IEEE PVSC 52 - SEATTLE, WA (2024)

Using Computation to Accelerate Materials Engineering, from the Atomistic to Device Scale

Rachel Kurchin. Carnegie Mellon University

Rapid Advances in Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells

Kai Zhu. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Data-centric AI Foundation Models for Fleet-wide Data Imputation, Performance and Degradation Analysis of PV Systems

Roger French, Yangxin Fan, Raymond Wieser, Arafath Nihar, Thomas Ciardi, Alexander Bradley, Priyan Rajamohan, Benjamin Pierce, Pawan Tripathi, Erika Barcelo, Laura Bruckman, Yinghui Wu. Case Western Reserve University

Full Chalcopyrite Tandem Devices: can we hope?

Nicolas Barreau, LAco Choubrac, Fabien Pineau, Thamer Aloui, EugAune Bertin, Thomas Lepetit, Ludovic Arzel, Sylvie Harel, Lionel Assmann. IMN, CNRS - Nantes UniversitAc, Nantes, France

Impact of Top Absorber Layer Thickness and Bandgap on Perovskite-CdSeTe Tandem Solar Cell Performance

Briana Dokken^{1, 2}, Adam B. Phillips¹, Ksh*tiz Dolia¹, Sabin Neupane¹, Michael J. Heben¹, Yanfa Yan¹, Zhaoning Song¹. ¹Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA.²Department of Physics, University of Minnesota Morris, Morris, MN, USA

Laser patterning of thin film solar cells for building-integrated PV

Giray Kartopu¹, H. Kursad Sezer², Jethro Vernon¹, Prabeesh Punathil¹, Takaya Ohashi³, Taiki Hidaka³, Takashi Minemoto³, Elliot Woolley², Bethany Willis¹, Vincent Barrioz¹, Guillaume Zoppi¹, Neil S. Beattie¹. ¹Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.²Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.³Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan

Performance of a Novel Micro-CPV Module: Impact of Manufacturing Tolerances Based on a Two-Step Nested Monte Carlo Approach and Experimental Outdoor Results

Elisa Kaiser^{1, 2}, Peter SchApttl¹, Marc Steiner¹, Tobias DAprsam¹, Juan MartAsnez¹, Gerald Siefer¹, Frank Dimroth¹, Peter Nitz¹, Maike Wiesenfarth¹, Henning Helmers¹. ¹Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, Germany.²Institute for Sustainable Systems Engineering, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Best Student Presentation Award Finalist - Planarizing Spalled GaAs(100) Surfaces by MOVPE Growth

Gavin P Forcade¹, William E McMahon², Nicholas Yoo³, Anica N Neumann^{2, 3}, Michelle Young², John Goldsmith², Karin Hinzer^{1, 4}, Corinne E Packard^{2, 3}, Myles A Steiner². ¹Department of Physics, Ottawa, ON, Canada.²National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA.³Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA.⁴SUNLAB, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Best Student Presentation Award Finalist - In-Situ MOVPE Smoothing of Acoustically Spalled GaAs for Substrate Reuse

Anica N. Neumann^{1, 2}, Gavin P. Forcade^{1, 3}, William E. McMahon¹, Pablo G. Coll⁴, Mariana I. Bertoni^{4, 5}, Myles A. Steiner¹, Emily L. Warren¹. ¹National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO, USA.²Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA.³University of Ottawa, Ottowa, ON, Canada.⁴Crystal Sonic, Inc., Tempe, AZ, USA.⁵Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

Improvement Of Bulk n-type GaAs Minority Carrier Lifetime With Annealing

Phillip Jahelka, Susana Torres-Londono, Harry Atwater. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

Lithography-free Mesa Isolation of III-V Solar Cells through Laser Ablation

Theresa E. Saenz¹, Ryan Muzzio¹, Anica N. Neumann^{1, 2}, Vincenzo LaSalvia¹, Myles A. Steiner¹. ¹National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO, USA.²Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA

Best Student Presentation Award Finalist - Evaluating the Degradation of Silicon Heterojunction Devices Through Interface Modeling Changes and Chemical Analysis

Nicholas Moser-Mancewicz¹, Jorge Ochoa¹, Julia Medvedeva², Dirk Jordan³, Steve Johnston³, Mariana Bertoni¹. ¹Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.²Physics Department, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA.³National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO, USA

Characterization of the Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells by Operando X-Ray Photoemission Spectroscopy

Pilar Lopez-Varo¹, Mathieu FrAcgnaux², Davide Regaldo¹, Jean-Baptiste Puel³, SolAune BAcchu², Javid Hajhemati⁴, Jean-Paul Kleider⁵, Philip Schulz⁴. ¹Institut PhotovoltaAmque da, Palaiseau, France.²Institut Lavoisier de Versailles (ILV), UMR 8180, CNRS, UVSQ - UniversitAc Paris-Saclay, Versalles, France.³EDF RaD, Palaiseau, France.⁴CNRS, Institut PhotovoltaAmque da, Palaiseau, France.⁵Laboratoire de GAcnie Electrique et Electronique de Paris, Sorbonne UniversitAc, CNRS, Paris, France

Understanding the impact of selenium doping in CdSeTe-based solar cells at the atomic-scale

Arashdeep S. Thind¹, Mariana I. Bertoni², Robert F. Klie¹. ¹University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.²Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

In-depth Characterization Methodology for the Assessment of Passivation Impact in Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

Jonathan Parion^{1, 2}, Santhosh Ramesh^{1, 2}, Sownder Subramaniam^{1, 3}, Henk Vrielinck⁴, Filip Duerinckx¹, Hariharsudan Sivaramakrishnan Radhakrishnan¹, Jef Poortmans^{1, 2, 3}, Johan Lauwaert⁵, Bart Vermang^{1, 2}. ¹imec division IMOMEC a EnergyVille, Thorpark 8320, 3600 Genk, Belgium.²Hasselt University, Wetenschapspark 1, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium.³Department of Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.⁴Department of Solid State Science, UGent, Krijgslaan 281-S1, 9000 Gent, Belgium.⁵Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Technology Park 126, 9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium

Contactless External Quantum Efficiency Evaluation of Perovskite Solar Cells

Felix Gayot, Robert Lee Chin, Yan Zhu, Soma Zandi, Juergen W. Weber, Ziv Hameiri. The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Best Student Presentation Award Finalist - Assessing the local charge-carrier kinetics in buried structures through time-resolved X-ray beam induced voltage measurements

Jackson L. Barp Jr.^{1, 2}, Giovanni Fevola¹, Jan Garrevoet¹, Svenja Patjens¹, Christina Ossig^{1, 2}, Christian Strelow³, Michael Bartlein⁴, Zhonghou Cai⁴, Martin V. Holt^{4, 5}, Michael E. Stuckelberger¹. ¹Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.²Fachbereich Physik, Universitaet Hamburg UHH, Hamburg, Germany.³Institut fuer Physikalische Chemie, Universitaet Hamburg UHH, Hamburg, Germany.⁴Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA.⁵Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA

Best Student Presentation Award Finalist - Process-Structure Relationships in Laminated Perovskite Solar Cells

Clare Lanaghan¹, Oluka Okia¹, Thomas Coons¹, Srinivas Yadavalli¹, Jack Palmer², Mengyao Zhang¹, Karrer Hersh¹, Moses Kodur², Orlando Trejo¹, Sean Dunfield², Michael Thouless¹, David Fenning², Xun Huan¹, Neil Dasgupta¹. ¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.²University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

Engineering Ink Rheology for Boosting Efficiency of Large-Area Flexography-Printed Perovskite Solar Cells

Julia E Huddy, William J Scheideler. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

Guidelines for Selection of Encapsulant Materials for Modules Using Perovskite/Si Tandem Cells

Chiara Barretta¹, Petra Christoefl¹, Frans Opden Buijsch², Sem Sals², Quentin Jeangros³, Berndt Stannowski⁴, Marcel Kuehne⁵, Gernot Oreski^{1, 6}. ¹Polymer Competence Center Leoben (PCCL), Leoben, Austria.²The Compound Company, Enschede, Netherlands.³Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM), Neuchatel, Switzerland.⁴Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin fA¼r Materialien und Energie (HZB), Berlin, Germany.⁵Hanwha Q CELLS GmbH, Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany.⁶Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Leoben, Austria

Effect of transport layers on reverse bias recovery in perovskite solar cells

Viqar Ahmad, Thomas P. White, Kylie R. Catchpole, Klaus J. Weber, Daniel C. Walter. Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Ruddlesden-Popper Perovskites for Stable and Transparent Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Materials

Adianne Alamban, Muneeza Ahmad, Nicholas Rolston. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

Simultaneous optical and electrical in-situ characterization of ageing perovskite solar cells

Alexandra Levtchenko^{1, 2}, Arthur Julien², Daniel McDermott², Jean-Baptiste Puel³, Jean-FranAsois Guillemoles², Daniel Ory³, Daniel Suchet^{4, 2}. ¹Institut PhotovoltaAmque d'Ile-de-France, Palaiseau, France.²CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut PhotovoltaAmque da, Palaiseau, France.³EDF RaD, Palaiseau, France.⁴Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

Photovoltaic Model Parameter Translation Tools in pvlib-python

Lelia Deville, Kevin S. Anderson, Clifford W. Hansen, Marios Theristis. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Energy Yield Modeling of Single-Axis Tracking PV Systems on Irregular Terrain

Javier Lopez-Lorente¹, Anja Neubert², Mike Hamer³. ¹DNV, Arnhem, Netherlands.²DNV, Oldenburg, Germany.³DNV, Bristol, United Kingdom

Performance Improvements through Advanced PV Backtracking on Uneven Terrain

Emma Cooper, Kevin Anderson, Dan Riley. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Simulated performance effect of torque tube twisting in single-axis tracking PV arrays

Kevin S. Anderson, Clifford W. Hansen. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Energy Impact of Different Solar Tracker Wind Stow Strategies

Kendra Passow, Mudasar Zahoor, Todd Anderson, Kyumin Lee. Array Technologies, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Towards a Reproducible Photovoltaic Modeling Validation Process

Lelia Deville, Kevin S Anderson, Marios Theristis. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Correlation between Mid-level Wind Speed and Rear Glass Breakages on Non-large-format Bifacial PV Modules on Trackers in a Solar Farm

Darryl Wang, Andi Hermawan, Evan Woolard. DNV Singapore Pte. Ltd., Singapore, Singapore

Advancing Photovoltaic Module Inspection: The Power of UV Imaging for Comprehensive Material Analysis and Quality Assurance

Claudia Buerhop-Lutz¹, Ernest E. van Dyk², Frederik J. Vorster², Oleksandr Stroyuk¹, Oleksandr Mashkov¹, Jacqueline L. Crozier MC Cleland², Monphias Vumbugwa², Jens A. Hauch¹, Ian Marius Peters¹. ¹Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, HI ERN, Erlangen, Germany.²Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Influence of agricultural environment on the degradation of CIGS-based solar cells

AdAule Debono^{1, 2}, Arthur Julien², Amelle Rebai², Nathanaelle Schneider², Jean-Francois Guillemoles², Polina Volovitch^{1, 2}. ¹Chimie ParisTech-CNRS, PSL Research University, Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris (IRCP), Paris, France.²Institut PhotovoltaAmque d'A, Palaiseau, France

Rapid Characterization and Statistical Analysis of High-Volume Field-Harvested Photovoltaic Connectors

Steven J. DiGregorio¹, Tapasvi Lolla², Wayne Li², Vignesh Ramasamy³, Andy Walker³, Jal Desai³, Laurie Burnham¹, Bruce King¹. ¹Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA.²Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. (EPRI), Charlotte, NC, USA.³National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO, USA

Forensic Analysis of Failed Photovoltaic Connectors

Tapasvi Lolla¹, Wayne Li¹, Laurie Burnham², Bruce King². ¹Electric Power Research Institute, Charlotte, NC, USA.²Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Relating Aerial Infrared Thermography Defects to Photovoltaic Performance

Kirsten Perry¹, Quyen Nguyen¹, Dirk Jordan¹, Chris Deline¹, Burton Putrah². ¹National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Lakewood, CO, USA.²Zeitview, Santa Monica, CA, USA

How Much Solar PV Energy do we Need to Achieve Net-Zero Emissions Systems?

Marta Victoria. Aarhus University

TW-Level Module Supply: Are We Ready?

Dirk Weiss. First Solar, Inc

Hardware and Soft Technology Evolution for Net-Zero

Magdalena Klemun. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Paradigm-Shifts for Sustainable Multi-TW Photovoltaics

Jan Christoph Goldschmidt. Philipps-University Marburg

Integrating Terawatts of Photovoltaics into the Worlds Electric Power Systems

Andy Hoke. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

International Solar Alliance (ISA) Panelist

Ramesh Kumar Kuruppat. International Solar Alliance (ISA)

Middle East Panelist

Ammar Nayfeh. Khalifa University

European Panelist

Uwe Rau. Forschungszentrum Julich (FZJ)

Panel Discussion

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