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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