Basic Research Needs for Solar Energy Utilization

innovation by incorporating the solar systems into roof and wall. Combined solar thermal and PV systems, both concentrating and ...

for electron and phonon band structures (Sing 2001). However, existing theoretical approaches lack predictive power. For bulk ma ...

2002), left-handed materials, and doping with lanthanides are concepts from the optics community which can be exploited for the ...

coefficient. The thermal conductivity of most polymers is 0.2–0.4 W/m-K. A hundred- to thousandfold increase in thermal conducti ...

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Cross-cutting Research Challenges............................................................................. BACKGROUND Rapid ...

EFFECTS OF LOW DIMENSIONALITY Reduced dimensionality can be used to control propagation and interactions of photons, electrons, ...

range of time and length scales spanned by these phenomena poses a significant theoretical challenge. The ability to compute the ...

Figure 17 Control of light fields using metallic structures. Recent advances have permitted the concentration of light on a very ...

Research Issues Advances in the synthesis of high-quality novel materials ultimately underlie potential progress in both photon ...

Figure 18 Concentration of sunlight provides significant advantages for many schemes of solar energy conversion. While tradition ...

Advances across several science frontiers suggest new approaches that could enable such rational design, particularly for low-di ...

Another critical research need for the design of structures that control carrier excitation, charge transport, and energy migrat ...

Figure 19 Transparent conductive electrodes represent one of the major challenges for PV devices. The problem involves both the ...

important new experimental and computational approaches, can have a major impact on how we address these vital cross-cutting iss ...

Carrier generation, relaxation, and transport can be strongly influenced by the properties of bulk and interface materials on th ...

must have high latent heat density (>0.3 MJ/kg) and sufficiently high thermal conductivity for enhanced thermal energy charge ...