Have you designed and tested an outstanding QESST Outreach activity? Share it with the community! Write up a detailed description of your BEST outreach activity. QESST SLC is working on a book of solar energy outreach activities. We need your best ideas. What’s in it for you? A FREE textbook of your choice for the […]
QESST Education and Outreach is challenging QESST scholars to explain their research to the general public using only the 1000 most common words in the English language: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:1000_basic_English_words QESST Education and Outreach is challenging QESST scholars to explain their research to the general public. Describe […]
Come join the fun for one of ASU’s largest signature homecoming events- the 2016 Homecoming Block Party. This event will feature activities for the whole family, including interactive displays, games and activities. This year, QESST will be hosting a booth outside the Engineering Research Center. We will be featuring solar cells made by QESST scholars, […]
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 […]
Dr. Delia Saenz, QESST Diversity Director, will be hosting Michael Begaye, Executive Director, ASU American Indian Student Support Services (AISSS), and Annabell Bowen, Coordinator of American Indian Initiatives, Office of University Provost, who will be presenting information to QESST faculty and scholars regarding how they recruit and retain Native American students, and ways in which […]
This past summer, many of the QESST Scholars took short-term positions and internships in industry. Hiring companies included First Solar, Veeco, Applied Materials, and Solexel. For example, Ph.D. students Yeongho Kim and Chaomin Zhang worked at Veeco’s facilities in Somerset, New Jersey. By meeting and interacting with Veeco’s management and technical teams, they learned first-hand […]
John Mitchell, Industrial Liaison Officer for QESST, and the Fulton Schools of Engineering Career Center lead a 4 hour workshop and luncheon. The focus of the workshop was entrepreneurship. Guest speakers, Brian Peterson of Rafael Tirado & Associates discussed resources available for startup and spinoff companies, legal issues regarding international partnerships, establishing LLC and S-Corp, […]
Introduction to PV Manufacturing Decision Making: Product Cost Analysis and Hypothesis Testing Who should attend? Engineers, technicians and managers working in and around PV manufacturing environments who are looking to increase their cost analysis and statistical decision making skills. Dates February 19-20, 2013 Venue SkySong, the ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center 1475 North Scottsdale Road, Suite […]
Photovoltaics is cost competitive in a number of markets, but advances in cell technology are necessary to spread PV systems worldwide and reach terawatt scale. To leap ahead in PV technologies requires strategies for facilitating the rapid implementation of advanced device structures, e.g. selective emitters and rear point contacts. Furthermore, integrating new processing techniques and […]
QESST scholar, Katie Nelson, discusses her poster on QESST educational initiatives with members of the NSF/DOE site visit team. During the two-day site visit, QESST scholars presented their research during a poster session attended by the site visit team, QESST faculty and scholars from all eight QESST universities, and potential industry consortium members. Selected QESST […]
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