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.

太阳能未来中心 (SPF2050) 是一个工业/大学合作研究中心 (IUCRC)，从事与太阳能行业相关的研究。阳光提供了一种广泛可用的能源，可以通过光伏 (PV) 直接转换为电力。 SPF2050 的愿景是让美国和世界到 2050 年利用太阳能实现零碳足迹。 SPF2050 促进行业创新者、世界一流的学术团队和政府机构之间的密切和持续的合作，以开发更高性能和更低成本的太阳能电池，提高光伏组件和系统的可靠性，并通过以下方式实现太阳能发电系统的广泛采用和使用。 SPF2050研究解决与太阳能利用相关的广泛多样、复杂、多面、跨学科和多行业的技术挑战，促进经济增长和发展，同时为学生、年轻学者和学生提供教育机会。 SPF2050 还积极致力于公共教育和社会推广，以培养多元化且训练有素的员工队伍。即使在当今的高速增长的情况下，全球能源可持续发展也是现代社会面临的最重要的挑战之一。对于光伏发电的部署，需要几十年的时间才能实现世界上大部分光伏发电的使用，需要在光伏技术、成本和社会视角方面进行逐步改进。奥斯汀站点位于SPF2050 的范围包括开发具有超高效率和性能的多结和双面薄膜光伏，到用户可部署、重量轻且廉价的光伏，为物联网设备供电。研究工作还包括加深对半导体材料和界面特性的了解。该中心还改进了光伏设备的设计和制造，提高了光伏组件和系统的性能和可靠性，开发了新的、更有效的报废回收方法，并创建了循环太阳能经济。探索农村和城市环境中土地利用的创造性新方法，将新兴存储技术与太阳能发电相结合，以缓解间歇性和可变性问题，与广泛使用太阳能相关的技术经济和社会经济挑战，以及确定交通、供暖和制冷领域太阳能电气化的新方法。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。