A Solar Solution

UD’s Abhishek Iyer and team work toward a better solar panel system

University of Delaware electrical engineering graduate student Abhishek Iyer and his team are all working toward a low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell that can be processed in a lab environment.

From the very beginning they were looking to find a commercial viability for the research they were doing. Their goal: scale it from their research and find a place in the current market.

To get there, the team has enrolled in a number of different programs and competitions including the UD Hen Hatch pitch competition, National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps Sites, NSF I-Corps Teams, and NSF Small Business Innovation Research.

Iyer says the team “really wants to license the technology to a manufacturer or build their own company. It’s ambitious but we can do it.”

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