Pushing the efficiency limit of low-cost, industrially-relevant Si solar cells to greater than 22.5% by advancing cell structures and technology innovations Award Number: DE-EE0007554 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6 Solar Energy Technology Office Date: 8...
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Pushing the efficiency limit of low-cost, industrially-relevant Si solar cells to > 22.5% by advancing cell structures and technology innovations
Award Number: DE-EE0007554
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Solar Energy Technology Office
Date: 8/3/2016
Location(s): GA
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) to carry out office and laboratory efforts to achieve increased solar photovoltaic cell efficiency.
Proposed activities would include the design, development, fabrication and testing of advanced and novel solar cells in the labs. Eighty percent of the design, development, and fabrication activities would occur at Georgia Tech in Atlanta Georgia. The remaining 20% of the work would occur at the University of Konstanz & Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme ISE in Germany. Work in Germany includes design, development, fabrication and testing of advanced and novel solar cells in the labs. The facilities in which this lab work would occur are purpose-built for the type of activities being proposed; therefore, no new or modified permits, construction of new facilities or physical modifications to existing facilities would occur as a result of the proposed project.