Technical sessions: Advanced materials, solar cells and PV modules Nanophotonic structures for light management Thin-film solar cells and PV modules Advanced characterisation techniques Challenges in optical and electrical modelling Performance and reliability of PV modules and systems Invited speakers Christophe Ballif, EPFL – PV-LAB, CSEM, Neuchatel, Switzerland Steve Albrecht, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany Klaus Jäger, Helmholtz-Zentrum, Berlin, Germany Lars Stolt, Solibro Research AB, Uppsala, Sweden Olindo Isabella, TU Delft, PVMD, The Netherlands Jakub Holovsky, Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic Beate Röder, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany Bart E. Pieters, IEK-5 Photovoltaik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany Miha Filipič, IMEC, Lueven, Belgium Karen Forberich, i-MEET, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Steve Ransome, Steve Ransome Consulting Ltd, Northampton, UK Michael Köhl, ISE Fraunhofer, Freiburg, Germany Wednesday, 21st September, 2016 13:30 – 14:30 Registration Location: Faculty building B, 1st floor Lunch Location: Faculty canteen, ground floor     14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break Location: Faculty building B, 1st floor     15:00 – 15:10 Opening of the workshop Location: Faculty building B, 1st floor   Advanced materials, solar cells and PV modules - I Chairman: Janez Krč 15:10 – 15:50 Christophe Ballif EPFL – PV-LAB, CSEM, Neuchatel, Switzerland INVITED Metal oxides and Transparent conductive oxides in c-Si heterojunction, perovskites and in tandem solar cells 15:50 – 16:20 Steve Albrecht Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany INVITED Towards Highly Efficient Monolithic Perovskite/Silicon-Heterojunction Tandem Solar Cells 16:20 – 16:35 Manoj Jaysankar IMEC, Leuven, Belgium Large area perovskite/silicon multi-junction modules     16:35 – 17:00 Coffee break       Nanophotonic structures for light management Chairman: Steve Albrecht 17:00 – 17:30 Klaus Jäger Helmholtz-Zentrum, Berlin, Germany INVITED Nanophotonic light management for crystalline silicon thin-film solar cells 17:30 – 17:45 Gerhard Peharz Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft GmbH, Weiz, Austria Plasmonics for tuning the colour of c-Si solar cells – a first commercial application of nano-photonics in PV?       Presentation of LPVO Marko Topič, University of Ljubljana, Fac. of. Elec. Eng., LPVO 17:45 – 18:10 LPVO activities – past 10 years with a look ahead 18:15 – 19:15 Lab tour LPVO     19:30 Pizza and beer Location: Faculty Thursday, 22nd September, 2016   Thin-film solar cells and PV modules   Joint presentation with Slovenian PV conference SLO-PV 2016 Location: Peterlin's pavilion (see Home tab) 9:30 – 10:15 Lars Stolt Solibro Research AB, Uppsala, Sweden PLENARY From lab research of CIGS solar cells to mass production of PV modules – historic and future challenges 10:15 – 10:20 Walk to the faculty building 10:20 – 10:45 Coffee break   Chairman: Jakub Holovsky 10:45 – 11:15 Olindo Isabella TU Delft, PVMD, The Netherlands INVITED Thin-film single- and double-junction solar cells based on barium-disilicide 11:15 – 11:30 Daniel Menz Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria Metastable Behavior of Thin-Film Solar Cells under Colored Light 11:30 – 11:45 Vera Gradišnik Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia The a-Si:H Device Characteristics Degradation Upon the Light Induced Defects       Advanced characterisation techniques Chairman: Olindo Isabella 11:45 – 12:15 Jakub Holovsky Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic INVITED Subbandgap absorption spectroscopy of photovoltaic materials: applicability and interpretation 12:15 – 12:45 Beate Röder Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany INVITED Luminescence spectroscopy: Useful Tool for Evaluating EVA cross-linking in PV modules 12:45 – 13:00 Jan Schlothauer Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany Non-destructive aging investigations of EVA in PV modules: Photoluminescence reveals DLO conditions     13:00 – 14:00 Lunch       Chairman: Bart Pieters 14:00 – 14:15 Rudi Brüggemann GeePs (Group of Electrical Engineering – Paris), UMR CNRS 8507, CentraleSupélec, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris, France Temperature dependence of the radiative recombination coefficient in crystalline silicon 14:15 – 14:30 Rok Kimovec University of Ljubljana, Fac. of. Elec. Eng., LPVO, Slovenia Influence of injection current and temperature on electroluminescence of GaAs laser power converters       Challenges in optical and electrical modelling Chairman: Klaus Jaeger 14:30 – 15:00 Bart E. Pieters IEK-5 Photovoltaik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany INVITED Solar Cell and Module Modelling with PVMOS 15:00 – 15:15 Benjamin Lipovšek University of Ljubljana, Fac. of. Elec. Eng., LPVO, Slovenia 3D optical modelling of solar cells and PV modules with CROWM – a combined ray optics / wave optics model 15:15 – 15:30 Andrej Čampa University of Ljubljana, Fac. of. Elec. Eng., LPVO, Slovenia Opto-electronic simulation of bifacial heterojunction Si solar cells 15:30 – 15:45 Žiga Lokar University of Ljubljana, Fac. of. Elec. Eng., LPVO, Slovenia RCWA performance in 3D simulations of silicon solar cells 15:45 – 16:00 Milan Kovačič University of Ljubljana, Fac. of. Elec. Eng., LPVO, Slovenia From light in-coupling in solar cells to light out-coupling in OLEDs     16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break       Performance and reliability of PV modules and systems - I Chairman: Michael Koehl 16:30 – 16:45 Bettina Ottersböck Polymer Competence Center Leoben GmbH, Austria Comparison of different microclimates on the ageing behaviour of encapsulation materials used in photovoltaic modules 16:45 – 17:00 Gernot Oreski Polymer Competence Center Leoben, Leoben, Austria Influence of Backsheet film on PV Module Reliability 17:00 – 17:15 Antonia Mihaljević Polymer Competence Center Leoben, Leoben, Austria Influence of backsheet type on formation of acetic acid in PV modules       Balance-of-system electronics Chairman: Saša Sladić 17:15 – 17:30 Filip Žic RITEH, Rijeka, Croatia Multiple Photovoltaic Powered DC Power Supply Design 17:30 – 17:45 Sara Belanić RITEH, Rijeka, Croatia Stability Issues in PV Converter with Current Feedback 17:45 – 18:00 Mateo Šafarić RITEH, Rijeka, Croatia DC/AC Power Converter Emulation by Microprocessor System     20:00 Dinner at Union pub Friday, 23rd September, 2016   Advanced materials, solar cells and PV modules - II Chairman: Benjamin Lipovšek  9:00 – 9:30 Miha Filipič IMEC, Lueven, Belgium INVITED Silicon solar cells on epitaxial foils  9:30 – 10:00 Karen Forberich i-MEET, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany INVITED Dielectric mirrors for printed solar cells     10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break       Performance and reliability of PV modules and systems - II Chairman: Beate Roeder 10:30 – 11:00 Steve Ransome Steve Ransome Consulting Ltd, Northampton, UK INVITED Performance rating and degradation analysis of PV modules 11:00 – 11:30 Michael Köhl Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany INVITED Impact of Rain and Soiling on Potential Induced Degradation 11:30 – 11:45 Eleonora Annigoni EPFL, PV-LAB, Switzerland Predictive models for the power degradation of c-Si PV modules: Potential-Induced Degradation and moisture ingres 11:45 – 12:00 Blaž Kirn University of Ljubljana, Fac. of. Elec. Eng., LPVO, Slovenia PV system performance analysis using PV performance models     12:00 – 12:10 Closing of the workshop     12:15 Lunch Book of abstracts (1.6 MB - as received in printed form at registration)