SBIR/STTR Research Award
PV Module. Title: Optimal Multijunction Solar Cells for CPV under Realistic Conditions.
Award amount
$148,889Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2013Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Black Hills Nanosystems
- Proposal award date
- 2013-02-19
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- FAD3K4VULJU4
- Solicitation number
- DE-FOA-0000715
- Topic code
- 05a
Research abstract
The proposed DoE STTR project will provide a pathway for terrestrial CPV (500 to 700 Suns) multi- junction solar cells that will maintain extremely high efficiencies at realistic operating temperatures. The thrust of the proposed project will adapt an integration approach from MEMS to III-V materials grown lattice-matched to gallium arsenide substrates. The efficiency advantages were found to be substantially due to the 37% smaller temperature coefficient of efficiency for the proposed CPV cell. Based on NRELs System Advisor Model (SAM) software, the LCOE based on the proposed CPV cell technology at 630 Suns is 20.96/kWh (real) for a CPV cell with 45% efficiency and 20.22/kWh (real) for a CPV cell with 48.5% efficiency.
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.
- Micro Electro-mechanical Systems (MEMS) Safe & Arm for Rocket Motor Ignition
- STTR Phase I: MEMS Reconfigurable Antenna for Portable Wireless Devices
- Low-Cost Multi-Junction Photovoltaic Cells
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
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Research funding history
4 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2013–2015). Reported award amounts total $623,702. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy