International Conference on the Evaluation & Standardization of Organic Solar Cells (ICES2013)

It is with great pleasure that we cordially invite you to the International Conference on the Evaluation & Standardization of Photovoltaics (ICES2013) sponsored by the Research Association for Technology Innovation of Organic Photovoltaics (RATO) and co-sponsored by the Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology (FIRST, Japan) to be held at ZAO.
Schedule
Dates: January 26th –28th, 2013
URL of ICES2013: http://www.dsc.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/first/ZAO/
Location: Hotel Lucent Takamiya
Yamagata, Japan 990-2301
http://www.zao.co.jp/lucent/

Greetings from the Chair

On behalf of the Executive Organizing Committee, I would like to extend a warm welcome and invitation to those of you who are interested in joining the International Conference on the Evaluation & Standardization of Organic Photovoltaics (ICES2013) to be held at a hot spring resort town at the foot of Mt. ZAO in Yamagata Prefecture from January 26th-28th 2013.
ICES2013 will provide a forum to stimulate active and in-depth discussions among leading scientists and engineers in DSC & OPV towards the realization of international standards for Organic Solar Cell performance and reliability.
We will be honored to welcome Professor Michael Grätzel of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , Dr. Michio Kondo of AIST, and Professor Hiroshi Segawa of The University of Tokyo as our plenary lecturers. We will also hear lectures by distinguished guests from around the world, as listed below. Free and open communication will be encouraged and we welcome your active participation. I look forward to welcoming you all to the ICE2013 next January.

Dr. Katsuhiko Takagi's sign


Dr. Katsuhiko Takagi
Dr. Katsuhiko Takagi
Chair, ICES2013
Leader of Organic Solar Cell Assessment Project
Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology (KAST)
Professor Emeritus of Nagoya University
k-takagi [at] newkast.or.jp

Invited Lectures (ICES2013)

(A)Plenary Lectures :
(1)Prof. Michael Grätzel (EPFL, Switzerland)
"Current Status and Future Prospectives of Mesoscopic Solar Cells, using Dyes or Semiconductor Nanoparticles as Light Harvesters"
(2)Prof. Hiroshi Segawa (University of Tokyo)
"Future Prospects of Organic Photovoltaics"
(3)Dr. Michio Kondo (AIST)
(B)Invited Lectures (As yet tentative) :
(1)Ms. Tomoko Aoki (Kanagawa Academy of Sci & Tech, Japan)
"For sharing common matter on performance measurement of organicsolar cells (DSC & OPV)"
(2)Dr. Jusuke Shimura (SONY Corp., Japan)
"An accurate I-V measurement method for dye-sensitized solar cells"
(3)Prof. Satoshi Uchida (The Univ. Tokyo, Japan)
   Dr. Y. Nishikawa(Konica Minolta Optics)
"New Evaluation Method of Photovoltaic by Using Spectral Technology"
(4)Prof. Qingbo Meng (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
"Study on New Equipment for Quantum Efficiency (IPCE) Measurements of solar cells and Quantum dots Solar Cell"
(5)Prof. Tsutomu Miyasaka (Toin Yokohama Univ.)
"Present status of solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells and future issue of development"
(6)Prof. Anders Hagfeldt (Uppsala Univ., Sweden)
"Directions to reach DSSC efficiencies above 15%"
(7)Prof. Nam-Gyu Park (Sungkyunkwan University)
"Mesoscopic Thin Film Solar Cells Based on Nanoscale Inorganic Sensitizers"
(8)Dr. Chia-Yuan Chen (National Central Univ.,Taiwan)
"Efficiency Evaluation of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Start from AC or DC"
(9)Dr. Matthew Reese (NREL, USA)
"Thoughts on Consensus Protocols and Standards for OPV"
(10)Mr. Toshiro Matsuyama (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
"IEC Standardization on Organic Solar Device"
(11)Prof. Juan Bisquert (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)
"Towards Online Production Characterization of Dye Solar Cells"
(12)Prof. Tingli Ma ( Dalian University of Technology)
"Dye-sensitized Solar Cells from Fundamental Research to Application"
(13)Prof. Tingli Ma ( Dalian University of Technology)
(14)Mr. A. Kiba(NEDO)
"Overview of NEDO's activities for Standardization in Photovoltaic"
(C)Invited ST :
(1)Prof. Hyun Suk Jung (Sungkyunkwan Univ., Korea)
"Fabrication of Flexible DSSCs by Non-thermal Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas"
Prof. Hiroshi Segawa, ICES2013 Co-chair
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST)
The University of Tokyo
csegawa [at] mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Prof. Satoshi Uchida, ICES2013 Secretariat
Komaba Organization for Educational Excellence College of Arts and Sciences (KOMEX)
The University of Tokyo
uchida [at] rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Scientific Program Timetable

Date/Time January 26 (Sat) January 27 (Sun) January 28 (Mon)
HOTEL LUCENT TAKAMIYA LUCENT TAKAMIYA LUCENT TAKAMIYA
Breakfast 7:00-9:00 Breakfast(1F) Breakfast(1F)
Morning
Program
9:00-10:00   Invited lecture 04
(Dr. Meng, CAS)
09:00-9:30
Invited lecture 13
(Prof. T.Yoshida,
Yamagata Univ)
9:00-9:30
Plenary lecture 2
(Prof. Segawa,
Univ Tokyo)
9:30-10:20
Invited lecture 14
(Mr. A. Kiba,
NEDO, Japan)
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30   Discussions
Intermission
(10min)
10:30-11:00 Invited lecture 05
(Prof. Miyasaka,
Yokohama Toin Univ)
10:30-11:00
Closing Remarks
(Prof. Segawa,
Univ Tokyo)
11:00-11:30 Invited lecture 06
(Prof. Hagfeld,
Uppsala Univ)
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00 Invited lecture 07
(Prof. Park,
Sungkyunkwan Univ)
11:30-12:00
Lunch 12:00-13:00 Lunch  
  13:00-13:30 Registration Intermission
(30min)
Yamagata University
Laboratory Tour
  13:30-14:00 Plenary lecture 03
(Dr. M. Kondo, AIST)
13:30-14:20
Afternoon
Program
14:00-14:10 Opening Remarks
(Dr.Takagi, KAST)
14:00-16:00 Plenary lecture 1
Prof. M. Grätzel
14:10-15:00
 
Intermission
(10min)
Invited lecture 08
(Dr. C.-Y. Chen,
National Central Univ)
14:30-15:00
Intermission
(30min)
Invited lecture 09
(Dr. M. Reese, NREL)
15:00-15:30
Invited lecture 01
(Ms. T. Aoki, KAST)
15:30-16:00
IST1
(Prof. H.S. Jung,
Sungkyunkwan Univ )
15:30-15:45
16:00-16:30 Invited lecture 02
(Dr. Shimura, SONY)
16:00-16:30
Invited lecture 10
(Mr. T. Matsuyamai,
Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
16:00-16:30
16:30-17:15 Invited lecture 03
(Prof. Uchida,
Univ. Tokyo)
16:30-17:00
Intermission
(15min)
Intermission Invited lecture 11
(Prof. Bisquert,
Univ Jaume I, Spain)
16:45-17:15
17:15-17:45 Invited lecture 12
(Prof. Ma,
Dalian Univ)
17:15-17:45
  17:45-19:30 Intermission
Dinner 19:00-21:00 Dinner Banquet
1) Plenary Lecture: 50min;  Invited Lecture: 30min
→Scientific Program Timetable [PDFfile 1.57Mb]

Access to the Hotel
How to reach Zao Spa and the Hotel Lucent Takamiya from Narita or Tokyo
 
Narita Int'l Airport → JR Narita Express to Tokyo Station
→ Yamagata Station (ca.3 hours by JR Shinkansen Bullet Trains)
→ ZAO Onsen (ca.40 minutes by bus) *Hotel pick-up service is available
*For international invited guest, we will pick you up individually
*Narita → Sendai →Yamagata root is also available.

Train timetables
Yamagata Shinkansen timetable of 26 days
Train Number 121 123 175 127 129 131 131
First trainTokyo Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo
terminus Sinjyou Yamagata Yamagata Sinjyou Sinjyou Sinjyou Sinjyou
Tokyo Station  
06:12
 
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Ueno Station 06:17
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Omiya Station 06:37
06:38
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08:25
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09:47
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Utunomiya Station 07:02
07:03
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09:01
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Koriyama Station 07:32
07:33
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10:19
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11:28
11:29
Fukusima Station 07:46
07:49
08:48
08:51
09:27
09:29
09:44
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10:33
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10:46
10:49
11:42
11:45
Yonezawa Station 08:25
08:25
09:27
09:28
10:02
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10:21
10:21
11:08
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11:20
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12:17
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Takahata Station 08:32
08:33
10:10
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Akayu Station 08:37
08:38
10:15
10:16
10:33
10:34
11:19
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12:27
Kaminoyama Station 08:50
08:51
10:29
10:29
10:46
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11:33
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Yamagata Station 09:00
09:02
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10:56
 
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Train timetables
Yamagata Shinkansen timetable of 28 days
Train Number 120 124 128 132 136 138 140 142 144
First train Sinjyou Yamagata Yamagata Sinjyou Sinjyou Sinjyou Sinjyou Yamagata Sinjyou
terminus Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo
Yamagata Station 06:23
06:25
 
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08:03
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09:10
10:12
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13:11
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Kaminoyama Station 06:34
06:35
08:13
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09:18
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10:22
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11:16
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13:20
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14:17
Akayu Station 06:48
06:48
08:27
08:28
09:32
09:33
10:36
10:37
11:33
11:34
13:34
13:34
14:31
14:31
Takahata Station 06:53
06:54
08:32
08:33
11:38
11:39
13:39
13:40
Yonezawa Station 07:01
07:01
07:37
07:37
08:41
08:42
09:43
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10:46
10:47
11:46
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Fukusima Station 07:37
07:38
08:12
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10:23
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Koriyama Station 07:52
07:53
09:36
09:37
10:36
10:37
11:36
11:37
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Utunomiya Station 08:21
08:22
10:05
10:06
11:05
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Omiya Station 08:46
08:47
09:12
09:13
10:30
10:31
11:30
11:31
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12:31
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Ueno Station 09:06
09:07
10:50
10:51
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Tokyo Station 09:12
 
09:36
 
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Train Number 146 148 150 156 158 160 140
First train Sinjyou Yamagata Yamagata Sinjyou Sinjyou Sinjyou Sinjyou
terminus Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo Tokyo
Yamagata Station  
15:11
 
15:57
16:16
16:18
 
17:05
18:08
18:10
19:29
19:31
20:38
20:40
Kaminoyama Station 15:19
15:20
16:06
16:07
17:13
17:14
18:18
18:19
19:40
19:40
20:49
20:49
Akayu Station 15:33
15:34
16:22
16:22
17:27
17:28
18:32
18:33
19:54
19:55
21:03
21:03
Takahata Station 15:39
15:40
17:32
17:33
19:59
20:00
Yonezawa Station 15:46
15:47
16:33
16:33
16:50
16:51
17:42
17:42
18:42
18:43
20:07
20:08
21:13
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Fukusima Station 16:21
16:23
17:11
17:14
17:25
17:27
18:18
18:19
19:18
19:19
20:44
20:46
21:48
21:50
Koriyama Station 16:36
16:37
17:28
17:29
17:41
17:42
18:33
18:37
19:33
19:34
20:59
21:00
22:04
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Utunomiya Station 17:05
17:06
17:57
17:58
18:12
18:13
19:05
19:06
20:05
20:06
21:28
21:29
22:33
22:34
Omiya Station 17:30
17:31
18:22
18:23
18:38
18:39
19:30
19:31
20:30
20:31
21:54
21:55
22:58
22:59
Ueno Station 17:50
17:51
18:42
18:43
18:58
18:59
19:50
19:51
20:50
20:51
22:14
22:15
23:18
23:19
Tokyo Station 17:56
 
18:48
 
19:04
 
19:56
 
20:56
 
22:20
 
23:24
 
a bus timetables
Yamagata - University hospital - Omote Zaou Guti - Ueno - Zao onsenn
 
Yamagata
station
bus stop number 1
University
hospital
Omote Zaou Guti Ueno Zao onsenn
bus terminal
  270 yen 400yen 640yen 980yen
7:00 7:11 7:16 7:22 7:34
7:40 7:52 7:58 8:05 8:17
8:40 8:52 8:58 9:05 9:17
9:40 9:52 9:58 10:05 10:17
10:20 10:32 10:38 10:45 10:57
11:20 11:32 11:38 11:45 11:57
12:20 12:32 12:38 12:45 12:57
13:20 13:32 13:38 13:45 13:57
 
a bus timetables
Zao onsenn - Ueno - Omote Zaou Guti- University hospital - Yamagata
 
Zao onsenn
bus terminal
Ueno Omote Zaou Guti University
hospital
Yamagata
station
bus stop number 1
  270 yen 400 yen 640 yen 980 yen
*7:00 *7:12 *7:19 *7:25 *7:45
8:00 8:12 8:19 8:25 8:45
8:40 8:52 8:59 9:05 9:25
9:40 9:52 9:59 10:05 10:25
10:40 10:52 10:59 11:05 11:25
11:20 11:32 11:39 11:45 12:05
12:20 12:32 12:39 12:45 13:05
13:20 13:32 13:39 13:45 14:05
14:20 14:32 14:39 14:45 15:05
15:20 15:32 15:39 15:45 16:05
16:20 16:32 16:39 16:45 17:05
17:20 17:32 17:39 17:45 18:05
18:40 18:52 18:59 19:05 19:25
19:40 19:52 19:59 20:04 20:22
* Suspended Sundays

Organizers Info
-to the 24 January
Conference Secretariat,(Ms.) Sayuri SUZUKI
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST)
The University of Tokyo
4-6-1, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8904, JAPAN
TEL/FAX: +81-3-5452-5295, E-mail: suzuki [at] dsc.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp

-From 25 January
Prof. Satoshi Uchida, ICES2013 Secretariat
Komaba Organization for Educational Excellence College of Arts and Sciences (KOMEX)
942, Zao-spa, Yamagata city, Yamagata 990-2301, Japan
TEL: +81-23-694-9135
 
E-mail: zao [at] kuroppe.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp