Project Grant DESC0025350

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...

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 $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...

The University of California, Davis has been awarded a $221,534 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CFDA 81.087 Renewable Energy Research and Development) to analyze the structural and electronic dynamics of silicon topcon (tunnel oxide passivated contact) solar cells. The project aims to mitigate performance degradation of these solar cells by studying their atomic-level femtosecond dynamics and how they impact...

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 $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 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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $124,910 Project Grant to Arizona State University (ASU) on January 1, 2024 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant supports research to improve the efficiency and affordability of thin-film photovoltaic devices based on earth-abundant low-dimensional chalcogenide materials. Key activities include: 1) understanding the anisotropic growth mechanisms and carrier transport properties of the chalcogenide absorbers, 2) tailoring the...

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 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 program (CFDA 81.087) provides $2,284,494 to Tau Science Corporation to conduct research and development on CdTe photovoltaic (PV) modules. The project, titled "Project MANTIS", will apply multiscale characterization and analysis methods to CdTe PV modules exposed to accelerated aging and field...