Program (tentative)

Opening

10:00~10:30
Opening Address
Motoshi Shinozaki (Director, MEXT)
Michiharu Nakamura (President, JST)
Yoshinao Mishima (President, Tokyo Tech)
10:30~11:00
Overview of "FUTURE-PV Innovation" Project
Makoto Konagai (Professor, Tokyo Tech)
11:00~11:30
Invited Modules from Crystalline Silicon: the Brickstones for Photovoltaic Electricity Supply
Juergen Werner (Professer, Stuttgart University)
11:30~12:00
Invited The Potential of Si Nanowires for all-Si based Tandem Solar Cells
Jef Poortmans (Director, IMEC)
12:00~13:00
***Lunch***

Session 1: High Quality Si Crystal Growth

13:00~13:20
Invited METI/AIST Fukushima PV Program
Michio Kondo (Senior Coordinator, AIST)
13:20~13:40
Team1 High-quality Si Ingots based on the Noncontact Crucible Method
Kazuo Nakajima (Visitting Professor, Kyoto University)

Session 2: Fabrication Process for Silicon Nanowire and Characterization

13:40~14:10
Team 2 Fabrication Process for Silicon Nanowire and Characterization
Shinsuke Miyajima (Associate Professor, Tokyo Tech)
14:10~14:40
Invited Plasma Assisted VLS Growth of Silicon Nanowires and its Application to Radial Junction Solar Cells
Pere Roca i Cabarrocas (Professor, Ecole Polytechnique)
14:40~15:10
Invited Toward Commercialization of Silicon Nanowire Solar Cells
Wenzhong Shen (Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
15:10~15:25
***Break***

Session 3: Nano-Wire Solar Cells

15:25~15:55
Team3 Si Nanowire Solar Cells
Yukimi Ichikawa (JST)
15:55~16:25
Invited Synthesis of Si Nanowire/Carbon Nanotube Core Shell Structure
Donghwan Kim (Professor, Korea University)
16:25~16:55
Invited Light Trapping in Ultrathin Nanorod-Type Solar Cells
Ruud Emmanuel Isidore Schropp (Professor, ECN and Eindhoven University of Technology)
16:55~18:15
***Poster Presentation***
18:30~20:00
***Banquet***