SUNLAB News
SDTC project funded
Professors Trevor Hall and Karin Hinzer, in partnership with Cyrium Technologies and the Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre (CPFC), have been awarded a multi-million dollar grant from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), officially announced on 28 July 2008. The objectives of this project are to boost the effectiveness of multijunction solar cells and produce electricity at a lower cost than with traditional silicon panels. The project includes the deployment of two demonstration concentrator systems using these state-of-the-art solar cells at the downtown University of Ottawa campus.
SUNRISE project funded
Drs. Trevor Hall, Karin Hinzer, and Henry Schriemer from the CRPuO have won a $3-million research fund. The National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) announced the winners of a special $15-million nanotechnology research funding competition. Among the five winning projects is "SUNRISE: Semiconductors Using Nanostructures for Record Increases in Solar-Cell Efficiency", in which Drs. Hall, Hinzer, and Schriemer from the CRPuO play essential roles with their university and industrial collaborators.