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39
th IEEE PHOTOVOLTAIC SPECIALISTS CONFERENCE
TECHNICAL AREA OVERVIEWS
AREA 2 OVERVIEW
CHALCOGENIDE THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS AND
RELATED MATERIALS
Chair
Sylvain Marsillac, Old
Dominion University, USA
Co-Chairs
James Sites, Colorado State
University, USA
Takashi Minemoto,
Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Jean-Francois Guillemoles,
IRDEP-CNRS, France
Sub-Areas & Chairs
2.1:
Absorber Formation and
Characterization - Harin Ullal (NREL), Ayodhya Tiwari
(
EMPA), Shigeru Niki (AIST)
2.2:
Substrates, Contacts, Buffer layers and TCO -
IVikash Ranjan (Pilkington), Susanne Siebentritt (U.
Luxembourg), Tokio Nakada (Aoyama University), Marika
Edoff (Uppsala University)
2.3:
Robert Collins (University of Toledo), Daniel
Abou Ras (Hemholtz center Berlin), Tetsuya Sakurai
(
University of Tsukuba), Mike Scarpulla (University of
Utah)
2.4:
Manufacturing Issues: Performance, Metrology,
Process Control, and Reliability - Markus Gloeckler
(
First Solar), Paul Mogensen (Avancis), Tadashi Iwakura
(
Honda Engineering)
Over the last ten years, chalcogenide thin-film modules
have managed to capture more than 15% of the terrestrial
PV market while the efficiency of the laboratory scale cells
has surpassed the 20% landmark.
Beside the now more traditional CdTe and Cu(In,Ga)
(
S,Se)2, new material systems are emerging, such
as Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4, which brings new technology
challenges but also insight into the other material systems.
There is therefore still a need for understanding and
developing the fundamental science and engineering of
these chalcogenide thin films while pushing the limits of
the industrial applications and solutions for these systems.
Area 2 of the 39th IEEE PVSC invites contributions
addressing recent progress in the fields of Absorber
Formation and Characterization, Substrates, Contacts,
Buffer layers and TCO, Device Properties, Modeling,
Stability, and Defect Characterization, and all aspects
of Manufacturing Issues, which include Performance,
Metrology, Process Control, and Reliability.
