SBIR/STTR Research Award
Miniaturization of a Hybrid Photovoltaic/Magnetothermal Energy Harvester for Solar Aircraft
Award amount
$997,634Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2016Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- Prime Photonics, LC
- Proposal award date
- 2016-08-10
- Contract end date
- 2017-08-09
- UEI
- FBH9F54NF743
- Solicitation number
- 2016.0
- Topic code
- AF10-BT22
Research abstract
Prime Photonics and Virginia Tech propose a hybrid power harvesting system with improved energy conversion efficiency by combining solar cells with magneto-thermoelectric generators (MTGs) as an active thermal backplane.The MTG is designed to maximize thermal to electrical conversion from the available thermal gradient behind PV cells, and at a weight and with scalable fabrication suitable for large arrays aboard solar air vehicles.The MTG will be multifunctional in providing additional energy per unit weight while also substituting for traditional honeycomb support structures required for packaged PVs.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Zero Foreign Object Damage (FOD): Inlet Debris Monitoring System (IDMS)
- Neuromorphic and Optical Constellation Tracker for Unstable spacecraft Attitude correction (NOCTUA)
- Debris Trajectory and Classification (DTAC) System
- Non-Intrusive Fiber-Optic Boundary Layer Profile Measurement System
- Multi-Phase Flow Interrogation System
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Hybrid Energy Harvesting Systems
- A Novel High Efficiency Thermal-Electrochemical Device for Hybrid PV/T Systems
- A Novel High Efficiency Thermal-Electrochemical Device for Hybrid PV/T Systems
- Hybrid Energy Harvesting Systems
- Hybrid Energy Harvesting Systems
Research funding history
67 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2003–2023). Reported award amounts total $23,259,179. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of Transportation