SBIR/STTR Research Award
Backside Contact Multijunction Solar Cells for Concentrator Applications
Award amount
$100,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2009Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- MICROLINK DEVICES INC
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- DHJPU2QYVQK7
- Solicitation number
- DE-FOA-0000350
- Topic code
- 23 d
Research abstract
Solar concentrator systems will require solar cells with improved efficiency and reduced cost in order to be competitive. New approaches are needed to build solar cells for optimum performance in high concentration applications. This project will demonstrate multifunction solar cells with backside contacts, which can significantly improve cell efficiencies when used in high-concentration applications. The backside contact device structure will be enabled by utilizing previously-developed epitaxial liftoff (ELO) technology. Commercial Applications and other Benefits as described by the awardee: Solar concentrator systems have recently benefited from improved performance by migrating from Si-based solar cells to multifunction cells. The successful implementation of multifunction cells with backside contacts should enable further improvements in system performance and cost competitiveness.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
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Awards with the same topic code
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- A Novel Sorbent to Reduce CO2 Emissions from Existing Coal-Fired Power Plants
- Hybrid CPU-GPU Parallel Development of the Eulerian-Langrangian Barracuda Multiphase Program.
- Backside Contact Multijunction Solar Cells for Concentrator 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