Three weeks ago I participated in a very nice Conference on Hybrid-Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV2010) in Assisi, Italy
. Juan Bisquert, member of the Scientific Commitee, had asked me to organise a discussion panel on Carrier lifetime in bulk heterojunction solar cells. Indeed, a lively exchange of concepts and ideas between the panel – James Durrant, Germa Garcia Belmonte, Gytis Juska and myself – and the audience developed. I would like to thank the organisers, the panelists and the participants of this symposium once again: it was great! I am not sure if I will be able to summarise some of the discussion highlights here, considering that even this note took me 20 days… but I strive to improve;-)
Short note: my short review finally came online. Coauthors are Vladimir Dyakonov and Christoph Brabec. In case you have access to IEEE, find the paper here.
Notes on Disordered Matter 
Carsten, I’ll be waiting to hear what conclusions you guys reached at the conference when you get a chance.
Would this conference be helpful to attend if you are a chemical supplier for companies that produce organic solar cells?
A few hundred scientists were present, I’d estimate scientific contents to be 40% organics, 60% hybrid. Only maybe 5 exhibitors for dye solar cells, none for organics I believe. Concerning the commercial merits for you to present there: I cannot really answer that question, sorry.
Thank you for the information. It sounds like it would be advantageous to go with no competition present.