Researchers at the Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies (QESST) Engineering Research Center are hoping to meet much of the terawatt challenge with solar technology alone by vastly improving the performance of photovoltaic cells.

QESST is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy under NSF grant #1041895, and is headquartered at Arizona State University. Partner universities include Caltech, MIT, Georgia Tech, and the Universities of Arizona, Delaware, Houston and New Mexico.

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