2008 Annual Meeting

Session: Nanomaterials for Photovoltaics II

We seek papers pertaining to the design, synthesis, fabrication, and characterization of nanomaterials and devices for solar-to-electric energy conversion. Papers describing experimental, theoretical and computational work are welcome.

Chair

Jason Baxter, Drexel University

Co-Chair

Eray S. Aydil, University of Minnesota

Presentations

03:15 PM

(704a) Nanoscale Heterojunction Engineering to Grow High-Quality Ge on Si for Multijunction Solar Cells
Darin Leonhardt, Josephine Sheng, Thomas Vandervelde, Jeffrey Cederberg, Malcolm Carroll, Sang M. Han

03:40 PM

(704b) Plasmonics-Based Design of Nanostructured Materials for Solar Energy Harvesting
J. Trice, R. Kalyanaraman, H. Garcia, R. Sureshkumar

04:05 PM

(704c) Band-Edge Engineered Hybrid SnO2 Nanowires Electrodes for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
Suresh Gubbala, Vidhya Chakrapani, Vivekanand Kumar, Heather Rypkema, Mahendra K. Sunkara

04:30 PM

(704d) Erbia-Coated Quartz Fibers as a Selective Emitter for Low Temperature Tpv Applications
Mohannad T. Aljarrah, Edward A. Evans

04:55 PM

(704e) Self-Assembled Biomimetic Antireflection Coatings
Chih-Hung Sun, Wei-Lun Min, Nicholas Linn, Bin Jiang, Peng Jiang

05:20 PM

(704f) Biomimetic Solar Energy Conversion by Photosystem I Films
Christopher J. Faulkner, Peter N. Ciesielski, G. Kane Jennings