TECHNICAL PROGRAM



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Monday, June 9th

8:30 - 9:00 AM
PLENARY - AREA 1: DO 2D SEMICONDUCTORS MAKE SENSE FOR PHOTOVOLTAICS?
Plenary Room

8:30
Do 2D Semiconductors Make Sense for Photovoltaics?
Deep Jariwala . University of Pennsylvania
9:00 - 9:30 AM
PLENARY - AREA 8: FROM MODULES TO ATOMS – MULTI-SCALE CHARACTERIZATION TO INFORM PV RELIABILITY
Plenary Room

9:00
From Modules to Atoms Multi-Scale Characterization to Inform PV Reliability
Dana Sulas-Kern. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
9:30 - 10:00 AM
BREAK: COFFEE BREAK / EXHIBITS
Exhibit Hall
10:00 - 12:00 PM
KEYNOTE: CONFERENCE WELCOME, AWARDS AND KEYNOTE SESSION
Plenary Room
1:30 - 3:00 PM
ORALS - AREA 1: PUSHING BEYOND CONVENTIONAL LIMITS
Chair/Organizer: Rebecca Saive, Daniel Suchet
Parallel Room 1

1:30
What is the efficiency limit of commercial single-junction silicon solar cells? The case for 50% single junction silicon solar cells
Christiana Honsberg1, Stuart Bowden2, Ian Sellers3, Stephen Goodnick1, Richard King1, Nicholas Rolston1. 1Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.2Solestial Solar, Tempe, AZ, USA.3University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

2:00
There Are Two Distinct Photon Gases Present Inside Every Solar Cell
Eli Yablonovitch, Zunaid Omair . University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

2:15
Organic multi exciton generation augmented silicon (OMEGA): Elucidating hybrid inorganic-organic energy transfer
Michael P. Nielsen1, Shona McNab1, Phoebe M. Pearce1, Jon Beves2, Timothy Schmidt2, Young Cho1, Alex J. Baldacchino3, Jingnan Tong1, Mattew W. Brett2, Ben P. Carwithen2, Jessica Y. Jiang1, Bram Hoex1, Alison M. Ciesla1, Dane R. McCamey3, Murad J.Y. Tayebjee1, Nicholas J. Ekins-Daukes1. 1School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.2School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.3School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

2:30
Raising the Temperature: Comparing HgCdTe and III-V Thermoradiative Diodes
Michael P. Nielsen1, Valerii Radchenkov2, Jamie A. Harrison1, Muhammad H. Sazzad1, Phoebe M. Pearce1, Andreas Pusch1, Stephen P. Bremner1, Peter J. Reece2, Nicholas J. Ekins-Daukes1. 1School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.2School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

2:45
Efficient Intraband Photoexcitation in Two-step Photon Up-Conversion Solar Cells Using Double-Tunnel Junction
Shigeo Asahi, Koichiro Mastuzawa, Takashi Kita. Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
ORALS - AREA 2: ABSORBER PREPARATION: CIGS AND KESTERITES
Chair/Organizer: Erik Ahlswede
Parallel Room 2

1:30
Defect regulation in Kesterite Solar Cells to realize over 15% efficiency
Qingbo Meng. Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

1:45
Defect engineering in Sb2Se3 via post-growth thermal treatments: a photoluminescence study
Nafiseh Abbasi, Reelika Kaupmees, JA¼ri Krustok, Kristi Timmo, Idil MengA¼, Valdek Mikli, Marit Kauk-Kuusik, Maarja Grossberg-Kuusk. Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

2:00
Achieving High-Performances In Flexible CIGS Solar Cells Through Advanced Deposition Optimization
Jackson LONTCHI1, Vincent DUFOULON1, Alexandre CROSSAY2, Damien GAMET2, Thomas TOM1, Amelle REBAI3, Jorge POSADA3, 4, Frederique DONSANTI3, 4, Daniel LINCOT2, Jean-FranAsois GUILLEMOLES1, Negar NAGHAVI1. 1Institut PhotovoltaAmque d'A, Palaiseau, France.2Soleil-sur-Yvette PhotovoltaAmque (SoyPV), UniversitAc paris Saclay, Orsay, France.3Institut PhotovoltaAmque da, Palaiseau, France.4EDF RaD Paris Saclay, Palaiseau, France

2:15
Multi-modal X-ray microscopy reveals defect-poor (Ag, Cu)(In, Ga)Se2 supergrains with outstanding charge-carrier lifetime
Niklas Pyrlik1, 2, Christina Ossig1, 2, Sven Hampel1, Jackson L. Barp Jr.1, 2, Gero Falkenberg1, 2, Giovanni Fevola1, Christian Strelow3, Tobias Kipp3, Jan Garrevoet1, Gerald Falkenberg1, Fan Fu4, Romain Carron4, Michael E. Stuckelberger1. 1Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.2UniversitAct Hamburg, Fachbereich Physik, Hamburg, Germany.3UniversitAct Hamburg, Institut fA¼r Physikalische Chemie, Hamburg, Germany.4Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), DA¼bendorf, Switzerland

2:30
Unlocking High Efficiency in (Ag, Cu)(In, Ga)Se Solar Cells: A Parametric Study on Silver Alloying
Thomas Tom1, Jackson Lontchi 1, Amelle Rebai1, Vincent Dufoulon 1, Stefania Cacovich1, Tommaso Raimondi1, Jean-Francois Guillemoles1, Negar Naghavi 1. 1Institut PhotovoltaAmque d'A, Paris, France.2Institut PhotovoltaAmque d'A, Paris, France.3Institut PhotovoltaAmque d'A, Paris, France.4Institut PhotovoltaAmque d'A, Paris, France.5Institut PhotovoltaAmque d'A, Paris, France.6Institut PhotovoltaAmque d'A, Paris, France.7Institut PhotovoltaAmque d'A, Paris, France.8Institut PhotovoltaAmque d'A, Paris, France

2:45
Back contact passivation with Ga-grading in narrow bandgap (Ag, Cu)(In, Ga)Se2 bifacial solar cells on In2O3:Sn back contact
Elizaveta Yakovleva1, 2, AndrAc F. Violas3, 4, Olivier Donzel-Gargand1, Klara Kiselman1, Patrick Pearson1, Pedro M. P. SalomAc3, 4, Lars Stolt1, Marika Edoff1, 2. 1Division of Solar Cell Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.2Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability, Uppsala, Sweden.3International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal.4Departamento de FAssica da Universidade de Aveiro, Campus UniversitAirio de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal
ORALS - AREA 5: IN-SITU AND IN-LINE METROLOGY, DATA ANALYSIS, AND MACHINE LEARNING
Chair/Organizer: Shuai Nie, Thien Truong
Parallel Room 3

1:30
Deep-Learning-Based In-Situ Photoluminescence and Reflection Monitoring for Property Prediction of Perovskite Solar Cells
Felix Laufer1, Markus GAptz1, 2, Ulrich Wilhelm Paetzold1. 1Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.2Helmholtz AI, Karlsruhe, Germany

1:45
Best Student Presentation Award Finalist - Automated analysis of performance losses in solar cells using explainable artificial intelligence
Gaia Maria N. Javier, Brendan Wright, Ali Shakiba, Ziv Hameiri. The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

2:00
Impact of Data Quality on defect classification in electroluminescence images of Photovoltaic Cells
Armin Matindoust1, Evgenii Sovetkin1, Andreas Gerber1, Liviu Stoicescu2, Pascal KAplblin2, Bart E. Pieters1. 1IMD-3 Photovoltaics, Forschungszentrum JA¼lich, JA¼lich, Germany.2Solarzentrum Stuttgart GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany

2:15
Ultrafast (1 sec) Lamination of Perovskite PVs with In Situ Metrology
Oluka Okia1, Tianhan Gao1, Md Aslam Uddin1, Jack Palmer2, Vaishnav Madhava Das1, Chen Qian1, Zhihang Zhang1, Yung-Ping Wang1, Chinedum Okwudire1, David/P Fenning2, 3, Wei Lu1, 4, Neil/P Dasgupta1, 4. 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michiga, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.2Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.3Department of Chemical and NanoEngineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.4Department of Materials Science a Engineering, University of Michiga, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

2:30
Relating Surface Photovoltage to IQE for Contactless In-Situ IQE Monitoring
Nathan D Rock, Michael A Scarpulla. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

2:45
Development of an In-situ Radiation Testing System for Semiconductor Materials and Space Solar Cells
Mohin Sharma1, Mritunjaya Parashar1, Darshpreet/Kaur Saini1, Megh/N Khanal2, Charles/T Bowen1, Todd/A Byers1, Vincent/R Whiteside2, Gary/A Glass1, Sheng Fu3, Zhaoning Song3, Ian/R Sellers3, Bibhudutta Rout1. 1Department of Physics, Ion Beam Laboratory, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA.2Department of Electrical Engineering, 230 Davis Hall, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.3Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA
ORALS - AREA 7: NEW APPLICATIONS FOR PV
Chair/Organizer: Silvia Ma Lu, James Bingamon
Parallel Room 4

1:30
Best Student Presentation Award Finalist - Performance of Reflector for a Vertical Solar Canal
Jeremiah Reagan, Brandi McKuin, Sarah Kurtz. UC Merced, Merced, CA, USA

1:45
Photovoltaics in the Built Environment – An Overview of Timely Topics for Research and Development
AngAule Reinders1, Francesco Frontini2. 1Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands.2SUSPSI, Mendrisio, Switzerland

2:00
Evaluation of Front Eave Load Caused by Snow Accumulation on Photovoltaic Array
Tadanori Tanahashi1, Takahiro Chiba2, Satoru Adachi3, Hayato Arakawa3, Yuki Tsuno1, Kazuaki Ikeda1, Takashi Oozeki1. 1National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Koriyama, Japan.2Hokkaido University of Science, Sapporo, Japan.3National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), Shinjo, Japan

2:15
Study on Improvement of Power Generation for a Window Using Solar Radiation Reflected from the Low-E Coating of a Semi-transparent Photovoltaic Module Equally Arranged Linear Bifacial Solar Cells
Kazuhiko Umeda1, Nobusato Kobayashi1, Akira Yamaguchi1, Akihiko Nakajima2, Kengo Maeda2, Akihiko Kuraoka2, Naoki Kadota2. 1TAISEI CORPORATION, Tokyo, Japan.2KANEKA CORPORATION, Tokyo, Japan

2:30
OPTIMIZATION OF PHOTOVOLTAIC-POWERED AUTONOMOUS MEMBRANE CAPACITIVE DEIONIZATION (MCDI) SYSTEM FOR MULTI-CONTAMINANT WATER TREATMENT
Vladimir Pavlenko1, 2, Aleksandr Zakharov1, Anna Tukesheva1. 1Institute of Combustion Problems, Almaty, Kazakhstan.2Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
ORALS - AREA 8: ACCELERATED TESTING OF PV MODULES
Parallel Room 5

1:45
UV-Induced Degradation in N-Type TOPCon Modules: Exploring Metastability and Recovery Pathways
Archana Sinha1, Jean-Nicolas Jaubert1, Dana B. Kern2, Todd Karin1. 1Kiwa PVEL, Napa, CA, USA.2National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA

2:00
Best Student Presentation Award Finalist - Polarization-type Potential-induced Degradation of Bifacial p-PERC Solar Cells after Dark Storage
Halima Jahan1, Jaewon Oh1, Fang Li2, Cecile Molto3, Govindasamy Tamizhmani2, Hubert Seigneur3. 1University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA.2Photovoltaic Reliability Laboratory a, Mesa, AZ, USA.3Florida Solar Energy Center a, Cocoa, FL, USA

2:15
Modeling Local Bias in Partially Shaded Solar Modules as a Basis for Assessing Stress on the Cells
Shariful Islam, B. B. Dumre, Sarah R. Kurtz. University of California Merced, Merced, CA, USA

2:30
Accelerating regeneration rate for silicon solar cells impacted by light- and elevated temperature-induced degradation under field-related conditions
Anh Huy Tuan Le1, Aref Samadi1, Sijin Wang1, Stanley Wang2, Andy So2, Ziv Hameiri1. 1School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.2Etavolt, 79 Ayer Rajah Crescent, #04-01 Singapore 139955, Singapore, Singapore

2:45
Reproducing Bimodal Series Resistance Degradation in Fielded Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Modules
Elizabeth C. Palmiotti1, John S. Mangum1, Steve W. Johnston1, Rebecca B. Wai1, Chun-Sheng Jiang1, Ingrid Repins1, William B. Hobbs2, Michael G. Deceglie1, Timothy J. Silverman1, E. Ashley Gaulding1. 1National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA.2Southern Company, Birmingham, AL, USA
3:00 - 3:30 PM
BREAK: COFFEE BREAK/EXHIBITS
Exhibit Hall
3:30 - 5:00 PM
POSTERS - AREA 2: POSTER SESSION A (click to view)
Chair/Organizer: Hongling Lott, Adam Phillips, Jim Sites
Poster Section 1
POSTERS - AREA 5: CHARACTERIZING IT ALL: FROM MATERIALS TO SYSTEMS (click to view)
Chair/Organizer: Andre Augusto, Shuai Nie
Poster Section 2
POSTERS - AREA 7: NEW MODULE MATERIALS, PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES, AND SYSTEM DESIGN (click to view)
Chair/Organizer: Patrizio Mangianello, Chiara Barretta
Poster Section 3
POSTERS - AREA 8: MODULE DEGRADATION AND SYSTEM RELIABILITY (click to view)
Poster Section 4

POSTERS - AREA 8: VIRTUAL POSTER SESSION (click to view)
Virtual Posters
POSTERS - AREA 10: SOLAR FORECASTING (click to view)
Chair/Organizer: Adam R. Jensen, Marc Perez, Umay Akkoseoglu
Poster Section 5
POSTERS - AREA 11: PV SUSTAINABILITY AND REACHING 100% RENEWABLE ENERGY (click to view)
Chair/Organizer: Francis Hanna, Annick Anctil, Gabriel Lopez
Poster Section 6

Poster topics include assessments of sustainability in PV including life cycle analysis and the role of PV in the transition to 100% renewable energy

5:00 - 7:00 PM
SOCIAL: WELCOME RECEPTION & EXHIBITS
Exhibit Hall