Cooperative Agreement DEEE0011154

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)...

This 18-month 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) provides $250,000 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to advance low-cost, scalable, in-line electrochemical defect quantification platforms. The goal is to elucidate the impacts of light- and thermal-induced halide migration at buried interfaces that contribute to decreased stability of high-performing,...

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 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 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), under the Renewable Energy Research and Development Federal Grant Program (CFDA 81.087), will provide $248,958 to Purdue University to accelerate the prediction and understanding of defect properties in CdTe and related materials. The primary objective is to generate a substantial density functional theory (DFT) dataset of formation energies of defects, dopants,...

This $185,304 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) supports research by St. Mary's College of Maryland to develop low-cost, printable metal contacts to enable the fabrication of fully printed, all-inorganic cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) devices. The project aims to identify printable anode and cathode metals to achieve high-efficiency printed solar cells at a fraction of the cost of conventional PV. Key activities...

This Cooperative Agreement award, ID DEEE0011425, was provided 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). The $2,284,494 award to Tau Science Corporation will fund a project titled "Project MANTIS" to apply multiscale characterization and analysis methods to CdTe photovoltaic (PV) modules. The project aims to identify electrical and optoelectronic...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $1,701,250 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to Brightspot Automation LLC. The project aims to: 1) Develop a new metrology system for imaging solar cell defects and glass crack defects in fielded CdTe solar panels and establishing baseline images prior to installation; 2) Develop an AI software platform to automatically detect defects...

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 $524,480 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at New York University (NYU) on developing novel semiconductor crystal materials and manufacturing processes for advanced optoelectronic applications. The key focus is on understanding how to fabricate "twisted" organic semiconductor crystals that can spontaneously form into aligned networks, enabling them to outperform single crystal materials in properties like...