Events
Find information about the US-MAC Consortium's upcoming and past working group meetings and annual cadmium telluride (CdTe) workshops.
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Working Group Meetings
Upcoming Working Group Meetings
July 13, 1:30 p.m. (MT)/3:30 p.m. (ET)
Akira Nagaoka from Miyazaki University will present on "New Insight on Defect Properties in Group-V Doped CdTe Single Crystal."
Anderson Janotti from University of Delaware will present on "Group-V Dopants in CdTe Revisited."
Past Working Group Meetings
May 18, 2022, 1:30 p.m. MT/3:30 p.m. ET
Chris Klinga and Forrest Collins of the Architectural Solar Association presented
on "Barriers and Strategies of Integrating Architectural Solar—A U.S. Market Perspective."
Aaron Bates of Toledo Solar, Inc. presented on "Engineering and Design Challenges
for CdTe BIPV and AIPV."
April 20, 2022, 1:30 p.m. (MT)/3:30 p.m. (ET)
A Comparison of Sputtered and Evaporated CdSeTe Thin Films
Working Group: Characterization
Presenter: Mike Walls, Loughborough University
Nm-Scale Electrical-Potential Imaging Across PV Devices: Case Study of Metastability
and Degradation of
CdSeTe Devices
Working Group: Characterization
Presenter: C.S. Jiang, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
March 16, 2022
Theory of P-Type Doping and Interface Properties in Chlorinated CdSeTe
Working Group: Crosscutting
Presenters: Dmitry Krasikov and Igor Sankin of First Solar
Jan. 19, 2022
What the CdTe Community Can Learn from our Colleagues in Silicon
Working Group: Crosscutting
Leader: Randy Ellingson
Presenters: Zach Holman and Christophe Ballif
Dec. 1, 2021
Controllably Delaminating Polycrystalline and Epitaxial CdTe Structures and Devices
Working Group: Blue Sky
Leader: Matt Reese
Presenters: Deborah McGott and Yong-Hang Zhang
Sept. 15, 2021
EELS and High-Resolution X-Ray Measurement
Working Group: Characterization
Leader: Craig Perkins
Presenters: Robert Klie and Mariana Bertoni
Aug. 18, 2021
DFT Calculations of Grain Boundaries and CdTe/Te Interface
Working Group: Modeling
Leader: Randy Ellingson
Presenters: Pooja Goddard and Anthony Nicholson
July 21, 2021
Doping of CdTe
Working Group: Absorber
Leader: Mike Scarpulla
Presenter: W.S. Sampath
May 19, 2021
Band Offsets from XPS
Working Group: Characterization
Leader: Jim Sites
Presenters: Craig Perkins and Angus Rockett
April 15, 2021
Band and Fermi-level Offsets
Working Group: Back Contact
Leader: Adam Phillips
Presenters: Jim Sites and Arthur Onno
March 19, 2021
Various CdTe Doping
Working Group: Absorber
Leader: Mike Scarpulla
March 18, 2021
N-type CdTe
Working Group: Blue Sky
Leader: Jim Sites
Presenters: Yong Zhang and Chris Ferekides
Feb. 18, 2021
MgZnO Emitter Layers
Working Group: Front Contact
Leader: Matt Reese
Presenters: Ramesh Pandey, Colin Wolden, and Tursun Ablekim
Jan. 21, 2021
TRPL and Atomic-Scale Microscop
Working Group: Characterization
Leader: Craig Perkins
Presenters: Darius Kuciauskas and Robert Klie
Jan. 20, 2021
Various Factors Impacting the Back Contact
Working Group: Back Contact
Leader: Adam Phillips
Dec. 17, 2020
Absorber Fabrication
Working Group: Absorber
Leader: Mike Scarpulla
Presenter: W.S. Sampath