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International Organic Excitonic Solar Cells Conference Programme


Monday (3 Sep 2012)

Session Chair: Paul Meredith
17:00-17:30 Welcome
17:30-18:00 Structure measurements for polymer-fullerene solar cells.
Dean M. DeLongchamp
Plenary
18:00-18:30 Printing, coating and hot embossing equipment and processes for large area printed electronics.
Thomas Kolbusch, Vice President of Coatema Coating Machinery
Invited

 

Tuesday (4 Sep 2012)

Session Chair: Seth Marder  
08:15-08:45 Solution-Processed Organic Solar Cell Based on Benzoporphyrin Nanotemplate.
Yoshiharu Sato
Plenary
08:45-09:00 Asymmetric Photocurrent Generation in Polymer/Fullerene Solar Cells.
Chris McNeill, Thomas Brenner, Zhe Li
Contributed
09:00-09:20 Exciton/plasmon hybridization for solar energy conversion.
Jao van de Lagemaat, Justin Johnson, Andrew Ferguson, Christopher Chang, Ross Larsen, Natalia Azurova, Sean Shaheen, Won Park
Invited
09:20-09:35 Effect of molecular spatial configuration on the photovoltaic properties of the triphylamine-containing D-A structured organic m.
He Chang
Contributed
09:35-09:55 Solution Processable Small Molecules for Organic Solar Cells.
Biwu Ma, Sibel Leblebici, Teresa Chen, Steve Shelton, David Barclay
Invited
09:55-10:10 Encapsulating Materials For Organic Solar Cells.
Jakaria Ahmad, Ronald D. White and Mohan V. Jacob
Contributed
10:10-10:40 Morning Tea
Session Chair: Gary Rumbles  
10:40-11:00 Microstructural origin of charge separation in bulk heterojunction solar cells.
Natalie Stingelin, Fiona C. Jamieson, Ester Buchaca Domingo, Thomas McCarthy-Ward, Martin Heeney, James R. Durrant
Invited
11:00-11:15 Synthesis of New Organic Dyes for Solar Cells.
Shih-Chun Lo, Manuel Wiser
Contributed
11:15-11:30 Coarse-grained modelling of morphology and energy transfer in conjugated polymer nanostructures.
David M. Huang, Kyra N. Schwarz, Ming Chiu, Scott N. Clafton, Tak W. Kee
Contributed
11:30-11:50 Indene-C60/C70 bisadduct as acceptor in polymer solar cells.
Yongfang Li
Invited
11:50-12:05 Dye-sensitized hybrid bulk heterojunction solar cells: from high quantum efficiency towards new concepts .
Jörg Ackermann
Contributed
12:05-12:20 Significantly reduced bimolecular recombination in a silole-based donor/acceptor polymer blended with PCBM.
Tracey M. Clarke, Deanna B. Rodovsky, Andrew A. Herzing, Jeff Peet, Gilles Dennler, Dean DeLongchamp, Christoph Lungenschmied and Attila J. Mozer.
Contributed
12:20-12:35 Alternative Redox Mediators for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
Udo Bach, Torben Daeneke, Kalim Kashif, Wanchun Xiang
Contributed
12:35 -12:45 Lunch
13:45-16:30 Free Time
16:30-16:45 Afternoon Tea
Session Chair: James Durrant  
16:45-17:15 Small molecule design for organic photovoltaics.
John E. Anthony
Plenary
17:15-17:35 Impact of Interfacial Contact Layers on Bimolecular Recombination in Organic Solar Cells.
Julia W. P. Hsu, Juan Yi, Yun-Ju Lee, Sarah Cowan, Dana Olson
Invited
17:35-17:50 Long-term stability of dye solar cells.
Timothy Lee, Taro Sumitomo, Nancy Jiang, and Hans Desilvestro
Contributed
17:50-18:10 Radical Molecules as Highly Reactive Mediators for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.
Hiroyuki Nishide, Fumiaki Kato, Kenichi Oyaizu
Invited

 

Wednesday (5 Sep 2012)

Session Chair: John Anthony  
08:15-08:45 DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS.
Peng Wang
Plenary
08:45-09:00 A comprehensive study of the effect of deposition conditions on OPV performance utilising a bilayer device architecture.
F. H. Scholes, S. E. Watkins, T. Ehlig, A. Scully, N. Duffy, K. N. Winzenberg, P. Kemppinen, Th. B. Singh, M. James, K. H. Lee
Contributed
09:00-09:20

Optically and Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance Studies of pi Conjugated Films and Devices.
Joseph Shinar, Ying Chen, Min Cai, Rui Liu, and Ruth Shinar

Invited
09:20-09:35 Ultra-High Voltage Small Molecule Tandem Cells.
Paul Sullivan, Stefan Schumann, Raffaello Da Campo, Ross A. Hatton, Michael Shipman, Tim S. Jones
Contributed
09:35-09:55 Annealing and Additive Free Macromoleculares OPVs.
Shuying Ma, Yingying Fu, Debin Ni, Zhiyuan Xie, Guoli Tu
Invited
09:55-10:10 Origin of photocurrent in PCDTBT blends.
Almantas Pivrikas, Ajay Pandey, Muhsen Aljada, Paul Burn, Paul Meredith
Contributed
10:10-10:40 Morning Tea

Australian Solar Institute Sponsored Session

Session Chair: Dean DeLongchamp  
10:40-11:00 Can photophysics help with organic solar cell design?.
Ken Ghiggino
Invited
11:00-11:15 Large Area ITO-and-PEDOT-free Inverted-illumination Organic Solar Cell Sub-modules.
Hui Jin, Chen Tao, Marappan Velusamy, Muhsen Aljada, Yuliang Zhang, Mike Hambsch, Paul L. Burn, and Paul Meredith
Contributed
11:15-11:30 Continuous Flow Synthesis of Organic Electronic Materials.
Wallace W. H. Wong, Helga Seyler, David J. Jones, Andrew B. Holmes
Contributed
11:30-11:50 Building blocks: a new strategy for high efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells.
Yi-Bing Cheng, Fuzhi Huang, Dehong Chen, Rachel A. Caruso
Invited
11:50-12:05 Ultrafast Exciton Dynamics of Conjugated Polymer Nanostructures.
Tak W. Kee, Scott N. Clafton, Kyra N. Schwarz, William R. Massey, Ming Chiu, David M. Huang
Contributed
12:05-12:20 A Solution-Processed MoOx Anode Interlayer for Use within Organic Photovoltaic Devices.
Jacek J. Jasieniak, Jason Seifter, Jang Jo and Alan J. Heeger
Contributed
12:20-12:40 Studies of the morphology of organic solar cell materials using neutron methods.
Ian Gentle, Kwan Lee, Michael James, Paul Meredith and Paul Burn
Invited
12:45-13:05 Lunch
13:05-16:30 Free Time
16:30-16:45 Afternoon Tea
Session Chair: Scott Watkins  
16:45-17:15 Vacuum deposited Organic Solar Cells.
Moritz Riede
Plenary
17:15-17:35 Heteroatom effects in fused thiophene donor polymer.
Martin Heeney, Zhuping Fei, Hongliang Zhong, Jong Soo Kim, Jeremy Smith,Ester Buchaca Domingo, Iain McCulloch, Ji-Seon Kim, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Natalie Stingelin, Scott E Watkins,
Invited
17:35-17:55

Singlet Fission-Sensitized Solar Cells.
Neil C. Greenham

Invited
18:00-19:30 Poster Session Invited

 

Thursday (6 Sep 2012)

Session Chair: Moritz Riede  
08:00-08:30 Two-dimensional conjugated benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene-based conjugated polymers and their applications in highly efficient photovoltaics.
Jianhui Hou, Lijun Huo, Shaoqing Zhang
Plenary
08:30-08:45 Application of organic upconversion to organic photovoltaics.
T. W. Schmidt, T. F. Schulze, Y. Y. Cheng, B. Fückel, A. Danos, R. W. MacQueen, T. Khoury, M. J. Crossley, X. Yang, M. Wright, A. Uddin, G. Conibeer, M. A. Green, J. Czolk, A. Colsmann, U. Lemmer, D. M. Huang and K. Lips
Contributed
08:45-09:00 A Solid-State Plasmonic Solar Cell.
Philipp Reineck, Geoge Lee, Delia Brick, Matthias Karg, Paul Mulvaney, Udo Bach
Contributed
09:00-09:20 Performance enhancement in organic solar cells using a grating electrode.
Furong Zhu*, Qingyi Yang, Hoi Lam Tam and Gui Xin Li
Invited
09:20-09:35 Exploring electrode structures and materials for lamination of air stable single and multijunction OPV devices .
Brian A. Bailey, Alex Dixon, Nikos Kopidakis, Sean E. Shaheen
Contributed
09:35-09:55 On the impact of materials crystallinity upon charge generation and recombination in polymer / fullerene solar cells.
James Durrant
Invited
09:55-10:10 Printed organic solar cells.
Noel Clark, Doojin Vak, Junliang Yang, Scott Watkins, Andrew Scully, Hasitha Weerasinghe, Mei Gao, Gerry Wilson, David Jones, Andrew Holmes
Contributed
10:10-10:40 Morning Tea
Session Chair: Mark Baldo  
10:40-11:00 Bio-inspired Light harvesting.
Gregory D. Scholes
Invited
11:00-11:15 Morphology Evolution in Solution-processed Polymer Solar Cells based on Crosslinked P3HT and PCBM Bilayers.
Chen Tao, Muhsen Aljada, Paul E. Shaw, Kwan H. Lee, Michael Balfour, Paul L. Burn, and Paul Meredith
Contributed
11:15-11:30 Charge transport studies in hybrid bulk heterojunction solar cells.
C. Videlot-Ackermann, O. Margeat, J. Ackermann
Contributed
11:30-11:50 Dependence of the electron trapping/detrapping of dye-sensitized solar cells on the structure and morphology of TiO2 material .
Hongxia Wang
Invited
11:50-12:05 Unveiling the atomic arrangement of polymer-wrapped nanotubes: what application for organic solar cells? .
N. Motta, A.Capasso, M.Shafiei, E.Waclawik, B.Gupta, M.Notarianni, J.M.Bell, E. Placidi, M.De Crescenzi, A. Mattoni, C. Caddeo
Contributed
12:05-12:20 Tuning the color of highly efficient, semi-transparent organic photovoltaic devices.
Jens Czolk, Henry Vogeler, Dimitar Kutsarov, Uli Lemmer, Alexander Colsmann
Contributed
12:20-12:40 Intellectual Property in Organic Solar Cells.
Grant Jacobsen
Invited
12:40-16:30 Free Time
16:30-16:45 Afternoon Tea
Session Chair: Jenny Nelson  
16:45-17:15 Organic solar cells with singlet exciton fission.
Marc Baldo, Jiye Lee, Priya Jadhav, Nick Thompson, Troy Van Voorhis, Shane Yost, Eric Hontz
Plenary
17:15-17:35 Interfacial Modification for Photovoltaic Applications.
Seth Marder, Stephen Barlow, Jean-Luc Brédas, Anthony Giordano, Song Guo, Andreas Haldi, Peter J. Hotchkiss, Sang-Bok Kim, Bernard Kippelen, Hong Li, Swagat Mahopatra, Sergio A. Paniagua, Pavel B. Paramonov, William J. Potscavage Jr., Asha Sharma, O’Neil Smith, Neal R. Armstrong, Judith L. Jenkins, Hsiao-Chu Lin, Anoma Mudalige, Saehan Park, Jeanne E. Pemberton, Erin L. Ratcliff, S. Scott Saavedra, Lingzi Sang, Matthew C. Schalnat, Anne M. Simon, Antoine Kahn, Yabing Qi, Wei Zhao, David S. Ginger, Matthew Gliboff, Kristina M. Knesting, Bradley A. MacLeod, Gerald T. Seidler
Invited
17:35-17:50 Photocurrent generation and collection in nano-structured polymer-fullerene solar cells.
Ajay K. Pandey, Muhsen Aljada, Marappan Velusamy, Paul L. Burn, and Paul Meredith
Contributed
17:50-18:10

Pathways to a New Efficiency Regime for OPV
S. E. Shaheen, L.J.A. Koster, J.C. Hummelen

Invited
19:30 Gala dinner

 

Friday (7 Sep 2012)

Session Chair: Ming Chen  
08:40-09:10 Polymer:fullerene heterojunction solar cells: Physical processes and limitations .
Jenny Nelson
Plenary
09:10-09:30 Driving-force Dependence of Charge Separation Kinetics in Conjugated Polymer Donor/Acceptor Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells.
Attila J Mozer
Invited
09:30-09:50 Spatially resolved photocurrent measurements of solution processed, wedge-shaped functional layers for a fast and material-savin.
Alexander Colsmann, Felix Nickel, Christian Sprau, Uli Lemmer
Invited
09:50-10:10 Using living polymerizations of thiophenes to control active layer morphology.
Christine K. Luscombe, Andrew H. Rice, Peter Kazarinoff, Matthew Durban, Shirley Leu
Invited
10:10-10:40 Morning Tea
Session Chair: Sean Shaheen  
10:40-11:00 An optimal driving force for converting excitons into free carriers in excitonic solar cells.
Garry Rumbles, David Coffey, Bryon Larson, Alexander Haines, James Whitaker, Nikos Kopidakis, Olga Boltalina, Steven Strauss
Invited
11:00-11:15 The importance of the TiO2/dye/hole transport material interface in solid state dye sensitised solar cells.
G. E. Collis, M. Gao,1 S. Maniam, J. Krstina, A. B. Holmes, N. Duffy, and N. Lambropoulos.
Contributed
11:15-11:30 Surface plasmonic effects on organic solar cells.
Ashraf Uddin and Xiaohan Yang
Contributed
11:30-11:50 Acceptors in Organic Photovoltaics: from molecular structure to interface photophysics.
Nikos Kopidakis, Alexandre Nardes, Andrew Ferguson, Ross Larsen, Garry Rumbles
Invited
11:50-12:05 Typical Donor Phthalocyanines as Electron Acceptors for Fullerene Free Organic Photovoltaics..
Nicola Beaumont, Paul Sullivan, Sang Wan Cho, David Newby, Kevin E. Smith and Tim Jones
Contributed
12:05-12:20 Photocurrent Mapping for the Study of OPV Device Degradation: The Influence of Lateral Device Design.
Krishna Feron; Timothy J. Nagle; Christopher J. Fell
Contributed

 

Plenary Speakers

  • Prof John Anthony (University of Kentucky, USA) 
  • Dr Moritz Riede (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
  • Prof Jenny Nelson (Imperial College, UK)
  • Dr Yoshiharu Sato (Mitsubishi Chemical, Japan)
  • Prof Hou Jian-Hui, (The Chinese Academy of Science, China)
  • Prof Peng Wang (The Chinese Academy of Science, China)
  • Dr Dean DeLongchamp (NIST, USA)
  • Assoc Prof Marc Baldo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)