APPLIED NOVEL DEVICES, INC. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: A15-023
APPLIED NOVEL DEVICES, INC. — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
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- Amount
- $100,000
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- A15-023
- Solicitation
- 2015.1
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- TX
- Period
- 2015-09-30 → 2016-03-29
Description
The primary objective of this project will be to develop a low cost light weight flexible solar module technology with less than 50 m thin crystalline Si cells for military applications. Specifically, we will aim to fabricate a light weight (> 0.05W/g) silicon PV module with efficiency > 22% and cost less than $5/Wp that can meet the flexibility requirements for man portable military applications. We have developed a novel exfoliation process to spall thin (20-50 microns) crystalline layers from wafers and propose to use this process to fabricate high efficiency flexible Silicon PV cells.