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| | Opsun Technologies inc. | Alexandre Gilbert-Vanasse | |
Small Business
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Power Generation: Renewable
| Opsun, founded by Mr. Raymond Gilbert, former founder and CEO of Microtec Securi-t inc., has been very active in the field of solar energy since 2005, achieving both scientific research and product development, for the solar energy industry. The company developed several innovations through the years (solar concentrator, holographic solar system, hybrid thermal systems and mounting system, with now several MW of projects in its portfolio). Since March 2013, Opsun filed a patent for an invention allowing for an entirely new approach for the design of concentrated PV (HCPV), and since develops optical elements using this technology. Opsun is now a global leader in design and fabrication of optical components in the field of concentrated solar energy. Opsun's mission is to bring the cost of solar energy low enough for this technology to compete directly with not only PV, but also all other forms of energy.
Opsun has developed partnership with University of Sherbrooke and companies capable of delivering micro and nano technologies for packaging (namely 3IT, C2MI and IBM Bromont), triple-junction cells manufacturing (Aton Optronics) and optical design. Opsun has developed Intellectual Property and is actively working on continuing the development of new approaches to create micro CPV units based on an integrated packaging approach. Our team and network can support research and development in the creation of fully functional micro-scale CPV units and is ready to support any company willing to achieve this. Canadian funding has been awarded for this purpose and Opsun welcomes any American partner to contact us to join efforts in the development of such type of CPV. |
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| | Ridgetop Group, Inc. | Douglas L. Goodman | |
Small Business
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Power Generation: Renewable
| Founded in 2000, Ridgetop offers products and services associated with energy generation and storage. These include advanced Lithium-ion and NiCd battery management systems (BMS), auxiliary power units (APU). The firm has specialized expertise in prognostic/equipment health management systems that support condition based maintenance (CBM) initiatives. Other programs have included fuel cell balance of plant systems. |
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| | University of Connecticut | Prof. Leila Ladani | |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| Our experience spans from modeling and simulation of materials at multiple length scalses (molecular dynamic to finite element) and experiments at multiple length scales. We can also fabricate materials at different scales using additive manufacturing. |
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| | Rolith, Inc. | Boris Kobrin | |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Rolith, Inc. is a developer of proprietary manufacturing technology for cost-effective high resolution (micro and nano-scale) patterning over large areas of substrate materials. RML(TM) lithography has been demonstrated on 1m long glass plates and flexible films, and is scalable to larger areas. This technology could be used to manufacture high efficiency light absorption enhancement surfaces and light concentrators. |
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| | Ridgetop Group, Inc. | Douglas L. Goodman | |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Ridgetop is a provider of advanced diagnostic and prognostic tools for test and characterization. For MOSAIC, Ridgetop have work with the Team to detect degradation-related anomalies in the system (PV, array or inverter level), and support reduction in life-cycle costs. Ridgetop has extensive experience in power system design and diagnostic solutions. Example products include Sentinel Suite and ProChek. |
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| | Ideal Solutions | Don Abbe | |
Small Business
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Building Efficiency
| Ideal Solutions provides mechanical engineering support to the micro electronics assembly industry. Our experience includes the design, fabrication, process and assembly of micro and macro high energy photon collection systems. We are involved in all aspects from handling bare die, wire bonding, assembly tool design, final packaging design and process as well as product testing. Our packaging efforts include custom electronics housing and vacuum chambers in metals and composites.
Ideal Solutions experience includes mechanical engineering design; composite packaging design; electronic design, assembly and testing; vacuum chamber design and hermetic feed through design; thermoelectric cooling and water cooling system design; engineering change notices and design reviews; modeling of parts and assemblies, fabrication drawings, assembly part lists and bill of materials. Statistical analysis assemblies for product and tooling development and improvement. |
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| | General Electronic Devices | Marvin Epstein | |
Small Business
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Building Efficiency
| GED has designed and manufactured millions of frequency sources and quartz devices. We have highly defined the material specifications, fabrication, calibration and testing procedures for all our products in order to produce the highest standards of performance and quality. GED supplies standard and custom components to the commercial industry as well as for use in process control, industrial, marine, aerospace, industrial and military applications.
GED designs and manufactures High Reliability-Custom Modules and IC Packaging, Multi-Chip Modules and Hybrids, as well as mm wave assemblies. We are a high quality, high volume manufacturer of standard and custom electronic devices such as Synthesizers, OCXOs, VCXOs, TCXOs, VCTCXOs, DROs, Frequency Translators, Clock Oscillators, Crystals, Band-Pass/Low-Pass Filters and Portable Signal Generators. |
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| | EPIR Technologies, Inc. | Dr. Sivalingam Sivananthan | |
Small Business
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Power Generation: Renewable
| EPIR was founded in 1997 to provide specialized photovoltaic materials to the infrared (IR) and solar industries, as well as to provide research and development services to government agencies, universities and industry. Today, it has grown into a company recognized and respected in the IR and solar industries. EPIR has a 27,000 square-foot facility with a 3,000 square-foot clean room in Bolingbrook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. EPIR has built a facility complete with five molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) reactors, including three 9” platen machines, a state of the art testing and characterization system and a quality assurance process of distinction. EPIR has exceeded the expectations of its founders by not only manufacturing mercury cadmium telluride, cadmium telluride and other II-VI semiconductor materials, but also providing specialized focal plane arrays to its customers. |
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| | Agira | Bal Mukund Dhar | |
Small Business
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Power Generation: Renewable
| Agira Inc is a Clean Energy start-up commercializing a low cost, flat panel concentrator technology using multilayered micro-optics on glass. The technology can enable the use of high efficiency solar cells at $0.4/W to produce PV modules at 300W/m2 while reducing balance of systems cost by >30%. |
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| | University of Florida | Susan B. Sinnott | |
Academic
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Power Generation: Renewable
| Develop innovative atomic-scale simulation methods to enable material design and discovery. Determine atomic-scale structure-property relationships for materials, with an emphasis on correlating microstructural, interfacial, and surface structures with electronic properties, chemical reactivity, mechanical properties, and stability. |
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| | Ceramatec | Dolly Chitta | |
Small Business
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Power Generation and Energy Production: Liquid and Gaseous Fuels/Nuclear
| My name is Dolly Chitta. I am the PI on ARPA-E funded program for “Natural gas to Chemicals”. I worked with several ARPA-E PD’s Dr. Boysen, Dr. Lemmon, Dr. Cheryl Martin (former) and Dr. Mumme (current) T2M advisor. I have successfully transitioned the program from TRL 1-5 to private funding (Multimillion in 2 years) wherein CoorsTek has taken over the technology scale up effort beyond ARPA_E funding. I have a PhD with background in Chemical engg. I was part of a team for spinning off new start-ups as well as license the technologies to other companies. I work closely with a number of Fortune 500, privately held large companies, universities and VC firms for T2M (ex. Air Products, Chevron, Hunt Oil, CoorsTek, SABIC, BP, Grace Davison, Albemarle, Western H2 and ExxonMobil, UC Berkeley and Harvard U, UNC, Northwestern, ANL). I understand the ecosystem of technology transition for energy projects from early stage to ultimate commercialization and believe I can add value to ARPA-E teams. |
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| | AmberWave Inc | Anthony J Lochtefeld | |
Small Business
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None of the above
| Since 1999 AmberWave Inc., and its predecessor AmberWave Systems, have developed and refined the silicon-germanium (SiGe) buffer technology, the proven solution for depositing high lifetime layers of GaAs and related III-V materials on silicon wafers. This can replace expensive bulk germanium wafers, eliminating 95% of wafer cost for III-V solar cells. In addition, we have integrated a SiGe solar cell into our buffer, which opens up a range of compelling design possibilities for improved, ultra low cost III-V solar cells. Such low cost cells could make low concentration (e.g. 5-20X) PV economically viable, greatly simplifying receiver design and tracking compared to high-concentration systems. |
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| | National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) | Miguel Contreras | |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Power Generation: Renewable
| NREL’s strong focus in the R&D of PV materials and solar cells are relevant to meet the DOE Sunshot Program cost targets for PV power. NREL has a distinguished record in the PV field including several energy conversion efficiency records in single and multi-junction solar cells for one-sun and concentrator applications. NREL addresses the full range of solar cell development in materials such as Silicon, CdTe, CIGS, III-V and other 3rd generation PV materials:
- design of new cell concepts
- development of methods for practical implementation of these concepts
- proof of concept via demonstration of prototype devices at the laboratory scale
The tools and capabilities available include semiconductor fabrication tools such as MOCVD, MBE, PVD and others for absorber and emitter deposition, back and front contacts, optics, solar cell and mini-module packaging, and a full range of measurement and characterization techniques available to quantify properties of cells and materials. |
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| | SRI International | Barbara Heydorn | |
Non-Profit
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Other Energy Technologies
| SRI International has broad expertise materials science, optics, micro-scale manufacturing, and engineering. Specific expertise includes radiative transfer and thermal modeling; developing micro-refractive, reflective, or diffractive optical concentrating and/or spectral splitting elements; solar luminescent concentration; waveguiding and concentrating structures; micro-optics that employ electro-wetting; GaAs architectures; low-cost sensors to provide information on optimal tracking positions; micro-robots for assembly; and novel actuation systems, including actuation using electro-active polymers. Our staff of 2,200 work in partnership with clients to invent, scale-up and commercialize promising technologies developed by SRI, brought to us by clients, or developed in partnership with clients. |
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| | RMIT University | Gary Rosengarten | |
Academic
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Power Generation: Renewable
| We have expertise in developing optics for solar concentration and beam splitting PV/T systems. We are also leading on a large project to develop static concentrators for rooftops with a form factor similar to a flat plate PV panel. This is called the MUSIC project (Micro Urban Solar Integrated Concentrators)and, along with our Australian Partners, includes three US universities- ASU, UC Merced and U Tulsa. |
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| | Glint Photonics, Inc. | Peter Kozodoy | |
Small Business
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Power Generation: Renewable
| Glint is developing a novel solar concentrator in which an embedded liquid layer provides passive and automatic optical alignment to the incident sunlight, adjusting the optical properties of the concentrator to track the position of the sun. This “self-tracking” functionality is actuated by the sunlight itself, and doesn’t require any control system. It results in high-concentration optics with a wide effective acceptance angle, eliminating the requirement for precise alignment that has so-far limited concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) systems in delivering high efficiency energy conversion at low system cost. |
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| | TUV Rheinland PTL | Mani Govindasamy TamizhMani | |
Small Business
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Power Generation: Renewable
| TUV Rheinland PTL is a testing and certification laboratory with more than 20 years testing CPV modules and systems outdoor and indoor accelerated testing. We are interested to be a teaming partner for the MOSAIC proposal. |
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| | Cornell University | Serhan Ardanuc | |
Academic
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Other Energy Technologies
| Cornell University’s SonicMEMS Laboratory has developed “pizza-box” sized heliostats, which we call solar-tiles (STILEs). STILEs are light-weight, self-powered, planar (aspect ratios similar to PV modules), sun-tracking mirrors that reflect sun’s light towards a desired direction. STILEs can be mass-produced for low-cost, and have sensing and wireless communication capabilities. The scaling of cost and size for heliostats provides new ways to tame sunlight, including on vertical walls and horizontal surfaces, which would not be suitable for conventional large heliostats due to wind and structural loading or shadowing over living spaces. First published in 2010, this technology is licensed by Suntomics Inc and currently being used to develop Mobile Concentrated Solar Power Platform, which delivers concentrated heat (50-100 kW/m2) for portable applications such as thermal soil treatment. Other applications involve rooftop distributed CSP applications and large area wireless displays. |
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| | Sandia National Laboratories | Alyssa Christy | |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Power Generation: Renewable
| Sandia National Laboratories has pioneered research and development toward µCPV (e.g., http://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default/files/ARPA-E_MEPV_5_14_v5.pdf). Intellectual property generated through this research is available for licensing.
Sandia offers expertise in the following technical areas:
• Design and fabrication of micro-scale PV cells in silicon and compound semiconductor materials, tens to hundreds of microns in diameter and tens of microns thick
• Design and fabrication of micro-scale optical lenses with millimeter-scale focal lengths
• Simulation of PV system performance
• Modeling of manufacturing costs
• Assembly of µCPV system prototypes
Sandia can participate in the MOSAIC FOA as a Teaming Partner, although it cannot provide the cost-match for Sandia's efforts. |
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| | Robert H. Leyse | Robert Leyse | |
Small Business
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None of the above
| Robert H. Leyse has pioneered the field of microscale heat transfer at ultra high power density with horizontal platinum wires of 7.5 and 12.5 μm diameters in pressurized water.
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Leyse, R.H., 2002,
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United Engineering Foundation, Millpress, THERMES 2002, Thermal Challenges in Next
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Leyse, R.H., Meduri, P.K., Warrier, G.R., a
nd Dhir, V.K., 2003, Microscale phase change heat
transfer at high heat flux, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Boiling Heat
Transfer, Montego Bay, Jamaica.
http://boiling.seas.ucla.edu/Publications/Conf_LMWD2003 |
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| | UC Merced/UC Solar | Roland Winston | |
Academic
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Power Generation: Renewable
| Research and patents have been the basis of many solar energy technologies and start-ups
Has developed non-tracking solar thermal collectors capable of exceeding temperatures in excess of 270°C
Has also been a leader in developing optics for PV systems, the most notable being an application in Concentrating PVs commercialized by SolFocus, Inc. |
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| | University of Rochester | Duncan T. Moore | |
Academic
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Power Generation: Renewable
| The Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester brings expertise in design, modeling, and fabrication of optical systems for concentrating solar power. University of Rochester was the primary optical design team for the DARPA's Very High Efficiency Solar Cell (VHESC) project, of which their prototype currently holds the world record for highest sub module efficiency, 38.5%. University of Rochester has also lead several micro-optics lightguide solar concentrator projects which produced two Ph.D theses and three US patents. Performance of optics, PV cells, and other elements are characterized with a custom in house solar simulator, designed specifcally for testing concentrating solar systems. |
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| | Technology Holding LLC | mukund karanjikar | |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| We excel at all components of T2M (technology to market) strategy and execution. We have transitioned ARPA-E and other Federal programs to 5x or more funding levels beyond federal support. ARPA-E has a mandatory task towards T2M and a mandatory budget allocation of 5%. THL taps into a vast corporations as well as VC network to transition your program. |
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| | Spectrolab, A Boeing Co. | Jim Ermer | |
Large Business
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Power Generation: Renewable
| Spectrolab, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boeing Company, supplies the highest power density space solar cells and panels available to prime satellite contractors around the world. Spectrolab’s product portfolio also includes terrestrial concentrator solar cells, solar simulators and test equipment, and airborne searchlight systems (Nightsun® series).
Spectrolab is the world’s leading merchant supplier of high-efficiency multi-junction solar cells for CPV and spacecraft power systems, with proven reliability drawn from six decades of space heritage. Spectrolab’s cells and panels power approximately 60 percent of all satellites in Earth’s orbit, as well as the International Space Station. Spectrolab currently holds the world record for a one-sun terrestrial devices and has extensive experience with advanced multijunction PV and CPV designs including lattice matched, metamorphic, and semiconductor bonded approaches. |
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| | Antropy DE Inc. | Ernest Demaray | |
Small Business
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Other Energy Technologies
| Antropy models and produces patented, defect free amorphous thin films and devices, including high index, high transparency amorphous films of dielectric and semiconductor materials, including shape graded anti-reflection and photonic waveguide films on substrates up to meter square size. We are developing both local aperture and wide aperture (meter square scale) devices with efficient wide angle collection and concentration capability into selected waveguide devices. for the collection and concentration of light with lateral transport to the edge of a panel where conversion of a selected wave length range which can be converted by a PV cell or transmitted remotely for other use such as day lighting. The wide area aperture is essentially a flat in plane edge collector replacing large volume F/# Fresnel collectors. The local aperture devices are appropriate for very high concentration applications such as our Sun2Fiber coupler or super-luminescent or multi-photon devices. |
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