IEEE PVSC 49 - Philadelphia, PA

TECHNICAL PROGRAM

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Thursday, June 9th

7:30 - 3:30 PM

MEETING: SPEAKER READY

203B

8:30 - 9:00 AM

AREA 1: PLENARY - HYBRID TANDEM SOLAR CELLS: OPPORTUNITIES BEYOND TWO TERMINALS
Chair/Organizer: Elisa Antolin

Ballroom B

Hybrid tandem solar cells: Opportunities beyond two terminals
Emily Warren. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA

9:00 - 9:30 AM

AREA 10: PLENARY - SOLAR FORECASTING: ITS DEPENDENCE ON ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GRID INTEGRATION
Chair/Organizer: Ian Marius Peters

Ballroom B

Plenary Presenter:
Jan Kleissl. Johns Hopkins University , USA

Plenary Speaker:
Dazhi Yang. Harbin Institute of Technology, China

9:30 - 10:00 AM

AREA 5: PLENARY - OPERANDO SCIENCE: THE EMERGING ROLE OF X-RAY IMAGING AND SPECTROSCOPY
Chair/Organizer: Paul Ndione

Ballroom B

Operando Science: the Emerging Role of X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy
Mariana Bertoni. Arizona State University, USA , USA

10:00 - 10:30 AM

BREAK: COFFEE BREAK / EXHIBITS

Grand Hall/Foyer

10:30 - 12:00 PM

AREA 2: CONTACTS IN CHALCOGENIDES
Chair/Organizer: Amit Munshi, Dr. Thomas Weiss

201 B

10:30

Best Student Presentation Award Finalist - Alternative Rear Contacts for Ultrathin CdSexTe1-x Solar Cells
Berengere Frouin¹, Andrea Cattoni¹, John Moseley², David Albin², Joel Duenow², Abderrahime Sekkat³, David Munoz-Rojas³, Stephane Collin¹. ¹Centre de Nanosciences et Nanotechnologies (C2N), CNRS, Universite Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau, *, France.²National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Boulder, CO, USA.³Universite Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, Laboratoire des Materiaux et du Genie Physique (LMGP), Grenoble, *, France

10:45

Tellurium Oxide as a Back-Contact Buffer layer for CdTe Solar Cells
Camden L Kasik, Ramesh Pandey, Akash Shah, James R Sites. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

11:00

Flexible CdTe/MgCdTe Double-Heterostructure Solar Cells Made from Epitaxial Lift-off Thin Films
Xin Qi, Jia Ding, Zheng Ju, Stephen Schaefer, Yong-Hang Zhang. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

11:15

Best Student Presentation Award Finalist - Amorphous Manganese Sulfide Enables Efficient and Stable All-Inorganic Antimony Selenosulfide Solar Cells
Chen Qian¹, Jianjun Li¹, Kaiwen Sun¹, Chenhui Jiang², Jialiang Huang¹, Rongfeng Tang², Martin Green¹, Bram Hoex¹, Tao Chen², Xiaojing Hao¹. ¹University of New South Wales, Sydeny, *, Australia.²University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, *, China

11:30

Bandgap Dependence of Near-Conduction Band State in (AgyCu1-y)(InxGa1-x)Se2 Solar Cells
Michael F Miller¹, Alexandra M Bothwell², Nicholas Valdes^{3, 6}, Stefan Paetel⁴, Rouin Farshchi^{5, 6}, Ana Kanevce⁴, William Shafarman³, Darius Kuciauskas², Aaron R Arehart¹. ¹Department of Electrical a Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.²National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA.³Department of Materials Science a Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.⁴Zentrum fur Sonnenenergie-und Wasserstoff-Forschung (ZSW), Stuttgart, *, Germany.⁵MiaSole Hi-Tech Corp., Santa Clara, CA, USA.⁶First Solar, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA

11:45

Use of a Selenium-Telluride Alloy as a Back Interface for CdTe-Based Cells
Daniel Z. Shaw, Camden L. Kasik, Andrew C. Treglia, James R. Sites. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

AREA 3: CONCEPTS FOR III-V PHOTOVOLTAICS IN ALL ENVIRONMENTS
Chair/Organizer: Yao Lao, Ignacio Ant�n

204 C

10:30

Progress and Demonstration of Micro-CPV Module with Integrated Planar Tracking and Diffuse Light Collection
Steve A Askins¹, Guido Vallerotto¹, Cesar Dominguez¹, Mathilde Duchemin², Gael Nardin², Mathieu Ackermann², Delphine Petri³, Matthieu Despeisse³, Jacques Levrat³, Xavier Niquille⁴, Christophe Ballif^{3, 4}, Juan F Martinez⁵, Marc Steiner⁵, Gerald Siefer⁵, Ignacio Anton¹. ¹Instituto de Energia Solar - UPM, Madrid, *, Spain.²Insolight SA, Renens, *, Switzerland.³CSEM PV-Center, Neuchatel, *, Switzerland.⁴EPFL PVLab, Lausanne, *, Switzerland.⁵Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, *, Germany

11:00

Curvilinear Prismatic Window Which Eliminates Glare and Reduces Front-Surface Reflections for PV Modules and Other Surfaces
Mark O'Neill¹, Chris Youtsey². ¹Mark O'Neill, LLC, Fort Worth, TX, USA.²MicroLink Devices, Niles, IL, USA

11:15

Development and Qualification of IMMβ and Z4J+, Radiation Hard III-V Solar cells
John T Hart, Dan Aiken, Zac Bittner, Ben Cho, Daniel Derkacs, Khalid Emshadi, Andrew Espenlaub, Frank Fencl, Jeremy Leshin, Ahmad Mansoori, Nate Miller, Pravin Patel, Albert Perry, Janine Walker. Solaero by Rocket Lab, Albuquerque, NM, USA

11:30

High Altitude Flight Results using Selenium, A PV Measurement Ecosystem
Don Walker, Colin J. Mann, John Nocerino, Kevin Lopez, Alexandra Pettengill, Jonathan Ortiz, Katrina Baumgarten, Misha Dowd, Yao Lao, Simon H. Liu. The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, USA

11:45

InAs Thermophotovoltaic Cells with Low Reverse Saturation Current
Eric J. Tervo, Andrew J. Ferguson, Myles A. Steiner, Ryan M. France. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA

AREA 4: METALLIZATION, INTERCONNECTION, MODULE INTEGRATION, RECYCLING/SUSTAINABILITY, NOVEL PV INTEGRATIONS, ADVANCED LIGHT MANAGEMENT
Chair/Organizer: Johnson Wong, Aurora Solar Technologies, Andr� Augusto, ASU

201 C

10:30

A Silicon learning curve and polysilicon requirements for broad-electrification with photovoltaics by 2050
Brett Hallam¹, Moonyong Kim¹, Robert Underwood¹, Storm Drury¹, Li Wang¹, Pablo R Dias^{1, 2}. ¹School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, *, Australia.²UFRGS, Porto Alegre, *, Brazil

11:00

Best Student Presentation Award Finalist - Light Trapping Characteristics of Photonic Crystal Constructs and Randomly Textured Thin Silicon
Sara M. Almenabawy¹, Yibo Zhang¹, Rajiv Prinja¹, Nazir P. Kherani^{1, 2}. ¹Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.²Department of Materials Science a Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

11:15

Short Drying Processes for Silicon Solar Cells
Daniel Ourinson, Michael Linse, Markus Klawitter, Andreas Lorenz. Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, *, Germany

11:30

DIrect Sunlight into CO conversion
Thierry de Vrijer, Arno Smets. Delft University of Technology, Delft, *, Netherlands

AREA 6: ADVANCED CHARACTERIZATION OF PEROVSKITES SOLAR CELLS AND TANDEMS
Chair/Organizer: Axel Palmstrom, David Fenning

204 A

10:30

Potentiostatic Photoluminescence Imaging of Charge Extraction in Perovskite Solar Cells
Lukas Wagner^{1, 2}, Patrick Schygulla^{1, 2}, Jan Philipp Herterich^{1, 3}, Mohamed Elshamy¹, Dmitry Bogachuk^{1, 2}, Salma Zouhair^{1, 4}, Simone Mastroianni^{1, 3}, Uli Wurfel^{1, 3}, Yuhang Liu⁵, Shaik M. Zakeeruddin⁵, Michael Gratzel⁵, Andreas Hinsch¹, Stefan W. Glunz^{1, 2, 3}. ¹Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, *, Germany.²Laboratory for Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, *, Germany.³Freiburg Materials Research Center FMF, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, *, Germany.⁴Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tangier, *, Morocco.⁵Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces (LPI), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, *, Switzerland

11:00

Photon recycling and luminescent coupling in all-perovskite tandem solar cells quantified by full opto-electronic device simulation
Urs Aeberhard^{1, 2}, Simon J. Zeder^{1, 3}, Beat Ruhstaller^{1, 4}. ¹Fluxim AG, Winterthur, *, Switzerland.²Integrated Systems Lab, ETHZ, Zurich, *, Switzerland.³PV-Lab, EPFL, Neuchatel, *, Switzerland.⁴Zurich Unversity of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, *, Switzerland

11:15

Towards a Shade Tolerant Monolithically Interconnected Perovskite Module for use in Four Terminal Tandem Devices
Klaas Bakker¹, Jacopo Sala², Mehrdad Najafi¹, Michael Daenen², Bart Geerligs³. ¹TNO partner in Solliance, Eindhoven, *, Netherlands.²Universiteit Hasselt, Hasselt, *, Belgium.³TNO, Petten, *, Netherlands

11:30

Deleterious Effect of Light Trapping on the Temperatures of Solar Modules
Nicholas P. Irvin¹, D. Martinez Escobar², Aaron Wheeler³, Tomas Leijtens³, Hyunjong Lee³, Annikki Santala¹, Richard R. King¹, Christiana B. Honsberg¹, Sarah R. Kurtz¹. ¹Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.²University of California Merced, Merced, CA, USA.³Swift Solar, San Carlos, CA, USA

11:45

Current or power matching? A third option for monolithic all-perovskite tandem solar cells
Yuan Gao¹, Renxing Lin², Ke Xiao², Xin Luo², Jin Wen², Xu Yue³, Hairen Tan². ¹Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.²National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, *, China.³Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment Monitoring and Pollution Control, Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Sci, Nanjing, *, China

AREA 7: SYSTEM DESIGN, OPTIMIZATION AND PERFORMANCE
Chair/Organizer: Michael Woodhouse, Sarah Kurtz

204 B

10:30

Photovoltaic Surfaces to Reverse Global Warming
Christiana B. Honsberg¹, Stuart G. Bowden¹, Ian R. Sellers², Richard R. King¹, Stephen M. Goodnick¹. ¹Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.²University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

10:45

Single-Axis Tracker Control Optimization Potential for the Contiguous United States
Kevin S Anderson¹, Saurabh P Aneja². ¹NREL, Golden, CO, USA.²FTC Solar, Austin, TX, USA

11:00

Potential Capacity and Targeted Costs for Floating Photovoltaics in North America
Leonardo Micheli. University of Jaen, Jaen, *, Spain

11:15

Strategies to Optimize and Validate Tracking Performance of Single-Axis Trackers on Diffuse Sites
Kendra PassowKyumin Lee, Sanket Shah, Daniel Fusaro, Jon Sharp. Array Technologies Inc, Albuquerque, NM, USA

11:30

Best Student Presentation Award Finalist - Vertical Bifacial Solar Panels as a Candidate for Solar Canal Design
Jeremiah B Reagan, Sarah Kurtz. UC Merced, Merced, CA, USA

11:45

Techno-economic Analysis of Novel PV Plant Designs for Extreme Cost Reductions
Christian N. Pilot, Robin B. Bedilion, Daniel J. Fregosi, Sean Hackett, Michael L. Bolen, Joseph W. Stekli. Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Palo Alto, CA, USA

JOINT AREA SESSION: AREA 8.6/11.5 - MODULE AND SYSTEM RELIABILITY IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Chair/Organizer: Karl-Anders Weiss, Gernot Oreski

Ballroom B

10:30

Metallic Lead Recovery Via Electrowinning from Lead Acetate for Silicon Solar Module Recycling
Natalie A Click, Meng Tao. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

10:45

Evaluating the Environmental Benefit of Residential Photovoltaic Modules Early Retirement in California
Mallika Kothari, Annick Anctil. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

11:00

Best Student Presentation Award Finalist - Quantifying Energy flows in PV Circularity Processes
Heather Mirletz^{1, 2}, Silvana Ovaitt¹, Ashley Gaulding¹, Seetharaman Sridhar², Teresa Barnes¹. ¹National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA.²Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA

11:15

Sustainability of PV Repowering
Ian Marius Peters, Jens Hauch, Christoph Brabec. FZ Julich, Erlange, *, Germany

11:30

Environmental and Circularity Considerations in Solar Photovoltaic Module Design and Product Development
Chris Powicki¹Wayne Li², Cara Libby². ¹Water Energy Ecology Information a Design Services, Inc., Brewster, MA, USA.²Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, USA

12:00 - 1:30 PM

SPECIAL SESSION: WOMEN IN PV LUNCH (TICKET REQUIRED)

201A

1:30 - 3:00 PM

AREA 6: SCALE-UP AND SCALABLE PROCESSING OF PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS
Chair/Organizer: Dak Dou, Jeffrey Christians

201 B

1:30

Best Student Presentation Award Finalist - Precursor Ink Design for Scalable Fabrication of Perovskite Solar Cells via High-Speed Flexography
Julia E Huddy, Youxiong Ye, William J Scheideler. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

1:45

A machine vision tool for facilitating the optimization of large-area perovskite photovoltaics
Mathilde Fievez¹, Nina Taherimakhsousi², Benjamin P. MacLeod², Edward P. Booker², Muriel Matheron¹, Matthieu Manceau¹, Stephane Cros¹, Solenn Berson¹, Curtis P. Berlinguette². ¹CEA, Le Bourget du lac, *, France.²UBC, Vancouver, DC, Canada

2:00

Performance and stability of electrodeposited mixed perovskites MAPbI3-xClx and MA1-yFAyPbI3-xBrx
Mirella Al KatribEmilie Planes, Lara Perrin. Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LEPMI, Grenoble, *, France

AREA 7: STRATEGIES FOR PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND RATING
Chair/Organizer: Keith McIntosh, Kevin Anderson

204 B

1:30

Effective Irradiance Monitoring Using Reference Modules
Jennifer L. Braid¹, Joshua S. Stein¹Bruce H. King¹, Christopher Raupp², Jaya Mallineni², Justin Robinson³, Steve Knapp³. ¹Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA.²SOLV Energy, San Diego, CO, USA.³GroundWork Renewables, Holladay, UT, USA

1:45

Intelligent cloud-based monitoring and control digital twin for photovoltaic power plants
Andreas Livera¹, Georgios Paphitis¹, Loucas Pikolos¹, Ioannis Papadopoulos¹, Javier Lopez-Lorente¹, George Makrides¹, Juergen Sutterlueti², George E. Georghiou ¹. ¹PV Technology Laboratory, FOSS Reseacrh Centre for Sustainable Energy, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, *, Cyprus.²Gantner Instruments GmbH, Schruns, *, Austria

2:00

Best Student Presentation Award Finalist - Measuring Irradiance with Bifacial Reference Panels
Nicholas Riedel-Lyngskar¹, Jan Vedde², Peter B. Poulsen¹, Sergiu Spataru¹. ¹Technical University of Denmark, Department of Photonics Engineering, Roskilde, *, Denmark.²European Energy A/S, Soborg, *, Denmark

2:15

Ongoing performance assessment strategies & operational challenges when managing hundreds of distributed photovoltaic assets across Asia
Andre M Nobre, Anusha Agarwal, Sai Pranav. Cleantech Solar, Singapore, *, Singapore

2:30

PVRPM in Python: An overview of new capabilities
Paul Lunis¹, Brandon Silva¹, Marios Theristis²Hubert Seigneur¹. ¹Florida Solar Energy Center, Cocoa, FL, USA.²Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM, USA

AREA 8: ACCELERATED TESTING
Chair/Organizer: Gernot Oreski, Michael Owen-Bellini

204 A

1:30

Corrosion testing of solar cells: Insights to wear-out mechanisms
Andrew Fairbrother¹, Luca Gnocchi¹, Christophe Ballif^{1, 2}Alessandro Virtuani¹. ¹EPFL, Neuchatel, *, Switzerland.²CSEM, Neuchatel, *, Switzerland

1:45

Overall Performance Losses and Activated Mechanisms in Double Glass and Glass-backsheet Photovoltaic Modules with Monofacial and Bifacial PERC Cells, under Accelerated Exposures
Jiqi Liu¹, Sameera Nalin Venkat¹, Jennifer L. Braid², Xuanji Yu¹, Brenton Brownell⁴, Xinjun Li⁴, Jean-Nicolas Jaubert³, Kaushik Roy Choudhury⁵, Laura S. Bruckman¹, Roger H. French¹. ¹SDLE Research Center, Materials Science Department, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.²Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA.³CSI Solar Co. Ltd., Suzhou, *, China.⁴Cybrid Technologies Inc., Suzhou, *, China.⁵DuPont, Electronics and Imaging, Shanghai, *, China

2:00

Exposing Unencapsulated Silicon Photovoltaic Cells to Environmental Stressors to Accelerate Cycles of Learning
Ina T. Martin¹, Nitin K. Chockalingam¹, Kehley A. Coleman¹, Jeffrie Fina¹, Nafis Iqbal²Kristopher O. Davis², Laura S. Bruckman¹. ¹Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.²University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

2:15

Best Student Presentation Award Finalist - Role of back-side indium tin oxide on the degradation mechanism of silicon heterojunction solar cells
Gbenga D. Obikoya^{1, 2}, Anishkumar Soman^{1, 2}, Ujjwal K. Das^{1, 2}, Steven S. Hegedus^{1, 2}. ¹Institute of Energy Conversion, Newark, DE, USA.²Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Newark, DE, USA

2:30

Millions of Small Pressure Cycles Drive Damage in Cracked Solar Cells
Timothy J Silverman¹, Nick Bosco¹, Michael Owen-Bellini¹, Cara Libby², Michael G Deceglie¹. ¹National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA.²Electric Power Research Institute, Washington, DC, USA

2:45

Degradation of Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Modules Installed in Different Climates
Chiara Barretta¹, Astrid E. Macher¹, Julian Ascencio-Vasquez^{2, 3}, Marc Kontges⁴, Marko Topia#269³, Gernot Oreski¹. ¹Polymer Competence Center Leoben GmbH (PCCL), Leoben, *, Austria.²Envision Digital, Redwood City, CA, USA.³Laboratory of Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, *, Slovenia.⁴Institut fur Solarenergieforschung, Emmerthal, *, Germany

JOINT AREA SESSION: AREA 5.5/7.6 AND 5.7/8.4 - ADVANCED CHARACTERIZATIONS AND RELIABILITY OF PV MODULES AND SYSTEMS
Chair/Organizer: Mani Tamizhmani, Roger French

204 C

1:30

Near-Busbar Degradation of Screen-Printed Metallization in Silicon Photovoltaic Modules
Dana B. Sulas-Kern¹, Helio Moutinho¹, Tristan Erion-Lorico², Steve Johnston¹. ¹National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA.²PV Evolution Labs, Napa, CA, USA

1:45

Magnetic Field Imaging (MFI) of Shingle Solar Modules
Julian Weber¹, Stephan Hoffmann¹, Kai Kaufmann², Angela De Rose¹. ¹Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg, *, Germany.²DENKweit GmbH, Halle (Saale), *, Germany

2:00

Electroluminescence Analysis and Grading of Hail Damaged Solar Panels
Andrew M. Gabor¹, Phillip J. Knodle¹, Maurice Covino¹, Dylan J. Colvin², Kristopher O. Davis². ¹BrightSpot Automation LLC, Westford, MA, USA.²University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

2:15

Moisture Ingress and Distribution in Bifacial Silicon Photovoltaics
Rishi E Kumar¹, Tala Sidawi¹, Ian M Slauch², Rico Meier², Mariana I Bertoni², David P Fenning¹. ¹University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.²Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

2:30

Spectral rear irradiance testing and modeling for degradation and performance of solar fields
Silvana Ovaitt, Matthew Brown, Chris Deline, Mike Kempe. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA

2:45

Panel Segmentation: A Python Package for Automated Solar Array Metadata Extraction using Satellite Imagery
Kirsten Perry, Christopher Campos. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Lakewood, CO, USA

JOINT AREA SESSION: AREA 9.5/10.3/11.4 - TOWARDS 100% RENEWABLES II
Chair/Organizer: Ian Marius Peters, Marta Victoria

Ballroom B

1:30

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF RECYCLING IN THE SOLAR TERAWATT FUTURE?
Pablo R Dias^{1, 2}, Moonyong Kim¹, Alison Lennon^{1, 3}, Brett Hallam¹. ¹UNSW, Sydney, *, Australia.²UFRGS, Porto Alegre, *, Brazil.³SunDrive, Sydney, *, Australia

1:45

Experiences of PV Hosting Capacity Estimation at Scale
Wenbo Wang, Daniel Thom, Kwami Senam Sedzro, Sherin Abraham, Yiyun Yao, Jianli Gu, Shibani Ghosh. National Renewable Energy Lab, Lakewood, CO, USA

2:00

Observations of a Colorado Electric-Utility Resource Plan for Increasing Renewables from 55% to 80% by 2030
Ronald A. Sinton. Sinton Instruments, Boulder, CO, USA

2:15

Current & Future Photovoltaic System Impacts on City-Wide Grid Performance & Neighborhood Microgrids
C. Birk Jones, William Vining, Thad Haines. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA

2:30

Inferring PV System Specifications from Net Load
Upama Nakarmi, Thomas E. Hoff, Marc Perez, Philip Gruenhagen. Clean Power Research, Napa, CA, USA

3:00 - 3:30 PM

BREAK: COFFEE BREAK

Grand Hall/Foyer

3:30 - 5:00 PM

AREA 1: POSTERS - ENGINEERING OF ULTRATHIN SOLAR CELLS AND LIGHT TRAPPING
Chair/Organizer: Muhammad A. Alam, Meghan Beattie, Margaret Stevens

Poster Session 2

J1

Preparation of Plasmonic Ag and Au Nanoparticle Interfaces for Photocurrent Enhancement in Si Solar Cells
Brahim Aissa¹, Adnan Ali¹, Rui N. Pereira ², Mitra Anirbain³. ¹Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Doha, *, Qatar.²University of Aveiro, Aveiro, *, Portugal.³Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, *, India

J2

Fabrication of a Chemically Exfoliated 2D MoS2 Nanoparticle Based Solar Cell
Wafa Alnaqbi, Ayman Rezk, Aisha AlhammadiAmmar Nayfeh. Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, *, United Arab Emirates

J3

Optical absorption of MoS2 based ultrathin solar cells
Carlos Bueno-Blanco, Simon Aurel Svatek, Elisa Antolin. Instituto de Energia Solar. Universidad Politecnica de Madrid., Madrid, *, Spain

J4

Novel 1D van der Waals SbSeI micro-columnar solar cells by a self-catalyzed high pressure process
Ivan Cano-Prades, Alejandro Navarro-Guell, Sergio Giraldo, Joaquim Puigdollers, Marcel PlacidiEdgardo Saucedo. Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, *, Spain

J5

Radiant/non-Radiant Lifetime Switching in Chlorophyll and Application to Energy Storing Photovoltaic Cells
Charles M. Fortmann, Julie B. Liu, Nahian Rahman, Aaron Song, Elizebeth Nazginov, Mia Pancari, Amina Exilhomme.

J6

High-specific-power Schottky-junction photovoltaics from CVD-grown MoS2
Timothy Ismael¹, Kazi M. Islam¹, Muhammad A. Abbas¹, George B. Ingrish¹, Claire E. Luthy¹, Orhan Kizilkaya², Carlos M. Gutierrez³, Meghan E. Bush⁴, Jeremiah S. McNatt⁴, Anthony J. Hoffman³, Matthew D. Escarra¹. ¹Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA.²Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.³University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA.⁴NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, USA

J7

A simple approach to ohmic contacts for transition metal dichalcogenide solar cells
Mario Martinez¹, Simon A. Svatek¹, Carlos Bueno-Blanco¹, Der-Yuh Lin², Ines Duran¹, Antonio Marti¹, Elisa Antolin¹. ¹Instituto de Energia Solar, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, *, Spain.²Department of Electronics Engineering, National Changua University of Education, Changua, *, Taiwan

J8

Diffraction-optimized surface structures for enhanced light harvesting in organic solar cells
Milena Merkel, Joerg Imbrock, Cornelia Denz. Institute of Applied Physics, University of Muenster, Muenster, *, Germany

J9

Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth of CdSe for Si-based Tandem Cell Application
Stephen T Schaefer¹, Zheng Ju², Allison McMinn¹, Xin Qi¹, Yong-Hang Zhang¹. ¹School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.²Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

J10

Optical modeling of light trapping using an ITO-based electrodynamic dust shield structure
Andrey Semichaevsky¹, Nicole Swatton². ¹Lincoln University (PA), Lincoln University, PA, USA.²Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

J12

Embedded superlattices for high photocurrent in Graphene/Oxide/n-GaAs solar cells, at 50 Suns and above
Argyrios Varonides. University of Scranton, Scranton, PA, USA

J13

Slot-die Fabrication of Solution-processed Kesterite Solar Cells for Product Integrated Photovoltaics
Xinya Xu, Matthew C Naylor, Michael Jones, Bethan Ford, Stephen Campbell, Yongtao Qu, Vincent Barrioz, Guillaume ZoppiNeil S Beattie. Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, *, United Kingdom

AREA 6: POSTERS - PEROVSKITE SCALING AND ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS
Chair/Organizer: Jeffrey Christians, Mathilde Fievez, Axel Palmstrom

Poster Session 1

K19

Prediction of Electron Band Gap of A2XY6 Perovskite Compounds using Machine Learning
Jatin Chaudhary¹, Swastik Bhattacharya², Jukka Heikkonen¹, Rajeev Kanth ³. ¹University of Turku, Turku, *, Finland.²University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.³Savonia University of Applied Sciences, KUOPIO, *, Finland

K20

Pathways to High Efficiency Perovskite Monolithic Solar Modules
Xuezeng Dai¹, Shangshang Chen¹, Yehao Deng¹, Allen Wood¹, Guang Yang¹, Chengbin Fei¹, Jinsong Huang^{1, 2}. ¹Department of Applied Physical Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CHAPEL HILL, NC, USA.²Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CHAPEL HILL, NC, USA

L1

Predictive Modeling of Cracks within Flexible Perovskite Thin Films
Melissa A Davis^{1, 2}, Rebekah Sweat^{1, 2}, Zhibin Yu^{1, 2}. ¹Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.²High Performance Materials Institute, Tallahassee, FL, USA

L2

Interrelated Characterizations of 2D/3D Perovskite Solar Cells Aged Under Damp Heat Conditions
Cynthia FARHA¹, Emilie PLANES¹, Lara PERRIN¹, David MARTINEAU², Lionel FLANDIN¹. ¹Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LEPMI, 38000 Grenoble, France, Grenoble, *, France.²Solaronix S.A., Rue de l'Ouriette 129, 1170 Aubonne, Switzerland, Aubonne, *, Switzerland

L4

Complex Refractive Index and Complex Dielectric Function Modeling of Film Stack in Perovskite Solar Cells using Spectroscopic Ellipsometry
Maria Fernanda Villa Bracamonte, Jose Raul Montes Bojorquez, Arturo Ayon. The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

O11

Bandgap Model using Symbolic Regression for Environmentally Compatible Lead-Free Inorganic Double Perovskites
Ahmer A.B. Baloch, Omar Albadwawi, Badreyya AlShehhi, Vivian Alberts. Research and Development Center, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, Dubai, *, United Arab Emirates

AREA 7: POSTERS - NOVEL APPLICATIONS AND INTEGRATION OF PV
Chair/Organizer: Steve Ransome, Michael Deceglie, Milton Newberry

Poster Session 3

L5

Interposed versus Juxtaposed Solar Array Configurations for Agrivoltaics
M. Sojib Ahmed¹, M. Rezwan Khan², Anisul Haque¹, Muhammad A. Alam³M. Ryyan Khan¹. ¹East West University, Dhaka, *, Bangladesh.²United International University, Dhaka, *, Bangladesh.³Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

L6

Collection of Heat Loss in Photovoltaic System by Parallely Connected Thermoelectric Network
Joel D. Erickson¹, Jing Bai². ¹University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, USA.²University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, USA

L7

Parametric study of building-integrated photovoltaic windows
Yuan Gao, Jacob Jonsson, Charlie Curcija. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

L8

Agrivoltaics Using Bi-Facial PVs for Permaculture in Utility-Scale Projects
Peter Mark Jansson^{1, 2}Milton G. Newberry III², Samantha M. Myers². ¹ECE Bucknell University, LEWISBURG, PA, USA.²BCSE Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA.³BCSE Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA

L9

Assessing and Optimizing Free Space Luminescent Solar Concentrators for Urban Façade Installation
Shweta Pal, Rebecca Saive. University of Twente, Enschede, *, Netherlands

L10

Design with Integrated PV Technologies in Various Products and Environments
Eli Shirazi¹, Wouter Eggink¹Xitong Zhu², Angele Reinders^{1, 2}. ¹University of Twente, Enschede, *, Netherlands.²Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, *, Netherlands

L11

A Combined Shading and Radiation Simulation Tool for Defining Agrivoltaic Systems
Haomiao Wang, Henry J. Williams, Xiaotong Bu, K. Max Zhang. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

L12

A comparison study of the performance of vertical vs single axis tracking bifacial agrivoltaic systems in Belgium
Brecht Willockx, Jan Cappelle. KU Leuven, Ghent, *, Belgium

O13

Improved STC and energy yield performance of bifacial modules with white-grid rear reflectors
Robert Witteck¹, Michael Siebert¹, Marc Kontges¹, Paulius Laurikenas², Julius Denafas²Tobias Wietler¹. ¹Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH), Emmerthal, *, Germany.²SoliTek RaD, Vilnius, *, Lithuania

AREA 8: POSTERS - EFFECTS AND MITIGATION OF SOILING & SUSTAINABILITY OF PV
Chair/Organizer: Bing Guo, Julie Chard, Leonardo Micheli

Poster Session 4

M7

Towards Understanding of Cementation of Particulate Soils on PV Cover Glass Materials
Mohamed Adawi¹, Adedoyin Abe², Min Zou², Robert A. Fleming¹. ¹Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, USA.²University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA

M9

State of the Art of Modelling Soiling and Snow Losses in PV Systems
Sebastien ARBARETAZ, Murielle STEPECEszter VOROSHAZI. INES/CEA, Le Bourget du Lac, *, France

M10

Results of Environmental-Based PV Soiling Models after Extreme Dust Events: The Case of Saharan Dust Intrusions in Southern Spain
Joao Gabriel Bessa¹, Alvaro F Solas¹, Florencia A Cruz¹, Eduardo F Fernandez ¹Leonardo Micheli². ¹Advances in PV technology Research Group (AdPVTech), CEACTEMA, University of Jaen, Jaen, *, Spain.²Department of Astronautical, Electrical and Energy Engineering (DIAEE), Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, *, Italy

M11

The Effect of Dust Hygroscopicity on Soiling and Self-Cleaning Processes in a Condensing Environment
Jordan Eidlisz¹, Nadera Sultana², Illya Nayshevsky^{1, 3}, QianFeng Xu^{1, 4}, Alan M. Lyons^{1, 3, 4}. ¹College of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY, USA.²MS Program in Nanoscience, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.³PhD Program in Chemistry, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.⁴ARL Designs LLC, New York, NY, USA

M13

NRG-X-Change and Cooperative Game Strategies as an Alternative to Net-Metering for Solar Generation
Hector Lopez, Ali Zilouchian. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

M14

Potovoltaic Module R&D Considerations for Soiling Mitigation
Lin J. Simpson¹, Matthew Brantl², Ryo Huntamer². ¹National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA.²Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA.³University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA

O14

Performance Investigation and Analysis of Anti-Soiling Coatings in Hot Desert Climate
Hebatalla Alhamadani, Shaikha Hassan, Gerhard MathiakOmar Albadwawi, Vivian Alberts.

AREA 9: POSTERS - POWER ELECTRONICS AND GRID INTEGRATION
Chair/Organizer: Alvaro Furlani Bastos, Sijo Augustine, Xiangqi Zhu

Poster Session 5

O16

Decentralized BESS Control on a Real Low Voltage System with a Large Number of Prosumers
Bruno Cortes¹, Ricardo Torquato¹, Tiago Ricciardi¹Fernanda C. L. Trindade¹, Walmir Freitas¹, Victor Riboldi², Kunlin Wu². ¹University of Campinas, Campinas, *, Brazil.²CPFL Energia, Campinas, *, Brazil

M15

Grid-Forming Inverter Capability to Support Dynamic Microgrids with High Penetrations of Photovoltaics Systems
Rachid Darbali-Zamora¹, C. Birk Jones¹, Matthew Lave¹, Erick E. Aponte-Bezares². ¹Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA.²University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR, USA

M16

Seven-Level Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Single-Phase Inverter Implemented with an ATMEGA Microprocessor
Edgardo Desarden-Carrero¹, Rachid Darbali-Zamora², Erick Aponte-Bezares¹, Eduardo I. Ortiz-Rivera¹. ¹University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, MAYAGUEZ, PR, USA.²Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA

M17

Development of Hierarchical Control for a Lunar Habitat DC Microgrid Model Using Power Hardware-in-the-Loop
Andrew R. R. Dow¹, Rachid Darbali-Zamora¹, Jack D. Flicker¹, Jeffrey T. Csank². ¹Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA.²2NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH, USA

M18

Inverter Reliability Estimation for Advanced Inverter Functionality
Jack D Flicker¹, Jay Johnson¹, Matthew J Reno¹, Joseph A Azzolini¹, Peter Hacke², Ramanathan Thiagarajan². ¹Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA.²National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA

M19

Hardware-in-the-Loop Lab for Testing Grid Supporting Functions of Smart Inverters
Thunchanok Kaewnukultorn¹Sergio Sepulveda-Mora^{1, 2}, Steven Hegedus¹. ¹Institute of Energy Conversion a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.²Departamento de Electricidad a Electronica, Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander, Cucuta, *, Columbia

M20

DERConnect – A Distributed Energy Resources Testbed for Solar Power Integration
Jan Kleissl, Adil Khurram, Keaton Chia, Scott Brown, Aditya Mishra, Jorge Cortes, Raymond de Callafon, Rajesh Gupta, Sonia Martinez, David Victor. University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

N1

Power Factors 2022 PV System Efficiency Benchmarks
Stephen Lightfoote¹, Samantha Wilson², Steve Voss³Brian Joseph⁴. ¹Power Factors, Needham, MA, USA.²Power Factors, San Diego, CA, USA.³Power Factors, Louisville, CO, USA.⁴Power Factors, Toronto, *, Canada

N2

Model of a Self-Sufficient PV Home using a Hybrid Storage System based on Li-Ion Batteries and Hydrogen Storage with Waste Heat Utilization
Marius Claus Moller, Stefan Krauter. Paderborn University EET-NEK, Paderborn, *, Germany

N3

Feeder Open-Phase Condition Detection by Smart Inverters
Yiwei Ma¹, Xiaojie Shi¹, Aminul Huque¹, Roland Brundlinger², Ron Ablinger². ¹Electric Power Research Institute, Knoxville, TN, USA.²Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, *, Austria

N4

Evaluation of Cellular Based DER Direct Transfer Trip (DTT) Technologies
Yiwei Ma, Joseph Estrada III, Aminul Huque, Tim Godfrey, Charles Brewster. Electric Power Research Institute, Knoxville, TN, USA

N5

Characterization of DER Momentary Cessation andRate-of-Change-of-Frequency Response
Rasel Mahmud¹, Li Yu², Andy Hoke¹. ¹NREL, Golden, CO, USA.²Hawaiian Electric, Honolulu, HI, USA

N6

Development of Photovoltaic Inverter Model with Islanding Detection Using the Sandia Frequency Shift Method
Nelson E. Saavedra-Pena¹, Rachid Darbali-Zamora², Edgardo Desarden-Carrero¹, Erick Aponte-Bezares¹. ¹University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR, USA.²Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA

N7

Accelerating Simulation for High-fidelity PV Inverter System Reliability Assessment with High-Performance Computing
Liwei Wang¹, Ramanathan Thiagarajan², Shuangshuang Jin¹, Zheyu Zhang¹. ¹Clemson University, North Charleston, SC, USA.²National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA

6:30 - 9:30 PM

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