SBIR/STTR Research Award
Thin and Automated Blanket Lamination and Encapsulation Systems (TABLES)
Award amount
$124,778Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Vanguard Space Technologies, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2014-06-20
- Contract end date
- 2014-12-19
- UEI
- S7F9G286FXX8
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- S3.01
Research abstract
Flexible photovoltaic array technologies require very thin and precisely controlled deposition of the polymeric films used to fabricate them. In most flexible blanket architectures, optically transparent silicones are utilized in the fabrication of the arrays, however due to their rheology and processing conditions there are limitations to how thin they can be applied. In this proposal, Vanguard proposes Thin and Automated Blanket Lamination and Encapsulation Systems (TABLES) that utilize automated drawdown methods and rheology control to render flexible blankets approaching 700 W/kg and only 13 mils thick (including cells). Further, the TABLES concept is easily adapted to a number of substrates and superstrates, rendering "LEO to GEO" packaging and automation simply through appropriate substrate choice.
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.
- Advanced Solar Array for Dual Launch GPS
- Synchronized Modular Integrated Deployable Array (P-DoD12-003)
- Low Cost, Cosmic Microwave Background Telescopes (P-NASA12-003-1)
- ParaSol - A Novel Deployable Approach for Very Large Ultra-lightweight Solar Arrays
- Very Large Ultra-Lightweight Affordable Smart Solar Array
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Thermoacoustic Radioisotope Generator (TRG)
- Game-Changing Photovoltaic Flexible Blanket Solar Array Technology with Spectrolab Flexsheets
- 3D Nano-Epitaxial Lateral Overgrowth (nano-ELOG) of Large Area, Highly Efficient, and Flexible Multijunction Solar Cells for Space Applications
- A Ferroelectric Semiconductor Absorber for Surpassing the Shockley-Queisser Limit
- Meso-Scale Ericsson Power Generation System
Research funding history
76 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1994–2015). Reported award amounts total $25,067,356. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy