| Additional Information | | Research Statement: | CAMP, the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics at Stanford, is a research center led by Profs. Michael McGehee, Alan Sellinger and Peter Peumans with the goal of revolutionizing the global energy landscape by developing the science and technology for stable, efficient molecular photovoltaic cells that can compete with fossil fuels in cost per kilowatt-hour produced. While today’s best molecular solar cells have efficiencies up to 6.5% and last approximately 1 year in sunlight, our vision is to increase the efficiency to at least 15%, make the cells stable for 10 years or more, and develop the manufacturing technologies for the production of cells at very low cost.
To achieve these goals, CAMP has a renowned team of 17 principal investigators from Stanford, UC Berkeley, USC, Georgia Tech and EPFL. The Center Director is Prof. Michael McGehee (Stanford). The management team further consists of Executive Director Prof. Alan Sellinger (Stanford), Deputy Director Prof. Peter Peumans (Stanford), Prof. Reiner Dauskardt (Stanford), Prof. Mark Thompson (USC), Prof. Michael Grätzel (EPFL), and Prof. Jean-Luc Brédas (Georgia Tech). An estimated 50 or more students and post-doctoral researchers will be engaged in the research activities at CAMP. CAMP is funded starting June 2008 by a 5-year M grant from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Global Research Partnership program.
CAMP’s activities will span polymer, small molecular and dye-sensitized molecular solar cells with research activities in molecular design through advanced quantum mechanical calculations, chemical synthesis, nanostructure engineering and characterization, understanding and engineering carrier recombination, light management, transparent contacts, third generation cell concepts, and the engineering of durable molecular solar cells.
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