SBIR/STTR Research Award
Holographic Passive Tracking Hybrid Solar Lighting System
Award amount
$99,977Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2012Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- Creative Light Source, Inc
- Proposal award date
- 2012-01-30
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- NE3JVQKUKZE5
- Solicitation number
- 2011.3
- Topic code
- A11-126
Research abstract
To optimally address this HSL for Army expeditionary shelters, we propose two novel innovations: (1) a flat-panel"Passively-Tracking"Solar Concentrator, leveraging our existing Holographic Solar Concentrator technology, to achieve high (>400x) concentration ratios with an ultra-wide (>100 degrees ) acceptance angle, mitigating the need for mechanical tracking and efficiently gathering diffuse light in cloudy conditions, and (2) a novel, high-efficiency"Luminary"design, leveraging the advances in weight, cost, lifetime, durability and luminous efficiency of both modern LCD (laptop/TV) backlights and LED downlighting. The overall lighting system is much more compact (<4ft3), light weight, cost effective (<$5k), and easier to deploy than any other known concentrating solar technology. The total system cost for a 20'x 32'expeditionary shelter will be below $5k and the stored volume will be under 4 cubic feet.
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.
- New Crystalline Silicon Module Architecture to Reduce Costs withImproved Manufacturability andDurability
- High-Efficiency Solar Cogeneration with TPV &amp;amp; Fiber-Optic Daylighting
- Highly Efficient CoGen for Commercial Buildings using IR PV &amp;amp;amp; HSL
- Novel Module Architecture Development for Increased Reliability and Reduced Costs
- Holographic Passively-Tracking Planar Solar Concentrator
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Energy Reducing, Ruggedized, Solar Lighting System
- Energy Reducing, Ruggedized, Solar Lighting System
- Energy Reducing, Ruggedized, Solar Lighting System
- Efficient Lighting System for Expeditionary Shelters
- Energy Reducing, Ruggedized, Solar Lighting System
Research funding history
8 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2005–2019). Reported award amounts total $3,248,789. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Energy, Department of Defense