Extended Scientific Topics 2025
1. Advances in industrial silicon solar cells
- Novel passivating contacts for PERC and TOPCon
- Advances in silicon heterojunction technology
- Back contact cell architectures
- Silicon defect engineering, bulk passivation and gettering
- Improved processes for wet-chemistry, junction formation, and surface passivation
- Advanced light management and ultra-thin devices
2. Silicon-based tandem solar cells
- Pvk on Si Tandem solar cells
- III-V on Si tandems
- Transparent Conducting Electrodes
- Recombination, interconnection, and optical coupling layers
- Metallisation approaches for tandem cells
3. Sustainable manufacturing for Terawatt solar energy
- Novel metallisation schemes to reduce use of Ag, Bi, Pb
- Indium-free transparent conductors
- Silicon feedstock, crystallization, wafering and kerf-lossless production
- Life cycle assessments and circularity
- Process integration, metrology, and advanced manufacturing tools
- Digitalization, data processing and machine learning in PV production
4. Characterisation, modelling and simulation
- Silicon material characterisation
- Charge transport at interfaces and contacts
- Tandem cell characterisation
- Machine learning methods in material, cell and module characterisation
- Advanced simulation of solar cells and modules
5. Module technologies and PV systems
- Interconnection, stringing, and advanced module architectures
- Integration into buildings, vehicles, and agriculture
- Module reliability and degradation mechanisms
- Energy yield modelling, including new ML methods
- Cost studies and bankability of industrial PV
