QESST Scholar gives an extended oral talk at IEEE PVSC

Antony Aguilar, QESST scholar

Outcome/Accomplishment QESST scholar Antony Aguilar was invited to present the extended oral talk at the 2016 IEEE Photovoltaics Specialist Conference in Portland, Oregon. Antony presented the paper, Development of Cu Plating for Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells, representing the High Efficiency Silicon Solar Cell (HESSC) team directed by QESST faculty, Stuart Bowden. Co-authors included other QESST […]

Read More…

QESST Hosts Delegation from Tec De Monterrey

On September 23-24, 2015, QESST faculty and scholars taught 21 architectural undergraduate students and 2 faculty members from Tecnologico de Monterrey how to design their own photovoltaic module. The visiting undergraduates worked with sixteen QESST Scholars during the two-day workshop, which was hosted by the Solar Power Lab in the ASU Research Park (Tempe, Arizona). […]

Read More…

Pablo Guimerá Coll places first in National Science Foundation Engineering Research Centers’ Perfect Pitch Competition

Pablo Guimerá Coll, a doctoral student in materials science and engineering, took first place in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Centers’ Perfect Pitch Competition that was held in Washington D.C. The QESST (Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technology) Scholar, Coll, won the Perfect Pitch competition for his research project on “Sound Assisted Low Temperature […]

Read More…

QESST for solar power to feed an energy hungry world

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 […]

Read More…