ABSTRACT
J. AbuShama (manager R&S Solopower, USA), D. Abou-Ras (Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy, Berlin, Germany), M. Acciarri (Università degli Studi di Milano — Bicocca, Italy), C. Algora (Instituto de Energia Solar, Spain), Zh. Alferov (Nobel Laureate, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), N. Allsop (Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy, Berlin, Germany), G. Almonacid (University of Jaén. Spain), V. M. Andreev (Head of Photovoltaics Lab.,Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russia), J. Anta (President of the PV Spanish Industry Association (ASIF), P. Alpuim (Universidade do Minho, Portugal), H. Arakawa (Tokyo University of Science, Japan), T. Anderson (University of Florida, USA), K. Baert (IMEC, Belgium), C. Ballif (Institute of Microtechnology IMT, Switzerland), P. Banda (Director General. Institute for Concentration Photovoltaics Systems — ISFOC, Spain), K. Barnham (Imperial College London, UK), A.K. Barua (General Chairman PVSEC18), B. Basol (CTO SoloPower, USA), G. Bauer (University of Oldenburg, Germany), A.A. BayodRújula (Research for Energy Resources and Consumption, CIRCE, University of Zaragoza, Spain), M. Belhamel (Director, Renewable Energy Development Centre, Algeria), V. Bermudez (Institute of R&D for Photovoltaic Energy IRDEP, France), J.C. Bernede (University of Nantes, Frances), J. Bertomeu (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain), R. Bhattacharya (National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL, USA), B. Bibek (Director Solar Energy Centre New Delhi, Vice Chair of 18th PV Conference-2009), A. Blakers (Australian National University, Australia), A. Bouazzi (University of Tunis El-Manar, Tunisia), J.E. Bourée (Ecole Polytechnique, France), C. Brabec (Konarka, USA), H. Branz (NREL, USA), G. Bremond (Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon, France), F. Briones (Institute of Microelectronics of Madrid, CNM-CSIC, Spain), L. Brohan (Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, Nantes, France), B. Richards (Deputy Director Joint Research Institute in Energy, Managing Director of Progress in Photovoltaics, Edinburg, UK), M. Burgelman (Gent University Belgium), J. Byrne
(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Nobel Prize Laureate 2007, Director of Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware, USA), D. Cahen (Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel), M. Camenzind (Air Liquide, USA), J. Carabe (Acciona Solar, Spain), M. Cassir (Head of Fuel Cell Group, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, France), K. Shane-Ching (Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Toulouse, France), E. Chassaing (IRDEP, France), Frederic Chandezon (CEA Grenoble, France), P. Chatterjee (Head Energy Research Unit, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India), N. Chaudron (AGFPE, France), P. Chauduri (Head Energy Research Unit, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India), N. Cherradi (Yingli Green Energy Holding co., Ltd, China), Xiaohong Chen (SAFC, USA), N. Ciro (SUMCO, Italy), PK Chiang (Vice President Arima PV, taiwan), Y.B. Civel (Direteur Observatoire des energies renouvelables, France), P. Clancy (Air Liquide USA), J. Cochard (NTNU, Trondheim, Norway), D. Cohen (Director, Oregon Sunrise, USA), Al. Compaan (University of Toledo, USA), M. Contreras (NREL, USA), A. Cravino (University of Angers, France), A. B. Cristóbal López (Project manager, Instituto de Energia Solar, Spain), A. Cuevas (Australian National University, Australia), M. Dachraoui (Tunis University, Tunisia), M. R. de Aguiar (University of Campinas, Brazil), A. De Lillo (Resp. Fonti Rinnovabili, ENEA, Italy), E. Dalchiele (Institute of Physics, Montevideo, Uruguay), A. Darga (Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité, France), J. C. Denis (Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité), P. Destruel (Institut Laplace, Toulouse), B. Dimmler (Managing Director Würth Solar, Germany), N. Dhere (Program Director, Florida Solar Energy Center, USA), Z. Djebbour (Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité, France), C. Dragon-Lartigau (University of Pau, France), S. Dumoulin (SINTEF, Norway), J. Dupin (CERN, Switzerland), Y. Dobriansky (University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland), K. Durose (Director, Durham Centre for Renewable Energy, UK), M. Eckhart (President of the American Council on Renewable Energy, ACORE, Washington DC, USA), A. Ennaoui (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Germany), L. Escoubas (IM2NP — Paul Cézanne University, France), G. Esposito (University of Virginia, USA), A. Etcheberry (University of Versailles, France), A. Fahrenbruch (University of Stanford, USA), D. Faiman (Director, Ben-Gurion University’s National Solar Energy Center), C. Ferekides (University of South Florida), G. Férey (French Academy of Sciences, Vice President of the Chemical Society France), F. Finger (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany), A. Freundlich (University of Houston, USA), V. Fthenakis (BNL and Columbia University, USA, co-initiator of the Grand Solar Plan), D. Fuertes Marron (Instituto de Energía Solar-ETSIT, Spain), K. Fukui ( Manager PV development department, Kyocera, Japan), T. Fuyuki (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), R. Gamboa (Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal), J.M. Girard
(Air Liquide, France), T. Glenn (NREL, USA), G. Goaer (Photowatt, France), A. Goetzberger (Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy, President of the Becquerel PV Committee, Germany)X.G. Gong, Professor of Physics, Dean of Research and Director of center for computational sciences and engineering , Fudan University, China), R. G. Gordon (Harvard University, USA) M. Green ( Alternative Nobel Prize, Director of the Centre for Third Generation Photovoltaics, New South Wales University, Australia), J.F. Guillemoles (Head of New concepts project, IRDEP, France), E. A. Gunther ( PV Bloger , USA), T. Gutiérrez (Head of Photovoltaic Polycrystalline Materials, Energy Department, CIEMAT, Spain), A. Hamidat (Head of Photovoltaic applications, Centre for the Development of Renewable Energy, Algeria), S. Hayase (Kyushu Institute of Technology , Japan), P. Helm (WIP Renewable Enegies, Germany), C. Henry (Columbia University, USA), F. Hergert (Johanna Solar Technology GmbH, Brandeburg, Germany), K. Herz (ZSW, Germany), C. Heske (University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA), J. Herrero (CIEMAT, Spain), L. Hirsch (University of Bordeaux, France), W. Hoffmann (Vice president of European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA), CTO Energy and Environmental Solutions at Applied Materials, Germany), J. Hüpkes (Research Centre Jülich, Germany), J.C. Hummelen (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), H. L. Hwang (Taiwan), Y. Hyashi (University of Tsukuba), A. Ihlal (Laboratory of materials and Renewable Energy, Agadir, Marocco), H. Iida (Namics, Japan), O. Inganäs (Linköping University, Sweden), A. Jaeger-Waldau (European Commission Joint Research Center, Italy), R. Janssen (Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands), J. Jimeno (Director of the Technological Institute of Microelectronics, UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain), M. Kane (Director of the Laboratory of Semiconductors and Solar Energy, University Cheikh Anta DIOP , Senegal), V.K Kapur (President CEO ISET, USA), E. Katz (Dept. of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), S.G. Katsafouros (Imel, Greece), L. Kazmerski (NREL, USA), L. Kerr (Miami University, USA), J. Kessler (University of Nantes, France), R. Kishore (National Physical Laboratory, India), J.P. Kleider (Director of Research CNRS, LGEP-Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité, France), E. Klugmann-Radziemsk (Gdansk University, Poland), H. Koinuma (Special Advisor to National Inst. for Materials Science, Japan), M. Konagai (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), F. Krebs (Denmark), M. Krunks (Tallin University of Technology, Estonia), J. Krustok (Tallin University of Technology, Estonia), S. Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India), K. Kushiya (Deputy General Manager, Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K, Japan), A. Labeyrie (Astrophysics, French Academy of Sciences), B. Lambert (Director Worldwatch Francophonie), C. W. Lan (Chairman of Taiwan Photovoltaic Industrial Association (TPVIA), Taiwan), M. Leduc (President of the
French Physical Society, France), M. Lemiti (Head of PV Group, Institute of Nanosciences of Lyon, France), D. Levi (NREL, USA), N. Le Quan (Head of Research and Development, Photowatt, France), A. Liébard (Président de l’ Observatoire des Energies Renouvelables et de la Fondation Energies pour le Monde, France), D. Lincot (Chairman of the 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Valencia, Institute of Research and Development of Photovoltaic Energy –IRDEP, France), A. Luque (Becquerel PV Prize, Director of the Solar Energy Institute, Spain), I. Luque-Heredia (CTO — Solfocus Europe), M. Lux-Steiner (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin), E. Macias (President of the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA), President of the Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE)), A. Madan (MVSystems Inc., USA), Y. Maigne (Director of the Foundation Energies pour le Monde, Member of the French Academy of Technologies, France), G. Malliaras (Cornell University, USA), X. Mathew (Centro de Investigacion en EnergiaUNAM, Mexico), P. Malbranche (Institut National de l’Energie Solaire, France), D. Marsacq (Director of New Energies Technologies Department –CEA, France), S. Martinuzzi (Université Paul Cézanne, Aix-Marseille III, France ), D. Mayer (President of the European Renewable Energy Centres Agency –EUREC, Ecole des Mines Paris, France), B. McNelis (Managing Director, ITPower, UK), E. Mellikov (Tallin University of Technology, Estonia), D. Mencaraglia (Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité, France), S. Menezes (Interphase Solar, USA), J. Méot (Director SOLEMS, France), D. Mercier (Head of Xergies, Energies Renouvelables, France), R. Mosseri (Research Director at CNRS, Paris), J. C. Muller (INESS, Strasbourg, France), T. Nakada (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan), J. Nelson (Imperial College London, UK), S. Niki (AIST, Japan), R. Noufi (Vice President for Research, Solopower, USA), A. Nozik (Director, Colorado Center for Revolutionary Solar Photoconversion, USA), S. Palomares-Sánchez (Facultad de Ciencias, UASLP, Mexico), W.Palz (Chairman World Council Renewable Energy, Brussels/Paris), J. Pierce (Queen’s University, cananda), N. Pearsall (Vice-President of European Renewable Energy Centres Agency –EUREC, University of Northumbria, UK), A. Penzias (Nobel Prize, New Enterprise Associates), E. Perezagua (President of EUPV Technology Platform, Isofoton, Spain), C. Perkins (NREL, USA), V. Perraki (University of Patras, Greece), S. M. Pietruszko (Head of Centre for Photovoltaics, Warsaw, Poland), D. Mataras (University of Patras, Greece), T. Peterson (Solar Power Consulting, USA), Physical Society France, S. Pizzini (University of Milano Bicocca and Chairman of Nedsilicon spa, Italy), L. Pirozzi (ENEA, Roma, Italy), J. Poortmans (IMEC, Belgium), M. Powalla (ZSW, Germany), Haiyan Qin (China General Certification Center, Beijing, China), F. Rabago Bernal (Instituto de Fisica, UASLP, Mexico), J.K. Rath (Utrecht University, Netherlands), U. Rau
(Helmholtz Research Center, Germany), S. Ray (Program Chair of PVSEC18, Energy Research Unit, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India), B. Rech (Hahn Meitner Institute, Germany), A. Ricaud (University of Savoie, France), P. Roca I Cabarrocas (Ecole Polytechnique, France), A. Rockett (University of Illinois, USA), A. Romeo (University of Verona, Italy), M. Rosso (Ecole Polytechnique, France), T. Saitoh (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan), E. Sader (Physics Department, University of Birzeit, Palestine), R. Saez (Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, Germany), G. Sala (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Instituto de Energia Solar), W. Sampath (Colorado State University, USA), H. Scheer (Alternative Nobel Prize, General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy, Germany), R. Scheer (Hahn Meitner Institute, Germany), M. Schmidt (IBM, Mainz, Germany),H. Schock (Helmholtz Research Center, Berlin, Germany), R. E.I. Schropp (Section Leader of Nanophotonics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands), C. Sentein (CEA SAclay, France), Dinghuan Shi (Chairman, China Renewable Energy Society, Beijing, China), Zhengrong Shi (Chairman and CEO Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., China), P.K. Singh (head of PV Group, National Physical Laboratory, New Dehli, India), S.N. Singh (National Physical Laboratory, New Dehli, India), W.C. Sinke (ECN, The Netherlands, and EU PV Technology Platform), J. Sites (Colorado State University, USA), A. Shah (PV Becquerel Prize, Institute of Microtechnologies, Switzerland), G. Sissoko (Université Cheikh Anta DIOP, Dakar, Senegal), A. Slaoui (President of the European Materials Research Society, France), I. Solomon (Ecole Polytechnique, French Academy of Sciences, France). J. Song (Korea Institute of Energy Research, Korea), B.J. Stanbery (CEO, HelioVolt Corporation, USA), R. Tena-Zeara (Institute of Materials, Microelectronics and Nanosciences of Paris East, France), I. Tiginyanu (Vice President of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Moldova), A. Tiwari (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), M. Topic (University of Ljubiana, Slovenia), P. Torchio (Institute of Materiasl, Microelectronics and nanosciences of Marseille, France), Chuang Chuang Tsai (National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan), M. Umeno (Chubu University, Japan), N. Usami (Tohoku University, Japan), M. Ushijima (Tokyo Electron LTD, Japan), A. Vallêra (Vice-Rector of the University of Lisboa, Portugal), J. Van Duren (Nanosolar, USA), M. Vanecek (Head, Dept. Optical Crystals, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), W. van Sark (Copernicus Institute, Netherland), P.Varadi (Cofounder of Solarex, Founder of PV GAP, Geneva, Switzerland), AC Varonides (Univ. Scranton, USA), P. Vasseur (Past Director of the Research Centre of Ecole Polytechnique, France), J. Vedel (CNRS, France), P. Vivo (Tampere University of Technology, Finland), T. Wada (Ryukoku University, Japan), S. Wakao (Waseda University, Japan), E. Weber (Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy ISE, Freiburg, Germany), S. Wei (NREL, USA), R.W. Welker (University of
Maryland, USA), S. Wiedeman (Global Solar, USA), S. Williams (Plextronics, Inc., USA), C. Wronski (Pennsylvania State University, USA), N. Wyrsch (Institute of Microtechnology IMT, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland ), M. Yamaguchi (Becquerel Prize of the EU-PVSEC and the 2008 winner of the William Cherry Award from IEEE, Director of the Super High-Efficiency Photovoltaics Research Center, Toyota Technological Institute, Japan), T. Yamaguchi (Wakayama National College of Technology, Japan), A. Yamamoto (University of Fukui, Japan), S. Yanagida (Osaka University, Japan), I. Youm (University Cheikh Anta DIOP, Dakar, Senegal), T. Yoshida (Gifu University, Japan), S. Yoshikawa (Kyoto University, Japan), K. Yoshino (University of Miyazaki, Japan), A. Zaban (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), G. Zangari (University of Virginia, USA), Z. Zapalowicz (Poland), M. Zeman (Head of Solar Cell group, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), M. Zazoui (President of the Association for the Development of Renewable Energies of Marocco, Hassan II Mohammedia University), Meifang Zhu (Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences (GUCAS), Beijing, China).
