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Thin Films - 2007 Program Review Meeting

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The following presentations, papers, and posters from the DOE Solar Energy Technologies Program Review Meeting and Peer Review in April 2007 were released for dissemination by their authors. There are two types of proceedings, presentations and posters.

Technical Sessions Presentations

  • DOE Solar Energy Technologies Program Peer Review (PDF 598 KB), Dennis Hollars, Miasolé
  • Low Cost Thin Film Building-Integrated PV Systems (PDF 1.5 MB), Subhendu Guha and Jeffrey Yang, United Solar Ovonic LLC
  • Polycrystalline CdTe and CIGS Thin-Film PV Research (PDF 1.7 MB), Rommel Noufi, Xuanzhi Wu, Tim Gessert, Jie Zhou, Clay DeHart, Tim Coutts, David Albin, Miguel Contreras, XiaoNan Li, Ramesh Dhere, Raghu Bhattacharya, Brian Egaas, Kannan Ramanathan, and James Keane, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  • Processing, Materials, Devices and Diagnotics for Thin-Film Photovoltaics: Fundamental and Manufacturability Issues (PDF 2.7 MB), Robert Birkmire, University of Delaware
  • Process Development for High Voc CdTe Solar Cells (PDF 1.2 MB), Chris Ferekides, H. Zhao, Viswanathan Padma, and R. Rudaraju, University of Southern Florida
  • Fabrication and Physics of CdTe Devices by Sputtering (PDF 3.1 MB), Alvin Compaan, University of Toledo
  • Innovative Characterization of Amorphous and Thin-Film Silicon for Improved Module Performance (PDF 1.7 MB), David Cohen, University of Oregon
  • Advances in Continuous In-Line Processing of CdS/CdTe Devices Including Large Area (16" X 16") Deposition (PDF 613 KB), Walajabad Sampath, Kurt Barth, Venkatesan Manivannan, P. Noronha, and Al Enzenroth, Colorado State University
  • High-Efficiency Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Silicon Based Solar Cells and Modules (PDF 422 KB), Subhendu Guha and Jeffrey Yang, United Solar Ovonic LLC
  • High-Productivity Annealing for Thin-Film CIS PV (PDF 728 KB), Chris Eberspacher, Nanosolar
  • Expanding the Limits (PDF 303 KB), Peter Meyers, Anke Abken, Markus Gloeckler, Roger Green, and Akhlesh Gupta, First Solar US Manufacturing, LLC

Technical Sessions Posters

CIS

  • Thin CIGS Devices and Modules produced using the Simplified Hybrid Process (PDF 206 KB), Alan Delahoy, Masud Akhtar, Ramesh Govindarajan, Sheyu Guo, Leena Sahoo, and Renata Saramak, Energy Photovoltaics, Inc.
  • Low Toxic Processing of Thin and Ultra-thin CIGSeS Absorber Solar Cells (PDF 323 KB), Neelkanth Dhere, Ankur Kadam, Anant Jahagirdar, Sachin Kulkarni, Shirish Pethe, Vinay Hadagali, and Parag Vasekar, University of Central Florida
  • An Investigation of Stability Issues of ZnO and Mo on Glass Substrates for CIGS Solar Cells upon Accelerated Weathering and Damp Heat Exposures (PDF 293 KB), John Pern and Rommel Noufi, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  • Scale-Up at Global Solar Energy using Roll-to-Roll Processes for Thin Film CIGS PV (PDF 244 KB), Scott Wiedeman, Jeff Britt, Jane VanAlsburg, Walter Stoss, and Urs Schoop, Global Solar Energy, Inc.

CdTe

  • RTSE Studies of the Fabrication of High Efficiency CdTe PV (PDF 291 KB), Robert Collins, Alvin Compaan, Jian Li, and Jie Chen, The University of Toledo
  • Sputtered II-VI Alloys and Structures for Tandem PV (PDF 373 KB), Alvin Compaan, Robert Collins, V. Parikh, X. Mathew, D. Giolando, S.X. Marsillac, Anuja Parikh, Jie Chen, and Jian Li, The University of Toledo
  • Development of Robust High Efficiency Thin-Film CdTe Photovoltaic Modules (PDF 108 KB), Roger Green and Peter Meyers, First Solar US Manufacturing, LLC
  • Fabrication, Characterization, and Simulation of Solar Cells (PDF 349 KB), G.B. Lush and D. Zubia, University of Texas at El Paso
  • Voltage Deficit in Thin-Film Polycrystalline Solar Cells (PDF 150 KB), James Sites, Colorado State University

Crosscutting

  • Outdoor Monitoring and High Voltage Bias Testing of Thin Film PV Modules (PDF 122 KB), Neelkanth Dhere, Ashwani Kaul, Santosh Khatri, Shirish Pethe, and Bhaskar Kumar, Florida Solar Energy Center
  • Characterization of the Electronic and Chemical Structure at Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 and CdTe Thin Film Solar Cell Interfaces (PDF 237 KB), Marcus Bär, Lothar Weinhardt, Monika Blum, Sujitra Pookpanratana, and Clemens Heske, University of Nevada
  • Damp Heat Effects on CIGSS and CdTe Cells (PDF 317 KB), Larry Olsen, Sambhu Kundu, Mark Gross, and Alan Joly, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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