Optics in Solar Energy (SOLAR)
Events
Optics in Solar Energy (SOLAR)
05 November 2018 – 08 November 2018 Resort World Sentosa, Sentosa Island, Singapore
The meeting covers the latest developments in nanophotonics, advanced silicon wafer solar cells and advanced materials for the next generation of solar cells. This includes all aspects of novel materials, structures and optical nanostructures, ranging from surface coatings, textures and diffraction gratings through to emerging topics such as plasmonics, nanowires, quantum dots, multi-junction solar cells and perovskites, amongst many others.
It also explores the range of optical elements for collecting, guiding, concentrating, coupling, trapping, transforming and absorbing sunlight – particularly for solar-thermal and concentrator systems. As optical components typically constitute the largest fraction of cost of such systems, the scope includes research devoted to improving all optical aspects of solar systems to enhance the performance, reduce costs and maximize reliability.
Attendees will be presented with overarching topics such as the techno-economic analysis of optics for solar energy, as well as optics in solar forecasting, atmospheric research and measurement, laser-based diagnostics of reactive solar-thermal flows and other fields. The aim is to bring together solar energy researchers with the broader global optical research community to identify and promote such synergies.
For 2018, this meeting merges Optical Nanostructures and Advanced Materials for Photovoltaics (PV) and Optics for Solar Energy (SOLAR).
Topics
- Optical nanostructures for photovoltaic applications, including but not limited to light management, spectral splitting, up and down conversion.
- Advanced silicon wafer solar cells
- Multi-junction solar cells
- Advanced characterizations, simulation and modeling for photovoltaic materials, devices and systems
- Emerging topics such as plasmonics, nanowires, quantum dots
- New solar cell materials, such as perovskites
- Photon management concepts
- Concentrating optics and solar power
- Measurement and optical modelling of solar energy systems
- Filed performance and reliability of concentrator optics, degradation and soiling effects
- Lifecycle and techno-economic analyses of CPV/solar thermal systems
Speakers
- Thomas White, Australian National University, Australia
Perovskite-silicon Tandem Solar Cells: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities Keynote - Nicklas Anttu, Lunds Universitet, Sweden
- Kwan Bum Choi, Solar Research Institute of Singapore, Singapore
Modulated Photoluminescence Technique for Solar Cell Characterisation - Alexander Colsmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
- Joe Coventry, Australian National University
Concentrating Solar Thermal Power: Challenges and Opportunities, and the Importance of Solar Field Optical Quality - Shubham Duttagupta, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Nicholas Ekins-Daukes, University of New South Wales, Australia
Light Trapping: From Silicon to III-V Solar Cells - Hiroyuki Fujiwara, Gifu University, Japan
Explicit Determination of the Current Loss Mechanisms in Textured Si Solar Cells - Jan Goldschmidt, Fraunhofer Inst Solare Energie Systeme, Germany
- Sophia Haussener, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Karin Hinzer, University of Ottawa, Canada
High Efficiency Photovoltaics: Ways to Push the Efficiencies Further - Baohua Jia, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
- Martina Schmid, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Bringing Light to Solar Absorbers: Nano- and Microoptical Concepts for Chalcopyrites and Beyond - Zhi Kuang Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Jizhong Yao, Microquanta, China
Committee
Peter Bermel, Purdue University, USA, Program Chair
Serena Fen Lin, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Program Chair
Olindo Isabella, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands, Program Chair
Klaus Jaeger, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany, Program Chair
Jos Haverkort, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
Jian Wei Ho, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Minghui Hong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Cangming Ke, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Wojciech Lipinski, The Australian National University, Australia
Benjamin Lipovsek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Shulong Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Joseph Luther, National Renewable Energy Lab., USA
Wahed Muhammad, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ali Naqavi, California Institute of Technology, USA
Bonna Newman, ECN Solar Energy, Netherlands
Ulrich Paetzold, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Noren Pan, MicroLink Devices Inc., USA
Rudi Santbergen, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
Rolf Stangl, Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, Singapore
Hairen Tan, University of Toronto, Canada
Liu Xiaogang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Xiaodan Zhang, Nankai University, China
Plenary Session
Eicke R. Weber, Plenary Speaker
Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore, Singapore
Photovoltaics Moving into the Terawatt Age
In the last few years, PV electricity became cost-competitive with electricity produced by conventional sources. Global PV production capacity will reach in the next 2-3 years 100-120 GWp/a, doubling the production volume of 2016, soon bringing global PV installations into the Terawatt range. A key factor for this growth will be continuous technology advances aimed at higher efficiencies at reduced cost. In addition, cell efficiency will be even more important than lowest cost, to optimize energy harvest from a given area. Crystalline Silicon technology currently represents more than 90% of the global PV market. This technology is approaching a ceiling of 29% efficiency for a single-bandgap semiconductor. New approaches for higher efficiencies require heterojunctions, and several approaches will be discussed. These include heterojunctions on silicon, allowing to combine well-established large-scale Silicon PV technology with new technologies, such as low-cost III/V or Perovskite layers.
About the Speaker
Eicke R. Weber is Director/CEO of the Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore (BEARS). Till 2016, he served as Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE and Professor of Physics at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany. Weber studied Physics at the University of Cologne, Germany, where he obtained his doctorate in 1976 and his habilitation in 1983.
Prof. Weber’s research is concerned with Materials Science of semiconductors, especially for photovoltaic applications.He was visiting professor at the Tohoku University in Sendai (1990), and at the Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan (2000). In 1994 he received an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award. In 2006 he received the Award of Merit from former German President Horst Kohler. In June 2013, Prof. Weber was honoured with the SolarWorld Einstein Award. In January 2014, he received the Zayed Future Energy Prize from the Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates on behalf of Fraunhofer ISE. He served as founding president of the German Energy Storage Association BVES (2012-16) and is a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).
David Crisp
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Tech., USA
Measuring Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide from the NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2)
NASA’s OCO-2 spacecraft has returned observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) since September 2014. These data are being used to study the processes emitting CO2 into the atmosphere and those absorbing it at the surface.
About the Speaker
David Crisp is an atmospheric physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology. He is currently serving as the Science Team Leader for NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission and the soon-to-be-launched OCO-3 mission. He is also a member of the Science Team for the Earth Ventures Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory (GeoCarb), a member of the European Copernicus CO2 Mission Advisory Group and the Greenhouse Gas Lead for the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Atmospheric Composition Virtual Constellation (AC-VC).
Iouli E. Gordon
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA
HITRAN2016 and Beyond: Reference Molecular Spectroscopy in the XXI Century
The most recent edition of the HITRAN spectroscopic database (HITRAN2016) will be presented at the meeting including new and improved data and structure, efficient web interface at www.hitran.org, and the HITRAN Application Programming Interface (HAPI).
About the Speaker
Iouli Gordon is a physicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, USA. He is the director of the HITRAN and HITEMP projects (www.hitran.org). HITRAN and HITEMP are molecular spectroscopic databases which constitute an international reference standard for the spectroscopic parameters of major absorbers of light in planetary atmospheres. Dr. Gordon led the efforts towards the assembly, validations and public release of the HITRAN2016 database and associated tools. Dr. Gordon obtained his Diploma in Engineering Physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia (1999), MSc in Physics at the University of Toronto, Canada (2001), and PhD at the University of Waterloo, Canada (2006). His research interests focus on laboratory and theoretical molecular spectroscopy of atmospheric and astrophysical interest, use of available spectroscopic information to construct databases, and development of the tools for enhancing data accessibility and effectiveness of scientific collaborations.
Hank Revercomb
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center, USA
Advances and Advantages of the Fourier Transform Spectometer (FTS) for infrared remote sensing in support of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) and establishing a longterm record of climate trends
For global observing systems that require a significant number of individual spacecraft and sensors, it is highly advantageous to have observations that are sensor independent with respect to spectral properties and instrument responsivity. FTS sensors are especially well suited to achieving this goal.
About the Speaker
Hank Revercomb, director of the UW-Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) for the last 17 years, has carried on the SSEC traditions established by Professor V. E. Suomi. He has been a leader in using radiation measurements to study the atmospherics of the earth and other planets. Specialties include: high spectral resolution instrumentation for atmospheric remote sensing and spectroscopy, operational infrared sounders, climate observing systems, and net flux observations of Venus and Jupiter.
Wei Huang
Northwestern Polytechnic University, China
Recent Advances in Flexible Electronics
In the past decades, organic optoelectronics has made great progress both in fundamental studies and commercial applications because of their excellent properties, such as solution processable, printable, flexible, low-cost and able to be made at large area. Our recent work is devoted to the development of high-performance organic semiconductors for optoelectronics. We will present our recent advancement on rational molecular design of organic semiconductors for light-emitting diodes, lasers, memories, chemo-/biosensors, and latest research results about ultralong organic phosphorescence, light-emitting perovskite and color display technologies.
About the Speaker
Huang Wei is one of the earliest and most renowned scholars in the research of polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs) and has great reputation in the field of organic optoelectronics research in international community. His current research interests include organic/plastic/flexible electronics, bioelectronics, nanomaterials, nanoelectronics, and polymer chemistry. In the area of organic optoelectronics and flexible electronics, he has made a large amount of systematic and innovative achievements and has published more than 700 papers as the first author or corresponding author in Nature Materials, Nature Photonics, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, Chemical Reviews, etc., with over 37,000 citations (ISI Web of Knowledge) and an H-index of 99.q
He is the most cited Researchers in the field of material science and chemistry. His contributions to these disciplines have led to wide-ranging publications that address both fundamental and more applied topics, and that place him amongst the 1% most highly cited materials/chemistry/informatics scientists in the world (ISI Highly Cited Scientist). He is editor-in-Chief of npj Flexible Electronics and editorial board member of top international journals such as Advanced Materials, Advanced Electronic Materials, Progress in Polymer Science, etc. He has held over 200 patents which are granted in USA, Singapore and China. Additionally, Professor Huang has published several academic books, such as Organic Optoelectronics, Bio-optoelectronics, Introduction to Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices, etc.
Tom White
The Australian National University, Australia
Perovskite-silicon Tandem Solar Cells: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities
Tandem solar cells that combine emerging perovskite materials with conventional silicon photovoltaic technology have the potential to boost silicon cell efficiencies well beyond their practical and theoretical efficiency limits. This presentation will review recent progress on perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells, the current research challenges, and the exciting opportunities presented by this technology.
About the Speaker
Tom White is currently an Associate Professor in the Research School of Engineering at the Australian National University, Canberra. He completed a PhD in Physics at the University of Sydney in 2006, followed by three years as a research fellow at the University of St Andrews, UK, studying nanophotonic enhancement of light-matter interactions. Since 2011, Dr. White’s main research focus has been photovoltaics; initially on nanophotonic light-trapping; and more recently on the development of high efficiency perovskite solar cells and perovskite-silicon tandems. He has published more than 90 journal papers on topics including electromagnetic theory, photonic crystals, nonlinear optics, optical engineering for solar cells and novel photovoltaic materials.
Special Events
Accelerating the Deployment of Renewables in Southeast Asia Special Panel
Urgent action is required to limit global warming. Rapidly developing Southeast Asia, with a population of 600 million, needs to deploy vast amounts of renewable energies to keep carbon emissions under control. In this timely panel discussion, experts from universities, solar companies and government agencies will share their views on how to accelerate the deployment of renewables in Southeast Asia. Aspects covered range from technology & engineering to economics and policies.
Moderator: Kenneth Baldwin, Director, ANU Energy Change Institute, Australian National University, Australia
Panelists:
Christophe Inglin, Managing Director, Energetix Pte Ltd, Singapore
Edwin Khew, Chairman, Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore (SEAS), Singapore
Alan Khor, Head of Engineering, Procurement & Construction, Cleantech Solar, Singapore
Eicke Weber, Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore, Singapore
Thomas White, Australian National University, Australia
SERIS Local Lab Tours
The local host of OSA Light, Energy and the Environment Congress, the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS, NUS) is pleased to organize local guided tours to SERIS’ laboratories and facilities located at both the National University of Singapore (NUS), and Cleantech One (CTO), as part of OSA’s local site visit program. Pre-registration for the SERIS guided lab tours is required for logistic arrangement. Registration confirmation will be on first-come, first-served basis.
