SBIR Phase I: Novel Nano-Crystal Materials That Enhance Solar Cell Efficiency

这个小型企业创新研究项目旨在开发一种新型的纳米晶功能材料，并将其应用到现有的商业太阳能电池或组件中，在不产生太多成本或中断现有太阳能电池生产工艺的情况下，显著提高其能量转换效率。通过显著提高现有太阳能电池的效率，该项目将对太阳能电力的商业化产生影响，并有利于国家的环境。建议的方法是经济且易于采用的步骤，可以在不改变现有生产工艺的情况下增加当前商用太阳能组件的产量。

This Small Business Innovation Research project is to develop and apply a novel nano-crystalline functional material to existing commercial solar cells or modules, to significantly enhance their energy conversion efficiency, without incurring much cost or disruption to existing solar cell production process.By significantly enhancing the efficiency of existing solar cells, this project could impact the commercialization of solar electricity and benefit the Nation's environment as well. The proposed approach is economical and easily-adoptable step to increase output from the current commercial solar modules without changing the existing production process.