Symposium O

Materials and Devices for Third Generation Solar Cells


Scope of the Symposium

This symposium is dedicated to contributions in the development of new materials and devices applied to conversion of solar energy into electrical and chemical energy. All areas of photovoltaic research are welcome, including the development of novel materials, device fabrication, modules and solar panels, grid integrated solar energy, device stability and standardization. Special emphasis is dedicated to hybrid materials and nanomaterials used in third generation solar cells, artificial photosynthesis. This symposium opens the opportunity to meet experts in the field of energy conversion to discuss new concepts, trends, novel materials and their properties and developments in science and technology.


Abstracts will be solicited in (but not limited to) the following areas


  • Perovskite based solar cells
  • Dye Sensitized solar cells, Organic (Polymer and small molecule) Solar Cells and Quantum dots Solar Cells, Thin film solar cells, Silicon, CdTe, CIGS and related materials.
  • New perovskite materials,
  • New hole and electron transport materials (metal oxides, graphene and 2D semiconductors) for next generation photovoltaics
  • Carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, graphene and related materials applied to solar cells
  • Materials for down conversion/up conversion processes.
  • Advances in materials design and control, bandgap engineering, quantum confinement, and plasmonic effects to enhance the solar energy device conversion (Photoelectrochemical devices).
  • Device fabrication and processing.
  • Device stability and standardization
  • Theoretical approaches to designing and discovering novel concepts for solar energy conversion.

Invited speakers
  • Marina S Leite
    (University of Maryland, USA) [Confirmed]
  • Fengling Zhang
    (Linköping University, Suécia) [Confirmed]
  • Prof. Norbert Koch
    (Humboldt University) [Confirmed]
  • Frank Marken
    (University of Bath, UK) [Confirmed]
  • Anne Guilbert
    (Imperial College of London) [Confirmed]
  • Morten Madsen
    (University of Southern Denmark) [Confirmed]

Symposium Organizers
  • Prof. Monica Lira-Cantu (Catalan Institut of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2). )
  • Prof. Francisco das Chagas Marques (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
  • Prof. Lucimara Stolz Roman (Universidade Federal do Paraná)