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TECHNICAL DIGESTof

18th International Photovoltaic

Science and Engineering

Conference & Exhibition

19-23 January, 2009

Science City Convention Center

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Message from the State Minister, Vilas Muttemwar

Message from General Chairperson, A.K. Barua

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AREA 1: CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELL & TECHNOLOGIES 1

TOWARDS SOLAR GRADE SILICON: CHALLENGES AND BENEFITS FOR 3

LOW COST PHOTOVOLTAICS (PLENARY)- Sergio Pizzini

ROAD TO COST EFFECTIVE SILICON PV (PLENARY) 4

- Ajeet Rohatgi, Alan Ristow, Arnab Das and Saptharishi Ramanathan

ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE LIMITING MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF 8

MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON (INVITED)- W. Warta, M.C. Schubert, H. Habenicht, M. Kasemann, W. Kwapil,

P. Gundel and J. Schon

DEFECT GENERATION DURING SOLIDIFICATION OF MULTICRYSTALLINE 12

SILICON (INVITED)- Gaute Stokkan, Birgit Ryningen, Otto Lohne, Eivind 0vrelid, Marisa Di Sabatino,

Espen Olsen and Arve Holt

HIGH EFFICIENCY HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS: FUNDAMENTAL AND 16

PRACTICALASPECTS (INVITED)- Christophe Ballif, Sara Olibet, Stefaan De Wolf, Jerome Damon-lacoste

and Luc Fesquet

INSIGHTS GAINED FROM COMPUTER MODELING OF HETEROJUNCTION 17

WITH INSTRINSIC THIN LAYERS "HIT" SOLAR CELLS (INVITED)- A. Datta, M. Rahmouni, M. Nath, P. Roca I. Cabarrocas and P. Chatterjee

SANYO'S CHALLENGES FOR HIGH COST-PERFORMANCE THIN-FILM 21

SILICON SOLAR CELLS (INVITED)- Makoto Tanaka

SILICON QUANTUM DOTS FOR SOLAR CELL APPLICATIONS (INVITED) 22

- Chetan Singh Solanki

BORON DIFFUSION EFFECTS ON N-TYPE mc-Si I_GOTS GROWN BY 23

TWO DIFFERENT METHODS

- A. Uzum, M. Dhamrin, A. Ben Jaballah, P. Supqjariyawichai, N. Ban, L.G. Wei,

T. Saitoh, K. Kamisako and I. Yamaga

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INFLUENCE OF THE AMORPHOUS/CRYSTALLINE BAND DISCONTINUITY ON 25

HOLE TRANSPORT IN P-a-Sr.H/N-c-Si FRONT HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS

- A. Datta, M. Rahmouni, P Roca I Cabarrocas, M. Labrune and P. Chatterjee

INFLUENCE OF REAR-SIDE PASSIVATION ON PERFORMANCE OF 27

THEMULTICRYSTALLINE BLACK SILICON SOLAR CELL

- Ching-Hsi Lin, Dimitre Z. Dimitrov, Chen-Hsun Dn and Chung-Wen Lan

DIAGNOSTICS OF ELECTRICAL LOSSES IN SI SOLAR CELLS USING CORESCAN 29

- Debajyoti Sarangi, Bharath Reddy, Kaustuv Chakrabarty and Amitabh Verma

OVERVIEW ON THE USE OF LASER PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR 31

HIGH-EFFICIENCY SILICON WAFER SOLAR CELLS

- D.V. Tran and A.G Aberle

CHARACTERIZATION OF P-|ic-SiO/N-c-Si HETEROJUNCTION BYADMITTANCE 33

SPECTROSCOPY: EXPERIMENT AND SIMULATION

- Fangdan Jiang, Jaran Sritharathikhun, Shinsuke Miyajima, Akira Yamada

and Makoto Konagai

EFFECT OF INTENSITY ON DIODE PARAMETERS OF SILICON SOLAR CELL 35

- Firoz Khan, S.N. Singh and M. Husain

IMPACT OF TRANSITION METALS IN FEEDSTOCK ON MULTICRYSTALLINE 37

SILICON SOLAR CELL PROPERTIES

- G. Coletti, P. Bronsveld, R. Kvande, L.J. Geerligs, L. Arnberg, H. Habenicht,

W. Warta and C. Knopf

HIGH THROUGHPUT AND HIGH EFFICIENCY INLINE INDUSTRIAL 39

MANUFACTURING OF CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS

- Goutam Samanta, Sujit Pillai and Vijay Kumar

HIGH QUALITY i-a-SiO:H BUFFER LAYER FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY 42

P-jic-SiO:H/n-c-Si HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS

- Jaran Sritharathikhun, Shinsuke Miyajima, Akira Yamada and Makoto Konagai

SILICON HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS WITH A HYDROGENATED 44

AMORPHOUS ALUMINUM OXIDE REAR SURFACE PASSIVATION LAYER

- Junpei Irikawa, Shinsuke Miyajima, Akira Yamada, Makoto Konagai

EFFECT OF SINX:H PASSIVATION FILMS DEPOSITED BY RF-RPECVD 46

TECHNIQUE ON CRYSTALLINE SILICONWAFERS QUALITY- Kazuya Furuichi, Shuhei Maeda, Yuji Suzuki, Marwan Dhamrin, Masanori Suda

and Koichi Kamisako

DRY ETCHING USING HYDROGEN RADICALS FOR SOLAR CELLS APPLICATION 48

- Keisuke Ogawa, Fumiya Kadono, Marwan Dhamrin, Tadashi Saitoh and

Koichi Kamisako

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EFFECT OF SPIN COATING SPEED AND GAS AMBIENT ON THE EMITTER SHEET 50

RESISTANCE OF mc-Si WAFERS FOR SOLAR CELL APPLICATION

- N. Ban, L.W. Goh, P. Supajariyawichai, A. Uzum, A.B. Jaballah, M. Dhamrin,

T. Saitoh and K. Kamisako

SCREEN-PRINTING THE SELECTIVE EMITTER ON THE P-TYPE MONOCRYS- 52

TALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS WITH BORON BACK SURFACE FIELD

- Le Yang, Qinghao Ye, Gaojie Zhang, Zhu Chen, Jingxiao Wang and Xusheng Wang

FORMATION OF FRONT AND REAR CONTACTS FOR MULTI-CRYSTALLINE 55

SILICON SOLAR CELLS BY RAPID THERMAL PROCESSING

- Ling Wei Goh, Naoki Ban, Abdullah Uzum, Piyasak Supajariyawichai,

Marwan Dhamrin and Koichi Kamisako

INFLUENCE OF WAFER QUALITY ON CELL PERFORMANCE 57

- L. Camel, P.C. Hjemas, T. Lu, J. Nyhus, K. Helland and 0. Gjerstad

IMPROVED PROCESS FOR THE FORMATION OF AL-ALLOYED EMITTER IN 59

N-TYPE SOLAR CELLS

- Ly Mai, Adeline Sugianto, Alison M. Wenham and Stuart R. Wenham

ALUMINIUM-ALLOYED REAR JUNCTION LASER DOPED CONTACT SOLAR 61

CELLS ON CZ N-TYPE SILICON

- Ly Mai, Budi S. Tjahjono, Adeline Sugianto, Matt B.Edwards, Ziv Hameiri and

Stuart R. Wenham

EFFICIENT PASSIVATION OF SILICON SURFACES USING ATOMIC LAYER 63

DEPOSITION OF DIELECTRICS

- Jun Wang, Mariyappan Shanmugam, Mahdi Farrokh-Baroughi,Roohollah Samadzadeh Tarighat and Siva Sivoththaman

SOL-GEL PROCESSED SILICA GEL FOR SILICON SURFACE PASSIVATION AT 65

ROOM TEMPERATURE

- Mariyappan Shanmugam, Jun Wang, Mahdi Farrokh-Baroughi,Roohollah Samadzadeh-Tarighat and Siva Sivoththaman

THERMAL STABILITY OF PECVD a-Si:H SINGLE AND PECVD a-Si:H + PECVD 67

a-SiOX:H DOUBLE LAYERS FOR SILICON SOLAR CELL REAR SIDE PASSIVATION

- M. Hofinann, C. Schmidt, B. Raabe, J. Rentsch and R. Preu

SPATIALLY RESOLVED DETERMINATION OF THE DARK SATURATION CURRENT 69

BY ELECTROLUMINESCENCE IMAGING

- Markus Glatthaar, Johannes Giesecke, Martin Kasemann, Jonas Haunschild,

Manuel The, Wilhem Warta and Stefan Rein

HIGH CARRIER LIFETIMES IN SB-DOPED DIRECTIONALLY SOLIDIFIED 71

MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON INGOTS

- Marwan Dhamrin, Tadashi Saitoh, Isao Yamaga and Koichi Kamisako

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OPTIMIZATION OF INTERDIGITATION PARAMETERS FOR BACK-CONTACT 73

SILICON HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS

- Omkar Jani, Ujjwal Das, Stanislau Herasimenka, Meijun Lu, Dong Xu,

Stuart Bowden, Steve Hegedus and Robert Birmkire

INTERFACE ISSUES IN HIT SOLAR CELLS FABRICATED BY HWCVD TECHNIQUE 75

- Shahaji More, Palak Ambwani, Rahul Tapariya, Alka Kumbhar, Pravin Naryanker

and R.O. Dusane

EFFECT OF P-GETTERING ON ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES AND CARRIER LIFETIME 77

IMPROVEMENT OF LARGE N-TYPE MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON INGOT

- P. Supajariyawichai, M. Dhamrin, A. Uzum, A.B. Jaballah, T. Saitoh, K. Kamisako

and I Yamaga

REGULATED PRE-TREATMENT OF SURFACE TEXTURE FOR LARGE AREA 79

INDUSTRIAL SINGLE CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELL USING NAOH-NAOCL

- P. K. Basu, D. Hrishikesh, N. Udayakumar and D.K. Thakur

EXCELLENT ANTIREFLECTION PROPERTIES OF SILICON NANOWIRE ARRAYS 81

FOR SOLAR CELL APPLICATIONS

- Sanjay K. Srivastava, Dinesh Kumar, P.K. Singh, Vikash Agarwal, K.N. Sood, M. Kar,

M. Husain and Vikram Kumar

ELECTROLESS NICKEL PLATING - A COMMERCIAL SOLUTION 83

- Shashi Srivastava, Pinaki Ranjan, Subrata Dutta and Bharat Reddy

PROPERTIES OF HETEROJUNCTION CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS'

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WITH A HYDROGENATED NANOCRYSTALLINE CUBIC SILICON CARBIDE

WINDOW LAYER

- Shinsuke Miyajima, Akira Yamada, Makoto Konagai

INDUSTRIAL PROCESS FOR N-TYPE MULTICRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS 87

- Sukhvinder Singh, Frederic Dross, Emmanuel van Kerschaver, Guy Beaucarne

and Robert Mertens

OPTIMIZATION OF TCO LAYER FOR APPLICATION IN a-Si:H/c-Si 89

HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELL

Sung Ju Tark, Min Gu Kang, Joon Sung Lee, Yong Hyun Kim, Won Mok Kim,

Jeong Chul Lee, Heejin Lim and Donghwan Kim

COMBINATION OF Sil-XOX:H FILM WITH HYDROGEN PLASMA TREATMENT 91

FOR REAR SIDE PASSIVATION LAYER OF CAST POLY c-Si SOLAR CELLS

- Suttirat Rattanapan, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Shinsuke Miyajima, Takehiko Sato

and Makoto Konagai

DESIGNING REAR SURFACE FOR CARRIER TRANSPORT IN ALL BACK CONTACT 93

SILICON HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS

- U.K. Das, M. Lu, D. Xu, O. Jani, S. Bowden, S. Hegedus and R. W. Birkmire

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CRYSTALLINE FRONT CONTROL OF GROWING MULTICRYSTALLINE SI 95

INGOTS DURING THE DIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION PROCESS

- Y.Y. Teng. J.C. Chen, C.W. Lu, C.Y. Chen, V.V. Kalaev, S.E. Demina

EFFECTS OF ANNEALING ON ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF CAST GROWN 97

POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON

- Yoshio Ohshita, Koji Ftthida, Koji Arafune, Takuo Sasaki and Masafumi Yamaguchi

CHALLENGES OF EVAPORATED SOLID-PHASE-CRYSTALLISED POLY-SI THINFILM 99

SOLAR CELLS ON TEXTURED GLASS

- Zi Ouyang, Oliver Kunz, Michael Wolf, Per Widenborg, Guangyao Jin, Sergey Varlamov

THE INFLUENCE OF SILICON NITRIDE ANNEALING TEMPERATURE ON 101

THE IMPLIED VOC OF CZ SILICON WAFERS

- Ziv Hameiri, Ly Mai, Nino Borojevic. Shahla Javid, Budi S. Tjahjono, Adeline Sugianta,Stanley Wang, Alistair B. Sprout and Stuart R. Wenham

DOUBLE SIDED LASER DOPED SOLAR CELLS 103

- Ziv Hameiri, Budi S. Tjahjono, Ly Mai, Stanley Wang, Adeline Sugianto, Shahia Javid

and Stuart R. Wenham

INVESTIGATION OF INDUCED JUNCTION n-p-p' SILICON SOLAR CELL STRUCTURE 105

BY IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY

- Sanjai Kumar, P.K. Singh, GS. Chilana and S.R. Dhariwal

STUDY OF C-V CHARECTERSTICS IN THIN n+-p-p+ SILICON SOLAR CELLS AND 107

INDUCED JUNCTION n-p-p+ CELL STRUCTURE

- Sanjai Kumar, Vikash Sareen and P.K, Singh

AREA 2: PV MODULES AND SYSTEM COMPONENTS INCLUDING

TESTING AND RELIABILITY_ _

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HYDROGEN GENERATION FROM WATER USING AN INTEGRATED HYBRID 111

PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) AND A PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL (PEC) DEVICE USING

AMORPHOUS SILICON CARBIDE AS THE PHOTOELECTRODE (INVITED)- Arun Madan

HIGHLY EFFICIENT PLASTIC-SUBSTRATE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS 112

PREPARED BY PRESS METHOD (INVITED)

- Hironori Arakawa, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Takuma Nagai, Nobuyuki Tobe and

Daisuke Matsumoto

COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS FOR OPERATION DESIGN OF STORAGE BATTERIES 114

IN PV CLUSTERS (INVITED)- Shinji Wakao, Yu Kobayashi and Katsunori Sato

ENERGY YIELD FROM A LOW CONCENTRATOR MODULE VIS-A-VIS FLAT 116

PLATE SILICON PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE

- Ivan Saha, Khalid Nafees and Rahul Khatri

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SIMULINK MODELS FOR A STAND-ALONE PV SYSTEM 119

~ A B Bhattacharya, Prof Viresh Dutta, Prof Madhusudhan Singh and Nivedita Dasgupta

COST EFFECTIVE INVERTER DEVELOPMENT FOR ONE-PANEL-HOUSE 121

APPLICATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

- Nowshad Amin, Mohd Fadhirul Nazeri and Kamaruzzaman Sopian

EFFECTS OF INTERNAL RESISTANCE UNDER PARTIAL SHADING CONDITIONS 123

- C. Sridowruang, D. Chenvidhya, B. Wiengmoon, K.Kirtikara and N. Chayavanich

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF ELECTRICAL FAULT LOCATION IN PV STRINGS 125

- Takumi Takashima, Shunya Oohashi and Masayoshi Ishida

FABRICATION OF ANTI-REFLECTIVE STRUCTURES ON GLASS PLATE BY 127

USING NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY

- Kang-Soo Han and Heon Lee

FORWARD CURRENT PYRETIC TEST AND REVERSE BIASED BREAKDOWN TEST 129

OF C-SI PV CELLS

- Takuya Doi and Takao Yamada

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF FIELD EXPOSED SINGLE CRYSTALLINE SILICON 131

MODULES

- O.S. Sastry, Sriparn Saurabh, S.K. Shil, B.C. Pant, Rajesh Kumar and

Bibek Bandopadhyay

PHYSICAL DETERIORATION OF ENCAPSULATION AND ELECTRICAL INSULATION 136

PROPERTIES OF PV MODULES AFTER LONG-TERM OPERATION IN THAILAND

- C. Dechthummarong, B. Wiengmoon, D. Chenvidhya, C. Jivacaie and K. Kirtikara

AREA 3: CIGS-II-VI AND RELATED THIN FILM CELLS 139

ALTERNATIVES IN CIGS SOLAR CELLS: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 141

FOR FURTHER ADVANCEMENT (INVITED)- Ayodhya N. Tiwari

CU(INGA)SE2 GRAIN SIZE AND DEVICE PERFORMANCE WITH REDUCED 142

DEPOSITION TEMPERATURE AND THICKNESS (INVITED)- William N. Shafarman and James D. Wilson

DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-EFFICIENCY CIGS SOLAR CELLS AND MODULES BY 143

CO-EVAPORATION PROCESS (INVITED)- Shigeru Niki, Syogo Ishizuka, Koji Matsubara, Hironori Komaki,

Yukiko Kamikawa-Shimizu, Takashi Yoshiyama, Kazuyuki Mizukoshi,Akimasa Yamada, Hisayuki. Nakanishi and Norio Terada

HIGH-PERFORMANCE Cu(InGa)Se2 THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS GROWN WITH 145

ACTIVE-SOURCES (Invited)- Akira Yamada

,Masahiro Kawamura, Mitsutaka Nishijima and Makoto Konagai

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POLYCRYSTALLINE THIN FILM SOLAR CELL TECHNOLOGIES (INVITED)- Harin S. Ullal

PROCESSES FOR HIGH QUALITY CHALCOPYRITE BASED THIN FILMS

CONTROLLED BY IN SITU X-RAYAND LIGHT SCATTERING METHODS

- Roland Scheer, Humberto Rodriguez-Alvarez, Roland Mainz, Immo Kotschau,Raik Hesse, Christian Kaufmann, Raquel Cabellero and Hans-Werner Schock

CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL SPRAYED ZN1-XMGXO FILMS FOR

PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATION

- A. Suryanarayana Reddy, P. Prathap, G. Ramachandra Reddy, R.W. Miles and

K.T. Ramakrishna Reddy

GROWTH OF HIGH QUALITY CIGS THIN FILMS USING CRACKED SELENIUM

- Masahiro Kawamura, Satoshi Ohnishi, Akira Yamada and Makoto Konagai

AMORPHOUS CARBON THIN FILMS FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES

- Sudip Adhikari, Dilip Chandra Ghimire, Hare Ram Arya, Golap Kalita,

Hideo Uchida and Masayoshi Umeno

IMPACTS OF LIGHT SOAKING & TEMPERATURE CYCLING ON Cdl-xZnxTe

THIN FILMS IN PV APPLICATIONS

- Monisha Chakraborty and Biswajit Ghosh

INVESTIGATIONS ON DIELECTRIC DIFFUSION BARRIERS FOR FLEXIBLE CIGS

THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS

- Juan Qin,, Ai-min Li, Zhen-yi Chen, Xiao-li Zhang, Wei-min Shi and

Guang-pu Wei

REARCH ON CIGS THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS WITH CBD-ZNS BUFFER LAYERS

- Ai-min Li, Juan Qin, Xiao-li Zhang, Zhen-yi Chen, Wei-min Shi

and Guang-pu Wei

SPUTTERING PARAMETER DEPENDENT ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF CDO

THIN FILM DEPOSITED ON FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE BY RADIO FREQUENCYMAGNETRON SPUTTERING TECHNIQUE

- B. Saha, N.S. Das, R. Thapa and K.K. Chattopadhyay

TRANSPORT AND TRANSIENT PHOTOCURRENT STUDIES OF CdS NANORODS

THIN FILMS FOR SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS

- Gouri Sankar Paull and Pratima Agarwal

ANNEALING EFFECT ON THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF EVAPORATED

In2S3 FILMS

- N. Revathi, P. Prathap, R. W. Miles and K. T. Ramakrishna Reddy

THE INVESTIGATIONS OF HETERO-JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS BAESD ON

THE PSNS THIN FILMS

- WU Li, Shi Wei-Ming, Qin Juan, Qiu Yong-Hua, Wang Lin-Jun and Wei Guang-Pu

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PREPARATION OF SNS/ZNO HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS 175

- Wu Li, Shi Wei-Min, Qin Juan, Wang Lin-Jun and Wei Guang-Pu

DEVELOPMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURED CADMIUM TELLURIDE FOR 177

SOLAR CELL APPLICATIONS

- M.S. Abd el-Sadek and S. Moorthy Babu

PREPRATION OF SNS FILMS GROWN BY SULFYRIZATION AND FABRICATION OF 179

SNS-RELATED SOLAR CELL

- Mutsuni Sugiyama, Takehiro Minemura, Keisuke Miyauchi, Katsuya Nakagomi,

Yuichiro Mori, Naoki Kawada and Hisayuki Nakanishi

PROSPECTS OF NOVEL FRONT AND BACK CONTACTS FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY 181

CADMIUM TELLURIDE THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS FROM NUMERICAL ANALYSIS

- Nowshad Amin, Mahmud A. Matin and Kamaruzzaman Sopian

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF CuInl-xGaxSe2-ySy (CIGSeS) THIN FILM SOLAR 183

CELLS BASED ON SEMICONDUCTOR PROPERTIES

- Sachin Kulkarni and Neelktanih Dher

REAL-TIME FILM THICKNESS MONITORING OF CIGS AND CDTE THIN-FILM 185

SOLAR CELL PROCESSES

- S. Uredat, T. Trepk, E. Sleimelz and J.T. Zettlere

GROWTH AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SEQUENTIALLY DEPOSITED 187

Cu2ZnSnSe4 THIN FILMS

- P. Uday Bhaskar, G. Suresh Babu, Y.B. Kishore Kumar and V. Sundara Raja

FABRICATION OF Zn DOPED Cu(In,Ga)Se2 THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS PREPARED 189

BY THERMAL DIFFUSION OF Zn USING DIMETHYLZINC

- Atsushi Miyama, Xiaoming Dou, Tomoaki Sato, Hisayuki Nakanishi, Shigefusa F. Chichibu

and Mutsumi Sugiyama

GROWTH OF Ag(Inl-xGax)Se2 THIN FILMS BY THREE-STAGE PROCESS 191

- T. Fujita, M. Kawamura, A. Yamada and M. Konagai

PREPARATION OF CuInGaSe2 THIN FILM ABSORBER BY SELENIZATION USING 193

3RGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND AS SELENIUM PRECURSOR

- Vinay V. Hadagali, Helio R. Moutinho and Neelkanth G. Dhere

AREA 4: AMORPHOUS AND NANO/MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON BASED

SOLAR CELLS AND RELATED MATERIALS 195

DEVELOPMENT OF THIN FILM FULL SPECTRUM MULTIJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS 197

AIMING AT 40% EFFICIENCY TOWARD 2050 (PLENARY)- Makoto Konagai

ADVANCES IN AMORPHOUS AND NANO-CRYSTALLINE SILICON ALLOY SOLAR 198

CELLS AND MODULES (PLENARY)- Subhendu Guha and Jeffrey Yang

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FABRICATION OF THIN FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS ON PLASTIC BY 199VERY HIGH FREQUENCY PECVD (INVITED)- J.K. Rath

HOT WIRE CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION: A VERSATILE TOOL WITH 200GREAT POTENTIAL FOR NEXT GENERATION THIN FILM PV (INVITED)- R.O. Dusane

HYDROGENATED POLYMORPHOUS SILICON AT HIGH DEPOSITION RATE: 204

A SERIOUS ALTERNATIVE FOR COST EFFECTIVE MODULES (INVITED)- E.V. Johnson, A. Abramov, K.H. Kim, Y.M. Sow, M. Gueunier-Farret, J. Meot,

J.P. Kleider and P. Roca I. Cabarrocas

MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT FOR THIN FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS (INVITED) 205

- F. Finger

THIN FILM SILICON HYBRID CELL WITH ADVANCED LIGHT TRAPPING (INVITED) 206

- Mitsuru Ichikawa, Tomomi Meguro, Takashi Kuchiyama, Fumiyasu Sezaki,Kunta Yoshikawa and Kenji Yamamoto

EFFECT OF ELECTRODE SEPARATION ON PECVD DEPOSITED 207NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON THIN FILM AND SOLAR CELL PROPERTIES

- Amartya Chowdhury, Sumita Mukhopadhyay and Swati Ray

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS ON MICROMORPH TANDEM CELLS AT IMT 209

- A. Feltrin, P. Buehlmann, D. Domine, M. Despeisse, F. Meillaud, G. Bugnon,G. Parascandolo and C. Ballif

CORRELATION OF STRUCTURAL INHOMOGENEITIES WITH TRANSPORT 211

PROPERTIES IN AMORPHOUS SILICON GERMANIUM ALLOY THIN FILMS

- Ayana Bhaduri, Partha Chaudhuri, Stephane Vignoli and Christophe Longeaud

RF POWER DENSITY DEPENDENCE GROWTH OF HYDROGENATED 213

SILICON FILMS USING PECVD TECHNIQUE- A. Parashar, Sushil Kumar, Jhuma Gope, C.M.S. Rauthan, P.N. Dixit, P.K.Siwach,

O.S. Panwar and S.A Hashmi

DEVELOPMENT OF PROCESSES AND DEVICE DESIGN FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY 215

AMORPHOUS SILICON BASED SUPERSTRATE MULTIJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS

- Chandan Das, Andreas Lambertz, Vladimir Smirnov, Thilo Kilper, Aad Gordijn,Juergen Huepkes, Friedhelm Finger and Uwe Rau

IN-SITU LOW TEMPERATURE GROWTH OF POLY-CRYSTALLINE GERMANIUM 217THIN FILMS ON GLASS BY RF SPUTTERING

- Chao-Yang Tsao, Jiirgen W. Weber, Patrick Campbell, Per I. Widenborg,Sergey Varlamov, Gavin Conibeer, Dengyuan Song and Martin A. Green

STUDIES ON THE LASER CRYSTALLIZED AMORPHOUS SILICON FILM 219

- Chen Sheng, Shi Weimin, Jin Jing, Qin Juan and Cao Zechun

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LANGMUIR PROBE DIAGNOSTICS OF A MULTI-HOLE CATHODE VERY- 221

HIGHFREQUENCY (55 MHZ) PLASMA FOR DEPOSITION OF SI:H THIN FILMS

- C, Jariwala, P. Vasu, A. Chainani, V. Dalai and P.I. John

ARGON DILUTION AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO HYDROGEN DILUTION FOR THIN 223

FILMS DEPOSITION BY RF PECVD

- Christophe Longeaud and Partha Chaudhuri

LARGE AREA TEXTURE-ETCHED ZnO:AI FRONT CONTACTS FOR THIN FILM 227

SILICON SOLAR CELLS AND MODULES

- D. Severin, M. Kress, N. Kithr, Philipp Obermeyer, S. Shrauti, J. Miiller, J. Schroder,

K. Witting, K. Schwanitz, T. Stolley, S. Klein, J. Haack, T. Repmann, U. Schmidt

and S. Wieder

HIGHLY CONDUCTING nc-SiO:H FILMS PREPARED FROM (SiH4+C02+He)-PLASMA 229

BY RF-PECVD

- Amp Samanta and Debajyoti Das

EFFECT OF NEGATIVE SUBSTRATE BIAS ON NANOCRYSTALLINE 231

SILICON THIN FILM PREPARED USING HELIUM DILUTED SiH4 PLASMA- Debnath Raha and Debajyoti Das

ENHANCED LIGHT TRAPPING IN SPC POLY-SI THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS 233

ON ALUMINIUM INDUCED TEXTURED GLASS SUPERSTRATES

- Guangyao Jin, Per L Widenborg, Patrick Campbell and Sergey Varlamov

ENHANCEMENT OF LIGHT TRAPPING IN THIN-FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS 235

USING BACK REFLECTORS WITH SELF-ORDERED DIMPLE PATTERN

- Hitoshi Sai and Michio Kondo

FABRICATING LARGE AREA QUANTUM DOT SOLAR CELL 237

- S.M. Iftiquar and Sadhan Mahapatra

AMORPHOUS SILICON CARBIDE SOLAR CELLS WITH HIGH OPEN-CIRCUIT 239

VOLTAGE FOR MULTI-JUNCTION CELL APPLICATIONS

- Ihsanul Afdi Yimaz, Hiroshi Nagashima, Kazuhiro Hikida, Shinsuke Miyajima,Akira Yamada and Makoto Konagai

7% EFFICIE%CY MICROCRYSTALLI%E SILICO% SOLAR CELL WITH HIGH-RATE 241

(6 %M/S) PHOTOVOLTAIC I-LAYER: EFFECTS OF SUBSTRATE TEMPERATURE

- /. Chantana, T. Higuchi, Y. Sobajima, T. Toyama, C. Sada, A. Matsuda and H. Okamoto

EFFECT OF CRYSTALLINITY ON PHOTOSENSITIVITY AND STABILITY OF 243

AMORPHOUS AND NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON THIN FILMS

- Jhuma Gope, Sushil Kumar, A. Parashar, C.M.S. Rauthan, P.N. Dixit and P.K. Siwach

TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT DEVICE MODELING OF THIN-FILM CRYSTALLINE 245

SILICON ON GLASS SOLAR CELLS

- Jialiang Huang, Johnson Wong, Martin Green and Mark Keevers

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SHALLOW TRAP DISTRIBUTION IN EVAPORATED THIN-FILM CRYSTALLINE

SILICON ON GLASS SOLAR CELLS BY ANALYSIS OF HALL COEFFICIENTS

- Johnson Wong, Jialiang Huang, Martin Green, Mark Keevers

ADVANCED LIGHT MANAGEMENT FOR THIN FILM SILICON SOLAR CELLS

- J. Bailat, L. Castens, S. Benagli, D. Borello, J. Spitznagel, Y. Djeridane, P-A. Madliger,B. Dehbozorgi, G. Monteduro, J. Steinhauser, M. Marmelo, J. Hoetzl, E. Vallat-Sauvain,

U. Kroll and J. Meier

INFLUENCE OF CARBON AND BORON ON FORMATION OF NANO-

CRYSTALLINE SILICON-CARBIDE FILM

- Koel Adhikary and Swati Ray

VERTICAL PROFILE SOLAR CELL

- N. Lakshminarayan

POTENTIAL OF QUASI MONOCRYSTALLINE POROUS SILICON (QMPS) AS

ANACTIVE MATERIAL FOR SOLAR CELL

- M. Chakraborty (Banerjee), S.K. Datta, S. Basu and H. Saha

PERFORMANCE OF MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON SINGLE AND DOUBLE

JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS OF DIFFERENT DEGREES OF CRYSTALLINITY

- M. Nath, S. Chakraborty, E. V. Johnson, A. Abramov, P. Roca i Cabarrocas

and P. Chatterjee

MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS: EFFECT OF SUBSTRATE

TEMPERATURE ON CRACKS

- Martin Python, Didier Domine, Fanny Meillaud and Christophe Ballif

A-SI/IC-SI TANDEM MODULE DEVELOPMENT ON 1.4M2 SUBSTRATE SIZE

- Martin Rohde, Stefan Klein, Tobias Stolley, Konrad Schwanitz, Susanne Buschbaum

and Tobias Repmann

DENSE SILICON NANOWIRES FROM HWCVD DEPOSITED AMORPHOUS SILICON

ON GLASS SUBSTRATES FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATION

- Nagsen Meshram, Alka Kumbhar and R.O. Dusane

EFFECT OF STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS IN AMORPHOUS SILICON BASED SINGLE

AND MULTI JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS FROM NUMERICALANALYSIS

- Nowshad Amin, M.I. Kabir and Kamaruzzaman Sopian

CHARGE TRANSPORT IN NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON: EFFECT OF

MICROSTRUCTURE AND HYDROGEN PLASMA TREATMENT

- S. Paul, P. Dutta, D. W. Galipeau and V. Bommisetty

DEVELOPMENT OF LARGE AREA SINGLE JUNCTION AMORPHOUS SILICON

SOLAR CELL FROM ARGON DILUTION OF SILANE IN A SINGLE CHAMBER

PECVD SYSTEM

- Partha Pratitn Ray, Christophe Longeaud, Dmitri Daineka, Pere Roca I. Cabarrocas,

Ayana Bhaduri and Partha Chaudhuri

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NANO-CRYSTALLITE EMBEDDED AMORPHOUS SILICON PREPARED BY 271

HOTWIRE CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION

- Purabi Gogoi, Himamhu S. Jha and Pratima Agarwal

DEVELOPMENT OF NANO-SILICON CARBIDE THIN FILMS BY CHEMICAL VAPOR 273

DEPOSITION FOR THERMOPHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATION

- R. Das, D, Notaro and PS. Dutta

PHOTOLUMINESCENCE AND BONDING CONFIGURATION IN SILICON OXIDE 275

FILMS PREPARED BY RFPECVD

- Romyani Goswami, Sumita Mukhopadhyay and Swati Ray

NOVEL MESH SUBSTRATES FOR AMORPHOUS SILICON CONCENTRATOR 277

SOLAR CELLS APPLICATION

- Shunsuke Kasashima, Ihsanul Afdi Yunaz, Yasuo Kakihara, Shinsuke Miyajima,

Akira Yamada and Makoto Konagai

MICROSTRUCTURE OF SILICON FILMS DEVELOPED UNDER DIFFERENT PLASMA 279

EXCITATION FREQUENCY AND ITS EFFECTS ON SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE

- Sumita Mukhopadhyay, Amartya Chowdhury and Swati Ray

HIGH DEPOSITION RATE DEVICE QUALITY A-SI:H FILMS BY HWCVD TECHNIQUE 281

- S.K. Soni, Anup Pathak and R.O. Dusane

INFLUENCE OF PLASMA PARAMETERS ON GROWTH OF SILICON FILMS 283

- Sushil Kumar, A. Parashar, Jhuma Gope, C.M.S. Rauthan, P.N. Dixit, P.K. Siwach

and O.S. Panwar

OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY STUDIES ON VHF (100 MHZ) PECVD 285

PROCESSES FOR HIGH-RATE (> 5 NM/S) MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON THIN FILMS

- T. Higuchi, J. Chantana, Y. Sobajima, T. Toyama, C. Sada, A. Matsuda and H. Okamoto

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SURFACE MORPHOLOGY OF ZINC OXIDE AND 287

PERFORMANCE OF HYDROGENATED MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS

- Teruaki Hayashi, Shuichi Hiza, Shinsuke Miyajima, Akira Yamada and Makoto Konagai

ASYMMETRIC INTERMEDIATE REFLECTOR FOR TANDEM THIN FILM SILICON 289

SOLAR CELLS

- Thomas Soderstrom, F.-J. Hang, V. Terrazzoni, X. Niquille, 0. Cubero and C. Ballif

LOW TEMPERATURE DEPOSITION OF ALMINNUM DOPED HYDROGENATED 291

NANO CRYSTALLINE CUBIC SILICON CARBIDE FOR THE WINDOW LAYER OFSILICON-BASED THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS WITH A WIDEGAP I-LAYER

- Tomohiro Shinagawa, Shinsuke Miyajima, Akira Yamada and Makoto Konagai

ESR STUDIES ON DEFECT EVOLUTIONS OF MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON 293THIN FILMS GROWN ON TEXTURED AZO SURFACES

- Masanori Kurihara, Yu Kubota, Yasushi Sobajima, Toshihiko Toyama, Akihisa Matsudaand Hirvaki Okamoto

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DEVELOPMENT OF LOW TEMPERATURE RF-MAGNETRON SPUTTERED ITO FILM 295

ON FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE

- T.R Muneshwar, V, Varma, S.K. Soni, N. Meshram and R.O. Dusane

INTRINSIC NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON DEPOSITED BY VHF PECVD AT 297

VARIOUS INTER-ELECTRODE DISTANCES

- Ycmchao Liu. Jatin Rath and Ruud Schropp

MASS PRODUCTION START-UP ACTIVITIES FOR HIGH-EFFICIENCY 299MICROCRYSTALL1NE TANDEM SOLAR CELLS

- Yasuhiro Yamauchi, Hiromu Takatsuka, Yoshiaki Takeuchi and Satoshi Saka

MICROCRYSTALL1NE SILICON GROWN BY PECVD AND THE FABRICATION 3O0OF SOLAR CELLS

- Wang Yi, Shi Weimin, Jin Jing, Wang Linjun, Qin Juan, Zhu WenQing and Cao Zejun

AREA S: UI-V MATERIALS AND DEVICES FOR CONCENTRATOR

AND SPACE PV SYSTEMS 303

SUPER HIGH EFFICIENCY MULTI-JUNCTION, CONCENTRATOR AND 305SPACE SOLAR CELLS (PLENARY)- Masafumi Yamaguchi, Tatsuya Takamoto, Kenji Araki, Mitsuru Imaizumi,

Nobuaki Koj'ima and Yoshio Ohshita

QUANTUM STRUCTURES IN CONCENTRATOR CELLS AND LUMINESCENT 309

CONCENTRATORS (INVITED)- K.W.J. Barnhatn, J.GJ. Adams, I.M, Ballard, R. Base, B.C. Browne, A.J. Chatten,

J.C. Connolly, N.J. Ekins-Daukes, D.J. Farrell, A. Ioannides, G Hill, J.S. Robertsand T.N.D. Titbits

CHARACTERISTICS OF GalnNAsSb SOLAR CELLS GROWN BY ATOMIC 311

HIDROGEN-ASSISTED MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY- Naoya Miyashita, Shtihei Ichikawa and Yashitaka Okada

DEEP LEVELS INVES1GATION IN n-TYPE GaAsN GROWN BY 313CHEMICAL BEAM EPITAXY- Boussairi Boiaazi, Hidetoxhi Suzuki, Nobuaki Koj'ima, Yoshio Ohshita and

Masafumi Yamaguchi

DESIGN OF A NEW LOW CONCENTRATOR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM 3 1 5- Shashi Srivasiava and Nikhil Agarwal

IMPROVEMENT OF A TANDEM SOLAR CELL WITH OPTIMIZED 3 i 7LOW BANDGAPS- B.E. Sadot, N. Szabd, H. Dtischer, U. Seidel, C. Hdhn, K. Schwarzburg and

T. Hannappel

CHARACTERIZATION OF CARRIER RECOMBINATION IN III-V COMPOUND 3 19SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS- T. Sasaki, K. Ara/une, A. Sai, J. Kamiya, Y. Ohshita and M. Yamaguchi

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ANNEALING EFFECT ON ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF GAASN GROWN BY 321

CHEMICAL BEAM EPITAXY

- Jong-Han Lee, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Taiki Hashiguchi, Makoto Inagaki, Nobuaki Kojima,Yoshio Ohshita and Masafumi Yamaguchi

AREA 6: PHOTOVOLTAICS WITH NANOCOMPOSITES

AND OTHER NEW CONCEPTS 323

APPLICATION OF CARBON NANOMATERIALS FOR SOLAR CELLS (PLENARY) 325

- Masayoshi Umeno, Sudip Adhikari and Golap kalita

CARRIER TRANSPORT IN ORGANIC PV DEVICES (INVITED) 326

- Vikram Kumar, Pankaj Kumar, Suresh Chand and S.C Jain

DEVELOPMENT OF RHODAMINE ENDCAPPED THIOPHENE BASED DEVICES 330

FOR SOLAR CELL APPLICATIONS

- Ashish Dembla, S. Sundar Kumar Iyer and N. Somanathan

QUASI SOLID STATE DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL BASED ON 332

THIAZOLE YELLOW

- P. Balraju, M.S. Roy and G.D. Sharma

FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SnS THIN FILMS USNG 334

SILAR METHOD FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS

- Biswajit Ghosh, Madhumita Das, Pushan Banerjee and Subrata Das

SOLAR ENERGY HARVESTING THROUGH ANTHOCYANINE PIGMENT 336

BASED DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS

- CO. Sreekala and K.S. Sreelatha

BULK HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELL WITH BLENDING OF 338

TWO CONJUGATE POLYMERS

- H.S. Ko, J.J. Jhuang, C. Gau, K.H. Wu and H.L. Ma

BULK HETEROJUNCTION ORGANIC INORGANICPHOTOVOLTAICS EMBEDED 340

WITH SILICON NANOWIRE ARRAYS GROWN ON INDIUM TIN OXIDE GLASS

- Cheng Yung Kuo, Chien Wei Liu, Wei Cheng Tang, Chen-Kai Hsu, Chie Gau,Bau Tong Dai and Chung-Huang Lin

SOLAR CELL WITH AMORPHOUS SILICON THIN FILM AND SINGLE WALLED 342

CARBON NANOTUBE

- C.Z. Lin, Chien Wei Liu, H.S. Ko, Chie Gau and Bau Tong Dai

SURFACTANT FREE CdSe NANOPARTICLES MIXED MEH-PPV HYBRID 344

THIN FILMS

- Deepak Verma and V. Dutta

MODELLING OF HOT CARRIER SOLAR CELL ABSORBERS 346

- Gavin Conibeer, Robert Patterson, Lunmei Huang, Jean-Francois Guillemoles,Dirk Konig, Santosh Shrestha and Martin A. Green

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INFLUENCE OF SILVER NANOPARTICLES ON THE SPECTRAL RESPONSE OF 348

SILICON SOLAR CELLS

- G.D.K. Mahanama, T.L. Temple, DM. Bagnall and H.S. Reehal

STUDIES ON THE ORGANIC SOLAR CELL WITH INTERFACE MODIFICATION 350

BASED ON THE PIN STRUCTURE

- Jianmin Tang, Weimin Shi, Juan Qin, Wenqin Zhu, Linjun Wang and Guangpu Wei

OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE TYPE-II CORE-SHELL Ti02@CdS NANORODS 352

FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS

- Kajari Das and S.K. De

NANOPOROUS SILICON PRODUCED BY CHEMICAL ETCHING OF 354

CO-SPUTTERING AL-SI COMPOSITE FILMS

- Ke Ma, Eun-Chel Cho and Gavin Conibeer

COMPARISION OF RF-SPUTTERED AND SOL-GEL PROCESSED TI02 THIN FILMS 356

AS A COMPACT LAYER FOR DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS

- Mariyappan Shanmngam, Mahdi Farrokh Baronghi and David Galipeau

STUDY OF SWIFT HEAVY ION IRRADIATION EFFECT ON INDIUM TIN OXIDE 358

COATED ELECTRODE IN THE DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL

- Shruti Aggarwal, Hemant Kumar Singh, R.M. Mehra and D.K Avasthi

ELECTRICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SI-QD/SINX MULTILAYER PREPARED 3 62

USING HWCVD

- A.K. Panchal, D.K. Rai and C.S. Solanki

IMPROVEMENT OF ELECTRON LIFE TIME IN DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS 366

USING TI02: PEG AS BLOCKING LAYER

- Kandasamy Prabakar, Minkyu Son and Heeje Kim

EFFECT OF SPRAY DEPOSITED THIN Ti02 AND ZnO FILMS IN 368

TI02 DYE SENSITISED SOLAR CELL

- A. Rangarao and V. Dutta

PHOTOACTIVE GLASS-C60 FULLERENE NANOCOMPOSITES: A NEW GENERATION 370

PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIAL

- A. Ghosh, S. Balaji and R. Debnath

THE EFFECT OF SPACER LAYER THICKNESS ON THE PROPERTIES OF 372

QUANTUM DOT SOLAR CELLS

- Ryuji Oshima, Ayami Takata, Yasushi Shoji and Yoshitaka Okada

ENERGY SELECTIVE CONTACTS FOR HOT CARRIER SOLAR CELLS 374

- Santosh K Shrestha, Pasquale Aliberti and Gaviri J Conibeer

HYBRID ORGANIC-INORGANIC NANOCOMPOSITES: LINKING FILM 376

MORPHOLOGY TO PHOTOSTABILITY

- Umesh Kumar, Kusum Kumari and Shailesh N. Sharma

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SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF LEAD SELENIDE QUANTUM DOTS 378FOR ORGANIC SOLAR CELL APPLICATION

- Umesh Kumar, Shailesh N. Sharma and Rita Kakkar

SYNTHESIS OF SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES FOR 380

PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES

- Sudip Adhikari, Golap Kalita, Hare Ram Arya, Dilip Chandra Ghimire and Ishwor Khatri

EFFECT OF CuPc-Ag AND CuPc-Al INTERFACE IN EXCITON DISSOCIATION 382

- Suman Banerjee, Anukul P. Parhi and Satyendra Kumar

PLASMONICS FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS 384

- Supriya Pillai, Kylie R, Catchpole and Martin A. Green

ALLIGNMENT OF SILICON NANOCRYSTALS/P3HT BULK HETEROJUNCTION 386 -

IN TITANIUM DIOXIDE NANOTUBES

- Vladimir Svreek, Ivan Turkevych and Michio Kondo

FABRICATION OF InGaAs/GaNAs STRAIN-COMPENSATED QUANTUM DOT 388SOLAR CELL ON GaAs (311)B SUBSTRATE- Yasushi Shoji, Ryuji Oshima, Ayami Takata, Akira Uedono and Yoshitaka Okada

FABRICATION OF P-I-N STRUCTURE USING SI QUANTUM DOTS/AMORPHOUS 390SI CARBIDE SUPERLATTICE

- Yasuyoshi Kurokawa, Shigeki Tomita, Shinsuke Miyajima, Akira Yamada and Makoto KonagaiA GENERIC ANODE STRUCTURE FOR PHOTOCURRENT ENHANCEMENT IN 392A POLYMER SOLAR CELL

- Hsing-Wang Tsai, Zingway Pei, Yi-Jen Chan, Tarng-Shiang Hu and Chin-Chin Tsai

EFFECT OF AREA VARIATION ON ORGANIC SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE 394- Ruchi Choudhary and S.S.K. Iyer

SYNTHESIS OF ZINC OXIDE NANOPARTICLES USING CONTINUOUS SPRAY 396PYROLYSIS REACTOR

- V. Dutta, Venkata Phanikaran B. and Cham Dwivedi

AREA 7: PV PROGRAMS, POLICIES, ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES 399

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SOLAR PROGRAM: 2008 AND BEYON (PLENARY) 401- Marie K. Mopes

CURRENT STATUS AND PROSPECTS OF PV MARKET IN JAPAN: NEW FRAMEWORK 402TOWARDS ACHIEVING A SOLAR SOCIETY (INVITED)- Izumi Kaizuka, Takashi Ohigashi, Hiroshi MatsukawA and Osamu Ikki

DEVELOPMENT OF SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM NANOSTRUCTURES AT 406CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY (INVITED)- S. Panyakeow

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PHOTOVOLTAICS EDUCATION FOR THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION (INVITED) 407

- R. Corkish

ROLE OF NEXT GENERATION PV CELLS IN THE KOREA'S NATIONAL VISION

OF "LOW CARBON, GREEN GRWOTH" (INVITED)- Jinsoo Song

WORLD BANK GROUP SUPPORT FOR ACCELERATING CLEAN TECHNOLOGY

COMMERCIALIZATION (INVITED)

409

411

- Anil Cabraa

A SUSTAINABLE PHOTOVOLTAIC ROADMAP AND POLICY INITIATIVE FOR

GUJARAT, INDIA

- Omkar Jani, John Byrne, Manu Mathai, Ashok Kumar and Vagmin Buch

412

ANALYSIS OF FACTORS FOR DISSEMINATING RESIDENTIAL PV SYSTEMS 414

IN JAPAN

- Endo Eiichi

PRESENT STATUS OF SPACE PHOTOVOLTAIV DEVELOPMENT AT THE EUROPEAN 416

SPACE AGENCY

- Lothar Gerlach

TRENDS IN PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS- LATEST RESULTS FROM THE IEA 418

PVPS PROGRAMME SURVEYS

- Gregory Watt, Izumi Kaizuka, Pius Husser, Paul Cowley and Roland Briindlinger

AREA 8: PV ARCHITECTURE AND PV SYSTEMS 421

ACTUAL ENERGY PRICING: COAL BASED THERMAL POWER PLANT 423

VIS-A-VIS SOLAR PV POWER PLANT (INVITED)- S.P. Gon Chaudhuri

AN INTRODUCTION OF HOKUTO MEGA-SOLAR PROJECT AND SOME RESULTS 425

IN THE FIRST STAGE

- Hiroo Konishi, Ryo Tanaka and Shinya Takagi

AN IMPROVEMENT OF PV-HYDRO TURBINE ENERGY UTILIZATION IN 427

HIGHLAND THAILAND

- W. Muangjai, J. Thongpron, T. Somsak and N. Ruangrotsin

MAXIMUM POWER POINT ESTIMATION OF A PHOTOVOLTAIC FIELD BASED 429

ON NEURO-FUZZY APPROACH

- Aymen Chaouachi, Marwan Dharmin and Ken Nagasaka

ROLE OF PHOTOVOLTAIC IN ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE TOURISM: 431

A CONCEPTUAL STUDY

- S. Bardhan and B. Ghosh

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TESTING, PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF CHARGE 433

CONTROLLER FOR SOLAR HOME LIGHTING SYSTEMS

- Deepak Verma, V. Dutta and O.S, Sastry

A PV MOBILE UNIT FOR MULTIPURPOSE RURAL APPLICATIONS 435

- EC. Pande

ANALYSIS OF A HYBRID PV-THERMAL COLLECTOR CONCEPT 437

- Patrick Dupeyrat, Matthias Rommel, Christophe Menezo, Gerald Kwiatkowski

and Didier Binesti

A SIMPLE MODIFICATION OF DC POWER SUPPLY FOR PV GRID-CONNECTED 439

INVERTER TESTING

- Ballang Muenpinij, Chamnan Limsakul, Dhirayut Chenvidhya and Anawach Sangswang

IMPACT OF ADJACENT BUILDING - WALL ON THE BUILDING INTEGRATED 441

PHOTO VOLTAIC SYSTEMS

- K. Kunda (Ghosh) and B. Ghosh

MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING OF SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC MODULE 443

UNDER PARTIAL SHADING

- Anuradha Kar

MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING OF PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAYS USING 445

ADAPTIVE PERCEPTIVE PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUE

- Shubhajit Roy Chowdhury and Hiranmay Saha

SOLAR PV MPP TRACKING ALGORITHM FOR SKIRTING LOCAL MAXIMA 447

UNDER NOMINAL PARTIAL SHADING

•- Nivedita Dasgupta and Ashok K. Mukerjee

STATUS OF SOLAR HOME SYSTEM IN HIGHLAND REMOTE AREA THAILAND 449

- Teerasak Somsak, Chartchai Ngamsorft, Chanarong Piton and Bavornsak Pedjaranon

Author Index 451


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