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Technologies for a photovoltaic future
LOCATION: FieraMilano Rho, Congress Center, ARIES Conference Room.
ENTRANCE: EST Entrance. The access to the conference is free.
REGISTRATION: Participants are adviced to report to the Conference Reception well in advance; at least, 20 minutes before the start of the session.
LANGUAGE: Conference presentations will be held in Italian; simultaneous translation will not be provided.
* provisional title
** invited chair/speaker
Wednesday, November 25th 200911.30am-5.45pm | |
Round table with the leading companies | |
Chair: Giuseppe Caravita (Il Sole 24 Ore) | |
| Brandoni (Luciano Brandoni) |
| Centrotherm Photovoltaics Italia (Mario Poletti) |
| Ergon Solair Italia (Lorenzo Colacicchi) |
| Helios Technology (Mark Rossetto) |
| Singulus Technologies Italia (Roberto Marsico) |
| Tecnofimes-Roth Rau (Carlo Doniselli) |
2.15pm-3.45pm Reducing production costs and maximizing efficency of processes and technologies | |
Chair: Carlo Privato (ENEA Portici) | |
| Grid Parity Objective: technological development lines to reduce the cost of a photovoltaic kWh |
| New cost-effective technologies for crystalline silicium in wafers |
| Potentialities of second generation photovoltaics |
| Concentrating Photovoltaics: technological and economic objectives |
| Case history |
| Case history |
4.00pm-5.45pm Organic and inorganic materials for PV | |
Chair: Sergio Pizzini (R&D consultant Material Research Society and Nedsilicon) | |
| Introduction |
| Organic semiconductors: a challenge for the future of photovoltaics |
| Bio-inspired hierarchical nanostructured TiO2 for DSSC photo-anode |
| Third generation photovoltaics based on semiconducting nanowires: potential development, architectures and fabrication technologies |
| Nanocrystalline silicium: opportunities and challenges for its application in photovoltaics |
| Increased conversion efficiency in silicium solar cells through organo-metallic coating |
| Innovative method for the growth of high quality silicium ingots |
Thursday, November 26th 200910.00am-17.45pm |
10.00am-11.30am Installation and maintenance: how to control plant performances | |
Chair: Francesco Groppi (Polytechnic University of Milan) | |
| Chair's address |
| Monitoring and evaluating performances of PV plants |
| Power tolerances, I-V mismatch and 'flash reports' for photovoltaic modules |
| Case history |
| Case history |
| Discussion |
11.45am-1.00pm Degradation and dismantling of PV modules | |
Chair: Alessandro Romeo (PV Cycle) | |
| Presenting PV Cycle (how to make the photovoltaic industry "Double Green") and aspects of the environmental impact of thin film modules |
| Life time performance of PV modules |
| IEC tests for photovoltaic modules |
| Polymeric solar cells: duration and degradation |
| Discussion |
2.00pm-3.50pm Thin film PV: nanotechnologies, materials and substrates | |
Chair: Simona Binetti (University of Milan - Bicocca) | |
| Chair's address |
| CIGS thin film on flexible substrates |
| in English |
| Thin film photovoltaics on flexible substrate for BIPV |
| Third generation photovoltaics: potentialities and promises of nanocrystalline silicium |
| Discussion |
4.15pm-5.45pm Thin film PV: production technologies | |
Chair: Alessio Bosio (University of Parma) | |
| Towards mass production: thin film photovoltaics |
| Production of thin film solar cells: techniques and state of the art |
| Electrochemical synthesis processes for the production of thin film PV |
| Certification of thin film PV |
| Equipment for the industrial production of thin film photovoltaic modules |
| Discussion |
