Cooperative Agreement DEEE0009527

This $5,197,852 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) is directed at identifying, testing, and implementing within 2 years ultraviolet light (UV) and temperature tolerant materials and cell stack designs for 27% mechanically-stacked perovskite+silicon hybrid tandem photovoltaic (PV) modules with aperture areas of at least 300 cm2. The funded project...

This $5,197,154 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CFDA 81.087 Renewable Energy Research and Development) aims to demonstrate a high-performing 4-terminal perovskite/CIGS tandem solar module with at least 27% efficiency. The project will be carried out by First Solar, Inc. at three internal R&D sites and in collaboration with two leading academic partners in perovskite development and characterization. Key...

This $8,150,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CFDA 81.087 Renewable Energy Research and Development) to Swift Solar Inc. supports the development of 27%-efficient, over 500 cm2 aperture area tandem minimodules made using high-throughput-compatible perovskite vapor deposition. The key goals include achieving less than 10% relative power conversion efficiency (PCE) loss on accelerated reliability tests, developing...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), aims to develop and demonstrate a new, low-temperature metallization strategy compatible with tandem perovskite photovoltaic cells for large-scale manufacturing. The $312,500 award, effective September 1, 2024, will fund the development of reactive silver and copper inks that can...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $5,400,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to Cubicpv Inc., a for-profit solar technology company based in Bedford, Massachusetts. This project aims to address the challenges of durability, scalability, and efficiency in perovskite-silicon tandem solar modules by improving perovskite ink purity, optimizing buried interfaces and...

This $274,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of strain-relief interconnection and encapsulation technologies for perovskite/silicon tandem photovoltaic (PV) modules at Beyond Silicon Inc., a for-profit solar technology company based in Chandler, Arizona. The project aims to increase the competitiveness of U.S. PV manufacturing by advancing perovskite/silicon tandem PV...

This $249,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Iowa State University to develop a novel high-bandgap inorganic solar cell material system for tandem junction photovoltaic (PV) cells. The project aims to create a new PV material based on alloys of cadmium sulfide (CdS) and cadmium selenide (CdSe) that can achieve over 35% solar energy conversion efficiency when combined with existing cadmium telluride (CdTe)...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $105,194 EAGER (EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) grant to the University of Pittsburgh to develop a novel semiconductor-metal-semiconductor (S-M-S) multilayer film as an interconnect for perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells. The project aims to design an interconnect with high electrical conductivity and optical transparency to enhance the performance of these tandem solar...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $4,964,999 Cooperative Agreement to Silfab Solar Cells SC Inc. on January 1, 2025 under the Renewable Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.087) program. The primary objective of this project is to develop back-contact n-type solar cells capable of demonstrating efficiencies of 26% or better on a 300-MW pilot scale. This will enable Silfab to rapidly scale up cost-effective, back-contact cell...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $250,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to the University of California, San Diego. The overall objective is to develop a "bilithic integration" approach as a scalable strategy to fabricate high-efficiency perovskite solar modules without the degradation issues of traditional "monolithic" integration. The project includes a...