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Spoločná fotografia účastníkov konferencie New trends in solar cells.

Chemists and physicists discuss solar cells

25. 4. 2016 | 1875 visits
A three-day international conference entitled New trends in solar cells 2016 was held in the Lindner Hotel in Bratislava on 19-21 April. The event was initiated by the COST MP 1307 StableNextSol Project. Its main organisers were Dr Mária Omastová from the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) Polymer Institute, Dr Eva Majková from the SAS Institute of Physics, and Dr. Monica Lira Cantu from the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Barcelona. In addition, a team led by Dr Milan Mikula from the Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology at the Slovak University of Technology (SUT) in Bratislava gave a hand with preparations for the event.

The conference dealt with the latest knowledge, current challenges and prospects regarding the development of new solar cells, including relevant characterizing technology used to test their stability. The main topics discussed were organic, dye-sensitized, perovskite-based and organic-inorganic hybrid solar cells, as well as the modeling of each of these.
Prof. Tsutomu Miyasaka from Toin University in Yokohama, Japan, and Prof. David S. Ginley from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the city of Golden, USA, were among the notable guests and plenary speakers at the conference.
Three days of expert discussions led on in the conference to talks divided into two parallel sections. In total, attendees at the event could hear five plenary speeches given by invited guests, twenty-one main presentations and nineteen short talks. A poster session was also part of the conference. A total number of 75 experts from 23 countries participated in the event. The organisers have released a 130-page volume of conference papers, consisting of talks and posters from the conference.
Thanks to this meeting of experts engaged in such an area of interdisciplinary research, all conference participants enriched their knowledge of new scientific results and ideas. We believe that these will have a positive impact on the development of new solar cells.

Mária Omastová, SAS Polymer Institute
Photo: M. Procházka, SAS Polymer Institute