Scientific Symposium

9:00

Welcome
Prof. Susanne Siebentritt, Université du Luxembourg

9:15                         

From Semiconductors to High-Strength Steels and Back Again
Prof. Jörg Neugebauer, Max Planck Institute for Iron Research, Düsseldorf, Germany 

Abstract

10:00

Predicting new materials and their properties with supercomputers: the example of perovskites
Prof. Silvana Botti, Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany  

Abstract

10:45

Coffee break

11:15

Neutron scattering: an experimental approach to defects in semiconductors
Prof. Susan Schorr, Helmholtz Zentrum für Materialien und Energie, HZB, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

12:00

Lunch break and Posters session

13:30

Characterization of semiconductor nanostructures using ultra-high-resolution TEM-CL
Prof. Juergen Christen, Institute of Experimental Physics, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany

14:15

Recent Efficiency breakthroughs in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cells
Prof. Ayodhya Tiwari, EMPA, Zürich, Switzerland

15:00

Coffee break

15:30

Thin Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cell
Prof. Marika Edoff, Uppsala University, Sweden

16:15

Solar Cells and LEDs: the reciprocity principle
Prof. Uwe Rau, Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen, Germany