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DARPA Awards Ascent Solar Team Multi-Million Dollar Contract for High-Efficiency Low-Cost Portable PV Program

Goal of PoP is to demonstrate low-cost, lightweight PV that can stand up to battle conditions and environmental extremes, deliver a power conversion efficiency of 20 percent or greater

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a developer of state of the art flexible thin-film solar modules, announced today that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected its team for an award under the Low-Cost Lightweight Portable Photovoltaics (PoP) solicitation. 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 pr...

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