Tuesday, 22 May, 2012, 09:15
About 5 pm on the first day of scientific trip I got to the Cap Europe, where I was accommodated. The conference should begin on Monday 14 of May but on Sunday Young Scientist Tutorial on characterization techniques for thin film solar cells took place then and I wanted to participate in this event. After general introduction, admittance measurements techniques followed by thermodynamic defects simulation were presented. At that time I have registered. As I found later about 2 thousand persons partook in this conference. Fields of interest were divided on 25 Symposia, with many of them close to photovolaics. Numerous presentations were giving every day parallel in distinct lecture rooms from 8:30 am to 6 pm with two half-hour long coffee breaks and two-hour long lunch break in the noon. For me the most interesting Symposia were : Symp. O - Applied Nanoplasmonics: Nanoplasmonic Functional Materials and Devices, Symp. Y – Advance Materials and Characterization Techniques for Solar Cells, Symp. A – Advanced Silicon Materials Research for Electronic and Photovoltaic Applications III. I chose a few oral presentations from other symposia as well. On Tuesday during poster session with my supervisor Ph.D. Lipinski we were presenting our results on “Antireflection TiOx coating with plasmonic metal nanoparticles for silicon solar cells”. Our stand enjoyed quite a lot of interest. On other days I attended in poster sessions of rest of symposia as well. Wednesday was the day when plenary session was given by group of five outstanding scientist. The lectures was related to self-assembling materials, organoelectronics, plasmonics and tissues and organs engineering. After that young scientist was awarded for their outstanding contribution to development of knowledge closely related to each Symposium. In the evening the was a small banquet. Whole conference ended with last common lunch in Friday noon. It was for me great experience to be there, get know so many wise people and see present status of materials sciences. After conference I got possibility to publish an article in “Plasmonics” magazine.