Physical Optics Corporation — Department of Defense SBIR Phase II: To address the Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) need for a primary power tech
Physical Optics Corporation — SBIR Phase II award from Department of Defense.
- Amount
- $779,953
- Agency
- Department of Defense · Army
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase II
- Solicitation
- 2009.3
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2011-12-02 → 2013-12-02
Description
To address the Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) need for a primary power technology that gathers power from the high-altitude platform environment, such as photovoltaics, Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to advance the development of the Performance-Optimized Solar Energy Generation (POSEG) technology. The innovations in absorbing solar spectrum in an efficient light-trapping structure to improve solar conversion efficiency offer the POSEG significant advantages, including high specific power (>1000 W/kg) and high power conversion efficiency (>20%)--advantages that are not currently available. The scalable fabrication process developed in Phase I provides low cost (