Highly Portable, Flexible Silicon Solar Cell Arrays for Polar Operations

Information

• NSF Award
• 9160348

Owner

• AstroPower, Inc.

• Award Id

  9160348

• Award Effective Date

  1/1/1992 - 33 years ago

• Award Expiration Date

  9/30/1992 - 32 years ago

• Award Amount

  $ 50,000.00

• Award Instrument

  Standard Grant

Solar cells have unique advantages as an alternative source of electric power. This program will demonstrate high specific power, lightweight, flexible, thin silicon solar cells. These solar cells can be directly substituted for existing state of the art silicon solar cells with the effect of significantly improving specific power, power/area, and power supply life. The proposal describes a lightweight, flexible, high-performance, ultra-thin silicon solar cell that incorporates light-trapping and a graphite cloth substrate as an integral part of the device. This new type of silicon solar cell will be developed for polar operations. The silicon layers will be deposited by electro-deposition. These thin films will demonstrate the lightweight and flexibility of other thin film solar cell designs while maintaining the high performance of crystalline silicon.

• Program Officer

  Ritchie B. Coryell

• Min Amd Letter Date

  1/8/1992 - 33 years ago

• Max Amd Letter Date

  1/8/1992 - 33 years ago

• ARRA Amount

• Name

  AstroPower, Incorporated

• City

  Newark

• State

  DE

• Country

  United States

• Address

  Solar Park

• Postal Code

  197162000

• Phone Number

  3023660400

• First Name

  Michael

• Last Name

  Mauk

• Email Address

  mauk@astropower.com

• Start Date

  1/1/1992 12:00:00 AM