In Breakthrough Method of Creating Solar Cell Material, NREL Scientists Prove the Impossible Really Isn’t

https://www.nrel.gov/news/program/2019/breakthrough-method-creating-solar-cell-scientists-prove-impossible-is-not.html

Scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) achieved a technological breakthrough for solar cells previously thought impossible.

The scientists successfully integrated an aluminum source into their hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) reactor, then demonstrated the growth of the semiconductors aluminum indium phosphide (AlInP) and aluminum gallium indium phosphide (AlGaInP) for the first time by this technique.

“There’s a decent body of literature that suggests that people would never be able to grow these compounds with hydride vapor phase epitaxy,” said Kevin Schulte, a scientist in NREL’s Materials Applications & Performance Center and lead author of a new paper highlighting the research. “That’s one of the reasons a lot of the III-V industry has gone with metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE), which is the dominant III-V growth technique. This innovation changes things.”

The article, “Growth of AlGaAs, AlInP, and AlGaInP by Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy,” appears in the journal ACS Applied Energy Materials.

III-V solar cells—so named because of the position the materials fall on the periodic table—are commonly used in space applications. Notable for high efficiency, these types of cells are too expensive for terrestrial use, but researchers are developing techniques to reduce those costs.

One method pioneered at NREL relies on a new growth technique called dynamic hydride vapor phase epitaxy, or D-HVPE. Traditional HVPE, which for decades was considered the best technique for production of light-emitting diodes and photodetectors for the telecommunications industry, fell out of favor in the 1980s with the emergence of MOVPE. Both processes involve depositing chemical vapors onto a substrate, but the advantage belonged to MOVPE because of its ability to form abrupt heterointerfaces between two different semiconductor materials, a place where HVPE traditionally struggled.

That’s changed with the advent of D-HVPE.

Growth of AlGaAs, AlInP, and AlGaInP by Hydride Vapor Phase Epitaxy

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsaem.9b02080

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China plans a solar power play in space that NASA abandoned decades ago

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/15/china-plans-a-solar-power-play-in-space-that-nasa-abandoned-long-ago.html

John Mankins has spent his professional life working on novel ideas that could transform the way humans use technology in space, solar power among them. But Mankins’ interplanetary musings went beyond the way solar is already used to power satellites and the International Space Station. During a 25-year career at NASA and CalTech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he devised multiple concepts to extend the use of solar in space, among them a solar-powered interplanetary transport vehicle and a space-based power system.

It’s that second idea, in particular, that had Mankins’ attention while holding top research positions at NASA during the 1990s and 2000s, including overseeing the $800 million Exploration Systems Research and Technology group. Mankins — who now runs his own private aerospace firm, Artemis Innovation Management Solutions — had the task of figuring out whether there was a way to deliver electricity to the planet by beaming it from space. It’s an idea that could fundamentally reshape the idea of the utility business — and give control over it, on a global scale, to whichever world power gets there first.

“If you can dramatically lower the cost of space solar, you can take over most of the energy market of the world,” said Mark Hopkins, a member of the National Space Society board of directors and former Rand Corp. executive.

Mankins got close to seeing the idea make it into reality, with support from the Bush White House and Congress in the 2000s, and positive reviews from the National Academy of Sciences and a national security unit within the Department of Defense. But the program never took flight, for a variety of reasons. So when the news recently broke that the idea — abandoned decades ago by NASA — was coming back to life with a big push from government, it was cause for excitement. But it isn’t NASA finally backing the idea. It’s the Chinese government.

The space race heats up

China’s ambitions in space rival that of the United States. Its two main objectives were originally human spaceflight (accomplished in 2003) and a permanent Chinese space station, which is coming closer to reality — it announced in early March that a manned space station similar to ISS is now on schedule for 2022, earlier than expected.

As the two geopolitical foes increasingly turn their attention to a technological and military race beyond the earth’s atmosphere, space-based solar power projects are an overlooked, often criticized idea. But with China recently announcing that within the next decade it expects to finish the high voltage power transmission and wireless energy tests that would be needed for a space-based solar power system, the concept is likely to get renewed attention.

All of the plans in the space race have potential implications for a new military build-out in space of increasing relevance to the world’s powers. The Trump administration formalized plans in February for a branch of U.S. military known as the Space Force. The solar power station plans being contemplated by China include the launch of small- to medium-sized solar power projects in the stratosphere to generate electricity between 2021 and 2025, followed by a space-based solar power station that can generate at least a megawatt of electricity in 2030, and a commercial-scale solar power plant in space by 2050.

>>10129172

Cheaper solar cells and a faster manufacturing process

>>10129252

People like to think they are patriots

Because they talk about pedophiles

And they unveil Democrat criminals

But these people have failed to copmprehend

The massive scale of the evil

They have failed to swallow theRed Pill

And wake up to the fact

We are at war right now.

This is World War 3 and the USA very nearly lost this war

Trump's administration has held the line

And turned the tide of battle

Very much like the Red Army's Kursk Offensive in WWII

If you have studied how the Red Army did this

By preparing layers upon layers of defensive positions

Knowing that the Germans would overwhelm most of them

And then striking when a weak point appeared

And piling on to that point to begin encircling the enemy.

Then you will understand what Trump's America has been doing.

But the war has not been won

It is now being transformed into a race

With China in the superior position by many measures

To win, we needAll Hands On Deck

Because WWG1WGA

Science and Technology is where the race will be won

Manufacturing capability is the FOUNDATION of this

And Space is the Force Projection means

The USA has to build mining colonies (plural) on the moon

And use the materials to fuel ships to Mars

Which will carry materials from the Moon to Mars

To build colonies where humans can live and raise families.

The Great Rift Valley will be roofed over to hold in air pressure

And an oxygen rich atmosphere will be created there

So that farms can grow food and people can work outside without suits.

Russia is already on board with this plan

Nations in Africa are beginning to sign on as well

>>10129223

China has a satellite at one of the L2 points

And a rover operating on the dark side of the moon

They said they would do this

And then they did it

There is no reason to think that China will not complete its other space plans.

>>10129232

Do you get the impression that he has painted his skin a darker shade than he normally does?

Maybe all of our talk about him really being an Indonesian-European is having an impact.

>>10129444

You could take a surgical mask

Strategically stain it with coffee to get an effect like that

And then wear it when you go shopping

Smells good too…

>>10129455

Cadillac Championship Trump Model Search at Trump National Doral

Photography by Nathan Valentine on March 8th, 2015 in 2015 WGC Cadillac Championship, Celebrity, Lifestyle

https://worldredeye.com/2015/03/cadillac-championship-trump-model-search-at-trump-national-doral/

Tournament-goers enjoyed a full day of fashion-centric programming at the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship. Kicking off the day was the final round of the Trump Model Search which was judged by a panel that included Trump Models President, Corinne Nicolas, Trump Models Director of Scouting, Duane Gazi White, GQ’s Director of Booking, Richard Blandino, current Miss Universe, Paulina Vega, and Golf Channel’s Matt Ginella. After many gorgeous gals strutted their stuff on stage, model Valerie Chapman was crowned the winner of the Trump Model Search.

It is telling that the Democrats never tried to use this event against Trump during the campaign. Would have hit too close to home I think.

>>10129456

The Black Pope leader of the Jesuit Order

>>10129598

Tell POTUS that you want Assange to be pardoned in exchange for coming to the USA to testify before a Grand Jury in public.

>>10129592

You would be surprised how many black politicians are white folks with dyed skin and wigs and fake accents.