Third-generation and emerging solar-cell technologies : symposium held April 25-29, 2011, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

1. Absorption enhancement in plasmonic solar cells by incorporation of periodic nanopatterns Shaochen Chen 2. Gold nanolayers embedded in zinc oxide for large area flexible photovoltaics Terry Alford 3. Fabrication of subsurface metallic nanoparticles for enhanced carrier generation in silicon-based photovoltaics Nirag Kadakia 4. Advanced optical modeling of thin-film silicon solar cells with 1-D periodic gratings Serge Solntsev 5. Effective medium analysis of plasmonic silver nanoparticle films Rudi Santbergen 6. Photoluminescence properties of core/shell CdSe/ZnS quantum dots encapsulated with transparent layers for third generation photovoltaics Bahareh Sadeghimakki 7. Synthesis and characterization of hybrid CdS/MEH-PPV nanocomposites for photovoltaic applications Leander Tapfer 8. Photovoltaic applications of micro and nano crystalline silicon carbide Siegmund Greulich-Weber 9. Nanodot formation in thermally annealed UHV-RTCVD grown Si1-XGeX epitaxial layers on silicon for photovoltaics Abdennaceur Karoui 10. Improved hole collection in polymer heterojunction solar cells with DNA/pt-DNA layers Ali Bilge Guvenc 11. Improvement of the power conversion efficiency of polymeric solar cells based on P3HT:PCBM through interfacial modification King Wong 12. Synthesis and characterization of rare earth (Tb3+ and Yb3+) doped CdS/ZnS core/shell nanocrystals for enhanced photovoltaic efficiency Krishna Mandal 13. Chalcogenide glass thin films for nanodipole junctionless photovoltaics Daniel Georgiev 14. Non-idealities in graphene/p-silicon Schottky-barrier solar cells Derek Lin 15. Simulation of symmetrically doped silicon nanowire solar cells Felix Voigt 16. Numerical simulations for the efficiency improvement of hybrid dye-microcrystalline silicon pin-solar cells Sven Burdorf 17. Mesophase ordering and structuring of porous titanium dioxide with high surface area and strong light harvesting matrix for dye-sensitized solar cell Ghim Wei Ho 18. Exploring the limits of phosphor-based spectral management for photovoltaic applications Komal Magsi 19. The dye sensitized solar cell stability and performance study using different electrolytes Lakshmi Munukutla 20. Thermal annealing effect on P3HT:PCBM free polarons lifetime and charge transport Kejia Li 21. Characterization of dye-sensitized solar cell with different nanoparticle sizes Lakshmi Munukutla 22. Pulsed laser deposition of silicon nanostructures Andrea Li Bassi.