LIST OF US UNIVERSITIES RESEARCHING IN RENEWABLE ENERGY WITH D.O.E GRANTS

Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)

This project will seek to increase efficiency levels to 20% by developing new materials to improve tandem thin film solar cells.  DOE will provide up to $895,511 for the $1.1 million project. ASU will also demonstrate the fundamental viability of replacing expensive materials used in today’s solar cells with less costly alternatives.  DOE will provide up to $881,152 for the $1.2 million project.

California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)

The project will seek to enhance solar absorption using plasmons to improve the performance of PV cells. DOE will provide up to $900,000 for the $1.1 million project.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)

MIT will seek to boost the performance of conventional solar cells through the addition of a new layer tuned to use a previously wasted portion of the sun’s energy.  DOE will provide up to $900,000 for the $1.1 million project. MIT will also explore a silicon wafer-making technology that will set new standards of electronic quality and low cost.  DOE will provide up to $899,998 for the $1.1 million project.

Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA)

Penn State will seek to apply lessons learned from success with lithium ion batteries to develop dye-based sensitized solar cells with improved electrodes and electrolytes.  DOE will provide up to $882,103 for the $1.1 million project.

In a second project, Penn State will also create PV devices from nanowires grown on inexpensive substrates like glass. DOE will provide up to $900,000 for the $1.1 million project.

Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY)

The institute will develop PV cells for solar concentrator applications using high efficiency nanostructures. DOE will provide up to $843,695 for the $1.1 million project.

Stanford University (Stanford, CA)

Use of nanowire networks or meshes to create electrodes for high efficiency, low cost solution-processed photovoltaics.  DOE will provide up to $900,000 for this $1.1 million project.

A second project will produce advanced, higher efficiency thin-film solar cells from nanowires made of CIGS.  DOE will provide up to $900,000 for this $1.1 million project.

University of California, Davis (Davis, CA)

Development of organic photovoltaic cells, prepared with sequential solution processing, to produce multiple-layer polymer films.  DOE will provide up to $610,916 for this $0.8 million project.

University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, CA)

Project will seek to produce high-efficiency photovoltaics that combine plasmonics and semiconductor nanostructures.  DOE will provide up to $900,000 for this $1.1 million project.

University of Colorado (Boulder, CO)

This project will use dye molecules to produce multiple electrons from one photon of light. Researchers demonstrate an ultra-high efficiency, low cost solar cell.  DOE will provide up to $895,772 for this $1.1 million project.

University of Delaware (Newark, DE)

Project will use laser processing to control defects and improve PV cell performance to develop a highly efficient wide bandgap in thin films, which is necessary for low cost polycrystalline tandem devices.  DOE will provide up to $900,000 for this $1.1 million project.

University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)

Project will seek to create solution processible, low cost tandem photovoltaics from inorganic nanorods (aligned for efficient energy collection) surrounded by organic polymers.  DOE will provide up to $900,000 for his $1.1 million project.

University of Illinois (Urbana, IL)

This project will seek a low cost concentrator PV from automated printing and the interconnection of a large number of microcells with built-in optics.  DOE will provide up to $900,000 for this $1.1 million project.

University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)

Project will seek to demonstrate effective tandem crystalline organic photovoltaic cells.  DOE will provide up to $790,049 for this $0.9 million project.

University of South Florida (Tampa, FL)

The University will demonstrate a new flexible configuration with a high throughput process for transforming the standard process/product design of CdTe cells and modules.  DOE will provide up to $881,972 for this $1.2 million project.

University of Washington (Seattle, WA)

Project will seek to use interfacial engineering to make highly efficient polymer-based photovoltaic devices with organic/inorganic nanostructures; it also seeks to produce improved performance multilayer, solution processible organic tandem cells with additional enhancements due to interfacial engineering at the electrode.  DOE will provide up to $900,000 for this project.

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