SBIR/STTR Research Award
Low Cost Multi Junction Solar Cells for Space Applications Incorporating Quantum Wells Sub Cells
Award amount
$99,885Program and phase
STTR · Phase IAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Missile Defense Agency
- Recipient company
- Spire Corporation
- Proposal award date
- 2010-05-03
- Contract end date
- 2010-11-02
- UEI
- RG46KJGARZF4
- Solicitation number
- 2009.B
- Topic code
- MDA09-T005
Research abstract
Spire Semiconductor proposes a novel MOCVD growth scheme that will substantially reduce the production costs of inverted multi-junction solar cells. Incorporating quantum well structures will be investigated as a means to improve device efficiency and end of life cell performance in the space environment. The theoretical target efficiency is 39.8% under the AM0 spectrum.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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- Portable Laser Hazard Identification and Monitoring System
- Nano-Crystalline Ceramic Coatings for the Reduction of Sliding Resistance of Orth
- A Synthetic Biology Toolbox for Natural Product Discovery from Actinomycetes
- Next-Generation, LED-based, Adjustable Spectrum, Pulsed Solar Simulator
- Nano-Crystalline Ceramic Coatings for the Reduction of Sliding Resistance of Orth
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Improved Multi Junction Solar Cell Technology for Satellites
- Multi Junction Solar cells for Satellite
Research funding history
429 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1983–2014). Reported award amounts total $73,907,551. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Commerce