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.