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
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)

Session Chair: Scheffler
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:15 - 9:55
Mark E. Thompson (University of Southern California (USC))

New Materials and Insights Into Organic Photovoltaics

 
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:10
11:30 - 11:45 Break
11:45 - 12:25
Karsten Hannewald (Humboldt-Universität)

Polaron Transport in Organic Crystals: Theory and Modelling
PDF Presentation
12:45 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session Chair: Giustino
2:30 - 3:10
Leeor Kronik (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Frontier Orbitals and Charge Transfer Excitation Energies from Density Functional Theory

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:40
5:00 - 6:30 Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Session Chair: Wei
9:00 - 9:40
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
PDF Presentation
12:45 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session Chair: Galli
2:30 - 3:10
Claudia Draxl (Humboldt-Universität)

Computational concepts for organic/inorganic solar cells combining DFT and many-body perturbation theory
PDF Presentation

 
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:40

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Session Chair: Kaxiras
9:00 - 9:40
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
12:45 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session Chair: Kronik
2:30 - 3:10
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:40
Gergely Zimanyi (University of California, Davis (UC Davis))

Transcending QCD in nanostructured solar cells


Thursday, September 26, 2013

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Session Chair: Promislow
9:00 - 9:40
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))

 

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:10
12:45 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session Chair: Neaton
2:30 - 3:10
Michael Chabynic (University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara))

Structural Order and Interfaces in Organic Solar Cells
PDF Presentation

 
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:40

Friday, September 27, 2013

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Session Chair: Draxl
9:00 - 9:40
Clas Persson (University of Oslo)

Properties of Cu(In,Ga)Se2 absorber material

 
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 10:55
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:10 Wrap Up Discussion