Request for Proposals
Each year the Center for Revolutionary Solar Photoconversion (CRSP) issues a Request for Proposal (RFP) under its Shared Research Program. CRSP investigators are eligible to submit seed research grant proposals. In addition, CRSP may issue RFPs from time to time for special research efforts, sponsored research projects, or federally funded research. The RFP process allows CRSP investigators to propose their best research ideas; those who are providing funding can identify a robust set of interested researchers.
CRSP intends to host symposia or other types of research workshops at its annual meeting held each year at the campus of one of the Colorado Collaboratory institutions. This will provide an opportunity for CRSP members and others to learn about cutting-edge solar photoconversion research.
A complete listing of the CRSP Shared Research Program awards follows.
CRSP 2010 Shared Research Program Awards
Inorganic Materials and Novel Device Architectures for Advanced Solar Cells
- Optimized Metal-Insulator-Metal Diodes for Solar Energy Conversion by Rectennas — NREL, Philip Parilla; CSM, Ryan O'Hayre
- Non-Toxic, Earth-Abundant Photovoltaic Devices: Characterizing Thin Films Made from Nanocrystalline Cu2ZnSnS4 and FeS2 — CSU, Amy Prieto
- Accelerating Reliability of Transparent Conductor Development by Mechanical Property Screening — CSM, Corrine Packard
Novel Organic/Polymeric/Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Solar Cells
- Efficient Organic Photovoltaics: Singlet Fission in Conjugated Organic Molecular Crystals — CU, Charles Musgrave
Third-Generation PV
- The Effect of Blinking and Switching of Individual Chromophores on the Efficiency of Quantum Dot Solar Cells — CSU, Alan Van Orden and Martin Gelfand; NREL, Justin Johnson and Jao van de Lagamaat
- Direct Gap Germanium-Tin Alloy Nanoparticles for Efficient Light Absorption in Third-Generation Photovoltaics — CSM, Sumit Agarwal and Cristian Ciobanu
New Materials and Approaches for Efficient Solar Water Splitting
- Mesoporous BiVO4 and its Modification with W-Based Nanomaterials for Efficient Solar Water Splitting — CSM, Andrew Herring, Mark Lusk, and Thomas Furtak; NREL, John Turner
CRSP 2009 Shared Research Program Awards
Inorganic Materials and Novel Device Architectures for Advanced Solar Cells
- Transparent Back Contacts to Enable Novel Architectures in Advanced CdTe and Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Solar Cells — CSM, Joseph Beach
- Optimizing Cu2ZnSnS4-Based Photovoltaic Devices: Characterizing Films Made From Nanoparticle Inks for Their Application in Inexpensive and Scalable Thin Film Photovoltaics — CSU, Amy Prieto
- 3D Plasmonic Nanostructures for Novel Electromagnetic Energy Conversion Devices and Systems — CU, Rafael Piestun
Novel Organic/Polymeric/Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Solar Cells
- Gas Diffusion Barriers for Thin Film Solar Devices Using Atmospheric Atomic Layer Deposition — CU, Steve George
- Boron-Based Polymers (new hole-conducting polymers for DSSC) — CU, Josef Michl
Third-Generation PV
- New Materials and Time-Resolved Measurements for Optimizing Hole-Transfer Photochemistry — CSU, Matt Shores; CU, Niels Damrauer
- Novel Nanoparticle Superlattices for Space-Separated Quantum Cutting — Sumit Agarwal, CSM
- Multiexcitons in Quantum Nanostructures: From Theory to Design — CU, Joel Eaves
Solar Fuels
- Synthesis of Nanoscale Oxy(nitrides) for Solar Water Splitting — CU, Gordana Dukovic
- Electrochemical Synthesis of Catalysts for Photoelectrolysis and Conformal TCO Deposition — CSM, Colin Wolden
CRSP 2008 Shared Research Program Awards
- Integrated Electrical and Optical Characterization of Silicon Thin Films — NREL and CSM
- Redox-Tunable Polymers for OPV Active Layers — NREL and CSU
- Group IV Nanowire Photovoltaics — CSM
- In Vitro Evolution of RNA-Inorganic Catalysts for the Conversion of CO2 to Alcohols — CU
- Optimizing Cu2ZnSnS4-Based Photovoltaic Devices for Thin Films — CSU and Wyoming
- Group IV Quantum Dots for Third-Generation Photovoltaics — NREL and CU
- Probing Critical Interfaces in Second- and Third-Generation Photovoltaics with Nonlinear Optics — NREL and CU
- Spatially Resolved Spectroscopic Studies of Small Ordered Crystals of Semiconductor Nanocrystals — NREL and CSU
- Nanoscale Engineering of Functional Metal Oxides for Photocatalysts and Photovoltaics — CSM
- Plasma Processing for Improved Understanding and Control of Film Properties and Interfaces with Organic/Polymeric/Hybrid Solar Cells — CSU
- Fundamental Studies of Polyoxometallage-Based Nano-Materials for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting — NREL and CSM
- Development of an Economical Catalyst for Water Oxidation (solar fuels) — CU
