| 23 May - Day 0 |
| 17.20 - 18.00 | Welcome coffee |
| 18.00 - 20.00 | Symposium A |
| 21.00 | Cocktail |
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| 24 May - Day 1 |
| 9.00 - 9:30 | Opening |
| 9.30 - 10.30 |
Paul Alivisatos* |
Nanocrystal based solar cells |
Invited talk |
| 10.30 - 11.00 |
Olle Inganäs* |
Designer polymers, geometry and device design for polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunctions |
Invited talk |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Coffe break |
| 11.30 - 12.00 |
Giuseppe Gigli* |
Heterostructured colloidal nanocrystal based solar cells |
Invited talk |
| 12.00 - 12.30 |
Hans Desilvestro* |
Dye Solar Cell Technology; Balancing Product Performance - Stability - Cost |
Invited talk |
| 12.30 - 13.00 |
Emilio Palomares* |
Charge transfer reactions limiting the efficiency of QD-DSSC. |
Invited talk |
| 13.00 - 13.10 | Sponsor |
| 13.10 - 15.00 | Lunch |
| Session A |
| 15.00 - 15.20 |
Mariachiara Pastore*, Edoardo Mosconi, Filippo De Angelis |
Electronic Structure and Aggregation of Organic Dyes in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Models |
Oral |
| 15.20 - 15.40 |
Hernan Miguez*, Silvia Colodrero, Gabriel Lozano, Mauricio Calvo, Carmen Lopez-Lopez, Blake Wolf, Henrik Lindstrom |
Recent advances in the design and integration of photonic crystals in dye sensitised solar cells for light harvesting enhancement |
Oral |
| 15.40 - 16.00 |
elham ghadiri, nima taghavinia*, Shaik M. Zakeeruddin, Michael Grätzel, Jacques-E. Moser * |
Dye sensitized solar cells with a thin film electrode composed of network of TiO2 nanofibers with enhanced electron collection efficiency |
Oral |
| 16.00 - 16.20 |
Elizabeth Gibson*, Gerrit Boschloo, Anders Hagfeldt, Leif Hammarström, Fabrice Odobel, Licheng Sun, Amanda Smeigh, Peng Qin, Loic Le Pleux |
p-Type Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells |
Oral |
| 16.20 - 16.40 |
Jilian Freitas, Ana Flavia Nogueira* |
Incorporation of inorganic nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes in polymer solar cells |
Oral |
| 16.40 - 17.00 |
Andrew Nattestad, Peter Baeuerle, Udo Bach |
Dye-sensitized Tandem Solar cells |
Oral |
| 17.00 - 17.20 |
Giuseppe Caputo*, Abrarhusain Kumthe, Anna Maria Ferrari, Ivana Miletto, Salvatore Coluccia |
Experimental and Computational Investigation of Novel Red and NIR Large Absorption Polymethine Based Sensitizers for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells |
Oral |
| Session B |
| 15.00 - 15.20 |
Germà Garcia-Belmonte*, Juan Bisquert |
Density-of-states occupancy and carrier lifetime in bulk-heterojunction polymer-fullerene solar cells |
Oral |
| 15.20 - 15.40 |
Carstem Deibel*, Markus Mingebach, Alexander Wagenpfahl, Alexander Förtig, Vladimir Dyakonov |
The Impact of Recombination on the Photocurrent in Polymer-Fullerene Solar Cells |
Oral |
| 15.40 - 16.00 |
Ta-Ya Chu*, Salem Wakim, Pierre G. Verly, Salima Alem, Shing C. Tse, Jianping Lu , Ye Tao, Serge Beaupré, Mario Leclerc, Francis Bélanger, Denis Désilets, Sheila Rodman, David Waller, Russell Gaudiana |
Polymer photovoltaic devices based on PCDTBT/fullerene derivative bulk heterojunction structure |
Oral |
| 16.00 - 16.20 |
Paola Castrucci*, Michele Giulianini |
Enhancing photovoltaic response of the poly(3-hexylthiofene) by incorporating carbon nanotubes |
Oral |
| 16.20 - 16.40 |
Eugene Katz*, Frederik Krebs |
Photovoltaic Performance and Stability of Organic Solar Cells: |
Oral |
| 16.40 - 17.00 |
Alexander Ndobe, Emiliano Rossi, Tommaso Carofiglio, Andrea Venturi, Michele Maggini, Michele Muccini* |
Efficient bi-directional charge-transfer in polymer solar cells |
Oral |
| 17.00 - 17.20 |
Sabine Bertho*, Bert Campo, Bert Conings, Jan D'Haen, Laurence Lutsen, Jean Manca, Dirk Vanderzande |
How to improve the thermal stability of organic solar cells? |
Oral |
| 17.20 - 18.00 | Coffee break |
| 18.00 - 20.00 | Posters and exhibition |
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| 25 May - Day 2 |
| 9.00 - 10.00 |
Michael Graetzel* |
Optimizing Photon Harvesting and Carrier Collection in Mesoscopic Solar Energy Conversion Systems |
Invited talk |
| 10.00 - 10.30 |
Shogo Mori* |
Charge Recombination in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Effect of Dye Structure |
Invited talk |
| 10.30 - 11.00 |
Henry Snaith* |
Charge generation and photovoltaic operation in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells; new concepts, material architectures, improved understanding and stability |
Invited talk |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffe break |
| 11.30 - 12.00 |
Jaejung Ko*, Hyunbong Choi, Chulwoo Kim, Sanghyun Paek, Nara Cho, Kimin Lim, Kwangsuk Do, Hyeju Choi, Seulgy So, Kyungjun Kim, Hongsik Choi, Banseok Jeong, Taejung Yu, Juman Song |
New Concept of Highly Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells |
Invited talk |
| 12.00 - 12.30 |
Ching Ting* |
Precision Polymer Design for High Efficient OPV Device |
Invited talk |
| 12.30 - 13.00 |
Kion Norrman, Frederik Krebs* |
Stability and degradation of polymer and organic solar cells |
Invited talk |
| 13.00 - 13.10 | Sponsor |
| 13.10 - 15.00 | Lunch |
| Session A |
| 15.00 - 15.20 |
Brian O'Regan |
Stability, Luminesce Decay, Transient Absorption, and Electrical Characterization of New and Aged Dye Sensitized Cells. |
Oral |
| 15.20 - 15.40 |
Ute Cappel, Gerrit Boschloo* |
The influence of local electric fields on transient absorption spectra of dye-sensitized solar cells |
Oral |
| 15.40 - 16.00 |
J.Pablo González-Vázquez, Juan A. Anta*, Juan Bisquert |
Determination of the electron diffusion length in dye-sensitized solar cells by random walk simulation: compensation effects and voltage dependence |
Oral |
| 16.00 - 16.20 |
Julio Villanueva-Cab*, Hongxia Wang, Gerko Oskam, Laurence M Peter |
Electron diffusion and back reaction in dye sensitized solar cells – the effect of nonlinear recombination kinetics |
Oral |
| 16.20 - 16.40 |
Eva M. Barea*, Francisco Fabregat-Santiago, Juan Bisquert |
Identifying the main factors governing recombination in dye-sensitized solar cells with different dye families |
Oral |
| 16.40 - 17.00 |
Matthias Schmid*, Adrian Gentsch, Sophie Wenger, Guido Rothenberger, Jürgen Schumacher |
Time-dependent coupled optical and electric modeling of dye-sensitized solar cells |
Oral |
| 17.00 - 17.20 |
Alessandro Abbotto*, Norberto Manfredi, Chiara Marinzi, Filippo De Angelis, Edoardo Mosconi, Simona Fantacci, Claudia Barolo, J-Ho Yum, Zhang Xianxi, Mohammad K. Nazeeruddin, Michael Graetzel |
Efficient and panchromatic organic and organometallic bi- and quaterpyridine sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells |
Oral |
| Session B |
| 15.00 - 15.20 |
Tamar Segal-Peretz, Gitti Frey* |
CO-ASSEMBELY OF TITANIA PRECOURSOR AND WATER-SOLUBLE POLYTHIPHENE INTO MESOSTRUCTURED PHOTOVOLTAIC FILMS |
Oral |
| 15.20 - 15.40 |
Francesca Nunzi, Filippo De Angelis* |
Structure and electronic properties of TiO2 nanotubes and nanocrystals: a theoretical investigation |
Oral |
| 15.40 - 16.00 |
P Sudhagar, Yong Soo Kang* |
Novel Composite (PEDOT: PSS/CoS nanosheet) Counter Electrodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Applications |
Oral |
| 16.00 - 16.20 |
Lukas Schmidt-Mende, Ricky Dunbar* |
Enhancement of light absorption in organic solar cells with structured silver electrodes |
Oral |
| 16.20 - 16.40 |
Jon Ajuria* |
Inverted organic photovoltaic device based on TiOx and MoO3 |
Oral |
| 16.40 - 17.00 |
Alberto Vomiero*, Isabella Concina, Antonio Braga, Marta Maria Natile, Guido Faglia, Giorgio Sberveglieri |
Nanowire-based innovative photoanodes for dye sensitized solar cells |
Oral |
| 17.00 - 17.20 |
Antonio Abate, Giuseppe Resnati*, Eva Barea, Juan Bisquert, Pierangelo Metrangolo, Alessandro Monfredini |
Fluorinated electrolytes for DSSCs |
Oral |
| 17.20 - 18.00 | Cofee break |
| 18.00 - 20.00 | Posters and exhibition |
| 21.00 | Social dinner |
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| 26 May - Day 3 |
| 9.00 - 10.00 |
Arthur Nozik |
Third Generation Solar Photon Conversion to Electricity and Fuel: Multiple Exciton Generation in Colloidal Quantum Dots; Quantum Dot Arrays and Solar Cells |
Invited talk |
| 10.00 - 10.30 |
Arie Zaban* |
Built-in Quantum Dot Antennas in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells |
Invited talk |
| 10.30 - 11.00 |
Jens Andreas Hauch* |
Stability and Degradation processes of OPV |
Invited talk |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Coffe break |
| 11.30 - 12.00 |
James Durrant* |
Charge photogeneration in organic solar cells |
Invited talk |
| 12.00 - 12.30 |
Dana Olson* |
Applications of Metal Oxides in Organic Photovoltaics for Enhanced Performance and Lifetime |
Invited talk |
| 12.30 - 13.00 |
Aldo Di Carlo* |
Industrialization of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells |
Invited talk |
| 13.00 - 13.10 | Sponsor |
| 13.10 - 15.00 | Lunch |
| Session A |
| 15.00 - 15.20 |
abderrazzak douhal*, Marcin Ziolek |
Femtosecond photodynamics in an efficient organic dye interacting with titania nanotubes and nanoparticles |
Oral |
| 15.20 - 15.40 |
Håkan Rensmo* |
Experiments for submolecular understanding of the light to energy conversion at dye-sensitized interfaces |
Oral |
| 15.40 - 16.00 |
Andreas Bartelt*, Christian Strothkämper, Thomas Hannappel, Wolfram Schindler, Konstantinos Fostiropoulos, Rainer Eichberger |
Ultrafast charge carrier dynamics in nanocomposite organic donor-acceptor films |
Oral |
| 16.00 - 16.20 |
Luisa De Marco*, Michele Manca |
Synthesis of engineered TiO2 nanorods and effect of their morphology on the optical and electrical properties of mesoporous photoelectrodes for DSSCs |
Oral |
| 16.20 - 16.40 |
Isabella Zama, Davide Casotti, Christian Martelli, Valerio Borzatta, Alessio Antonini, Francesco Matteucci, Giuseppe Cruciani, Giacomo Gorni*, Giuseppe Gigli |
DSSC anode: tailoring crystal shape/phase stability of anatase nanopowders and their use in paste formulation |
Oral |
| 16.40 - 17.00 |
Caterina Benzi*, Claudia Barolo*, Frederic Sauvage, Jinhyung Park, Pierluigi Quagliotto, Emma Artuso, Nadia Barbero, Giuseppe Caputo, Salvatore Coluccia, Md. Khaja Nazeeruddin, Michael Graetzel, Guido Viscardi |
A Combined Experimental and Computational Investigation of Squaraine Based Sensitizers for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells. |
Oral |
| 17.00 - 17.20 |
Lorenzo Burtone*, Debdutta Ray, Wolfgang Tress, Christoph Schünemann, Chris Elschner, Moritz Riede, Karl Leo |
Dielectric constant of evaporated small molecule materials for solar cells application measured by impedance spectroscopy. |
Oral |
| Session B |
| 15.00 - 15.20 |
Michael Brown, Suteewong Teeraporn, Ulrich Wiesener, Henry Snaith |
Plasmonic Hybrid Solar Cells |
Oral |
| 15.20 - 15.40 |
Lara-Jane Pegg, Ross Hatton* |
Enhancing the efficiency of molecular photovoltaics using Au-nanocrystals |
Oral |
| 15.40 - 16.00 |
Zhanao Tan, Ting Zhu, Myo Thein, Shuai Gao, An Cheng, Fan Zhang, Chunfeng Zhang, Huaipeng Su, Jingkang Wang, Ron Henderson, Jong-in Hahm, Yongping Yang, Jian Xu |
Hybrid Polymer/Nanocrystal Photovoltaic Cells with Integrated Planar and Bulk Heterojunctions |
Oral |
| 16.00 - 16.20 |
Seamus Curran* |
New architectural device design to optimize the material needs of organic pv cells |
Oral |
| 16.20 - 16.40 |
Youssef Jouane, Yves-André Chapuis*, Aziz Diania, Silviu Colis, Guy Schmerber, Thomas Heiser |
Post-annealing effects on organic photovoltaic cells with ZnO layer deposited at low-temperature on the top of P3HT: PCBM by RF magnetron sputtering |
Oral |
| 16.40 - 17.00 |
Nikolaos Balis, Panagiotis Lianos* |
Hybrid solar cells based on multilayer titania and poly(3-hexylthiophene) |
Oral |
| 17.00 - 17.20 |
I-Kang Ding, Jia Zhu, Yi Cui*, Michael McGehee* |
Enhancing Efficiency in Solid-state Dye-sensitized Solar Cells through Nanopattering of Metal Electrodes by Nanoimprint Lithography |
Oral |
| 17.20 - 18.00 | Cofee break |
| 18.00 - 20.00 | Symposium B |
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| 27 May - Day 4 |
| 9.00 - 9.20 |
Christa Bunzli, David Fermin* |
Photoelectrochemical Characterization of ZnO Nanorod Assemblies |
Oral |
| 9.20 - 9.40 |
Eneko Azaceta, Ramon Tena-Zaera* |
Electrochemical deposition of ZnO in a room temperature ionic liquid: 1-butyl-1-methylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethane sulfonyl)imide |
Oral |
| 9.40 - 10.00 |
Alastair Mailer, Yuriy Chushkin, Niek Hijnen, Paul Clegg |
Dynamics of titania particles in a commercial electrode preparation |
Oral |
| 10.00 - 10.20 |
Gregory Wilson*, Noel Duffy, Christopher Fell |
Charge Recombination Dynamics of Large Area TiOx Barrier Layers |
Oral |
| 10.20 - 10.40 |
Matthew Carnie, Andrew Robinson*, David Worsley* |
Measurement and Prevention of Photodegradation of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell (DSC) Top Sheet Materials |
Oral |
| 10.40 - 11.00 |
Kati Miettunen*, Xiaoli Ruan, Janne Halme, Huang Guangsheng, Peter Lund |
Stability of metal based dye solar cells |
Oral |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Coffe break |
| 11.30 - 11.50 |
Phuong Nguyen, Anders Andersen |
Dye stability and performances of Dye-sensitized solar cells with different nitrogen additives at elevated temperatures – Can sterically hindered pyridines prevent dye degradation? |
Oral |
| 11.50 - 12.10 |
Letizia Chiodo*, Juan Maria García-Lastra, Amilcare Iacomino, Stefano Ossicini, Hrvoje Petek, Angel Rubio |
Many Body Techniques Applied to TiO2 Electronic and Optical Properties |
Oral |
| 12.10 - 12.30 |
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| 12.30 - 12.50 |
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| Session B |
| 9.00 - 9.20 |
Mirella Del Zoppo*, Matteo Tommasini |
Exploring excitons in organic systems for photovoltaic applications |
Oral |
| 9.20 - 9.40 |
Claudio Melis, Alessandro Mattoni*, Claudia Caddeo, Luciano Colombo |
Modeling at the atomic scale the polymer P3HT adhesion on inorganic nanostructures (titania, zinc oxide, carbon nanotubes) |
Oral |
| 9.40 - 10.00 |
Gianpaolo Susanna*, Luigi Salamandra, Francesca Brunetti, Andrea Reale, Thomas M. Brown, Aldo Di Carlo |
Airbrush Spray Coating of Polymer Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cells |
Oral |
| 10.00 - 10.20 |
Fortunato Piersimoni*, Koen Vandewal, Sabine Bertho, Wanyun Chen, Sylvain Chambon, Raoul Mens, Peter Adriaensens, Laurence Lutsen, Dirk Vanderzande, Jean Manca |
Stability of Voc in relation with morphology in organic bulk heterojunction solar cells |
Oral |
| 10.20 - 10.40 |
Yoann Jestin*, Marco Roberto Cavallary, Christine Marie Cuppoletti, Georg Pucker, Gianluigi Maggioni, Sara Carturan, Marta Buffa, Alberto Quaranta, Michele Tonezzer |
Encapsulation studies of rr-P3HT:PCBM thin films for bulk heterojunction solar cells |
Oral |
| 10.40 - 11.00 |
Gytis Juska*, Kristijonas Genevicius, Nerijus Nekrasas |
Charge carrier recombination and trapping in bulk heterojunction solar cells |
Oral |
| Coffee |
| 11.30 - 11.50 |
Maria Rosa Antognazza*, Erica Lanzarini, Diego Ghezzi, Marco Dal Maschio, Fabio Benfenati, Guglielmo Lanzani |
New Approaches towards Organic Photodetection and Bio-integration |
Oral |
| 11.50 - 12.10 |
Peng Qin, Joanna Wiberg, Elizabeth A Gibson, Mats Linder, Lin Li, Tore Brinck, Anders Hagfeldt, Bo Albinsson, Licheng Sun* |
The Study of Organic Dyes with Different Electron Withdrawing Groups for P-type Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells |
Oral |
| 12.10 - 12.30 |
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| 12.50 - 13.00 | Closing |
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