Kopin Corp. announced today that it has been awarded a NASA Contract valued at $600,000 to produce nanostructured solar cells comprised of indium gallium phosphide (InGaP) materials. The goal of this two-year project is to develop a more efficient and less expensive solar cell design than existing multi-junction technology.
Dr. Roger E. Welser, Kopin’s Director of New Product Development, stated, “The material structures used in conventional solar cell designs significantly limit their power conversion efficiency and performance, requiring a trade-off between current and voltage. For this SBIR program, we are employing a proprietary, patent-pending structure incorporating InGaP barriers, the same material used in our HBT (heterojunction bipolar transistor) wafers for billions of cell phones.”
“In the Phase I program, Kopin produced several InGaP-based test structures that demonstrated a significant increase in the open-circuit voltage without any degradation in current. In this follow-up Phase II program, we aim to further enhance performance while maintaining our long-term objective to produce high-efficiency photovoltaic cells with low cost and good stability,” Welser continued.
Dr. John C.C. Fan, Kopin’s President and Chief Executive Officer commented, “This SBIR program is part of Kopin’s strategy to leverage our unique expertise in nanostructured III-V materials to create high-efficiency solar cells at low cost for the emerging terrestrial renewable energy market. For unconcentrated sunlight, we believe our innovative approach in this SBIR program has the potential to achieve conversion efficiencies exceeding 40% with a single p-n junction device, approximately 20% higher than the current efficiencies of today’s best multi-junction solar cells.”
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