Research and Development of Architectures for Photovoltaic Cell-Level Power Balancing using Diffusion Charge Redistribution Award Number: DE-EE0007543 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6 Solar Energy Technology Office Date: 7/26/2016 Location(s): MI Offi...
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Research and Development of Architectures for Photovoltaic Cell-Level Power Balancing using Diffusion Charge Redistribution
Award Number: DE-EE0007543
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Solar Energy Technology Office
Date: 7/26/2016
Location(s): MI
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to University of Michigan (UM) to conduct design, research, development, fabrication, and testing of solar panels with added semiconductor integrated circuits and custom power electronics.
The activities proposed would include design, packaging, and encapsulation of an integrated circuit to accomplish the goal of photovoltaic cell‐level power balancing using diffusion charge redistribution (DCR). Additional work would include the design of a cell-to-cell interconnect system and panel laminate structure for DCR and associated integrated circuits; design of a power electronic system/inverters for differential power extraction from DCR; and the fabrication of prototype panels and power electronics to test at an outdoor site with varying partial shading conditions in the Ann Arbor area.