Third-Generation and Emerging Solar-Cell Technologies -

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Résumé :
Symposium B, 'Third-Generation and Emerging Solar-Cell Technologies', was held April 26-29 at the 2011 MRS Spring Meeting. This volume presents recent advances in new and promising solar cell materials systems.

Sommaire:
1. Absorption enhancement in plasmonic solar cells by incorporation of periodic nanopatterns Shaochen Chen; 2. Gold nanolayers embedded in zinc oxide for large area flexible photovoltaics Terry Alford; 3. Fabrication of subsurface metallic nanoparticles for enhanced carrier generation in silicon-based photovoltaics Nirag Kadakia; 4. Advanced optical modeling of thin-film silicon solar cells with 1-D periodic gratings Serge Solntsev; 5. Effective medium analysis of plasmonic silver nanoparticle films Rudi Santbergen; 6. Photoluminescence properties of core/shell CdSe/ZnS quantum dots encapsulated with transparent layers for third generation photovoltaics Bahareh Sadeghimakki; 7. Synthesis and characterization of hybrid CdS/MEH-PPV nanocomposites for photovoltaic applications Leander Tapfer; 8. Photovoltaic applications of micro and nano crystalline silicon carbide Siegmund Greulich-Weber; 9. Nanodot formation in thermally annealed UHV-RTCVD grown Si1-XGeX epitaxial layers on silicon for photovoltaics Abdennaceur Karoui; 10. Improved hole collection in polymer heterojunction solar cells with DNA/pt-DNA layers Ali Bilge Guvenc; 11. Improvement of the power conversion efficiency of polymeric solar cells based on P3HT:PCBM through interfacial modification King Wong; 12. Synthesis and characterization of rare earth (Tb3+ and Yb3+) doped CdS/ZnS core/shell nanocrystals for enhanced photovoltaic efficiency Krishna Mandal; 13. Chalcogenide glass thin films for nanodipole junctionless photovoltaics Daniel Georgiev; 14. Non-idealities in graphene/p-silicon Schottky-barrier solar cells Derek Lin; 15. Simulation of symmetrically doped silicon nanowire solar cells Felix Voigt; 16. Numerical simulations for the efficiency improvement of hybrid dye-microcrystalline silicon pin-solar cells Sven Burdorf; 17. Mesophase ordering and structuring of porous titanium dioxide with high surface area and strong light harvesting matrix for dye-sensitized solar cell Ghim Wei Ho; 18. Exploring the limits of phosphor-based spectral management for photovoltaic applications Komal Magsi; 19. The dye sensitized solar cell stability and performance study using different electrolytes Lakshmi Munukutla; 20. Thermal annealing effect on P3HT:PCBM free polarons lifetime and charge transport Kejia Li; 21. Characterization of dye-sensitized solar cell with different nanoparticle sizes Lakshmi Munukutla; 22. Pulsed laser deposition of silicon nanostructures Andrea Li Bassi.