| Project |
Faculty Leader |
Other Participating Faculty |
| Thrust 1- Terawatt Manufacturing |
| Enabling foundational research for thin, high-efficiency, and manufacturable silicon-based heterojunction devices |
Buonasissi (MIT) |
Bertoni (ASU) |
| Characterization and reliability in cell manufacturing |
Bowden (ASU) |
Tamizhmani (ASU) |
| Cu(InGa)Se2 and tandem manufacturing |
Shafarman (UD) |
Birkmire (UD), Opila (UD), Ogunnaike (UD) |
| Laser processing |
Bowden (ASU) |
Ning (ASU) |
| Thrust 2 – Moore’s Law Devices |
| High-efficiency silicon solar cells at 1 g/W |
Bowden (ASU) |
Holman (ASU), Goodnick (ASU), Vasileska (ASU), Honsberg (ASU), Opila (UD), Atwater (CalTech), Gradecak (MIT) |
| Dilute nitride materials for PV |
Freundlich (UH) |
Goodnick (ASU), Gradecak (MIT), Honsberg (ASU), Ning (ASU), Smith (ASU), Zhang (ASU) |
| Terawatt-scale III-V/Si tandems |
Atwater (CalTech) |
Balakrishan (UNM), Bertoni (ASU), Doolittle (GaTech), Freundlich (UH) |
| Probing heterojunction solar cells with electron holography |
Holman (ASU) |
McCartney (ASU), Smith (ASU), Bowden (ASU), Bertoni (ASU) |
| High-mobility hydrogen-doped indium oxide as a TCO in silicon heterojunction and CIGS solar cells |
Bertoni (ASU) |
Holman (ASU) |
| Thrust 3 – Advanced Enablers |
| Holographic design for spectrum splitting and light management for optimum efficiency of PV cells/systems |
Kostuk (UA) |
Atwater (Caltech), Lavrova (UNM) |
| Terawatt-scale III-nitride on Si in-situ and induced junctions |
Doolittle (GaTech) |
Bowden (ASU), Honsberg (ASU), Ponce (ASU) |
| Investigation of defect creation in epitaxial structures to improve crystal perfection of highly-lattice-mismatched composition |
Honsberg (ASU) |
Faleev (ASU), Smith (ASU), Bertoni (ASU) |
| Nano-based enablers for commercial solar cells |
Honsberg (ASU) |
Holman (ASU), Goodnick (ASU), Freundlich (UH) |
| Testbeds |
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| Student-led pilot line |
Bowden (ASU) |
Buonassisi (MIT), Bertoni (ASU), Holman (ASU), Honsberg (ASU), Husman (ASU), Opila (UD) |
| Integration, modules and power management |
Kiaei (ASU) |
Bakkaloglu (ASU), Lavrova (UNM) |
| Cross-Cutting Research Themes |
| Sustainability |
Fraser (ASU) |
Miller (ASU), Seager (ASU), Byrne (UD), Kurdgelashvili (UD) |
| Education research |
Husman (ASU) |
Bowden (ASU), Brem (ASU) |