The Fulton Schools of Engineering Dean’s office research team won a prize with their QESST solar panel cupcakes–best research themed cupcake. The cupcake decorating contest and bake sale was held to raise money for United Way. The solar panels, constructed with frosting covered graham crackers, may not have high efficiency, but they attracted a lot […]
When they first arrived at Arizona State University, Hilario Pio-Martinez and Victoria Chavez, two students from the Tohono O’odham Community College, felt intimidated. Neither is an engineer and they were embarking on a five-week, intensive photovoltaic technology research program as part of the Research Experience for Undergraduates through the Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies […]
Steven Limpert, a recent graduate in electrical engineering from Arizona State University, is the 2012 Fulbright Postgraduate Alumni Scholar, and also is the inaugural winner of the 2012 Fulbright U.S. Climate Change Scholarship. Through his Fulbright, Steven will spend a year at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), undertaking work towards a PhD at […]
Akhil Mehrotra, QESST Scholar from the University of Houston, was awarded the Best Student Oral Presentation Award at the 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC) award ceremony on Friday, June 8, 2012 in Austin, Texas. Akhil’s winning oral was titled “Superior Radiation and Dislocation Tolerance of IMM Space Solar Cells.” In the photo, Akhil accepts his award […]
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 […]
QESST partners feature prominently in the teams chosen to compete in the 2013 solar decathlon run by the U.S. Department of Energy. Arizona State University and University of New Mexico have a joint entry. California Institute of Technology has been selected once again to compete. Read more […]
Arizona State University is the lead partner in a new NSF-DOE Engineering Research Center, QESST. Center Director, Christiana Honsberg, a professor in the School of Electrical, Computing and Energy Engineering, one of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU, talks with program host Ted Simons. Watch the show. […]
On October 28, 2011, the QESST team organized and ran a booth as a part of ASU’s annual homecoming.The booth was meant to be informative as well as educational. Activities were developed that engaged all visitors in the topic of solar energy, including “light the light bulb,” learning about mulitmeters, and both seeing and playing […]
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