Scientific Topics 2023

• Silicon material and defect engineering
• Wafering technologies and direct-wafer production
• Silicon solar cell process technologies (advanced light management, junction formation, cleaning, surface passivation)
• Carrier selective contacts, metallization and contact formation
• Si-based tandem cells in combination with perovskites, III-V and alternative materials
• Process integration and low-cost manufacturing
• New manufacturing tools
• Cell characterization and simulations
• Module characterization and simulation
• Digitalization, data processing and machine learning in PV
• Module processing and materials
• Module reliability and energy yield
• Customized modules for buildings, vehicles and other special applications
• Sustainability, life cycle assessment, and circularity

Topics covering n-type material and/or solar cells will mainly be scheduled on the overlapping day with nPV.