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Cambrios Selected as Part of Ascent Solar Team Awarded Multi-Million Dollar DARPA Contract

Contract is for Low-Cost Lightweight Portable Photovoltaics (PoP) Program

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World, Coatings World and Ink World Magazine

June 24, 2010
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Cambrios Technologies Corporation announced that is part of team that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected for an award under the Low-Cost Lightweight Portable Photovoltaics (PoP) solicitation. The team is led by Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a developer of state-of-the-art flexible thin-film solar modules.

The ASTI-led program, titled “Flexible High-performance Tandem-junction PV Array,” consists of three gated phases, the first of which is 18 months and has an approximate contract value of $3.8M. The entire program is anticipated to continue over the next 54 months. The goal of PoP is to demonstrate low-cost, lightweight photovoltaics (PV) that can stand up to battle conditions and environmental extremes while delivering a power conversion efficiency of 20% or greater by the end of the program.

ASTI leads a highly-talented team of small businesses that, in addition to Cambrios, includes ITN Energy Systems, Littleton, CO; Brewer Science, Rolla, MO; large businesses QinetiQ North America-TSG, Boston, MA; and academic institutions including the Institute of Energy Conversion (IEC), Newark, DE; partnered to leverage their collective expertise with dedicated funding from DARPA to meet the highly aggressive goals of the PoP program.

“It is a great opportunity for Cambrios to work with the team that DARPA has selected for the PoP project,” said Cambrios CEO Michael R. Knapp. “Our goal is for the novel ClearOhm formulations developed under this program to bring useful products to our customers as soon as possible.”

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