SBIR Phase I: High-Efficiency Nanocomposite Photovoltaics and Solar Cells

这个小企业创新研究第一阶段项目旨在开发一种创新技术，用于制造高效薄膜纳米复合光伏材料和太阳能电池，利用最近发现的纳米晶体载流子倍增的突破性效应。提出的概念采用智能设计的太阳能电池，为纳米晶体中产生的电子和空穴提供快速有效的空间分离。该技术解决了现代纳米科学和纳米技术的难题——与纳米晶体、纳米棒、纳米线、纳米管等纳米尺度物体的电子通信问题。它也可以用于开发许多其他纳米复合光电子器件，用于许多商业和军事应用。该技术具有巨大的商业化市场潜力。所提出的全无机、高效、薄膜、柔性纳米结构光伏材料和太阳能电池，可以在极端环境下工作，并提供显著的质量和体积节约，非常适合于许多应用，包括住宅屋顶发电、公用事业电网电源、紧急信号和电话、水泵、激活开关、电池充电器、住宅和商业照明等。

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is directed towards development of an innovative technology for fabrication of high-efficiency thin film nanocomposite photovoltaic materials and solar cells taking advantage of the recently discovered breakthrough effect of carrier multiplication in nanocrystals. The proposed concept employs smart design of the solar cells providing fast and effective spatial separation of electrons and holes photogenerated in the nanocrystals. The proposed technology solves the challenging problem of modern nanoscience and nanotechnology - the problem of electrical communications with nanoscale objects, such as nanocrystals, nanorods, nanowires, nanotubes, etc. It can be also employed for development of many other nanocomposite optoelectronic devices for numerous commercial and military applications. The proposed technology has great commercialization market potential. The proposed all-inorganic, high-efficiency, thin film, flexible nanostructured photovoltaic materials and solar cells, which can operate in extreme environments and offer significant mass and volume savings, are ideally suitable for numerous applications, including power generating residential rooftops, power supplies for utility grid, emergency signals and telephones, water pumps, activate switches, battery chargers, residential and commercial lighting, etc.