Innovative
SIMES Solar-Energy Technology Funded by DOE
July 18,
2012
The U.S.
Department of Energy has awarded a research group at the Stanford Institute for
Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) a grant of up to $900,000 over three
years to design, build and test an innovative high-temperature solar-energy
conversion device that could enable more efficient utility-scale concentrating
solar power systems.
The new
device is based on the photon-enhanced thermionic emission (PETE) process first
demonstrated in 2010 by a group led by SIMES researchers Nicholas Melosh and
Zhi-Xun Shen. SIMES is a joint SLAC/Stanford institute.
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