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Taking on critical solar energy challenges

Posted: October 06, 2011

Arizona State University’s role in accelerating advances in solar energy technology is expanding.

The university was recently named the lead institution for a new national research center supported by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy that will work to harness solar power in more economically viable and sustainable ways.

ASU engineering professor Christiana Honsberg directs a new national solar energy technology research center with the mission to make use of solar power more efficient and affordable.

ASU engineering professor Christiana Honsberg directs a new national solar energy technology research center with the mission to make use of solar power more efficient and affordable.

The Engineering Research Center for Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies – or QESTT – is directed by Christiana Honsberg, a professor in the School of Computing, Electrical and Energy Engineering, one of ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.

Along with other ASU engineers and research partners at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology and the University of Delaware, Honsberg will pursue breakthroughs in using quantum mechanics to increase the energy-conversion efficiency of photovoltaic solar cells.

More than 40 companies in the energy industry have also signed on as partners in the effort to bring new photovoltaic technologies to the marketplace.

The center will also help train the next generation of energy engineers and entrepreneurs.

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Joe Kullman

Joe Kullman is a science writer for the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. Before joining Arizona State University in 2006, Joe worked as a reporter, writer and editor for newspapers and magazines dating back to the dawn of the age of the personal computer. He began his career while earning degrees in journalism and philosophy from Kent State University in Ohio. Media Contact: [email protected] | 480-965-8122 | Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Communications

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