Slides on next generation photovoltaics

In the following, we present some slides from the Joint ICTP-KFAS Workshop on Nanoscience for Solar Energy Conversion, which was held in Trieste on October 27-29, 2008.

• Power from the Sun: the Advent of Mesoscopic Solar Cells (pdf, 5,420 KB)
  Michael GRAETZEL (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Quantum Dot Solar Cells: Semiconductor Nanocrystals As Light Harvesters (pdf, 6,800 KB)
  Prashant KAMAT (University of Notre Dame, U.S.A.)
• Recent developments in the design of dye sensitized solar cell components  (pdf, 2,240 KB)
  Carlo Alberto BIGNOZZI (University of Ferrara, Italy)
• Materials-related aspects of TiO2-based photocatalysis (pdf, 6,952 KB)
  Annabella SELLONI (Princeton University, U.S.A.)
• Photoelectrochemical Solar Energy Conversion Based on Conducting Polymers (pdf, 1,100 KB)
  Teketel Yohannes ANSHEBO (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)
• Charge Transport in Metal Oxides: Multi-scale Studies (pdf, 4,820 KB)
  Michel DUPUIS (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, U.S.A.)
• Dye sensitized solar cells: toward a low cost, industrial viable, photovoltaics (pdf, 6,310 KB)
  Aldo DI CARLO (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy)
• Charge Recombination Studies in Hybrid Molecular Photovoltaic Devices (pdf, 5,100 KB)
  Emilio PALOMARES (ICIQ, Tarragona, Spain)
• Dynamics on the Nanoscale: Time-domain ab initio studies of quantum dots and carbon nanotubes (pdf, 2,900 KB)
  Oleg PREZHDO (University of Washington, U.S.A.)
• Quantum simulations of electrochemical systems (pdf, 3,820 KB)
  Nicola MARZARI (MIT, Cambridge, U.S.A.)
• Impedance Spectroscopy of nanostructured dye-sensitized and organic bulk heterojunction solar cells (pdf, 4,950 KB)
  Juan BISQUERT (Universitat Jaume 1, Castello de La Plana, Spain)
• Solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells: device operation, optimization, charge generation mechanism and novel electrodes structured from diblock copolymers (pdf, 7,000 KB)
  Henry SNAITH (University of Oxford, U.K.)
• Reduced and doped TiO2: what is the nature of the defect states? (pdf, 2,150 KB)
  Gianfranco PACCHIONI (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
• Long Term Stability of Dye Solar Cells - Influence of Dye Chemistry (pdf, 2,170 KB)
  Keith BROOKS (Leysin, Switzerland)
• Molecular engineering of sensitisers for solar cell applications (pdf, 2,580 KB)
  Md. Khaja NAZEERUDDIN (EPFL-LPI, Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Charge Photogeneration and collection in dye sensitized solar cells (pdf, 1,980 KB)
  Piers BARNES (Imperial College, London, U.K.)
• Mesoscopic Donor-Acceptor Multilayer by Ultra-High-Vacuum deposition of Zn-Tetraphenyl-Porphyrin and C70  (pdf, 3,560 KB)
  Andrea GOLDONI (Sincrotrone, Trieste, Italy)
• Toward high performance plastic solar cells: basics and recent development  (pdf, 2,520 KB)
  Nadia CAMAIONI (CNR-ISOF, Bologna, Italy)

Useful web-links

IEA (International Energy Agency)

BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2009

EIA (Energy Information Administration, Official energy statistics from the US government)

The Oil Drum

ASPO International (Association for the study of peak oil & gas)

SciDev.net: Renewable Energy