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Plenary Lecture:
Melt growth of semiconductors under travelling
magnetic fields
Roberto Fornari, President of the International Organization for
Crystal Growth (IKZ and Humboldt University, Berlin,
German)
Sessions:
1. Fundamentals and single crystals
Session Chair: Dino Aquilano
This section will cover both fundamentals of crystal
growth, and so theory, modeling, and experiments designed to learn
the fundamental aspects of crystal growth, and the science and technology
of crystal growth (bulk and thick films) of semiconductors, oxides
and halides, with respect to high yield and defect control.
Tentative invited: Danilo Crippa
(LPE S.p.A., Baranzate, MI, Italy) and
Mauro Tonelli (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
2. Inorganic materials for photovoltaics
Session Chair: Marco Stefancich
While most of the world photovoltaics demand is still
covered by Silicon (mono, poly or amorphous) and there is a growing
contribution from CdTe thin film technology, many more inorganic technologies
and materials are competing towards the established market leaders.
The focus of this section is on materials ranging from high-efficiency
silicon, amorphous silicon, gallium arsenide and related materials,
thin-film materials, and copper indium selenide. Other subject may
include multijunction III-V devices, concentrator cells, and integrated
power devices as well as innovative solutions based on different inorganic
materials.
3. Organic and hydrid materials
Session Chair: Adele Sassella
This session is focused on the growth of organic functional materials,
in the form of single crystals, thin films, and heterostructures;
within this last class of systems, also hybrid materials will be
considered, where an organic component is properly coupled to an
inorganic one forming multilayers or bulk heterojunctions.
Tentative invited: Fabio Biscarini (ISMN-CNR,
Bologna, Italy)
4. Functional nanostructures
Session Chair: Tullio Toccoli
This session is focused on nanocrystalline materials
that exhibit outstanding electrical, optical, structural, and mechanical
properties. These materials could be fruitfully used in many fields
going from medicine up to energy storage and production. The future
progress in this emerging field is critically dependent upon the development
of new methods of understanding and analyzing the underlying nanoscale
and interface effects causing their unique properties.
Tentative invited: Liberato Manna (Italian
Institute of Technology (IIT), Genova, Italy)
5. Nanoepitaxy
Session Chair: Nicola Lovergine
Nano-epitaxy has become a prominent research topic
in the field of semiconductor crystal growth; the session will focus
on the growth of nanostructured crystals, such as quantum dots, quantum
rings, and nanowires, and on the various advanced epitaxy methodologies
utilized for their self-assembly, with emphasis on fundamental growth
mechanisms, and study/control of their physical properties.
Tentative invited: Prof. Stefano Sanguinetti
(Department of Materials Science, Bicocca University, Milan, Italy)
Round table on
"Photovoltaics
in the Building Sector"
Session Chair: Massimo Mazzer
The objective of the workshop is to discuss the new opportunities
for research and development arising from the diffusion of new photovoltaic
products in the Building Sector thanks particularly to the advancements
in thin film deposition technologies.
The discussion will start from the analysis of the current BIPV
technologies and will look at future scenarios by attempting an
assessment of the potential impact of the most promising new ideas
in the value chain.
Poster session
