School Program

• Renewable energies: strategies, potential and limits Pascal Haurine
  
• Principles and development of organic photovoltaics, Prof Jenny Nelson
• Materials for organic solar cells, Dr Agnieszka Pron
  
  • History and design of high performance materials for organic photovoltaics: key strategies and materials innovation
    
  • Donors and Non-Fullerene Acceptors
• Factors influencing charge mobility in organic semiconductors, Prof Jenny Nelson
• Modelling electronic processing on organic solar cells, Prof Jérôme Cornil
• Fullerene acceptors in OPV, Prof Piétrick Hudhomme
  • History, synthesis, properties of fullerenes. Elements of reactivity. Applications of fullerene derivatives in OPV: advantages and disadvantages.
• Light on organic photovoltaic devices: The key role of scanning probe microscopy, Prof Philippe Leclère
  • C-AFM and PeakForce TUNA, KPFM, photoconductive AFM
    
• Kinetic and thermodynamic effects on solar cell thin film stability, Prof Natalie Stingelin
  • Thermal analysis tools to asses the phase behavior of organic solar cells.
  • Focus on assessing the glass transition: temperature of the blend and how thermal properties affect device stability.
  • Burn-in.
    
• Interfacial layers and electrodes for organic photovoltaics, Dr Morten Madsen
  • Metal oxide interlayers for hole and electron transport.
  • Interlayer stability and its effect on overall device lifetime.
  • Exciton blocking layers in OPV. Nanostructured electrodes for OPV.
    
• Processing of OPV and encapsulation, Dr Tobias Sauermann
• Commercialisation aspects for OPV, Dr Tobias Sauermann
• Degradation of organic solar cells induced by  exposure to sunlight, Prof Jean-Luc Gardette
  • Methods for studying the weathering of organic polymers
    
• An overview of dye-sensitized solar cells, Dr Renaud Demadrille
  • Dye-sensitized solar cells from basic principles to advanced concepts.
  • Focus on materials and strategies to improve efficiency and stability.
    
• Introduction to silicon and thin films solar cells, Prof Erik Johnson
  • Crystalline silicon and thin-film solar cells.
  • Underlying physics and technology.
  • Recent and current market experience.
    
• Introduction to perovskite solar cells, Prof Jacky Even

Visit of four sites integrating OPV panels in buildings (on the 10th of July)

• OPV installations near Pau, Patrick Baylère, Tobias Sauermann, Roger Hiorns