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2012 Power Players in Greentech
8 May 2012
Acoustic power recovery system for thermoacoustic cooling
To be presented at TechConnect World 2012
18 June 2012
1 January 2012
At PARC, we have developed a suite of resource and energy management technology aimed at strategic consolidation of resources with no loss of performance.
Analysis of device stability through measurements of the electronic structure of organic solar cells
37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC)
19 June 2011
Band tails and polarons in organic solar cells
Organic Microelectronics & Optoelectronics Workshop VII
20 July 2011
1 March 2010
PARC is developing a commercially viable approach to making carbon- neutral liquid fuel from sunlight and seawater that has the potential to be cost-effective, scalable, efficient, and, most important, realizable within the existing fuel infrastructure.
Carbon-neutral liquid fuel from sunlight, air, and water
Gordon Research Conference on Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels
1 February 2009
Charge transport and recombination in organic solar cells
SPIE Optics and Photonics 2011
21 August 2011
Co-extrusion printing for low cost and high performance energy devices
TechConnect World
19 June 2012
CO2 extraction from seawater using bipolar membrane electrodialysis
Energy & Environmental Science
February 2012
CoEx for Structured Battery Electrodes:
1 March 2012
PARC offers a proven co-extrusion printing technique, CoEx, that can enhance both the energy and power densities of batteries. A cost-effective way to manufacture structured electrodes, this technique can be applied to both cathodes and anodes for most mature battery chemistries.
Collaborating to complement expertise and reduce each other's risk
Power Assure wanted to develop its data center software‐as‐a‐service (SaaS) virtualization offerings to enable both greater energy savings and greater quality‐of‐service for customers.
IEEE PES Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies
17 January 2011
Chapter in Control and Optimization Theory for Electric Smart Grids
December 2011
1 January 2012
Recent trends in data center technology have created unprecedented new flexibility in data center configuration and operation, and yet there is still a substantial amount of wasted capacity and wasted energy in current data centers.
Determination of recombination mechanisms in organic solar cells
IEEE 35th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
21 June 2010
Developments in MEMS scale printable alkaline and Li-ion technology
SPIE DSS - Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications III Conference
25 April 2011
Energy-efficient, application-Aware medium access for sensor networks
Proceedings of IEEE MASS 2005: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems
7 November 2005
Extending the supply of alcohol fuels for energy security and carbon reduction
SAE Powertrains, Fuels, and Lubricants Conference
2 November 2009
1 February 2010
The increasing costs and environmental impact of electric power generation are changing the way we view power consumption. It is now far more important for customer loads to be flexible and effective in their power use and to better match their consumption to the availability and quality of power on the grid. These fundamental shifts in the electric power landscape are leading to tremendous business opportunities.
Formation of very low resistance contact for silicon photovoltaic cells
38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC)
3 June 2012
2009 IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
7 June 2009
Geothermal Rock-Fluid Interaction System
1 April 2011
PARC’s geothermal rock-fluid interaction system for modeling and evaluating wells and reservoirs could significantly reduce the risks and costs incurred during development of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS), a potential vast source of base-load renewable energy.
Improvement of silicon solar cell metallization with printed nickel nanoparticle ink
TechConnect World 2012
18 June 2012
Incubating cleantech venture to accelerate time to market
2009
Realizing that solar electricity would be widely adopted if it were cost-competitive with fossil fuel-derived electricity, the entrepreneurs behind SolFocus had developed a promising CPV approach -- in their garage -- and were working to advance their technology.
Influence of series resistance on the photocurrent analysis of organic solar cells
Organic Electronics
February 2011
Interactions of rocks with supercritical CO2 and water in enhanced geothermal systems and beyond
To be presented at TechConnect World 2012
18 June 2012
2010 IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference
20 June 2010
Kinetics of light induced defect creation in organic solar cells
Applied Physics Letters
30 January 2013
Localized state distribution and its effect on recombination in organic solar cells
Physical Review B
12 August 2011
A maximum-power-point-tracking control system for thermoelectric generators
The 3rd International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG 2012)
25 June 2012
26th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition
5 September 2011
Origin of the tunable open circuit voltage in ternary blend bulk heterojunction organic solar cells
Journal of the American Chemical Society
January 2013
Photoconductivity measurements of the electronic structure of organic solar cells
Physical Review B
April 2011
Progress in the development of modular reflective concentrators for large scale deployment
High and Low Concentration for Solar Electric Applications
1 September 2006
Recent developments in optics for concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) systems (Invited talk)
Frontiers in Optics 2007, Optical Society of America Annual Meeting
17 September 2007
Solar energy in California - can policies and new technologies change the energy mix?
International Congress on Applications of Lasers & Electro–Optics (ICALEO)
27 September 2010
Stanford Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering
30 January 2012
Technology Advances in Delivering Cost-Competitive Solar Energy
1 February 2005
This paper describes a particular high-performance CPV solution which compared to average flat-plate PV, uses 1/500th as much PV material and produces nearly twice as much electricity for a given collection area. The proposed solution is also smaller, cheaper, and easier to manufacture. These improvements enable generating electricity at less than half the cost possible with existing flat-plate technologies, potentially opening large new markets for clean solar energy.
The identification of recombination centers in organic solar cells
TechConnect World 2012
21 June 2012
Physical Review B
January 2011
