Nanotechnology in Photovoltaics

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Nanotechnology in Photovoltaics
In search of the elusive concept of Density-of-States

Nanostructures are currently commonplace in a number of technological areas, PV not being an exception. Behind the potential advantages of nanostructures in improving the performance of solar cells lies a rather simple concept, though not always easy to grasp: the density of states (DOS). In this seminar we try to give response to the following questions: why and how nanostructures are expected to improve our current photovoltaic devices?  It will be shown that the DOS is an ultimate key parameter to answer both questions. A fair comprehension of the concept is thus necessary in order to understand the usefulness of different approaches based on nanostructures aiming at an improved solar cell efficiency. With current PhD students as intended audience, we will review the basics of the DOS theory and also try to provide useful information on the practical use of "nanostuff" in solar cells. Finally, a brief review of present state of the art of functional approaches will be provided

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Prof.	Carlos del Cañizo	UPM
Dr	Kartsen Bittkau,	FZ-Jülich
Dr.	Franco Roca,	ENEA

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Agenda

Time	Title	Speakers
11:00-11:10	Introduction	DEL CAÑIZO Carlos
Prof. Del  Carlos Del Cañizo introduces CHEETAH project and  the webinar. Speaker Info Introduction [Login first] PV Technologies : Emerging/Novel concepts for high efficiency at low cost Tags : Overcoming the theoretical limits of photoconversion of single junction solar cells
11:10-11:50	Nanotechnology in Photovoltaics	FUERTES MARRÓN David
In this seminar Dr. Fuertes proposes the  response to the following questions: why and how nanostructures are expected to improve our current photovoltaic devices?  It is shown that the DOS is an ultimate key parameter to answer both questions. A fair comprehension of the concept is thus necessary in order to understand the usefulness of different approaches based on nanostructures aiming at an improved solar cell efficiency. With current PhD students as intended audience, the speech reviews the basics of the DOS theory and also try to provide useful information on the practical use of "nanostuff" in solar cells. Finally, a brief review of present state of the art of functional approaches is provided. Speaker Info Presentation (FLV Video) Presentation (MP4 Video) PV Technologies : Emerging/Novel concepts for high efficiency at low cost Tags : Overcoming the theoretical limits of photoconversion of single junction solar cells
11:50-12:00	Questions & Comments