Chairs

General Chairs

Mohamed Essaaidi
ENSIAS, Director
essaaidi@ieee.org

Youssef Zaz
Mediterranean Space of Technology and Innovation, President
Faculty of Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, A. Prof
zaz@med-space.org

Technical Program Committee Chair

Prof. Ahmed Ennaoui ISES, IEEE member
Chairman of the scientific council of IRESEN
Institut de Recherche en Energie Solaire et Energies Nouvelles

Chairs of Workshop1: electronic properties of two-dimensional materials

Prof. Abdelkader Kara, University of Central Florida, USA.
Prof. Abdelilah Benyoussef, Faculty of Science, Mohammed V University, Rabat-Morocco.

Keynotes

Engineering 2D/3D Hybrid Perovskites for Stable and Efficient Solar Cells

By Dr Ines Garcia Benito, EPFL, Switzerland. Three-dimensional (3D) methylammonium lead iodide perovskite solar cells are undoubtedly leading the photovoltaic scene ...

Dr. Luis Miguel MirandaINESCTEC, Portugal

Validating Microgrids Islanding and Black Start Procedures in a Laboratorial Environment

By Dr. Luís Miguel Miranda, INESCTEC, Portugal. Microgrids (MG) are extremely flexible low voltage (LV) networks capable of operating interconnected with ...

Engineering and Automation Perspectives of Team Maryland in the 2017 US Solar Decathlon

By Prof. Raymond Adomaitis, University of Maryland, USA. The engineering design of reACT (resilient Adaptive Climate Technology) was driven by a ...

Optoelectronics of two - dimensional post - transition metal chalcogenides

By Dr. Samuel Magorrian, National Graphene Institute in Manchester, UK We present the analysis of electronic band structure of InSe and ...

Excitons in 3D Pb-free Bulk and in Mixed 3D/2D Hybrid Perovskites: Optical Signatures and Spatial Localization

By Dr. Giacomo-Giorgi, University of Perugia, Italy. Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskites (OIHPs) are undoubtedly playing the key role in the realm of ...

Solibro CIGS Technology – from small cell CIGS devices to industrial manufacturing in a global production

By Dr. Ralf Hunger, Head of Process Integration, Solibro Hi-tech GmbH, Germany. Solibro is an international group of research, engineering, and ...

Understanding Lithium Metal Failure Mechanism in Realistic High-Energy Pouch Cells

By Dr. Jie Xiao, Pacific Northwest national laboratory & University of Arkansas, USA To significantly boost the energy of the state-of-art ...

Long and short term PV module and array performance calculations and feasibility studies

By Prof. Bulent Akinoglu, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. While solar photovoltaic (PV) R/D is heavily continuing, worldwide solar power ...

Operation of Isolated Power Systems under High Shares of Renewables

By Dr Lukas Sigrist, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain. The increasing penetration of large shares of renewable energy resources allows reducing ...

Prof. Masataka Nagaoka/b>Nagoya University, Japan

Microscopic Additive Effect on SEI Film Formation in Sodium-Ion Batteries: A Computational Chemical Study based on Red Moon Methodology

By Prof. Masataka Nagaoka, Nagoya University, Japan. Recently, we have developed a new efficient hybrid Monte Carlo (MC)/molecular dynamics (MD) reaction ...

Support for innovation from the Local Government: the example of Valencian cities network for innovation

By Mr. Jose Benlloch Fernandez, Mayor of Vila-real City, Spain. For the most advanced modern societies, the promotion of knowledge is ...

Towards zero-energy buildings and neighborhoods

By Dr Maria Wall, Associate Prof., Division of Energy and Building Design, Lund University, Sweden. The presentation will cover topics as: - ...

Prof. João A. Peças Lopes
Porto University, Portugal

Use of Microgrids and DERs for black start and islanding operation

By Prof. Joao Peças Lopes, Porto University, Portugal. Microgrids can be considered as the building block of a SmartGrid. These networks ...

Dr Teodor Todorov
IBM, Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, USA

Progress and Challenges in High-efficiency Kesterite Solar Cells

By Dr. Teodor Todorov, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, USA. Thin-film multinary chalcogenide absorbers have numerous attractive properties ...

Towards the ultimate Silicon solar cell and module

By Dr. Ivan Gordon, Silicon PV group, imec, Belgium. In this presentation, the current status and the main R&D challenges of ...

Strategies for hole transporting layer for efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

By Dr Samrana Kazim, BCMaterials-Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, Leioa, Spain. Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have shown ...

The quest for new functional applications of environmentally friendly ceramic tiles in the context of a circular economy

Prof. Juan Bautista Carda Castelló, Universitat Jaume I, Spain The Spanish industry of ceramic tiles manufacturing is mainly concentrated in Castelló, ...

Kesterite Thin Film Photovoltaics: Review on Cationic and Anionic Substitution for High Efficiency Solar Cells

By Dr. Edgardo Saucedo, Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), Barcelona, Spain. The so called kesterite (Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 – CZTSSe; Cu2ZnSnS4 – ...

Safe Li-ion Batteries and Beyond for Energy Storage and EVs

By Dr. Karim Zaghib, Director at Hydro-Québec, Canada. We report a Li-ion battery that can be charged within few minutes, passes ...

Prof. Teofilo Rojo CIC Energigune, Spain

Recent advances, current challenges and future trends on sodium-ion batteries.

By Prof. Teófilo ROJO 1. Department of Inorganic Chemistry. Faculty of Science and Technology. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), ...

Prof. Ahmed EnnaouiChairman of the Scientific Council - IRESEN

Development of High performance Cadmium free Cu-chalcopyrite thin film solar cells with CBD-Zn(S,O) buffer layer

By Prof. Ahmed Ennaoui, Chairman of the Scientific Council, Institut de Recherche en Energie Solaire et Energies Nouvelles (IRESEN), Rabat, ...

Energy Efficiency and using of Renewable Energy In the field of tension between prosperity, environmental protection, resource conservation and economical aspects

By Dr. Saad Baradiy, iproplan® Planungsgesellschaft mbH, Germany. The author will explain the state of the art in Germany with current ...

Late Submission Deadline	October 10, 2018
Notification to authors	October 22, 2018
Final version due	November 08, 2018
Registration deadline	November 08, 2018
IRSEC'18 Conference	Dec., 5-8, 2018

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Chairs of Workshop1: electronic properties of two-dimensional materials

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