A low temperature route towards hierarchically structured titania films for thin hybrid solar cells
Solar energy as a renewable energy source has drawn great attention over last decades due to the depletion and environmental impact of fossil fuels. Many technologies have been developed to harvest solar energy, among which solar cells are a promising technology to directly convert energy into electricity. To date, the photovoltaic market is dominated by silicon-based solar cells as they give reasonable high power conversion efficiencies. However, silicon solar cell panels are heavy, brittle and costly. Therefore, extensive research is dedicated to find alternative solar cell systems.
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Joint EPS-SIF International School on Energy 2017
The primary goal of the School will be to present all physics fields with relevance to the technologies of energy production, conversion, transmission and savings, thus addressing today’s most relevant energy issues. The potential of the various technologies will be presented and the need for more research and development to fully unfold them will be indicated. For this purpose, basic lectures and topical seminars will be presented by specialists in their field.
EPS Executive Committee and Staff activities April 2017
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff last month:
Young Physicists at CMD 27
EPS Young Minds and the Young DPG are organising a specific programme for young physicists (Master students, graduate students, post-docs) at CMD 27.
EPS Condensed Matter Division : CMD 27 – DPG Spring meeting : call for session proposals
The next conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the EPS, CMD 27, will be held jointly with the Spring meeting of the Condensed Matter Section (SKM) of the German Physical Society DPG in Berlin, on March 11th – 16th, 2018. For this special edition of CMD, marking the 50th anniversary of the EPS, we are expecting over 5,000 participants from all over Europe.
New insights in accelerator-driven systems
As part of EUCARD2 activities, and co-sponsored by EPS Technology and Innovation Group (TIG), a workshop on the status of new developments in Accelerator-Driven Systems or ADS was held at CERN on February 7-9.
Summer School of Science
Applications for the Summer School of Science open. Fifth year in a row, a group of young scientists organises a Summer school of Science in Croatia. It is aimed at high-school students with strong interest in science where they get a hands-on experience working in small groups on a specific project.
Fundamental Problems in Statistical Physics XIV
The international summer school “Fundamental Problems in Statistical Physics” is to be held for the fourteenth time in the summer of 2017 in Bruneck, a picturesque town in the Italian Alps.
ERL17 workshop
We are pleased to announce that the 59th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on Energy Recovery Linacs (ERL17) will be held at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, from 18-23 June 2017. This will be the 7th in the series of international workshops covering accelerator physics, technology and applications of Energy Recovery Linacs.
CLEO®/Europe-EQEC 2017
The programme committee members together with the conference chairs are happy to announce CLEO®/Europe-EQEC 2017 the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Europe and the European Quantum Electronics Conference to take place from Sunday 25 June to Thursday 29 June 2017 in Munich (ICM), Germany.
