High Temperature Solar Cell Contacts

Award Information

Agency: Department of Defense	Branch: Missile Defense Agency	Award ID: 41129	Program Year/Program: 1998 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number: 41129	Solicitation Year: N/A	Solicitation Topic Code: N/A	Solicitation Number: N/A

Small Business Information: Applied Sciences Inc
141 W. Xenia Ave. PO Box 579 Cedarville, OH -
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Phase 1: Fiscal Year: 1998

Title: High Temperature Solar Cell Contacts

Agency / Branch: DOD / MDA

Contract: N/A

Award Amount: $64,914.00

Abstract:
Inexpensive solar cell contacts can be made using silicone or epoxy materials with carbon nanostructure additives to improve electrical conductivity at high temperature. This overcomes the problems associated with metal-additive silicones and epoxies, which tend to lose their electrical conductivity enhancements as the temperature increases, thereby diminishing; their usefulness as a solar cell electrical conduct. Because highly conductive carbon fib r can be fabricated with an extremely high aspect ratio (L/D > 5000), bonding material incorporating this fiber will have an internal conductive network within it, assuring that electrical contact will be maintained as the material expands thermally.

Principal Investigator:
Ronald L. Jacobsen
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Small Business Information at Submission:

APPLIED SCIENCES, INC.
P.O. Box 164284 Austin, TX 78716

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Woman-Owned: No

Minority-Owned: No

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