Project Grant DEEE0000588

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 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will support the development of flexible, semitransparent organic solar cell modules tailored for greenhouse glazing integration by Polypv LLC. Funded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), the $256,000 award issued on May 15, 2023 aims to optimize the active layer, electrodes, and encapsulation processes to produce high-performance flexible organic solar cells. The primary objectives are to develop...

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 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 $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 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), provides $399,995 in funding to Silfab Solar WA Inc. to integrate state-of-the-art silicon photovoltaic (PV) module fabrication into commercial building wall spandrel components. The project aims to de-risk the technical, financial, and market adoption unknowns associated with this novel...

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...

Tessellated Inc. received a $193,141 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to fund research characterizing thermally conductive composite polymer films with enhanced properties. The award is part of the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. Under the grant, Tessellated will develop...

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...

This $585,000 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) to Electroninks Incorporated will develop new screen-printed reactive metal complex pastes for photovoltaic applications. The project aims to lower the cost of metallization and improve solar cell efficiencies through innovations in printing denser and thinner metal films, decreasing firing temperatures, and...