Program

July 22(Tues)

13:00
Doors Open
13:30～14:00
Opening Address
Keisuke Isogai (Deputy Director-General, Research and Development Bureau of MEXT)
Shoichirou Tonomura (JST, Executive Director)
Masato Shinagawa (Mayor, Koriyama City)
Kazuhito Hashimoto (Professor, Tokyo University)
14:00～14:30
Overview of “FUTURE-PV Innovation” Project
Makoto Konagai (Research Director, FUTURE-PV Innovation / Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
14:30～15:00
(Invited) Photovoltaic research: What could be done next?
Jüergen H. Werner (Professor, Institute for Photovoltaics, University of Stuttgart)
15:00～15:20
Break

Session 1 High Quality Si Crystal Growth

15:20～15:50
(Invited) METI/AIST Fukushima PV Program
Michio Kondo (Deputy Director-General, Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute, AIST)
15:50～16:20
Team1 High-quality Si ingots based on the Noncontact Crucible method
Kazuo Nakajima (Team Leader, JST)
16:20～16:50
(Invited) Characterization of quality of Si crystals for solar cells
Tonio Buonassisi (Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
17:30～19:30
Banquet

July 23(Wed)

Session 2 Fabrication processes for Si nanowires and characterization

10:00～10:30
Team 2 Fabrication processes for Si nanowires and characterization
Shinsuke Miyajima (Team Leader / Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
10:30～11:00
(Invited) Understanding photovoltaic energy conversion in solar cells with radial junctions based on Si nanowires
Antonin Fejfar (Vicechairman, Scientific Council of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
11:00～11:30
(Invited) Radial heterojunction c-Si nanowire solar cells
Miro Zeman (Professor, Delft University of Technology)
11:30～12:30
Lunch

Session 3 Nano-Wire Solar Cells

12:30～13:00
Team 3 Si nanowire solar cells
Yukimi Ichikawa (Team Leader, JST))
13:00～13:30
(Invited) Solar cells made from thin high-quality epitaxial silicon foils
Ivan Gordon (Manager, Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre)
13:30～14:00
(Invited) Light management for ultrathin solar cells
Ruud Emmanuel Isidore Schropp (Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology)
14:15～15:45
Poster Presentation