul H. Haney1 1Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, United States, 2Maryland Nano-Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States

L9 (831) Novel Low Cost Hole Transporting Materials for Efficient Organic-inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells

Jiewei Liu1, Sandeep Pathak2, Thomas Stergiopoulos3, Tomas Leijtens4, Konrad Wojciechowski5, Stefan Schumann6, Nina Kausch-busies7, Henry Snaith8 1University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 3University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 4University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 5University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 6Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG, Leverkusen, Germany, 7Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG, Leverkusen, Germany, 8University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

L10 (832) Capacitance Effect from High to Low Level Lighting by Real-Time One-Sweep Method for OPV device

Yean-San Long, Shu-Tsung Hsu, Teng-Chun Wu, Yu-Tai Li 1, Hsinchu, Taiwan

L11 (833) Furan-Bridged Thiazolo [5,4-d]thiazole based D-π-A-π-D type Linear Chromophore for Solution-

Processed Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells M. Nazim1, S. Ameen1, M. S. Akhtar2, H.-K. Seo1, H.S. Shin1 1Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea, 2Chonbuk National University, NewREC Centre, Jeonbuk , Korea

L12 (834) Photoresponse and AC Impedance Characterization of Electrodeposited TiO2-based Nanocomposite

Films for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells The-Vinh Nguyen1, O-Bong Yang2 1Hochiminh University of Technology, Hochiminh, Vietnam, 2Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea

L13 (835) Band Gap Shifting of CdTe/PbTe superlattices on ITO for Solar Cell

Fei Qin, Pritpal Singh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, United States

L14 (836) Solution processed: low cost, environmentally benign Cu2ZnSnS4 nanoparticles

Kusum Rawat, P.K. Shishodia University of Delhi, Zakir Husain Delhi College, Delhi, India

L15 (837) In-situ flexural OPV measurements on flexible glass substrate

Swathi S . K1, Praveen Ramamurthy1, Sean Garner2 1Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY, United States

L16 (838) Characterization and Analysis of Structural and Optical Properties of Perovskite Thin Films

Shaimum Shahriar, Cheik Sana, Jose Galindo, Donato Kava, Deidra Hodges, Edison Castro, Robert Cotta, David Buck, Luis Echegoyen The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States

L17 (839) Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Solar Cell Efficiency Improvement by Employing Au Nanocluster

Manisha Sharma1, Dr.Arturo A Ayon2 1University of Texas , San Antonio, TX, United States, 2University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, United States

L18 (840) Two-dimesional diode equivalent circuit model for large-area Z-type transparent DSC module

Myunghun Shin1, Jeong-Hyeok Park1, Jeong-Hun Lee1, Joo-Cheol Lee2 1Korea Aerospace University, Goyang, Korea, 2Dong-Jin Semichem Inc., Seongnam, Korea

L19 (841) Synthesis and Optical Properties of Photovoltaic Materials Based on the Indenofluorines and

Ambipolar Dithienonaphthothiadiazol Yasuhiro Shirai1,2, Tatsuaki Nakanishi1, Liyuan Han2 1Global Research Center for Environment and Energy based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan, 2Photovoltaic Materials Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan

L20 (842) Optimization of twin donor layer organic solar cell by systematic variation of substrate temperature

Ashish Singh1, Dipjyoti Das1, Anamika Dey1, Parameswar K. Iyer1,2 1Centre for Nanotechnology, Guwahati, India, 2Department of Chemistry, Guwahati, India

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L21 (843) Thorough Organic/Si Nanostructure Heterojunction Provided by Surfactant Assisted PEDOT:PSS Hong-Jhang Syu1, Thiyagu Subramani1, Chien-Ting Liu1, Shu-Chia Shiu1, Jiun-Jie Chao1, Ching-Fuh Lin1,2,3,4 1Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2Graduate Institute of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 3Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 4Innovative Photonics Advanced Research Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

L22 (844) Hybrid Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with Vertically Aligned ZnO/ZnO1-xSx Nanorods in Core-Shell like

Nanostructure Ratheesh R Thankalekshmi , Alok C Rastogi Binghamton University,State University of New York , Binghamton , NY, United States

L23 (845) Validating Reaction Mechanisms and Controlling Reaction Equilibrium to Optimize Hybrid Perovskite

Composition, Improve Crystal Formation and Solar Cell Efficiency Hsinhan Tsai1,3, Wanyi Nie2, Pradeep Cheruku1, Nathan H. Mack1, Aditya D. Mohite2, Hsing-Lin Wang1 1C-PCS, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, 2MPA-11, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, 3MSNE, Rice Univeristy, Houston, TX, United States

L24 (846) Simulation of perovskite solar cells with inorganic hole transporting materials

Yan Wang1, Zhonggao Xia1, Yiming Liu2, Hang Zhou1 1Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China, 2University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg, Denmark

L25 (847) Heterojunction Formation between Zinc Oxide Nanowires and Cu2ZnSnS4 Nanoparticles For Inorganic

3D Solar Cell Applications Sarah Wozny, Kai Wang, Nooraldeen Alkurd, Weilie Zhou Advanced Materials Research Institute, New Orleans, LA, United States

L26 (848) Uniform Perovskite Photovoltaic Thin Films via Ultrasonic Spray Assisted Deposition Method

Zhonggao Xia, Gaoda Chai, Yan Wang, Hang Zhou Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, China

L27 (849) High Efficiency of Organic Photovoltaic Device by the Energy Conversion Layer

Dong Bin Yeo, Kyong Chan Heo, Geon Bae, Sang Hoon Chae, Chang-Bum Moon, Woo Young Kim, Chul Gyu Jhun Hoseo University, Asan-city, South Korea

L28 (850) Dark Current Reduction and Bandgap-Voltage Offset in Solution-processed Nanocrystal Solar Cells

Woojun Yoon1, Janice E. Boercker1, Matthew P. Lumb1,2, Diogenes Placencia3, Edward E. Foos1,4, Joseph G. Tischler1, Phillip P. Jenkins1, Robert J. Walters1 1U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, 2The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, 3NRC/NRL Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington, DC, United States, 4NSWC Indian Head EOD Technology Division, Indian Head, MD, United States

L29 (851) Two-step sequential substrate vibration-assisted spray coating (SVASC) as a path to high performance

perovskite solar cells Fatemeh Zabihi1, Morteza Eslamian1 1UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai, China, 2UM-SJTU Joint SJTU, Shanghai, China


Cell and Module Reliability

Chair(s): Allan Ward, Benoit Braisaz, Wei Zhou

Q2 (852) Effects of PV Module Soiling on Glass Surface Resistance and Potential-Induced Degradation Peter Hacke1, Patrick Burton2, Alexander Hendrickson2, Sergiu Spataru3, Stephen Glick1 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 3Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Q4 (853) Quantifying PV Module Defects in the Service Environment

Alexander Z. Bradley, James G. Kopchick, Babak Hamzavy DuPont, Wilmington, DE, United States

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Q6 (854) The Investigation of Snail Trails in Photovoltaic Modules

Jipeng Chang1, Hong Yang1, He Wang1, Dingyue Cao1 1Xi'an Jiaotong University, xi'an, China, 2Xi'an Jiaotong University, xi'an, China, 3Xi'an Jiaotong University, xi'an, China, 4Xi'an Jiaotong University, xi'an, China

Q8 (855) All India Survey of Photovoltaic Module Degradation 2014: Survey Methodology and Statistics

Shashwata Chattopadhyay1, Rajiv Dubey1, Vivek Kuthanazhi1, Jim Joseph John1, Chetan Singh Solanki1, Brij Mohan Arora1, K. L. Narasimhan1, Anil Kottantharayil1, Juzer Vasi1, Birinchi Bora2, Yogesh Kumar Singh2, O. S. Sastry2 1National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education, Mumbai, India, 2National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurgaon, India

Q10 (856) Nondestructive Techniques to Determine Degradation Modes: Experimentation with 18 Years Old

Photovoltaic Modules Matthew Chicca, GovindaSamy TamizhMani

Q12 (857) Effect of Shading on CIGS, CdTe and a-Si:H Thin Film Photovoltaic Modules

Neelkanth G Dhere, Eric Schneller, Ashwani Kaul Florida Solar Energy Center, Cocoa, FL, United States

Q14 (858) Multi-Stress Durability Testing to Better Predict Outdoor Performance of PV Modules

William J. Gambogi1, James G. Kopchick1, Thomas Felder1, Steven W. MacMaster1, Alexander Z. Bradley1, Babak Hamzavy1, Bao-Ling Yu1, Katherine M. Stika1, Lucie Garreau-Iles2, Chiou Fu Wang3, Hongjie Hu4, Yushi Heta4, T. John Trout1 1(1) E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE, United States, 2Du Pont de Nemours International S.A., Geneva, Switzerland, 3DuPont (China) Research& Development and Management Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China, 4DuPont K.K., Utsunomiya, Japan

Q16 (859) Cu Migration and its Impact on the Metastable Behavior of CdTe Solar Cells

Da Guo1, Richard Akis1, Daniel Brinkman2, Andrew Moore3, Tian Fang4, Igor Sankin4, Dragica Vasileska1, Christian Ringhofer2 1School of Eletrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 2School of Mathematical and Statistical Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 3Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, 4First Solar, Perrysburg, OH, United States

Q18 (860) EMP durability of different PV modules and module components

Alexander Hauser1, Fabrice Monti Di Sopra1, André Richter1, Armin Kaelin2, Markus Nyffeler3 1Meyer Burger Technology AG, Gwatt, Switzerland, 2EMProtec GmbH, Hinwil, Switzerland, 3armasuisse, Bern, Switzerland

Q20 (861) Evaluating the Marginal Effects of Field Defects on Power Degradation as a Mean to Prioritizing Field

Failure Modes for Crystalline Silicon Modules Joseph Kuitche1, Rong Pan2, Govindasamy TamizhMani1, Sai Tatapudi1 1Arizona State University Photovoltaic Reliability Laboratory (ASU-PRL), Mesa, AZ, United States, 2Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States

Q22 (862) Analysis of Accelerated Degradation Test for Lifetime Prediction of Crystalline Silicon PV Modules

Joseph M Kuitche1, Rong Pan2, Govindasamy TamizhMani1, Sai Tatapudi1 1Arizona State University Photovoltaic Reliability Laboratory (ASU-PRL), Mesa, AZ, United States, 2Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States

Q24 (863) Durability of Photovoltaic Backsheet Outer Weatherable Layers

Amy A. Lefebvre, Gregory S. O'Brien, Bryan S. Douglas, James D. Knapp, Dana Garcia, Gunter Moeller Arkema Inc., King of Prussia, PA, United States

Q26 (864) Failure Analysis of PV Module in Salt Mist Combined with PID Test

Yi-Wei Lin1, Y.T. Li1, M.F. Lin1, H.S. Wu1 1310 Rm. 168, Blog. 21 , Sec. 4 Chung Hsing Rd., Chutung, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2310 Rm. 168, Blog. 21 , Sec. 4 Chung Hsing Rd., Chutung, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 3310 Rm. 168, Blog. 21 , Sec. 4 Chung Hsing Rd., Chutung, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 4310 Rm. 168, Blog. 21 , Sec. 4 Chung Hsing Rd., Chutung, Hsinchu, Taiwan

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Q28 (865) Holistic View Of Interactions in Modules Affecting Durability – Adhesion and Snail Trails Andreas Meisel1, Youyong Xu2, Jane Fan2, Jinyong Wang2, Thomas Dang1, Christopher Alcantara1, Daniel Inns1, Mason L. Terry1, Jane Kapur3, Babak Hamzavy3, William Gambogi3, Homer Antoniadis1 1DuPont Silicon Valley Technology Center, Sunnyvale, CA, United States, 2DuPont (China) Research& Development and Management Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China, 3E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE, United States

Q30 (866) Application of Flexible Glass to Prevent PID in PV Modules

Jaewon Oh1, 2, GovindaSamy TamizhMani1, Stuart Bowden2, Sean Garner3 1Photovoltaic Reliability Laboratory, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ, United States, 2Solar Power Laboratory, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 3Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY, United States

Q32 (867) Visual and electrical degradation of 22 years field aged mono-crystalline silicon PV module in

composite climate of India Pramod Rajput1, G.N. Tiwari1, Birinchi Bora2, O.S. Sastry2 1IIT Delhi, Delhi, India, 2National Institute of Solar Energy, Gurgaon, India

R2 (868) Selection of Best Methods to Calculate Degradation Rates of PV Modules

Sanjay M Shrestha, Govindsamy Tamizhmani Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ, United States

R4 (869) Correlation of power loss to string and module level performance of arrays of c-Si, CIGS technologies

in North East climate R Sundaramoorthy, John Delallo, James Alexander, John Wax, Kevin Sharpe, David Taylor, David Metacarpa, Jim Lloyd, Pradeep Haldar US–PVMC, Colleges of Nanoscale Science & Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Albany, NY, United States

R6 (870) Statistical Methods to Determine Dominant Degradation Modes of Fielded PV Modules

Neelesh Umachandran, Joseph Kuitche, Govindasamy Tamizhmani Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ, United States

R8 (871) Leakage current path activation of CIGS thin film solar modules

Sebastian Voswinckel, Viktor Wesselak, Pia Manz, Esther Fokuhl, Benno Trautmann University of Applied Sciences Nordhausen, in.RET - Institute for Renewable Energy Technology, Nordhausen, Germany

Keynote 12:00 - 1:30 PM Celestin GH (Level 3)

IEEE-PVSC Women in Photovoltaics (WiPV) Luncheon


Novel Materials and Concepts

Chair(s): Gergely Zimanyi, Kyle Montgomery , Adele Tamboli

1:30 (872) Low-temperature Synthesized, P-type Transparent Conducting Materials for PV Devices Rachel Woods-Robinson, Xiaojie Xu, Joel W. Ager Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States

2:00 (873) Making Optimal Use of New Photovoltaic Materials for Multi-junction Solar Cells

Stephen P Bremner, Chuqi Yi, Ibraheem Almansouri, Anita Ho-Baillie, Martin A Green UNSW, Sydney, Australia

2:15 (874) InAlAs Solar Cells Grown by Alternative MOVPE Precursors

Brittany L. Smith, Zachary S. Bittner, Staffan D. Hellstroem, Michael A. Slocum, Seth M. Hubbard, David V. Forbes Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States

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2:30 (875) Characterization of ZnSiP2 for Si-Based Tandem Photovoltaics Aaron D. Martinez1, Emily L. Warren2, Patricia C. Dippo2, Darius Kuciauskas2, Brenden R. Oritz1, Harvey Guthrey2, Anna Duda2, Andrew G. Norman2, Eric S. Toberer1,2, Adele C. Tamboli1,2 1Colorado School fo Mines, Golden, CO, United States, 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States


(876) Combinatorial Growth of ZnSnN2 Absorber Films Angela N. Fioretti1,2, Andriy Zakutayev2, Andrew Norman2, Celeste Melamed3, Mowafak Al-Jassim2, Eric S. Toberer1,2, Adele C. Tamboli1,2 1Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 3Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA, United States


Devices Characterization and modeling

Chair(s): Susan Schorr, Angus Rockett

1:30 (877) Bandgap gradients in (Ag,Cu)(In,Ga)Se2 thin film solar cells deposited by three-stage co-evaporation Christopher P Thompson, Lei Chen, William N Shafarman, Jinwoo Lee, Shannon Fields, Robert W Birkmire Institute of Energy Conversion, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States

2:00 (878) Photocarrier recombination dynamics in Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 and Cu(In,Ga)Se2 studied by temperature-

dependent time resolved photoluminescence (TR-PL) Mohammad Abdul Halim1, Muhammad Monirul Islam1, Xianjia Luo1, Takeaki Sakurai1, Noriyuki Sakai2, Takuya Kato2, Hiroki Sugimoto2, Hitoshi Tampo3, Hajime Shibata3, Shigeru Niki3, Katsuhiro Akimoto1 1University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, 2Solar Frontier, Tokyo, Japan, 3AIST, Tsukuba, Japan

2:15 (879) Designing CIGS solar cells with front-side point contacts

Giovanna Sozzi1, Davide Pignoloni1, Roberto Menozzi1, Fabian Pianezzi2, Patrick Reinhard2, Benjamin Bissig2, Stephan Buecheler2, Ayodhya Tiwari2 1Department of Information Engineering - University of Parma, Parma, Italy, 2Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa—Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland

2:30 (880) High intensity and integrated Suns-Voc characterization of high performance kesterite solar cells

Oki Gunawan1, Tayfun Gokmen1, David Mitzi1,2 1IBM T J Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, United States, 2Duke University, Durham, NC, United States


(881) Choice of Substrate Material for Epitaxial CdTe Solar Cells Tao Song1, Ana Kanevce2, James R. Sites1 1Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, 2NREL, Golden, CO, United States


Silicon Material: Analysis

Chair(s): Gianluca Coletti, Martin J. Binns

1:30 (882) Implications of Accelerated B-O Complex Formation for Mitigating LID in Czochralski Silicon Brett J Hallam, Malcolm D Abbott, Phill G Hamer, Nitin Nampalli, Stuart R Wenham School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

2:00 (883) Can vacancies and their complexes with nonmetals prevent the lifetime to reach its intrinsic limit in

silicon? Fiacre E Rougieux1, Nicholas E Grant1, Chog Barugkin1, Daniel H Macdonald1, John D Murphy2 1The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 2University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

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2:15 (884) Spatial characterization of interstitial oxygen and its related defects in Czochralski silicon wafers and

ingots: a way to improve the material and device quality Benoit MARTEL1, Jordi VEIRMAN1, Miguel CASCANT1, Nicolas ENJALBERT1, Mathieu TOMASSINI1, Raphael PEYRONNET1, Jacky STADLER1, Emanuelle FAYARD1, Sébastien DUBOIS1, Xavier BRUN2, Pierre BONNARD2 1CEA-INES, Bourget du Lac, France, 2AET-Technologies, Meylan, France

2:30 (885) A New Light Induced Volume Degradation Effect of mc-Si Solar Cells

H.-C. Ploigt1, P. Engelhart1, F. Stenzel1, F. Kersten1,2, K. Petter1, A. Stekolnikov1, T. Lindner1, M. Bartzsch1, A. Szpeth1, J. Heitmann2, J. W. Müller1 1Hanwha Q CELLS GmbH, 06766 Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany, 2Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, 09599 Freiberg, Germany

2:45 (886) Light-Induced Degradation Free and High Efficiency P-Type Indium-Doped PERC Solar Cells on

Czochralski Silicon Eunhwan Cho1, J.-H. Lai1, Young-woo Ok1, Ajay D. Upadhyaya1, Vijaykumar D. Upadhyaya1, Ajeet Rohatgi1, M.J. Binns2, Jesse Appel2, Jason Guo2, Hongbin Fang2, Ethan Good2 1Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, 2SunEdison, Portland, OR, United States


Light Management in Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells

Chair(s): Edward Hamers, Nick Prodaza

1:30 (887) Improved Flexible Thin-Film Solar Cells with Nanoimprinted Light Management Texture Karen Wilken1, Ulrich W. Paetzold1, Matthias Meier1, Nicole Prager2, Matthias Fahland2, Friedhelm Finger1, Vladimir Smirnov1 1IEK-5 Photovoltaik, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany, 2Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology, Dresden, Germany

1:45 (888) Triple-functional n-type microcrystalline silicon oxide layers in hydrogenated amorphous

silicon/microcrystalline silicon tandem solar cells Jia Fang1,2, Lisha Bai1,2, Guofu Hou1, Xinliang Chen1, Changchun Wei1, Guangcai Wang1, Jian Sun1, Dekun Zhang1, Ying Zhao1,2, Xiaodan Zhang1,2 1Institute of Photo-Electronic Thin Film Devices and Technology of Nankai University, Key Laboratory of Photo-electronic Thin Film Devices and Technology, Tianjin, China, 2Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin, China

2:00 (889) Photon tunneling in tandem solar cell

Andre Hoffmann, Karsten Bittkau, Chao Zhang, Matthias Meier, Reinhard Carius, Uwe Rau IEK-5, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

2:15 (890) Nanoscale Investigation of Polarization-Dependent Light Coupling to Individual Waveguide Modes of

Nanophotonic Thin-Film Solar Cells Ulrich Wilhelm Paetzold, Stephan Lehnen, Karsten Bittkau, Uwe Rau, Reinhard Carius IEK5-Photovoltaik, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

2:30 (891) High Performance Ultrathin Silicon Solar Microcells Enabled with Nanophotonic Light Management and

Spectral Upconversion Sung-Min Lee1, Weigu Li1, Purnim Dhar3, Sergey Malyk3, Yu Wang1, Wonmok Lee4, Alexander Benderskii3, Jongseung Yoon1,2 1Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 2Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 3Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 4Department of Chemistry, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea

2:45 (892) Four-wire thin-film silicon devices: Towards high efficiency

Federico Ventosinos1, Seonyong Park1, Paul O'Brien2, Nazir Kherani2, Erik V. Johnson1 1LPICM-CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, 2Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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3:00 (893) High-Efficiency Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells on Honeycomb Textures Hitoshi Sai1, Keigo Maejima2, Takuya Matsui1, Takashi Koida1, Koji Matsubara1, Michio Kondo3, Yoshiaki Takeuchi4, Shuichiro Sugiyama5, Hirotaka Katayama6, Isao Yoshida2 1Research Center for Photovoltaics (RCPV), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Techonology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan, 2Photovoltaic Power Generation Technology Research Association (PVTEC), Tsukuba, Japan, 3Fukushima Renewable Research Institute, AIST (FREA), Koriyama, Japan, 4Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., Isahaya, Japan, 5Sharp Corporation, Hajikami, Japan, 6Panasonic Corporation, Kadoma, Japan


Perovskite Materials and Devices (I)

Chair(s): Aditya Mohite, Sam Stranks

1:30 (894) Invited: Highly efficient Perovskite Solar Cells Yang Yang Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

2:00 (895) Mechanically Stacked and Monolithically Integrated Perovskite/silicon Tandems and the Challenges for

High Efficiency Colin D. Bailie1, Jonathan P. Mailoa2, Eric C. Johlin2, William H. Nguyen1, Eric T. Hoke1, Austin J. Akey2, Tonio Buonassisi2, Michael D. McGehee1 1Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, 2MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States

2:15 (896) Identifying Recombination Mechanisms Through Materials Development In Perovskite Solar Cells

Matthew J Carnie1, Joel Troughton1, Brian O' Regan1,2, Piers Barnes3, Daniel Bryant1,2, Trystan Watson1, David Worsley1 1SPECIFIC - Swansea University, Port Talbot, United Kingdom, 2Dept. of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 3Dept. of Physics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom


(897) Spatially Resolved Characterization of Solution Processed Perovskite Solar Cells Using the LBIC Technique Zhaoning Song, Suneth C. Watthage, Brandon L. Tompkins, Geethika K. Liyanage, Adam B. Phillips, Randall J. Ellingson, Michael J. Heben Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization, School for Solar and Advanced Renewable Energy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States

2:45 (898) Infrared light sensitive Sn/Pb binary perovskite solar cells with improved stability in air and organic

amine-free perovskite solar cells with improved stability against light exposure Yuhei Ogomi1, Qing Shen2, Koji Nishinaka1, Kosei Fujiwara1, Keita Sakaguchi1, Taro Toyoda2, Shuzi Hayase1 1Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, Japan, 2The University of Electro-Communications, Vho-fu, Japan


Space Cells

Chair(s): Maria Gonzalez, Wolfgang Guter

1:30 (899) High performance 5J and 6J direct bonded (SBT) space solar cells Philip T Chiu, Daniel C Law, Scott B Singer, Dhananjay Bhusari, Abdallah Zakaria, Xing Q Liu, Shoghig Mesropian, Nasser H Karam Spectrolab Inc., Sylmar, CA, United States

1:45 (900) Radiation effects on luminescent coupling in III-V solar cells

Myles A. Steiner1, Matthew P. Lumb2,3, Raymond Hoheisel3, John F. Geisz1, Ryan M. France1, David Scheiman2, Robert J. Walters2, Phillip P. Jenkins2 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, 3The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States

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(901) Characterizations of radiation damages in multi-junction solar cells focused on subcell internal luminescence quantum yields via absolute electroluminescence measurements Lin Zhu1, Masahiro Yoshita1, Shaoqiang Chen2, Tetsuya Nakamura3, Toshimitsu Mochizuki4, Changsu Kim1, Mitsuru Imaizumi3, Yoshihiko Kanemitsu5, Hidefumi Akiyama1 1Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, 2Department of Electronic Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, 3Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Japan, 4Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Koriyama, Japan, 5Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University and JST-CREST, Uji, Japan

2:15 (902) Nanoparticle scattering for radiation-hard multi-junction space solar cells

Alexander Mellor, Nicholas P. Hylton, Francesca Shirley, Tomos Thomas, Kan-Hua Lee, Yahya Al-Saleh, Avraham Braun, Stefan A. Maier, Nicholas J. Ekins-Daukes Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

2:30 (903) Low Temperature Effects in Photovoltaic Devices for Deep Space Missions

Raymond Hoheisel1, Robert Walters2, Andreas Bett3 1The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, 2US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, 3Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany

2:45 (904) Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Cu Metal Matrix Composites for Current Collection from Space

Photovoltaics Adam B. Phillips1, Brandon L. Tompkins1, Zhaoning Song1, Rajendra R. Khanal1, Geethika K. Liyanage1, Nathan D. Gapp2, David M. Wilt2, Michael J. Heben1 1University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States, 2Air Force Research Lab, Kirtland Air Force Base, NM, United States


Module Reliability

Chair(s): Gerhard Kleiss, Masaaki Yamamichi, Werner Hermann

1:30 (905) Thermal and Electrical Effects of Partial Shade in Monolithic Thin-Film Photovoltaic Modules Timothy J Silverman1, Michael G. Deceglie1, Xingshu Sun2, Rebekah L. Garris1, Muhammad Ashraful Alam2, Chris Deline1, Sarah Kurtz1 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States

1:45 (906) Predicting the Long Term Power Loss from Cell Cracks in PV Modules

Vivek S. Gade1, Narendra S. Shiradkar2, Marco Paggi3, Jared Opalewski4 1Jabil Circuit Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, United States, 2Florida Solar Energy Center, University of Central Florida, Cocoa, FL, United States, 3IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Lucca, Italy, 4Jabil Circuit Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, United States

2:00 (907) Impact of cracks in multicrystalline silicon solar cells on PV module power – A simulation study based

on field data Arnaud Morlier, Felix Haase, Marc Köntges Insitute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH)), Emmerthal, Germany

2:15 (908) Silver-Carbon-Nanotube Metal Matrix Composites for Metal Contacts on Space Photovoltaic Cells

Omar K Abudayyeh1, Cayla Nelson1, Sang M Han1, David M Wilt2, Nathan Gapp 2 1University of New Mexico , Albuquerque, NM, United States, 2Air Force Research Laboratories , Albuquerque, NM, United States

2:30 (909) Mechanism analysis of snail trails in photovoltaic modules

Guangda Zhou1, Xi Xiong1, Wei Zhou2, Yafeng Liu3, Yan Sang1, Zhining Kou1 1Hangzhou First PV Material CO., LTD, Hangzhou, China, 2Changzhou Trinasolar Energy CO., LTD, Changzhou, China, 3Jiangxi Jinko Energy CO., LTD, Shangrao, China

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2:45 (910) PV Module System Fire Classification: Industry Solutions Christopher Flueckiger, Robert G. Backstrom, Chad Fischer, Pravinray D. Gandhi

Break 3:00 - 3:30 PM Empire Ballroom Foyer (Level 2)

Coffee Break

Keynote - Plenary 3:30 - 5:00 PM Empire A (Level 2)

International Cooperation

Chair(s): Masafumi Yamaguchi, Arnulf Jaeger Waldau, Steven A. Ringel

(907) Overview of PV R&D Project in Japan Hiroyuki Yamada1, Masafumi Yamaguchi2 1NEDO, Kawasaki, Japan, 2Toyota Tech. Inst., Nagoya, Japan

The Importance of International Collaboration in Rapidly Moving PV Forward as a Climate change Mitigation

Tool. Gregory Wilson National Renewable Energy Laboratory

NSF International Activities and Opportunities in Solar Energy Research

Eyad Abed National Science Foundation

India with Recent Large Scale PV Installations - Learnings and Experiences.

Ardeshir Contractor Kiran Energy, India

Social Activity 6:30 - 10:30 PM Generations Hall

Conference Banquet (Ticket Required)

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Friday, June 19, 2015

Area 1 - Orals

8:30 - 10:00 AM Empire B (Level 2) Emerging Photovoltaic Technologies

Chair(s): Seth Hubbard, Andrew Norman, Maria Gonzalez

8:30 (912) Absorption characteristics of reduced graphene oxide: application to TCO and solar cells active region Mark Lundie1, Zeljko Sljivancanin2, Stanko Tomic1 1University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2Vinca Institute, Belgrade, Serbia

8:45 (913) Optimization of GaAs Nanowire Solar Cell Efficiency via Optoelectronic Modeling

Anna H Trojnar1, Christopher E. Valdivia1, Azizur Rahman2, Ray R. LaPierre2, Karin Hinzer1, Jacob J. Krich1 1SUNLAB, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

9:00 (914) Perovskite/Crystalline Silicon Tandem Solar Cells Fabricated by Non-Vacuum-Process

Abdullah Uzum, Hiroyuki Kanda, Seigo Ito University of Hyogo, Himeji, Japan

9:15 (915) Immersion Graded Index Optics for Passive Solar Concentrators

Nina Vaidya, Olav Solgaard Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

9:30 (916) Rapid Sub-Wavelength Texturing for III-V Solar Cells by Laser Interference Lithography and Selective

Wet Etching Wei Wang1,2, Alexandre Freundlich1,2 1Center for Advanced Materials, houston, TX, United States, 2University of Houston, houston, TX, United States

9:45 (917) Large-Area III-Nitride Double-Heterojunction Solar Cells with Record-High In-content InGaN Absorbing

Layers Chloe A. M. Fabien, Brendan P. Gunning, Joseph J. Merola, Evan A. Clinton, W. Alan Doolittle Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States

Area 2 - Orals 8:30 - 10:00 AM Empire A (Level 2)

Materials characterization and modeling

Chair(s): Colin Wolden, Sylvain Marsillac

8:30 (918) 921mV Open Circuit Voltage Chalcopyrite Solar Cells Homare Hiroi, Yasuaki Iwata, Kyouhei Horiguchi, Shunsuke Adachi, Noriyuki Sakai, Hiroki Sugimoto Solar Frontier K.K., Kanagawa, Japan

9:00 (919) Direct nm-scale spatial mapping of traps in CIGS

Pran K. Paul1, Drew W. Cardwell1, Christine M. Jackson1, Kevin Galiano2, Krishna Aryal3, Jonathan P. Pelz2, Sylvain Marsillac3, Steven A. Ringel5, Tyler J. Grassman4, Aaron R. Arehart1 1Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, 2Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, 3Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States, 4Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Materials Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, 5Materials Science and Engineering, Columbus, OH, United States

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9:15 (921) Quantitative determination of grain boundary recombination velocity in CdTe by combination of cathodoluminescence measurements and numerical simulations Ana Kanevce1, John Moseley1,2, Darius Kuciauskas1, Mowafak Al-Jassim1, Wyatt K. Metzger1 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States

9:30 (920) Monocrystalline ZnTe/CdTe/MgCdTe Double Heterostructure Solar Cells Grown on InSb Substrates

Ying-Shen Kuo1,2, Jacob Becker1,2, Shi Liu1,2, Yuan Zhao1,2, Xin-hao Zhao1,3, Peng-Yu Su4, Ishwara Bhat4, Yong-Hang Zhang1,3 1Center for Photonics Innovation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 2School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 3School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 4Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States

9:45 (922) ''Cd and impurity redistribution at the p-n junction of CIGS based solar cells resolved with atom-probe

tomography'' Anna Koprek1, Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin1, Roland Würz2, Christoph Freysoldt1, Dierk Raabe1 1Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany

Area 4 - Orals 8:30 - 10:00 AM Empire C/D (Level 2)

Contact Formation and Module Integration

Chair(s): Radovan Kopecek, Hartmut Nussbaumer

8:30 (923) Industrial Si solar cells with Cu based plated contacts Jörg Horzel1, Norbert Bay1, Michael Passig1, Holger Kühnlein1, Yuan Shengzhao2, Pierre Verlinden2 1RENA GmbH, Freiburg, Germany, 2State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology, Trina Solar, Changzhou, China

9:00 (924) Front contact metallization of Si solar cells: insights from in-situ X-ray diffraction

Md. Imteyaz Ahmad1, Jeremy D Fields2, Vanessa L Pool1, Jiafan Yu1, Douglas Van Campen1, Philip A Parilla2, David S Ginley2, Maikel FAM Van Hest2, Michael F Toney1 1SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, United States, 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

9:15 (925) Evaluation of Screen-Printed Metallization Concepts for Large-Area BC-BJ Solar Cells

Max Hendrichs1, Milan Padilla1, Johann Walter1, Florian Clement1, Andreas Fell2, Bernd Rech3 1Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany, 2College of Engineering and Computer Sience, Canberra, Australia, 3Helmholtz Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany

9:30 (926) Concepts and Prospects of Passivated Contacts for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

Jimmy Melskens, Bas W. H. van de Loo, Bart Macco, Martijn F. J. Vos, Jurgen Palmans, Sjoerd Smit, W. M. M. (Erwin) Kessels Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands

9:45 (927) Module Integration of Solar Cells with Diverse Metallization Schemes Enabled by SmartWire

Connection Technology Yu Yao1, Pierre Papet2, Joost Hermans3, Thomas Söderström1, Dirk Habermann4, André Richter4 1Meyer Burger AG, Gwatt, Switzerland, 2Meyer Burger Research AG, Hauterive, Switzerland, 3Roth & Rau B.V., Eindhoven, Netherlands, 4Meyer Burger Technology AG, Gwatt, Switzerland

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Area 6 - Orals 8:30 - 10:00 AM Strand 12 (Level 2)

Organic Materials and Devices

Chair(s): Annick Anctil, Kethinni Chittibabu

8:30 (928) Invited: From Nanostructure to High Efficiency in Organic Photovoltaics Stephen Forrest Departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109

9:00 (929) Substrate-Correlated Interface Polarity Reversal at a Carbon Nanotube/Fullerene Junction

Olivia J Alley1, Meng-Yin Wu2, Josué F. Martínez Hardigree1, Michael S. Arnold2, Howard E. Katz1 1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, 2University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States

9:15 (930) Characterizing Molecular Order at the Bulk Heterojunction through Structural Analysis and Device

Performance to Predict Ideal Structure in Small Molecule Organic Photovoltaic Donor Molecules Susan D Spencer1, Chenyu Zheng1, John Andersen1, Jeremy Cody1, Scott Misture2, Chris Collision1 1Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States, 2Alfred University, Alfred, NY, United States

9:30 (931) Variations in Spectral Response Behaviour in Single Layer Organic Solar Cells with Active Layer

Thickness and Bias During Measurement Sandeep Kumar, S. Sundar Kumar Iyer Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India

9:45 (932) Multijunction Organic Photovoltaic Cells for Underwater Solar Power

Robert J Walters1, Woojun Yoon1, Diogenes Placencia1, David Scheiman1, Matthew P. Lumb2, Andrew Strang3, Paul Stavrinou3, Phillip P. Jenkins1 1U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, 2The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, 3Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom


In-situ Characterization

Chair(s): Marina Leite, Angus Rockett

8:30 (933) In-situ chemical analysis of molten photovoltaic silicon by Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Loïc Patatut1, Marion Sérasset1, Hélène Lignier1, David Pelletier1, Mohamad Sabsabi2, Malek Benmansour1 1CEA, LITEN, Department of Solar Technologies, Le Bourget du Lac, France, 2CNRC-NRC, Montréal, QC, Canada

8:45 (934) Through-the-glass Spectroscopic Ellipsometry for Simultaneous Mapping of Coating Properties and

Stress in the Glass Jian Li1, Puja Pradhan1, Prakash Koirala1, Xinxuan Tan1, Baosheng Sang2, Billy J. Stanbery2, Robert W. Collins1 11Center for Photovoltaics Innovation & Commercialization, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States, 2HelioVolt Corporation, Austin, TX, United States

9:00 (935) High speed spectroscopic ellipsometry technique for on-line monitoring in large area thin layer

production Csaba Major1, Gyorgy Juhasz1, Zoltan Labadi1, Miklos Fried1 1MTA EK MFA, Budapest, Hungary, 2MTA EK MFA, Budapest, Hungary, 3MTA EK MFA, Budapest, Hungary, 4MTA EK MFA, Budapest, Hungary

9:15 (936) Raman spectroscopy study on in-situ monitoring of Cu2ZnSnS4 synthesis

Stephan van Duren1, Yi Ren2, Jonathan Scragg2, Justus Just1, Thomas Unold1 1Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2Ångström Solar Center, Solid State Electronics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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9:30 (937) In-situ monitoring of the accelerated performance degradation of thin film solar cells Mirjam Theelen1,2,3, Henk Steijvers1, Nicolas Barreau4, Marie Buffière5,6, Guy Brammertz7,8, Robert Jan van Vugt9, Zeger Vroon1, Miro Zeman2 1TNO Solliance, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, 3M2i, Delft, Netherlands, 4Institut des Máterieaux Jean Rouxel (IMN)-UMR, Nantes, France, 5imec Solliance, Leuven, Belgium, 6KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium, 7imec IMOMEC Solliance, Diepenbeek, Belgium, 8Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium, 9Eternal Sun, Delft, Netherlands


(938) Optical Model Derivation for CIGS and Application to an Optical Monitoring System Sravan Sunkoju, Sandra B. Schujman, Jonathan R. Mann, John Wax, David J. Metacarpa, Pradeep Haldar U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC), SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Albany, NY, United States


Building Integrated PV and Novel Applications

Chair(s): Wilfried van Sark, Nils Reich, Anton Driesse

8:30 (939) Modeling The Performance Of Amorphous And Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Modules For Different Types Of Bulding Integration Conditions Alessandro Virtuani, Davide Strepparava SUPSI, Canobbio, Switzerland

8:45 (940) Shadow Analysis for BIPV and PIPV Systems in a Virtual Environment

Anton J Veldhuis, Angele Reinders University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands

9:00 (941) Real Life Lab BIPV field testing in the Netherlands

Michiel Ritzen1,2, Zeger Vroon1,3, Ronald Rovers1, Chris Geurts3, Bert Blocken2 1Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, Heerlen, Netherlands, 2Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 3TNO, Delft / Eindhoven, Netherlands

9:15 (942) Concept of a Split Tandem Photovoltaic Window

Marc Jobin, Cedric Pellodi

9:30 (943) Demonstration of PV modules with lightweight mounting systems on commercial rooftops Ankush Halbe, Kevin Sharpe, Graeme Housser, David Metacarpa, Pradeep Haldar SUNY Polytechnic Institite, Albany, NY, United States

9:45 (944) When PV modules are becoming real building elements: White solar module, a revolution for BIPV

Laure-Emmanuelle Perret-Aebi CSEM SA, Jaquet-Droz 1, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland


PID and Voltage Stress Effects

Chair(s): Vivek Gade, Michael Kempe

8:30 (945) Towards a PID Test Standard: Understanding and Modeling of Laboratory Tests and Field Progression Max B. Koentopp, Christian Taubitz, Marcel Kröber Hanwha Q CELLS GmbH, Bitterfeld, Germany

9:00 (946) Accelerated Testing and Modeling of Potential Induced Degradation as a Function of Temperature and

Relative Humidity Peter Hacke1, Sergiu Spataru2, Kent Terwilliger1, Greg Perrin1, Stephen Glick1, Sarah Kurtz1, John Wohlgemuth1 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

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9:15 (947) Evaluation of “PID 1500V Ready” modules: a new test protocol Benoit Braisaz1, Khalid Radouane2 1EDF R&D, Ecuelles, France, 2EDF EN, La Défense, France


(948) Quantum Efficiency Loss after PID Stress: Wavelength Dependence on Cell Surface and Cell Edge Jaewon Oh1, 2, Stuart Bowden1, GovindaSamy TamizhMani2, Peter Hacke3 1Solar Power Laboratory, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 2Photovoltaic Reliability Laboratory, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ, United States, 3National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

9:45 (949) Outdoor degradation of CdTe modules at open circuit and at maximum power point

Kostas Sinapis1, Georgios Papageorgiou2, Ken Durose2, Menno van den Donker1, Wiep Folkerts1 1Solar Energy Application Centre, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy - University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Break 10:00 - 10:30 AM Empire Ballroom Foyer (Level 2)

Coffee Break


Advances in Buffer Layers and back contact Engineering

Chair(s): James Sites, Vikash Ranjan

10:30 (950) Towards a better understanding of the use of additives in Zn(S,O,OH) deposition bath for high efficiency Cu(In,Ga)Se2-based solar cells Thibaud Hildebrandt1, Nicolas Loones1, Muriel Bouttemy2, Jackie Vigneron2, Arnaud Etcheberry2, Daniel Lincot1, Negar Naghavi1 1IRDEP, Chatou, France, 2ILV UVSQ, Versailles, France

11:00 (951) Rear surface optimization of CZTS solar cells by use of a passivation layer with nano-sized point

openings Bart Vermang1,2, Yi Ren1, Jonathan Joel1, Christopher Frisk1, Olivier Donzel-Gargand1, Pedro Salomé3, Jérôme Borme3, Sascha Sadewasser3, Charlotte Platzer-Björkman1, Marika Edoff1 1Ångström Solar Center, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, 2Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 3Nanostructured Solar Cells, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal

11:15 (952) Structural and Chemical Characterization of the Back Contact Region in High Efficiency CdTe Solar

Cells Ali Abbas1, Daniel M. Meysing2,3, Jiaojiao Li2, Joseph D. Beach2, Teresa M. Barnes3, John M. Walls2, Colin A. Wolden2 1Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom, 2Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, 3National renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

11:30 (953) Back Contact Band Offset Study Of Mo-CZTS Based Solar Cell Structure By Using XPS/UPS

Techniques Tara P Dhakal1, Steve Harvey2, Maikel van Hest2, Glenn Teeter2 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Center for Autonomous Solar Power (CASP) Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, United States, 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO, United States

11:45 (954) VOC Enhancement of Sub-micron CIGS Solar Cells by Sulfization of the Mo Surface.

Kihwan Kim1,2, Peipei Xin1, Jaeho Yun2, William N. Shafarman1 1University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, 2Korea Institute of Energy Research, Daejeon, South Korea

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Silicon Material: Technology

Chair(s): Frederic Dross, Paul Stradins

10:30 (955) Invited: Economics of Future Growth in Photovoltaics Manufacturing Paul A. Basore1, Donald Chung1, Tonio Buonassisi2 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States


(956) High Efficiency Multicrystalline Silicon Solar Cells: Potential of n-type Doping Florian Schindler, Jonas Schön, Bernhard Michl, Stephan Riepe, Patricia Krenckel, Jan Benick, Frank Feldmann, Martin Hermle, Stefan Glunz, Wilhelm Warta, Martin Schubert Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), Freiburg, Germany

11:15 (957) Indium-Doped Mono-Crystalline Silicon Substrates Exhibiting Negligible Lifetime Degradation

Following Light Soaking Martin J Binns1, Jesse Appel1, Jason Guo1, Jihong Chen2, T.N. Swaminathan1, Henry Hieslmair1, Ethan A Good1 1SunEdison Inc, St. Peters, MO, United States, 2Silfex, Eaton, OH, United States

11:30 (958) Structural Control of Dendrite Crystals in Practical Size Silicon Ingots Grown by Floating Cast Method

Isao Takahashi, Supawan Joonwichien, Hiramatsu Takuya, Satoru Matsushima, Noritaka Usami Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

11:45 (959) High Performance Multicrystalline Wafers with Lifetime of 400µs at Industrial Scale

Zhen Xiong, Zhiqiang Zhang, Hongliang Ye, Shaoyong Fu, Zhiqiang Feng, Pierre J. Verlinden State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology, Changzhou Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd., Changzhou, China


Perovskite Materials and Devices (II)

Chair(s): Michael Heben, Carnie Matthew

10:30 (960) High Efficiency Millimeter-Scale Crystalline Perovskite Solar Cells Aditya Mohite1, Wanyi Nie1, Hsinhan Tsai1, Reza Asadpour2, Jean-Christophe Blancon1, Amanda Neukirch1, Gautam Gupta1, Jared Crochet1, Manish Chhowalla3, Muhammad Alam2, Hsing-Lin Wang1, Sergei Tretiak1 1Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, 2Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, 3Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

11:00 (961) Real-space distribution of the electrical potential in planar and porous perovskite solar cells: carrier

separation and transport C.-S. Jiang1, M. Yang1, Y. Zhou2, B. To1, S.U. Nanayakkara1, J.M. Luther1, W. Zhou3, N.P. Padture2, K. Zhu1, M.M. Al-Jassim1 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 2Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, 3University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, United States

11:15 (962) Effects of domain size in polycrystalline perovskite organic-inorganic hybrids investigated by spatially

resolved optical spectroscopy Henan Liu1, Qiong Chen2, Hui-Seon Kim3, Nam-Gyu Park3, Yong Zhang1,2 1Optical Science and Engineering Ph.D program, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States, 2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and EPIC, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States, 3School of Chemical Engineering and Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea

11:30 (963) Highly Reproducible Vapor Deposition Technique, Device Physics And Instability Of Perovskite Solar

cells Vikram Dalal, Hisham Abbas, Ranjith Kottokkaran, Andrew Kitahara, Balaji Ganapathy, Liang Zhang Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States

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11:45 (964) Photo-stability of Crystalline Large-Grain Planar Perovskite Solar Cell Wanyi Nie1, Hsinhan Tsai2, Hsing-Lin Wang1, Gautam Gupta1, Aditya Mohite1 1Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, 2Rice University, Houston, TX, United States


System Performance Rating and Monitoring

Chair(s): Clifford Hansen, Rob Andrews, Joshua Stein

10:30 (965) Visualization of Operational Performance of Grid-Connected PV Systems in selected European Countries Panagiotis Moraitis, Bhayva B Kausika, Wilfried GJHM van Sark Utrecht University, Copernicus Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands

10:45 (966) On-site Performance Verification Services to Significantly Reduce PV Energy Yield Prediction

Uncertainties Björn Müller, Boris Farnung, Wolfgang Heydenreich, Klaus Kiefer, Nils Reich Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany

11:00 (967) Real-time Series Resistance Monitoring in PV Systems without the Need for IV Curves

Michael G. Deceglie, Timothy J Silverman, Bill Marion, Sarah R. Kurtz National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

11:15 (968) Monitoring Current, Voltage and Power in Photovoltaic Power Systems

Anton Driesse1, Joshua Stein2, Daniel Riley2, Craig Carmignani2 1PV Performance Labs, Freiburg, Germany, 2Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States

11:30 (969) In-Situ Module-Level I-V Tracers for Novel PV Monitoring

Jimmy E. Quiroz1, Josh S. Stein1, Craig K. Carmignani1, Kellen Gillispie2 1Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, 2Stratasense LLC, Sunnyvale, CA, United States


Module Materials and Component Durability

Chair(s): John Wohlgemuth, Michael Koehl, Bill Shisler

10:30 (970) Evaluation of the Durability of Flexible Barrier Materials Michael D. Kempe1, Dylan L. Nobles1, Mark D. Weigel2, Alan K. Nachtigal2, Mark A. Roehrig2, Tracie J. Berniard2, Joseph C. Spagnola2, Charlene M. Schubert2 1NREL, Golden, CO, United States, 23M, Saint Paul, MN, United States


(971) Predicting Service Life of Bypass Diodes in Photovoltaic Modules Narendra S. Shiradkar1, Vivek S. Gade2 1Florida Solar Energy Center, University of Central Florida, Cocoa, FL, United States, 2Jabil Circuit Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, United States

11:00 (972) Degradation in PV Encapsulation Transmittance: An Interlaboratory Study Towards a Climate-Specific

Test David C Miller1, Eleonora Annigoni2, Amal Ballion3, Jayesh G Bokria4, Laura S Bruckman5, David M Burns6, Lamont Elliott7, Roger H French5, Sean Fowler8, Xiaohong Gu9, Christian C Honeker10, Michael D Kempe1, Hussam Khonkar11, Michael Köhl3, Peter J Krommenhoek9, Laure-Emmanuelle Perret-Aebi2 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO, United States, 2École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 3Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, Germany, 4Specialized Technology Resources, Inc. (STR), Enfield, CT, United States, 5Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland, OH, United States, 6The 3M Company, St. Paul, MN, United States, 7Atlas Material Testing Technology LLC, Mount Prospect, IL, United States, 8Q-Lab Corporation, Cleveland, OH, United States, 9National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, United States, 10Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable

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Energy Systems (CSE), Boston, MA, United States, 11King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

11:15 (973) Tests of functional coatings on glass adapted to extreme – arid and maritime - climatic conditions for

solar energy systems Elisabeth Klimm, Karl-Anders Weiss, Michael Koehl, Bastian Spiegelhalter, Laura Ost, Markus Heck Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany

11:30 (974) Ultra-violet radiation Round Robin testing of various back-sheets for PV-modules

Michael Koehl1, Amal Ballion1, Yu-Hsien Lee2, Hung-Sen Wu2, Kurt Scott3, Stephen Glick4, Peter Hacke4 1Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany, 2ITRI, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 3Ametek, Mount Prospect, IL, United States, 4NREL, Golden, CO, United States

11:45 (975) Degradation of Poly(ethylene-terephthalate) under Accelerated Weathering Exposures

Abdulkerim Gok, Cara Fagerholm, Devin Gordon, Laura Bruckman, Roger French Case Western Reserve University Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cleveland, OH, United States


Joint Area 1,3,4 & 7: III-V on Si via Non-III-V Buffers and Bonding

Chair(s): Thomas Hannappel, Stephen Bremner

10:30 (976) III-V/SiGe on Si Radiation Hard Space Cells with Voc>2.6V Andrew M Carlin, Eugene A Fitzgerald, Steven A Ringel 4Power LLC, Salem, NH, United States

11:00 (977) Development of highly-efficient GaInP/Si Tandem Solar Cells

Stephanie Essig1, John F. Geisz1, Myles A. Steiner1, Agnes Merkle2, Robby Peibst2, Jan Schmidt2, Rolf Brendel2, Scott Ward1, Daniel J. Friedman1, Pauls Stradins1, David L. Young1 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO, United States, 2Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH), Emmerthal, Germany

11:15 (978) Growth and characterization of GaAsP top cells for high efficiency III-V/Si tandem PV

Timothy J Milakovich1, Rushabh D Shah1, Sabina A Hadi2, Ammar Nayfeh2, Mayank T Bulsara1, Eugene A Fitzgerald1 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, 2Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

11:30 (979) AlGaAs/Si dual-junction tandem solar cells fabricated by epitaxial lift-off and print transfer-assisted

bonding Kanglin Xiong1, Hongyi Mi1, Tzu-hsuan Chang1, Meng-Yin Wu2, Shaoqin Gong3, Weidong Zhou4, Michael Arnold2, Hao-Chih Yuan5, Zhenqiang Ma1 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, 3Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, 4Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas-Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, 5National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

11:45 (980) Current matched GaAsP/SiGe tandem device on Si over 20% efficiency under indoor measurement

Li Wang1, Brianna Conrad1, Anastasia Soeriyadi 1, Martin Diaz1, Xin Zhao1, Dun Li1, Anthony Lochtefeld2, Andrew Gerger2, Chris Ebert3, Ivan Perez-Wurfl1, Allen Barnett1 1UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia, 2AmberWave Inc., Salem, NH, United States, 3Veeco MOCVD, Somerset, NJ, United States

FRIDAY, JUNE 19TH

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10:30 - 12:00 PM Strand 13 (Level 2) Joint Area 2 & 8: Characterization of Chalcopyrite and Kesterite Photovoltaics

Chair(s): Laurent Lombez, Marina S. Leite

10:30 (981) Advanced in situ characterization of phase formation for Cu2ZnSnS4 solar absorber material Osama M Awadallah, Zhe Cheng Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States

10:45 (982) Characterization of Surface Potential and Capacitance on CdS/Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Multi-layers by KFM and

EFM Tomoaki Ishii1, Takashi Minemoto3, Takuji Takahashi1,2 1Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Japan, 2Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics, The University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Japan, 3College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu-shi, Japan

11:00 (983) Cryo-Cathodoluminescence Study of Cu2ZnSnS4 Thin Films

Elizabeth A. Pogue1, Samual J. Wilson2, James C. Mabon1, Tim J. Anderson2, Glenn R. Teeter3, Allen J. Hall1, Angus A. Rockett1 1University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, Urbana, IL, United States, 2University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, 3National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States

11:15 (984) Latest Developments in the X-Ray Based Characterization of Thin-Film Solar Cells

Michael Stuckelberger1, Bradley West1, Sebastian Husein1, Harvey Guthrey2, Mowafak Al-Jassim2, Rupak Chakraborty3, Tonio Buonassisi3, Jörg M. Maser4, Barry Lai4, Benjamin Stripe4, Volker Rose4,5, Mariana Bertoni1 1School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, 2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, 3Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, 4Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, 5Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States

11:30 (985) Imaging EQE in CIGS Solar Cells with High Spatial Resolution

Elizabeth Tennyson1,2, Jesse Frantz3, Jason Myers3, Robel Bekele3, Jas Sanghera4, Suok-Min Na5, Alison Flatau5, Marina Leite1,2 1Department of Materials Science and Eng. , College Park, MD, United States, 2IREAP, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, 3U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, 4University Research Foundation, Greenbelt, MD, United States, 5Department of Aerospace and Eng. , College Park, MD, United States

11:45 (986) Development of Scanning Capacitance Spectroscopy of CIGS solar cells

Chuanxiao Xiao1, Helio Moutinho1, Chunsheng Jiang1, Yanfa Yan2, Dean Levi1, Mowafak Al-Jassim1 1National Renewable Energy Laboratroy, Golden, CO, United States, 2The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States

Keynote - Plenary

12:15 - 1:00 PM Empire A (Level 2) Closing Ceremony

12:15 (987) Closing Remarks - Steven A. Ringel

12:20 (988) Technical Highlights - Alexandre Freundlich

12:40 (989) PVSC Napkin Award Presentation

Steven A. Ringel 12:45 (990) Best Poster and Student Paper Awards

Kyle Montgomery 12:50 (991) Upcoming Conference Announcements

Steven A. Ringel

1:00 (992) Closing of Conference Steven A. Ringel

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