Research - Faculty
Associate Professor Keith Goossen
Package Design for High Performance Solar Cells
Overview
Current Projects
- Devices and Imaging in the High-Terahertz Band
- High-reliability Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSEL's) and VCSEL arrays
- Integration of Optoelectronics and Optical Networks in Advanced Fiberglass/Resin Composites
- Micromechanical Large-Area Modulators for Free-space Optical Communication
- Package Design for High Performance Solar Cells
Current funding
DARPA
Group Staff
Graduate Student
Jeffrey Spak
Office: Evans 202
Phone: 302-831-0590
Photovoltaic solar cells have a clear weight/performance benefit compared to batteries for mobile infantry when their peak efficiency exceeds 50 %. This program is to combine such high efficiency solar cells with the various portable equipment carried in the field, including radios, computers, and flashlights, to provide charging for them during daylight lulls in activity, lessening the battery load to be carried.
To achieve this efficiency requires solar photon management including concentration (focusing) and color separation to cells optimized at individual wavelengths. Packaging of these optical components with the semiconductor cells and the equipment to be charged represents a problem worthy of targeted research, especially due to the constraints on size. Global packaging issues, such as treating the various systems, optical, electrical, etc., as sub-assemblies, or integrating platforms, for example mounting chips on optical parts, need to be addressed, and the results could alter the landscape of optoelectronic packaging.
Recent publications
A. Barnett, C. Honsberg, D. Kirkpatrick, S. Kurtz, D. Moore, D. Salzman, R. Schwartz, J. Gray, S. Bowden, K. Goossen, M. Haney, D. Aiken, M. Wanlass, K. Emery, "50% Efficient Solar Cell Architectures and Designs," 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion.
Chapters
A. Barnett, C. Honsberg, D. Kirkpatrick, S. Kurtz, D. Moore, D. Salzman, R. Schwartz, J. Gray, S. Bowden, K. Goossen, M. Haney, D. Aiken, M. Wanlass, K. Emery, "50% Efficient Solar Cell Architectures and Designs," 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion.
