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International Workshop on

Advances in Photovoltaics and Photocatalysis

Chairpersons: Paolo Lugli (TUM) and Aldo Di Carlo (U.Roma “Tor Vergata”)

21-22 July 2011 Technische Universität München

Munich, Germany

The workshop is part of the "Deutsch-Italienische Dialoge 2011", a program of the Deutsch-Italienische Hochschulzentrum / Ateneo Italo -Tedesco.

Venue of the workshop is the Institute for Advanced Study of TUM (Lichtenbergstraße 2a, 85748 Garching) on

July 21st (9:00-19:00) and

July 22nd (9:00-16:00), 2011.

Organizers are the TUM Institute for Advanced Study, the TUM Institute for Nanoelectronics and the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

Considerable interest is attributed this days to renewable energies, which are seen as the best way to provide the necessary energy sources needed in the future by reducing at the same time the amount of CO2 generated and diffuse in the environment. Among all alternative sources, sunlight is the most abundant and cleanest one. Unfortunately, the exploitation of solar energy is limited by the reduced efficiency and high cost of solar energy conversion systems. The workshop will deal with two approaches to energy conversion, namely photovoltaics (PV) and photocatalysis (PC). In particular, new generation solar cells will be discussed as PV applications, water splitting and CO2 reduction for solar fuel production for PC ones. Experts in the two fields will come together, mainly from Germany and Italy. Some international high standard researchers will also be invited. One of the main topics will be the influence of nanotechnology on PV and PC energy conversion systems.

Goal of the workshop will be to create a link between the two communities that have being ignoring one another and open the way for a common approach that can combine effectively the know-how of physicist and engineers on PV and of chemists on PC. In order to present a coherent overview and to maximize interaction and discussion, the workshop will have only invited contributions with a total of approximately 20 talks. A poster session will be organized for young researchers who want to present their results.

Poster presentation

Young researchers interested in submitting a poster please fill the registration form (pdf) and send it either by fax +49.89.289.25337 or by mail to: nano@ei.tum.de

Registration

Registration fee: 260 EUR. The registration fee includes conference booklet, coffee breaks, poster session (with bier and brezen), lunches and workshop dinner. A one-day registration fee of 150 € and a reduced student registration fee also of 150 € are available. In order to register, please fill the registration form (pdf) and send it either by fax +49.89.289.25337 or by mail to: nano@ei.tum.de. Registration will close on July 15, 2011. No on-site registration is possible.

Preliminary List of Speakers:

Plenary Speakers

Hironory Arakawa (Tokio University of Science) – Photocatalisys and water splitting
Cosimo Gerardi (STMicroelectronics)- Photovoltaics activities at STM
Devens Gust (Arizona State University) – Bio-Inspired solar fuel production
Karl Leo (TU Dresden) – Small-molecule organic solar cells: from lab to market
Brian O'Regan (Imperial College London) - Dye sensitized solar cells

Invited Speakers

Matthias Auf der Maur(Università di Roma "Tor Vergata" ) - Physical modelling of organic solar cells
Claudia Barolo (Università di Torino) - Sensitizers for Dye Solar Cells
Thomas Bein (LMU München)– Oxide Nanomorphologies in Photovoltaics
Andrea Bernardi(Istituto ENI Donegani) – Organic Photovoltaics
Carlo Alberto Bignozzi (Universita di Ferrara) – Water splitting
Enrico Da Como (LMU München) – Charge Transfer Excitons in organic solar cells
Franco Decker (Università di Roma "La Sapienza") - Electrochemistry in Dye solar cells
Gianluca Farinola (Universita’ di Bari) - Synthesis of Organic Semiconductors for Photovoltaics
Franco Giannini (Dyepower & Uni. Tor Vergata)– Commercialization of DSCs
Ulrich Heiz (TU München) – Metallic nanoclusters for photocatalysis
Bernd Kaiser (TU Darmstadt) – Light induced water splitting
Katharina Krischer(TU München) – Catalysis at the nanoscale
Marinus Kunst (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin) - Charge carrier kinetics and photocatalysis
Elisa Molinari (Uni. Modena-Reggio Emilia-s3 CNR-Nano) - Understanding early stages of photoexcitation and charge separation in supramolecular systems
Salvatore Lombardo (CNR) – Characterization of a-Si:H films for solar cells
Leonardo Palmisano (Universit di Palermo) - Photocatalisys
Giuseppe Scarpa (TU München) – Nanoimprinting for energy conversion devices
Martin Stutzmann (TU München) – Hybrid solar cells

Program details

The preliminary program of the workshop can be found here (pdf)

Logistics

How to get there and possible accomodations(pdf)