Creative Light Source, Inc — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: To optimally address this HSL for Army expeditionary shelters, we propose two novel innova
Creative Light Source, Inc — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $99,977
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Solicitation
- 2011.3
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CO
- Period
- 2012-01-30
Description
To optimally address this HSL for Army expeditionary shelters, we propose two novel innovations: (1) a flat-panel"Passively-Tracking"Solar Concentrator, leveraging our existing Holographic Solar Concentrator technology, to achieve high (>400x) concentration ratios with an ultra-wide (>100 degrees ) acceptance angle, mitigating the need for mechanical tracking and efficiently gathering diffuse light in cloudy conditions, and (2) a novel, high-efficiency"Luminary"design, leveraging the advances in weight, cost, lifetime, durability and luminous efficiency of both modern LCD (laptop/TV) backlights and LED downlighting. The overall lighting system is much more compact (<4ft3), light weight, cost effective (<$5k), and easier to deploy than any other known concentrating solar technology. The total system cost for a 20'x 32'expeditionary shelter will be below $5k and the stored volume will be under 4 cubic feet.