{"id":54520,"date":"2019-04-09T03:44:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T07:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=54520"},"modified":"2019-04-08T14:30:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T18:30:03","slug":"utoledo-physicist-awarded-1-1-million-to-boost-performance-of-solar-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/04_09_2019\/utoledo-physicist-awarded-1-1-million-to-boost-performance-of-solar-cells","title":{"rendered":"UToledo physicist awarded $1.1 million to boost performance of solar cells"},"content":{"rendered":"

A physicist at The University of Toledo was awarded a $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop ultra-high efficiency solar cells that accelerate the conversion of the sun\u2019s energy into electricity.<\/p>\n

Dr. Yanfa Yan, professor of physics, is teaming up with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on the photovoltaics project to create what are referred to as all-perovskite tandem solar cells that would have a higher conversion efficiency and lower cost. <\/p>\n

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Yan<\/p><\/div>While the majority of solar panels based on polycrystalline absorber materials on the market today have about a 16 percent efficiency rating, Yan\u2019s goal is to raise the bar by creating a cell with more than 25 percent efficiency.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited about this opportunity and eager to collaborate with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to push the performance of solar cells to a higher level and make contributions to the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s clean energy goal,\u201d Yan said. <\/p>\n

Yan\u2019s work is one of 25 projects recently awarded a total of $28 million in federal funding by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office, which supports early-stage research and development to improve the affordability, reliability and performance of solar technologies on the grid.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis $1.1 million award recognizes The University of Toledo as a national leader in photovoltaics research,\u201d Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur said. \u201cThis is part of an effort to innovate toward a cleaner energy future. With First Solar\u2019s footprint in northwest Ohio and the Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization at The University of Toledo, Toledo is a hotbed for clean energy and photovoltaics research. This is another success story for northwest Ohio\u2019s green energy economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yan is one of the leaders of UToledo\u2019s area of excellence in solar energy, water quality and sustainable technologies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am delighted about Dr. Yanfa Yan\u2019s continuing success in advancing his research on perovskite solar cells,\u201d UToledo Vice President for Research Frank Calzonetti said. \u201cBuilding upon his remarkably impressive publication record in solar energy science, this award confirms the quality and importance of his research and provides him and his collaborators funding to develop techniques to increase the power conversion efficiency of these cells up to 28 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Yanfa Yan, professor of physics, has received a $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop ultra-high efficiency solar cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":812,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1,3,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54592,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54520\/revisions\/54592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}