Dr. Xunming Deng

Selected Current Research Programs as Principal Investigator or Co-PI (as of May 2005):

 

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Thin Film Photovoltaic Partnership Program

“Fabrication and Characterization of High Efficiency, Triple-junction Amorphous Silicon Based Solar Cells”

PI: Xunming Deng, Co-PI: Robert Collins

$1,183,000, Started March 2005.

 

US Department of Energy

Hydrogen Production

“Critical Research for Photoelectrochemical Production of Hydrogen”

PI: Liwei Xu (Midwest Optoelectronics), Co-PIs: Xunming Deng (UT) and John Turner (NREL)

Co-Is: Alvin Compaan (UT), Robert Collins (UT), Dean Giolando (UT), Maria Coleman (UT), A.H. Jayatissa (UT), and J. Yang (Uni-Solar)

$2,921,501, Started Oct. 2004.

 

Edison Materials Technology Center

Hydrogen Economy Program

“Development of Improved Materials for Integrated Photovoltaic-Electrolysis Hydrogen Generation Systems”

PI: Liwei Xu (MWOE), Co-PI: Xunming Deng (UT)

Co-Is: Stan Rubini (MWOE), Alvin Compaan (UT), John Turner (NREL)

$325,000, Started March 2005.

 

Air Force Research Lab, Kirtland AFB

"Lightweight and Flexible Thin Film Solar Cells Based on a-Si and CdTe"

PI: Alvin Compaan; Co-PI: Xunming Deng

Co-Is: Dean Giolando and Victor Karpov.

$1,247,000  Started Nov. 2002.

 

Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson AFB/Universal Technology Corporation

Photovoltaic Hydrogen for Portable, On-Demand Power”

PI: Xunming Deng

Co-Is: Alvin Compaan and Maria Coleman

$1,620,000, Started June 2003.

 

Ohio Department of Development

Program: Wright Capital Projects

Title: “Center for Photovoltaic Electricity and Hydrogen”

PI: Alvin Compaan, Co-PI: Xunming Deng

Co-Is: Dean Giolando and Victor Karpov

$2,000,000 Started Oct. 2003

 

Ohio Department of Development

Program: Wright Capital Projects

Title: “Center for Photovoltaic Electricity and Hydrogen”

PI: Alvin Compaan, Co-PI: Xunming Deng

Co-Is: Robert Collins, Dean Giolando and Victor Karpov

$100,000 Started Jan. 2005

 

National Science Foundation

NSF Partnership for Innovation Program

"Northwest Ohio Partnership on Alternative Energy Systems"

PI: Frank Calzonetti

Co-PIs: Alvin Compaan, Materials Coleman, Xunming Deng and Thomas Stuart

$600,000, Started Oct. 2002.

 

Selected Prior Research Programs:

 

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Thin Film Partnership Program

“High-efficiency and high-rate deposited amorphous silicon-based solar cells”

PI: Xunming Deng

$660,000, 2001-2004 

 

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Thin Film Partnership Program

“High efficiency thin film CdTe and a-Si based solar cells”

PI: Alvin Compaan, Co-PI: Xunming Deng

Co-I: Randy Bohn

$1,063,854, 1998-2001

 

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Thin Film Partnership Program

“Development of high, stable-efficiency triple-junction a-Si solar cells”

PI: Xunming Deng (ECD)

Total: $3,094,907, with $945,000 from NREL, 1994-1998

 

General Motor Corporation

“Multijunction a-Si solar cells for photoelectrochemical generation of hydrogen”

PI: Xunming Deng

$100,000, 2002-2004.

 

US Department of Energy

Small Business Innovation Research Program

“Amorphous Silicon Based Neutron Detector”

PI: Liwei Xu (MWOE)

Co-Is: Xunming Deng (UT) and David Holcomb (Oak Ridge National Lab)

$100,000, 2003-2004

 

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