IUCRC Phase III - The University of Texas at Austin: Center for a Solar Powered Future (SPF2050)

IUCRC 第三阶段 - 德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校：太阳能未来中心 (SPF2050)

• 批准号: 2052814
• 负责人: Brian Korgel
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-01 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2052814&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IUCRC; Phase; III; University; Texas

The Center for a Solar Powered Future (SPF2050) is an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) that performs research relevant to the solar power industry. Sunlight provides a widely available energy source that can be converted directly to electricity by photovoltaic (PV) devices, or solar cells, without generating pollution, emissions or greenhouse gases during operation. The vision of SPF2050 is to enable the US and the world to achieve a zero-carbon footprint by 2050 using solar energy as a resource. SPF2050 promotes close and sustained engagement between industry innovators, world-class academic teams, and government agencies to develop higher performance and lower cost solar cells, improve PV component and system reliability, and enable widespread adoption and use of solar power systems by addressing the extensive range of diverse, complex, multi-faceted, interdisciplinary and multi-industry technology challenges associated with the use of solar power. SPF2050 research catalyzes economic growth and development, while providing educational opportunities to students, young scholars and faculty researchers to create a diverse and highly trained workforce as well as next generation of industry leaders. SPF2050 is also active in public education and societal outreach. Global energy sustainability represents one of the most important challenges facing modern society. Even with today’s significant growth rate for PV deployment, it will take several decades to achieve a majority of carbon-free energy for the world. Increased use of PV electricity requires step-change improvements in PV technology, cost, and societal perspective. Research performed at the University of Texas - Austin site in SPF2050 ranges from the development of multijunction and bifacial thin film PV with ultrahigh efficiency and performance to user-deployable, light-weight and inexpensive PVs to power internet-of-things devices. Research efforts also include increased understanding of semiconductor materials and interface properties, improved PV device design and manufacturing, improved performance and reliability of PV components and systems, development of new, more effective ways to recycle at end-of-life, and the creation of a circular solar power economy. The Center also explores creative, new approaches to land use in both rural and urban environments, integration of emerging storage technologies with solar power generation to alleviate problems of intermittency and variability, techno-economic and socio-economic challenges associated with widespread solar power use, and identification of new approaches to solar-powered electrification in transportation, heating and cooling sectors.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

太阳能未来的中心（SPF2050）是一个行业/大学合作研究中心（IUCRC），该研究中心（IUCRC）进行了与太阳能行业相关的研究。 Sunlight提供了广泛可用的能源，可以通过光伏（PV）设备或太阳能电池直接转换为电能，而无需在操作过程中产生污染，排放或温室气体。 SPF2050的愿景是使美国和世界能够在2050年使用太阳能作为资源实现零碳足迹。 SPF2050促进了行业创新者，世界一流的学术团队和政府机构之间的紧密和持续参与，以发展更高的性能和较低的成本太阳能电池，提高PV组件和系统可靠性，并通过解决宽敞的采用和太阳能系统的范围，通过解决较高的，多方面的，互惠，跨学科和多功能技术的技术来解决范围，以应对范围，以解决范围。 SPF2050的研究促进了经济的增长和发展，同时为学生，年轻的学者和教师研究人员提供教育机会，以创造多样性和训练有素的劳动力以及下一代行业领导者。 SPF2050还积极从事公共教育和社会外展活动。全球能源可持续性代表了现代社会面临的最重要挑战之一。即使当今光伏部署的显着增长率，还需要数十年的时间才能为世界实现无碳的大部分能源。 PV电力的使用增加需要逐步改变PV技术，成本和社会观点。 SPF2050的德克萨斯大学奥斯汀网站进行的研究范围从具有超高效率和性能的多期和双面薄膜PV的开发到用户剥夺，轻巧且廉价的PV到供电，到电动式设备。研究工作还包括对半导体材料和界面属性的了解增加，改进的PV设备设计和制造，改善PV组件和系统的性能和可靠性，开发新的，更有效的方法来回收寿命，并创建圆形太阳能经济。该中心还探讨了在粗糙和城市环境中的创造性，新的土地利用方法，将新兴的存储技术与太阳能发电的整合，以减轻间歇性和可变性的问题，技术 - 经济和社会经济的挑战，与宽度相关的独处宽度和鉴定在传播范围内的统计范围内的统计范围和酷热的统计范围和酷热的方法。使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来支持。