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What Would It Take to Manufacture Perovskite Solar Cells in Space?

Journal Article · · ACS Energy Letters
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  1. NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH (United States)
  2. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
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Imagine: Astronauts land on the moon. They verify their arrival with mission control and perform system checks and validations. After the dust settles, they open the airlock of the landing vehicle and venture outside. A side hatch opens, and a flexible substrate slowly unfurls on a boom. A series of printer heads raster, hovering over the substrate and sequentially vapor-depositing the constituent layers of a perovskite solar module. In time, a 1-megawatt array has been manufactured on the moon and can now be connected to supply power to the Artemis Base Camp. This ambitious vision could someday become a reality.
Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308
OSTI ID:
1855384
Report Number(s):
NREL/JA-5900-82068; MainId:82841; UUID:607d388d-3ff7-4014-b70e-56509341c4bc; MainAdminID:64044
Journal Information:
ACS Energy Letters, Journal Name: ACS Energy Letters Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 7; ISSN 2380-8195
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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14 SOLAR ENERGY
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