JUNE 8-13, 2014 • DENVER, COLORADO
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TECHNICAL PROGRAM
PROGRAM CHAIR GREETING
On behalf of the Technical
Program Committee, I am happy
and honored to welcome you
to the 40th IEEE Photovoltaic
Specialists
Conference
to
experience
the
latest
achievements in photovoltaics
research, development, and
applications. At the PVSC-40
you will find many topics which
connect to the full spectrum of PV,
ranging from material science to
building integrated PV and from
device performance to education
and workforce development. As such I am hopeful that the
PVSC-40 will offer a great platform to everyone involved in the
exciting and still growing field of PV - a platform that enables you
to connect with your colleagues, share information, learn from
each other’s results, discuss and take steps towards new future
developments.
For the PVSC-40, we have expanded the number of technical
areas to twelve. Descriptions of each area are presented to
you in this Yellow Book and on the conference website. At the
PVSC-40 we will continue to promote the cross-technology area
focused on Reliability of PV, successfully introduced in 2013 and
led by Dr. Sarah Kurtz of NREL. Moreover, we introduce another
new interdisciplinary technical area ‘PV Deployment’ which
is chaired by Dr. Martha Symko-Davies of NREL. This novel
area will focus on technical, economic, and political challenges
associated with high penetration of PV systems in electricity
grids and in our society. Adding to this, a new area has been
developed in the field of PV Modules and Manufacturing, which
is led by Dr. Pierre Verlinden of Trina Solar in China. This area
will pay attention to innovations in manufacturing. Finally we
would like to point your attention to the renewed area on organic
photovoltaics chaired by Moritz Riede of the University of Oxford.
This area has gone through a complete transformation, drawing
together expertise from chemistry, materials, physics and
engineering to better match with ongoing exciting developments
in this interdisciplinary field of organic PV.
Moreover we strengthened the Technical Program by early
involvement and announcement of more than 40 Featured
Speakers and by introducing 13 joint sessions between various
Areas. This year the PVSC-40 received a record number of
more than 1100 abstracts which lead to a Technical Program
of more than 360 Oral presentations, and more than 670
Poster presentations. Besides publications of papers in the
Conference Proceedings, we are continuing the very popular
option of offering authors who have submitted particularly high
quality PVSC review abstracts to submit their research results
as a manuscript to IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics (J-PV). This
path allowed 155 authors to enjoy both the PVSC conference
experience as well as receiving a peer review citation from a
highly regarded journal.
On behalf of the Technical Program Committee I wish you a
great PVSC-40!
Angèle Reinders
PVSC-40 Technical Program Chair
TECHNICAL PROGRAM
