Scope
Renewable energy resources are needed to meet our clean energy demand. Since any long term energy supply must be based on solar energy. The SUN is here, it is real and will be for more than 6 billion years, and then the humanity must only to be inventive to use the energy it provides us. There are different ways to do this, between them, the direct conversion of solar energy in electricity by photovoltaic effect (photovoltaic physics) has emerged to become an application of recognized potential and has attracted interest of increasing numbers of researchers and engineers.
Topics
This section is dedicated to materials science and technology involved to solar energy conversion, and can be structured as topics on three large directions:
Taking into account this topics, the materials science is related with physics, chemistry, optics, and covers synthesis, architecture, properties and performances. As concerning the type of solar energy conversion, the technologies involve applications based on crystalline, polycrystalline or amorphous silicon, thin films based on organic and inorganic materials, TCOs applied on rigid or flexible substrates, concentrators and other. Referring to the second section of the topics, recent developments in the utilization of photo electrochemical solar devices, organic and hybrid nanostructured solar cells, or semiconductor quantum dots for light energy conversion have open new ways to utilize them in next generation solar cells. The main challenge of this field is harvesting solar energy with higher power efficiency and lower cost. This section will also address the fundamental principles and technological challenges of solar energy conversion in nanostructured materials.
Section Organizers
Stefan Antohe, University of Bucharest, Romania
Sorina Iftimie, University of Bucharest, Romania
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