Cooperative Agreement DEEE0009528

This $3,000,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop a novel lamination approach for halide perovskite semiconductors that enables new device architectures and material combinations for applications like solar cells, LEDs, and other optoelectronic devices. The research aims to understand, model, and control the process-structure-property relationships during halide perovskite semiconductor manufacturing...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), aims to develop a "bilithic integration" approach as a scalable strategy to produce highly efficient perovskite solar modules without the degradation issues of traditional monolithic integration. The $250,000 award to the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) will...

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...

This $5,197,154 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) is focused on demonstrating 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. in collaboration with two leading academic partners, with the goal of also demonstrating perovskite...

This 18-month 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 advance low-cost, scalable electrochemical defect quantification platforms for studying halide migration in lead halide perovskite photovoltaics. The $250,000 project will develop a prototype technique to track defect concentrations and energetics in perovskite films under different wavelength and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $275,000 to Pinwheel Solar LLC to develop durable, flexible, and high-efficiency perovskite solar panels. The key objectives are to: 1) enhance the stability of the perovskite material to support a 30-year solar cell lifetime, 2) construct perovskite-based cells on flexible substrates, and 3) demonstrate roll-to-roll manufacturability. The project aims to...

This $5,197,852 Cooperative Agreement awarded 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) is focused on developing ultraviolet light and temperature-tolerant materials for 27% efficient perovskite-silicon hybrid tandem photovoltaic (PV) modules. The 2-year project aims to identify, test, and implement these materials and cell stack designs for PV modules with at least 300...

This Cooperative Agreement award for $250,000.00, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), aims to advance the uniformity and stability of perovskite solar modules. The primary goals are to develop self-leveling ink formulations and a high-speed flexographic printing process to eliminate scribing defects that accelerate module degradation and performance...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research grant, titled "Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition for Chemically Precise Hybrid Perovskite Materials," will develop a new method for growing hybrid perovskite semiconductor materials using metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). The $375,558 project, which began on September 15, 2024 and runs through August 31, 2027, will establish a custom-built MOCVD system that allows precise control over the...

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $5.4 million Cooperative Agreement to Cubicpv Inc., a for-profit solar technology company based in Bedford, Massachusetts. The award, made under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), aims to address challenges in durability, scalability, and efficiency of perovskite-silicon tandem solar modules. Specifically, the project will focus on improving perovskite ink...