SBIR/STTR Research Award
Advanced Multijunction Solar Cell on Misoriented GaAs Substrates
Award amount
$100,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2007Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Air Force
- Recipient company
- MICROLINK DEVICES INC
- Proposal award date
- 2007-05-31
- Contract end date
- 2008-05-31
- UEI
- DHJPU2QYVQK7
- Solicitation number
- 2007.1
- Topic code
- OSD07-ES4
Research abstract
The significance of the innovation in this Phase I SBIR is the development of a low cost compound semiconductor material for high efficiency and high specific power solar array technology. This will be accomplished by the development of a production worthy Multiple-layer Epitaxial Lift Off (MELO) process. Focus will be given to GaAs based solar cells including lattice-matched InGaP materials for dual bandgap devices. This technology will provide high conversion efficiency and cost effective solar cells for terrestrial concentrator systems in addition to high specific power density for Space applications.
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.
- Radiation Resistant Solar and Laser Power Converter for Lunar Applications
- Ultra-Thin, Flexible InGaP Solar Arrays Embedded In Solar Sails for Power Generation
- Laser Power Beaming to Sustain Small UAVs using ~1070 nm Source and Receiver
- High Efficiency GaN HBT for X-band Satellite Radar
- Array for High Efficiency Power Beaming
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- High Efficiency InGaN Solar Cells
- High Efficiency Lightweight Triple Junction GaAs Solar Cells
- High Efficiency InGaN Solar Cells
- Advanced Multijunction Solar Cell & Concentrator System Development for DOD Terrestrial and Space Applications
Research funding history
99 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2001–2025). Reported award amounts total $39,253,763. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II, Phase II – Direct to Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation