Dr. Lumb receives a $1.4M grant from the U.S. Department of Energy

Dr. Matthew Lumb (research scientist) has received a two-year, $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for the project “Micro-scale Ultra-high Efficiency CPV/Diffuse Hybrid Arrays.”  Through this project, Dr. Lumb and GW will lead a new research effort in collaboration with several government, university and industry partners, including the Naval Research Laboratory, Northwestern University, MIT, Veeco, and X-Celeprint.  They are working to develop a new, high performance concentrator photovoltaic module that is fully integrated with conventional flat plate photovoltaic technology, with the goal of producing an extremely high efficiency solar module capable of capturing both direct and diffuse light. The enabling technology is micro transfer printing, which allows precise, highly-parallel assembly of micro-scale solar cells and the heterogeneous integration of materials produced on different substrates.  The new hybrid photovoltaic modules have the potential to harvest more energy from the sun than ever demonstrated before and increase the commercial competitiveness of concentrator photovoltaic technologies in a broad range of applications.