Manipulating Light to Understand and Improve Solar Cells (494th Brookhaven Lecture)

Eisaman, Matthew

Title: Manipulating Light to Understand and Improve Solar Cells (494th Brookhaven Lecture)

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Energy consumption around the world is projected to approximately triple by the end of the century, according to the 2005 Report from the U.S. Department of Energy's Basic Energy Sciences Workshop on Solar Energy Utilization. Much will change in those next 86 years, but for all the power the world needs—for everything from manufacturing and transportation to air conditioning and charging cell phone batteries—improved solar cells will be crucial to meet this future energy demand with renewable energy sources. At Brookhaven Lab, scientists are probing solar cells and exploring variations within the cells—variations that are so small they are measured in billionths of a meter—in order to make increasingly efficient solar cells and ultimately help reduce the overall costs of deploying solar power plants. Dr. Eisaman will discuss DOE's Sunshot Initiative, which aims to reduce the cost of solar cell-generated electricity by 2020. He will also discuss how he and collaborators at Brookhaven Lab are probing different material compositions within solar cells, measuring how efficiently they collect electrical charge, helping to develop a new class of solar cells, and improving solar-cell manufacturing processes.

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Eisaman, Matthew ^[1]

BNL, Sustainable Energy Technologies Department

Publication Date:: Wed Apr 16 00:00:00 EDT 2014

Research Org.:: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

OSTI Identifier:: 1132943

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-98CH10886

Resource Type:: Multimedia

Resource Relation:: Conference: Brookhaven Lecture Series: 1960 - Present, Lecture presented at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York (United States) on April 16, 2014

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 14 SOLAR ENERGY; 77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; SUNSHOT INITIATIVE; CIGS; SOLAR ENERGY; NANOSCALE SPATIAL VARIATION; COST EFFICIENCY; LIGHT TRAPPING; ULTRATHIN LAYERS

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