New Devices and Processes
The Solar America Initiative's research in this area emphasizes the development of novel photovoltaic or concentrating solar power devices and processes with potentially significant performance or cost advantages.
The proposed research will target the following areas:
- Design, development, and preliminary degradation testing of lab-scale device prototypes
- Completion of process demonstrations in lab-scale evaluations
- Focus on preliminary science investigations or literature review without component or system prototype development
- Assessment of initial technical and market product or process technology concepts using laboratory investigations
- Physics-based modeling
- Parametric estimation
- Other relevant analytical methods.