SBIR-STTR Award

Recovery Act - Parallel Tandem Organic Solar Cells with Carbon Nanotube Sheet Interlayers
Award last edited on: 12/18/2013

Sponsored Program
STTR
Awarding Agency
DOE
Total Award Amount
$899,000
Award Phase
2
Solicitation Topic Code
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Principal Investigator
Anvar A Zakhidov

Company Information

Solarno Inc

153 Hollywood Drive
Coppell, TX 75019
   (214) 616-6443
   jferraris@solarno.com
   www.solarno.com

Research Institution

University of Texas-Dallas

Phase I

Contract Number: N/A
Start Date: 00/00/00    Completed: 00/00/00
Phase I year
2010
Phase I Amount
$149,000
This project will develop innovative nanotechnology for manufacturing of high efficiency, flexible photovoltaic cells (OPVs). Furthermore, the proposed technology is cost-effective and resolves limitations in device lifetime. The numerous commercial applications include power generating rooftops, charging of portable electronic devices and light weight space exploration devices

Phase II

Contract Number: N/A
Start Date: 00/00/00    Completed: 00/00/00
Phase II year
2010
Phase II Amount
$750,000
The demands of the solar energy market require the development of advanced photovoltaic technologies. The DOE is seeking to develop organic PV technologies that are more efficient, long lasting and cost competitive to traditional ones. Organic PV (OPVs) have become well recognizedas an important candidate for future solar power products, although their efficiency is not exceeding 6-7%. The overall objective of this Phase II STTR project is the development and fabrication of tandem and multijunction OPVs with efficiency increased to the level of > 10-15 % which will open new markets for OPV, such as OPV power for portable devices: notebook PC, cell phones, outdoor solar lighting. A critical part of the proposed tandem OPV device operation is the transparent interconnecting layer, which allows the connection of sub-cell OPVs in a new parallel architecture. Carbon nanotube sheets of present program have been proven as interconnecting layers (called as