Conveners
W1-5 Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells (DCMMP-DAMOPC) / Matériaux pour l'énergie solaire et piles solaires (DPMCM-DPAMPC)
- Ayse Turak (McMaster University)
Prof.
Nazir P. Kherani
(University of Toronto)
15/06/2016, 08:30
Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
Over the last couple of decades, the field of photovoltaics has experienced dramatic advances both scientifically and technologically. Critical elements playing into these advances have been the development of novel solar materials, innovative light trapping approaches, and innovative device integrations and enhancements. This talk will provide an introductory overview of the advances in...
Lyudmila Goncharova
(The University of Western Ontario)
15/06/2016, 09:00
Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
Si wires vertically grown by the vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) method have been frequently reported in literature, and has been considered as the long-standing symbolic image of this method. The efforts have been focused on studying the vertical Si wires-based solar cells in the last decades. In this study, the lateral or horizontal growth of Si wires recently reported by our group has been...
ye li
(uwo)
15/06/2016, 09:15
Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
Energy demand from the electrical grid is substantially higher during evening times when solar panels cannot contribute to electrical power generation. The fact that solar cells only produce energy during daytime necessitates their costly integration with expensive storage components. At the present cost levels, even a solar panel operating at the theoretical maximum of 70% power conversion...
Mr
Sanyasi Rao Bobbara
(Department of Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy, Queen's University, ON, Canada)
15/06/2016, 09:30
Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
Organic semiconductors have garnered a lot of interest in the recent years owing to their easy processibility, tunability to required optical and electrical properties, and of course to their cost-effectiveness. Their use in the organic light-emitting diodes and photovoltaics is already quite promising. However, the charge mobility in these materials is strongly affected by their structural...
Ayse Turak
(McMaster University)
15/06/2016, 09:45
Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
After efficiency, lifetime is the second most important parameter for molecular photovoltaic devices. In organic solar cells (OPVs), heterojunctions play a defining in device stability. They also control the major processes: charge separation relies on effective organic/organic interfaces; charge transport is critically determined by the structure of the thin film, controlled by the...
Prof.
Jean-Michel Ménard
(University of Ottawa, University of Regensburg)
15/06/2016, 10:15
Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
Spontaneously broken symmetries in solids often result from many-body interactions that fall outside the scope of conventional solid-state models. As a consequence, some of the most fascinating phase transitions such as stripe formation, unconventional superconductivity or colossal magnetoresistance are still not fully understood. Time-resolved multi-terahertz spectroscopy is an ideal optical...
