Workshop I: Solar Cells - IPAM

Workshop I: Solar Cells

Part of the Long Program Materials for a Sustainable Energy Future
September 23 - 27, 2013

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, September 23, 2013

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
Session Chair: Scheffler
09:00-09:15
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:15-09:55
Mark E. Thompson (University of Southern California (USC))
New Materials and Insights Into Organic Photovoltaics
10:15-10:30
Break
10:30-11:10
Brett Savoie (Northwestern University)
Opportunities (and Challenges) for Photovoltaics on the Mesoscale
11:30-11:45
Break
11:45-12:25
Karsten Hannewald (Humboldt-Universität)
Polaron Transport in Organic Crystals: Theory and Modelling

Afternoon Session

12:45-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
Session Chair: Giustino
14:30-15:10
Leeor Kronik (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Frontier Orbitals and Charge Transfer Excitation Energies from Density Functional Theory
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:40
Jeff Neaton (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
Excited States and Energy Conversion in Organic Semiconductors from First Principles
17:00-18:30
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
Session Chair: Wei
09:00-09:40
Annabella Selloni (Princeton University)
Polaronic states in TiO2
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Efthimios (Tim) Kaxiras (Harvard University)
Modeling of charge transfer rates in hybrid photovoltaics
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:10
Keith Promislow (Michigan State University)
Separator membranes for dye sensitized solar cells: the role of nanomorphology

Afternoon Session

12:45-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
Session Chair: Galli
14:30-15:10
Claudia Draxl (Humboldt-Universität)
Computational concepts for organic/inorganic solar cells combining DFT and many-body perturbation theory
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:40
Feliciano Giustino (University of Texas at Austin)
Energy-level alignment at donor/acceptor interfaces for nanostructured solar cells

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
Session Chair: Kaxiras
09:00-09:40
Maria Antonietta Loi (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Towards highly efficient PbS nanocrystal solar cells
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Boaz Ilan (University of California, Merced (UC Merced))
Modeling light propagation in luminescent solar concentrators
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:10
Nate Lewis (California Institute of Technology)
A Technical and Operational Perspective on the DOE Energy Innovation Hub in Fuels from Sunlight, the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis

Afternoon Session

12:45-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
Session Chair: Kronik
14:30-15:10
Xiaoyang Zhu (Columbia University)
Schrödinger's cat and solar energy conversion beyond the limit
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:40
Gergely Zimanyi (University of California, Davis (UC Davis))
Transcending QCD in nanostructured solar cells

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
Session Chair: Promislow
09:00-09:40
Sergei Tretiak (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Life of photoexcited conjugated chromophores: the movie
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Yang Yang (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Title not available
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:10
Irene Gamba (University of Texas at Austin)
Reaction-transfer dynamics in semiconductor-electrolyte solar cells

Afternoon Session

12:45-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
Session Chair: Neaton
14:30-15:10
Michael Chabynic (University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara))
Structural Order and Interfaces in Organic Solar Cells
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:40
Carlos Garcia-Cervera (University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB))
Numerical advances in Self-Consistenf Field Theory simulations of block copolymers: Applications to polymer lithography and evaporation-driven pattern selection
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