Basic Research Needs for Solar Energy Utilization

NEW SCIENTIFIC OPPORTUNITIES Development of new defect-tolerant inorganic PV materials will require combined experimental and th ...

required 20–30 years of operation to produce cost-effective solar electricity or fuels. The successful realization of defect-tol ...

Solar Thermochemical Fuel Production Solar concentrating systems currently provide the lowest-cost technology for solar electric ...

H 2 SO 4 at 1,130K, and the University of Tokyo Cycle #3 (UT-3) four-step cycle based on the hydrolysis of CaBr 2 and FeBr 2 at ...

the reactor system — ZnO surface temperature reached 2,000K in 2 seconds — and its resistance to thermal shocks. Solar Thermal D ...

the sequestration step, these solar-driven processes offer significant reduction in CO 2 emissions compared with conventional co ...

structural materials at T>800°C and materials that can be used for various components of the solar reactor and electrolysis u ...

P. von Zedtwitz and A. Steinfeld, “The Solar Thermal Gasification of Coal — Energy Conversion Efficiency and CO 2 Mitigation Pot ...

New Experimental and Theoretical Tools to Enable Transformational Research...... Solar energy conversion systems involve many co ...

The continued advances in energy- and time- resolved spectroscopy have allowed the detailed interrogation of photoinitiated mole ...

Important examples include a combination of ultrafast lasers, scanned probe/near-field microscopy, and transport measurements; t ...

for the detailed understanding and optimization of these systems is a set of complementary advances in experimental techniques f ...

will require significant new progress even at the level of basic theory, let alone computational algorithms and their numerical ...

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Solar Energy Conversion Materials by Design........................................................... Materials play a key role ...

A shortcoming of this approach is that the discovery process relies on accident or serendipity, or targeting in a limited domain ...

transport properties. For nanostructured materials, a crucial issue is the role of interfaces on electron and phonon transport. ...

of ~2.4 at 300K and quantum-dot PbTe/PbTeSe superlattices^ (Harman et al. 2002) offering a ZT of ~2 at 550K. Most of the enhance ...

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High-throughput Experimental Screening Methods for Discovery of Designed Materials Determining the suitability of materials for ...