2nd E.C. Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference

Opening Session.- by the Chairman.- Opening address.- Begrüssungsansprache.- Begrüssungsansprache.- Keynote address: Prospects and opportunities in photovoItaies.- Discours d'ouverture: L'avenir de la conversion photovoltaïque pour l'Europe.- Keynote address: Photovoltaies for developing countries.- Session 1 - Fundamental studies - Silicon.- New experimental evidence for minority carrier MIS diodes.- The influence of grain size and dopant concentration on the electrical properties of poly-crystalline silicon films.- Comprehensive explanation of efficiency limits in silicon solar cells.- Session 2 - Crystalline silicon materials.- Invited paper: Technology and economics of starting materials for low-cost silicon solar cells.- Progress on the dow corning process for solar-grade silicon.- Low-cost, high-efficiency silicon by heat exchanger method and fixed abrasive slicing technique.- Early assessment of the photovoltaic potentialities of RAD polysilicon sheets.- Wide silicon ribbon growth by capillary action shaping technique.- Invited paper: Low-cost crystalline silicon.- Potential for improved silicon ribbon growth through thermal environment control.- Ion implanted solar cells from EPG silicon ribbons.- Session 3 - Silicon cells.- Experimental optimization of the efficiency of n pp and p+ nn+ silicon solar cells.- A high volume process for silicon solar cells using solid diffusion sources.- A new diffusion process for silicon solar cells.- The effects of concentrated sunlight on silicon solar cells.- Degradation effects in silicon Schottky barrier solar cells.- Advanced thin silicon solar cell with controlled optical absorpt ance.- Effect of laser irradiation on the characteristics of implanted layers for silicon solar cells.- Improved thick-film semiconductor/solar cell contacts.- Late news paper: Recent advances in thin foil silicon solar cells.- Session 4 - Modules and economic analyses.- Progress in the field of terrestrial solar generators.- Study of sandwich type glass encapsulation.- A revised economic analysis of photovoltaic power modules.- The design of photovoltaic systems for residential applications in the United States.- Session 5 - Amorphous silicon.- Optimization studies of materials in hydrogenated amorphous silicon solar cells.- Preparation and properties of nitrogen-doped amorphous silicon.- Evaluation of multi junction structures using amorphous Si-Ge alloys.- Schottky barriers on sputtered hydrogenated amorphous silicon: Photovoltaic properties and capacitance-voltage characteristics.- Contact formation, scaling and optimization of large-area r.f.- sputtered a-Si Schottky barrier solar cells.- The stability of amorphous silicon Schottky barrier solar cells.- Late news paper: Hydrogenated amorphous silicon Schottky- barrier diodes.- Session 6 - Compound semiconductor cells (1).- Invited paper: Appraisal of thin-film solar cells.- Interface recombination and junction field studies in the Cu2S-CdS solar cell.- EBIC and capacitance measurements on Cu2S-CdS solar cells - Stability problems.- Single crystal solar cell heterojunctions by chemical vapor deposition of CdS.- Optimal material properties for CdS/Cu2S. solar cells.- Thin-film (CdZn)S for solar cells.- Progress in the development of the thin-film MIS solar cell based on CdSe.- An S.S.M. study of thin films made by spray pyrolysis.- Session 7 - Compound semiconductor cells (2).- Invited paper: Photo-electrochemical solar cells.- CdTe homojunctions solar cells.- Oxide/semiconductor photovoltaic heterojunctions based on CdTea or InPb.- Schottky barrier grid devices on Zn3P2.- Concentration and temperature performances of GaAs-GaAlAs solar cells.- Session 8 - Space applications and testing.- Invited paper: Photovoltaic power generators in space.- Requirements for future air force satellite solar power technology.- Pulsed measurement of solar cell spectral response.- A low-cost solar simulator for testing photovoltaic terrestrial solar power cells and modules.- Session 9 - Concentrators and concentrating systems.- Invited paper: Photovoltaic generators using optical concentration.- Operation of multi-bandgap concentrator cells with a spectrum splitting filter.- Fluorescent planar concentrators - performance and experimental results.- Status of the US Department of Energy photovoltaic concentrator development project.- Development of 1 pkW photovoltaic module with concentration.- Solar cells with concentrating collectors and integrated heat use system.- Session 10 - Systems and demonstration projects.- Invited paper: Integration of photovoltaic generation into a large generation system.- Invited paper: Photovoltaics on the system level.- DC to AC power conditioning for photovoltaic arrays and utility interfacing.- Analysis, design and realization of 5 kW photovoltaic generator.- The design and construction of ja 100 kW photovoltaic remote stand- alone power system.- Study of a hydro-photovoltaic plant for peak power generation in Central and Northern European countries.- Invited paper: Batteries for solar electricity.- Papers of The Poster Sessions.- Group P1 - Fundamental studies.- Research issues for low-cost photovoltaic cells.- Numerical modelling of a solar cell in three dimensions.- Obtaining accurate values of diffusion length with the scanning electron microscope.- Reduction of surface recombination velocity of silicon surfaces by SnO films.- Theoretical performance of multi-layer grid patterns for solar cells.- Survey of semiconductor combinations for optimum heterojunction thin film solar cells.- Carrier transport through heterojunction solar cells.- An improved analysis of the n-type Schottky barrier solar cell.- Semiconductor-electrolyte solar cells for the photoelectro- chemical reduction of carbon dioxide to organic fuel.- Electrochemical photovoltaic cells utilizing thin-film semi-conductor electrodes.- Group P2 - Crystalline silicon materials.- Recent advances in solar silicon purification technology.- Some characteristics of low-cost silicon sheet.- Low-cost processes for silicon.- On the effects of boron and phosphorus primary impurities in p-type silicon material for solar cells.- Re crystallization of CVD-grown polycrystalline silicon and the influence of dopants on grain growth.- Polycrystalline silicon and its characterization.- Transport properties and TEM observation of RAD polycrystalline silicon films.- The growth of polycrystal line silicon layers on top of a tincoated substrate: in situ observations.- Group P3 - Silicon cells.- Improvement of phosphorus diffused silicon solar cells by Laser treatment.- Influence of the double exponnential on the efficiency and the yield of screen printed solar cells.- Optical, structural and compositional characterization of TiO antirefieetion coatings.- A computer model for polycrystalline Si n /p solar cells.- High efficiency silicon solar cell for concentrator systems.- High efficiency transcells and vertical multifunction cells for double-sided concentrated illumination.- Advances in theory, fabrication and applications of bifacial solar cells.- Group P4 - Modules and economic analyses.- Integrated Cu2S-CdS thin-film solar cell generator.- A preliminary "Test Case" manufacturing sequence for 50 ç/Watt solar photovoltaic modules in 1986.- Photovoltales commercialization readiness assessment.- Recent developments in the economic modeling of photovoltaic module manufacturing.- Group P5 - Amorphous silicon.- Comparison of optical and electrical properties of hydrogenated a-Si films formed by glow discharge of SiH or SiCl4/H2.- Group P6 - Compound semiconductor cells (1).- Model for the photovoltaic effect in Cu S-CdS solar cells in the backwall configuration.- Thin-fiIm Cds/Cu-S solar cells prepared by electrophoresis.- Photon loss analysis and design of thin-film planar junction Cus/CdS devices.- Magnetron reactive sputtering deposition of Cu2s/CdS solar cells.- The chemistry of cadmium sulfide formation from cadmium chloride and thiourea.- Optical and calorimetric measurements of cupreous sulphides thin films.- CdS heterojunction and Schottky barrier photovoltaic devices.- Preparation and analysis of Cu2O thin-film solar cells.- Group P7 - Compound semiconductor cells (2).- Accurate computer analysis of solar cells, including band-gap variation - Application to the Al Ga1?x As Ga As structure.- Efficient GaAs shallow-homo junction solar cells on single crystal GaAs and Ge substrates.- On the influence of an interfacial oxide layer on Au/n-GaAs Schottky barrier solar cells.- Un nouveau procédé aux organométalliques pour l'élaboration de couches minces de matériaux III-V par dépôt chimique en phase vapeur à liasse température.- AlSb as a potential photovoltaic material.- AlSb as a candidate material for photovoltaic solar energy conversion.- Group P8 - Testing.- Testing flat plate photovoltaic modules for terrestrial environ- ments.- Determination of the spectral distribution of global radiation with a rapid spectral radiometer and its correlation with solar cell efficiency.- Physical/chemical modeling for photovoltaic module life pre-diction.- Group P9 - Concentrators and concentrating systems.- Hybrid silicone-glass Fresnel lens as concentrator for photo-voltaic applications.- Cassegrain solar concentrators for photovoltaies.- Hybrid system consisting of silicon solar cells with concentrators and heat pump.- 20 kW Gallium arsenide photovoltaic dense array for central receiver concentrator applications.- Group P10 - Systems and demonstration projects.- A 1 kW Photovoltaic demonstration project.- A new approach to solar pump systems using submersible motors.- Calculations and experimental data of water pumping systems with respect to photovoltaic converter arrays.- Engineering studies on the optimization of the collection sub-system of a 1 MW photovoltaic facility.- Influence of meteorological conditions on the design of solar energy DC-AC inverters.- Sophia Antipolis 5 kW photovoltaic power generator for habitat.- New energies in telecommunications - Aerosolec Station.- Description of photovoltaic village power systems in the United States and Africa.- -Operational characteristics of a 60 kW photovoltaic system integrated with a utility grid.- Group P11 - National programs.- Status of the US photovoltaic R&D program.- The U.S. Department of Energy National Photovoltaic Program Plan.- Photovoltaic research and development projects in the Federal Republic of Germany.- Italian activities in photovoltaics.- The French program on photovoltaic conversion.- Canadian Photovoltaic R& D activities.- The European photovoltaic R&D program..- Closing Session.- Closing address by the General Chairman.- List of Participants.- Author Index.