SBIR/STTR Research Award
Performance Optimized Solar Energy Generation Technology
Award amount
$779,953Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2012Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- Physical Optics Corporation
- Proposal award date
- 2011-12-02
- Contract end date
- 2013-12-02
- UEI
- DG3AB4E8R4D8
- Solicitation number
- 2009.3
- Topic code
- A09-180
Research abstract
To address the Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) need for a primary power technology that gathers power from the high-altitude platform environment, such as photovoltaics, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to advance the development of the Performance-Optimized Solar Energy Generation (POSEG) technology. The innovations in absorbing solar spectrum in an efficient light-trapping structure to improve solar conversion efficiency offer the POSEG significant advantages, including high specific power (>1000 W/kg) and high power conversion efficiency (>20%)--advantages that are not currently available. The scalable fabrication process developed in Phase I provides low cost (
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Research funding history
1,933 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1986–2021). Reported award amounts total $549,686,800. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security
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