2010 Annual Meeting

Session: Materials for Alternative Energy: Solar Cells

This session discusses science and technology related to materials used in solar cells. It encompasses design, synthesis, fabrication, and analysis of all types of materials including bulk materials, coatings, and thin films, from basic as well as from application-oriented and manufacturing-related perspectives.

Chair

Di Gao, University of Pittsburgh

Co-Chair

Tim J. Anderson, University of Florida

Presentations

12:30 PM

(472a) New Polypyridyl Ruthenium(II) Sensitizers Carrying Triphenylamine Units and Their Application in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
Haijun Lv, Xianggao Li, Shirong Wang, Wenzheng Gao

12:50 PM

(472b) Characterization of Recombination Barrier Layers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Thomas P. Brennan, Jonathan R. Bakke, Rajib Mondal, Stacey Bent, Chad E. Miller, Dennis Nordlund, Michael F. Toney

01:10 PM

(472c) Inexpensive Room Temperature Ionic Liquids for Low Volatility Electrolytes of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Shih Yuan Lu, Shu-Yuan Ku

01:30 PM

(472d) Solid Organic Electrolytes and Ionic Liquids, with Poly(ethylene glycol) and Semifluorinated Alkyl Side Chains, for Photovoltaic and Energy Storage Applications
Sitaraman Krishnan, Lalitha V. N. R. Ganapatibhotla, Jianping Zheng, Dipankar Roy

01:50 PM

(472e) A New Thin Film Heterojunction Structure and Fabrication Process: Dual Backcontact CdS/CdTe Photovoltaics
Carlos Hangarter, Behrang Hamadani, Hua Xu, Need Ryan, Carlos Beauchamp, John Bonevich, Daniel Josell, John Guyer

02:10 PM

(472f) Electrochemical Deposition of Amorphous Si Thin Films
Ian Ivar Suni, Aarti Krishnamurthy

02:30 PM

(472g) Modeling the Horizontal Ribbon Growth of Solar Silicon Crystals
Jeffrey J. Derby, Carl Bleil, Andrew Yeckel, Parthiv Daggolu