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Program of PVSPACE-23

Wednesday, 5 July 2023

9:00 - 9:25

Reception and Welcome Drink

9:25 - 9:30

Dr. Narges Yaghoobi Nia
- University of Rome La Sapienza
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)

Organizer welcome talk

9:30 - 9:45

Prof. Maria Sabrina Sarto
Deputy Rector for Research of University of Rome La Sapienza

Opening Talk

Session 1

9:45 - 10:45

Dr. Carsten Baur
European Space Agency

Solar Cells for Space Applications

10:45 - 11:15

Dr. Stella Tkatchova
European Innovation Council (EIC)

Opportunities for in-space solar energy harvesting solutions for innovative space applications

11:15 - 11:45

Break

Session 2

11:45 - 12:15

Powering the Next Frontier: Manufacturing Solar Cells in Space

12:15 - 12:45

Prof. Chang-Qi Ma
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Flexible organic solar cells with excellent specific power ratio for near space applications

12:45 - 14:15

Lunch Break

Session 3

14:15 - 14:45

Prof. Alessandro Paccagnella
University of Padua

Use of PV in the space race: a historical insight

14:45 - 15:15

Prof. Salvo Marcuccio
University of Pisa

Flight results and future prospects of the ECAPS near-space solar cell test facility

15:15 - 15:45

Dr. Romain Cariou
CEA-LITEN - Solar Technology Department

In-situ & ex-situ study of protons and electrons irradiations of perovskite solar cells

15:45 - 16:15

Break

Session 4

16:15 - 16:30

Dr. Giulia Tregnago
Nature Energy 

“Nature Energy: an overview of the journal”

16:30 - 16:45

Prof. Aleksandra Djurisic
University of Hong Kong

2D Dion-Jacobson perovskites for 3D/2D layers in inverted perovskite solar cells

16:45 - 17:00

Dr. Avi Niv
Ben-Gurion University of The Negev

The effect of suppressed heat dissipation on the photovoltaic efficiency

17:00 - 17:15

Dr. Bei Yang
Linköping University

Distinguish The Reabsorption Effect And Aggregation Effect

17:15 - 19:00

Tour

Thursday, 6 July 2023

9:00 - 9:25

Reception and Welcome

9:25 - 9:30

Dr. Mahmoud Zendehdel
- University of Rome Tor Vergata
- Iritaly
 Trading Company S.r.l. 

Opening

Session 1

9:30 - 10:00

Prof. Peter Müller-Buschbaum
Technical University of Munich

Progress in perovskite and organic solar cells for space applications 

10:00 - 10:30

Prof. Joseph M. Luther
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Perovskite solar cell architectures for electrifying space

10:30 - 11:00

Break

Session 2

11:00 - 11:30

Dr. Narges Yaghoobi Nia
- University of Rome La Sapienza
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)

Perovskite Photovoltaic Module for Sustainable Space Economy

11:30 - 12:45

Panel

12:45 - 14:15

Lunch Break

Session 3

14:15 - 14:45

Prof. Jean Manca
Universiteit Hasselt / X-LAB

Organic based solar cells for extreme worlds

14:45 - 15:15

Dr.-Ing. Claudiu Mortan
University of Stuttgart

Stratosphere Flight of Perovskite Solar Cells at an Altitude of 32 km

15:15 - 15:45

Prof. Bibhudutta Rout
University of North Texas

Ion Beam Irradiation and Analysis of Solar Cells Utilizing a Versatile Ion Beam Facility at the University of North Texas

15:45 - 16:15

Break

Session 4

16:15 - 16:45

Samuel Erickson
University of California Merced

Evaluation of hybrid perovskite prototype after 10-month space flight on the International Space Station

16:45 - 17:15

Prof. Ahmad R. Kirmani
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)

Radiation-matter interactions in perovskite solar cells: Implications for space applications

Poster Session 

17:15 - 17:20

Dr. Shiva Navazani
University of Genoa

Finite Element Simulation of Heat Distribution in Micro-concentrator Perovskite Solar Cells

17:20 - 17:25

Simon Alexander Wegener
Technical University of Munich

Rapid thermal cycling of perovskite solar cells

17:25 - 17:30

Lennart Reb
TU Munich/n.a.

Overview of the First Spaceflight Experiment of Perovskite and Organic Solar Cells

17:30 - 17:35

Dr. Rahul Ranjan
Polish Academy of Science Poland

Microwave Assisted Low Temperature Processed TiO2 as Effective Electron Transport Layer for Improved Performance in Planar Perovskite Solar Cells

17:35 - 17:45

Posters' Discussions

20:00

Social Dinner

Social Dinner will be held in following place:
"Hosteria La Stazione" Via Solferino, 6/8, 00185 Roma RM

Friday, 7 July 2023

9:00 - 9:30

Reception and Welcome

9:25 - 9:30

Prof. Luigi Schirone
University of Rome "La Sapienza"

Opening

Session 1

9:30 - 10:00

Prof.  Michael Graetzel
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

The birth and stunning rise of perovskite solar cells

10:00 - 10:30

Prof. Jinsong Huang
University of North Carolina

Converting Perovskite Efficient Cells into Minimodules with Small Cell-to-Module Derate

10:30 - 11:00

Dr. Anurag Krishna
IMEC / Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre

Materials and processes for efficient and stable large-scale perovskite solar modules

11:00 - 11:30

Break

Session 2

11:30 - 12:00

Dr. Fan Fu
Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

Flexible perovskite thin-film tandem solar cells and mini-modules

12:00 - 12:05

General Talk: Solar Journal

12:05 - 12:15

General Talk: Communications Engineering Journal

12:15 - 12:45

Prof. Franco Cacialli
University College London

Neutron irradiation of two benchmark conjugated polymers and of perovskite solar cells

12:45- 14:30

Lunch Break

Session 3

14:30 - 15:00

Prof. Wing Chung Tsoi
Swansea University

Proton Radiation Hardness of Organic Photovoltaics

15:00 - 15:30

Prof. Luigi Schirone
University of Rome "La Sapienza"

Testing of End-Of-Life-optimized Triple-Junction III-V solar cells onboard the AstroBio CubeSat

15:30 - 16:00

Dr. Mojtaba Abdi-Jalebi
University College London (UCL)

Highly Luminescent Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells: Prospects for Space Applications

16:00 - 16:30

Break

16:30 - 17:00

Prof. Pavel Troshin

Russian Academy of Sciences

Harbin Institute of technology 

Towards understanding the pathways of radiation-induced degradation of complex lead halides

17:00 - 17:15

Dr. Daniele M. Trucchi

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche 

Photo-thermionic energy converters of high-power laser beams for future lunar exploration

17:15 - 18:00

Awards and Closing

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