SBIR/STTR Research Award
Light-Weight, Solar Cells with High Specific Power and Conversion Efficiency
Award amount
$755,002Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2016Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- MICROLINK DEVICES INC
- Proposal award date
- 2016-03-01
- Contract end date
- 2018-03-05
- UEI
- DHJPU2QYVQK7
- Solicitation number
- 2014.0
- Topic code
- N14A-T003
Research abstract
MicroLink Devices in collaboration with University of Notre Dame will develop composite lightweight, high-efficiency, epitaxial lift-off (ELO) inverted metamorphic (IMM) triple junction solar cells ideally suited for retrofitting current generation UAVs and integration with next generation platforms in order to substantially increase mission duration beyond current battery only technologies. MicroLink will target composite ELO solar cells (CSC) with ultra high specific power (>3.0 kW/kg) and very high areal power density (>370 W/m2). ELO is a unique disruptive technology that affords an attractive cost reduction model through substrate reclaim whereby the substrate after solar cell functional layers have been removed can be repolished and used for another solar cells growth. This model allows the cost of the substrate to be spread over several solar cell growth runs.
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.
- Radiation Resistant Solar and Laser Power Converter for Lunar Applications
- Ultra-Thin, Flexible InGaP Solar Arrays Embedded In Solar Sails for Power Generation
- Laser Power Beaming to Sustain Small UAVs using ~1070 nm Source and Receiver
- High Efficiency GaN HBT for X-band Satellite Radar
- Array for High Efficiency Power Beaming
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Light-Weight Solar Cells with High Specific Power and Conversion Efficiency
- Ultra-Lightweight, High-Efficiency Epitaxial Lift-Off Solar Cells and Arrays
- High-Efficiency, High-Power Density III-V Multijunction Solar Cells on Si and Hybridsil
- Light-Weight, Solar Cells with High Specific Power and Conversion Efficiency
Research funding history
99 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2001–2025). Reported award amounts total $39,253,763. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation