QESST Year 5: Research Projects, Testbeds, and Thrust Alignment
QESST Year 5 Project List
Cross Cutting |
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Education Research: | Common purpose, Shared Goals, and Community – The Learning, Emotional, and Social implications of a shared research vision | Husman, ASU |
Sustainability: | A Systems Dynamics of PV Sustainability at the TeraWatt Scale | Seager, ASU |
Testbeds |
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Testbed 1: | Student-Led Pilot Line | Bowden, ASU |
Testbed 2: | Advanced Modules and Integration | Kiaei, ASU |
Testbed 3: | Sustainability of TW Scale PV Deployments | Honsberg, ASU |
Thrust 1: Terawatt Scale Silicon Manufacturing |
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Thrust 1 Project 1: | High mobility Transparent Conductors for Silicon heterojuntion and CIGS solar cells | Bertoni, ASU |
Thrust 1 Project 2: | Contact Passivation | Bowden, ASU |
Thrust 1 Project 3: | Defects in high-quality crystalline silicon materials: TCAD modeling and validation using industrially-relevant materials | Buonassisi, MIT |
Thrust 1 Project 4: | Characterization and Reliability in Cell Manufacturing | TamizhMani, ASU |
Thrust 1 Project 5: | High Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells at 1gram/watt | Opila, UDel |
Thrust 2: Tandem Integration with Silicon |
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Thrust 2 Project 1: | Tandem III-V/Si Integration for > 30% Efficiency | Atwater, Caltech |
Thrust 2 Project 2: | III-Sb on Silicon multi-junction solar cells | Balakrishnan, UNM |
Thrust 2 Project 3: | Terawatt Scale III-Nitride on Si In-situ and Induced Junctions | Doolittle, GaTech |
Thrust 2 Project 4: | Flat-Plate Tandem PV: A Marriage of Silicon and II/VI | Holman, ASU |
Thrust 2 Project 5: | Dilute Nitride Materials and Devices | Freundlich, UH |
Thrust 3: Fundamentals for High Efficiency PV |
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Thrust 3 Project 1: | Defect creation in epitaxial structures: structural investigations, simulation of defect creation | Faleev, ASU |
Thrust 3 Project 2: | Nano-based enablers for commercial silicon solar cells | Holman, ASU |
Thrust 3 Project 3: | Multi-Scale Modeling of Dilute Nitride Materials and Silicon Heterojunctions | Goodnick, ASU |
Thrust 3 Project 4: | Spectrum Splitting Optics for Micro-Concentrator PV Systems | Kostuk, UofA |
Thrust 3 Project 5: | Cu(InGa)Se2 Tandem Cell Development | Shafarman, UDel |