Federally Funded Research Program
Researcher working on cadmium telluride technology at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
The Center for Revolutionary Solar Photoconversion (CRSP) will play an integral role in a new federally funded effort to develop revolutionary solar cell designs at the nanoscale. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the lead organization of CRSP, and Los Alamos National Laboratory will partner and share in a $19 million grant over 5 years provided by the U.S. Department of Energy for a joint Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) named the Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics. The purpose of this EFRC is to develop novel physics, materials, and architectures for harvesting solar light and converting it into electrical charges with efficiencies at or above equilibrium thermodynamic limits. The University of Colorado at Boulder and the Colorado School of Mines, both affiliated with CRSP, will also participate in the new EFRC.
This EFRC is CRSP's first federally supported research program and is a milestone in the center's development since it was launched by the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory in April 2008.
