Program at a Glance
* As of November 22, 2011.
Detailed Program (tentative)
* As of November 25, 2011.
The file contains the entire program inclusive of both oral and poster sessions.
*Indicated with "#" are Special Topics in each area.
Area 1 : Advanced Technologies for Crystalline Silicon Materials and Solar Cells
#Technologies for Next-Generation Thin Si Wafers
Chair: T. Ishihara (Mitsubishi Elec.) Vice-Chair: Y. Ohshita (Toyota Tech. Inst.)
Area Plenary
Richard Swanson(SunPower, USA)
Invited Speakers
Stefan Reber (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany)
Kazuo Nakajima (Crystal Science for Silicon Solar Cell Laboratory)
Area 2 : Amorphous, Microcrystalline and Other Silicon Based Thin Film Solar Cells
#Standardization in Commodity Technology and Materials
Chair: A. Terakawa (Sanyo Elec.) Vice-Chair: T. Matsui (AIST)
Area Plenary
Christophe Ballif (EPFL, Switzerland)
Invited Speakers
Heon Min Lee (LG Electronics Advanced Research Institute, Korea)
Michio Kondo (AIST, Japan)
Martin Rohde (Applied Materials, USA)
Area 3 : CIS, CdTe and Other (II-VI) Thin Film Solar Cells
#Towards GW Production
Chair: S. Niki (AIST) Vice-Chair: T. Negami (Panasonic Corporation)
Area Plenary
Katsumi Kushiya (Showa Shell Sekiyu, Japan)
Invited Speakers
Ayodhya N. Tiwari (EMPA, Switzerland)
Hironori Katagiri (Nagaoka National College of Technology, Japan)
Norio Terada ( Kagoshima University, Japan)
Oki Gunawan (IBM, USA)
Shigeru Niki (AIST, Japan)
Tokio Nakada (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)
Area 4 : Concentrator Photovoltaic, III-V and Space Solar Cells
#Multijunction Approaches toward 50% Efficiency
Chair: T. Takamoto (Sharp Corporation) Vice-Chair: Y. Okada (The Univ. of Tokyo)
Area Plenary
Russ Jones (Spectrolab, USA)
Invited Speakers
Antonio Luque (Universidad Politdcnica de Madrid, Spain)
Mitsuru Imaizumi (JAXA, Japan)
Area 5 : Advanced Nanostructured Solar Cells: New Concepts, Materials and Structures
(Dye sensitized solar cells, organic solar cells and the other advanced solar cells)
#Guides to the Next Generation Nanostructured Solar Cells
Chair: S. Hayase (Kyushu Inst. Tech.) Vice-Chair: H. Segawa (The Univ. of Tokyo)
Area Plenary
Yi-Bing Cheng FTSE (Monash University, Australia)
Invited Speakers
Daisuke Kitazawa (Toray Industries, Japan)
Hiroaki Yamaoka (Mitshubishi Chemical, Japan)
Hiroshi Segawa (The University of Tokyo)
Kunihito Miyake (Sumitomo Chemical, Japan)
Kuo-Chuan Ho (National Taiwan University)
Tingli Ma (Dalian University of Technology, China)
Tsutomu Nakamura (JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation, Japan)
Zhou Erjun (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Area 6 : PV Modules and Systems Including BOS Components, Testing and Reliability
#Smart Grid and Reliability of PV Modules and Systems
Chair: S. Wakao (Waseda Univ.) Vice-Chair: Y. Hishikawa (AIST)
Area Plenary
Hideki Hayashi (Toshiba, Japan)
Invited Speakers
Ralph Gottschalg (Loughborough University, UK)
Gerald Siefer (Fraunhofer-Institut, Germany)
Area 7 : PV Deployment
#Enablers for PV Development and Benefits of PV
Chair: K. Sugimoto (JPEA) Vice-Chair: I. Kaizuka (RTS Corporation)
Area Plenary
Invited Speakers
Paula Mint (Navigant Consulting, USA)
Karsten Wambach (Sunicon AG, Germany)
Dr. Lothar Wissing (Project Management Jülich, Germany)
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