A five-year, $725,000 grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration will help South Dakota State University researchers show how new solar cell and battery materials can work in real-world applications, according to Professor Qiquan Qiao. The Harold C. Hohbach Endowed Professor in Electrical Engineering is the director of the Center for Advanced Photovoltaics and Sustainable […]
NSF Grant Helps Buy Equipment For Solar Cell & Electronic Research
South Dakota scientists’ work building next-generation devices to harvest solar energy will be easier thanks to a National Science Foundation grant for state-of-the-art equipment. Assistant professor Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi in SDSU’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science said the $250,000 grant will help researchers at South Dakota State University, as well as the South […]
Reducing Peak-Time Power Usage Through Smart-Home Technologies
Two South Dakota State University researchers are developing an energy management system that will help utility companies decrease peak-time power usage and pass those savings on to their participating customers. Zhen Ni and Tim Hansen, assistant professors in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, received a one-year, $80,000 grant from the South Dakota […]
Reducing Cost of Producing Supercapacitors
The ability to absorb and discharge energy quickly make supercapacitors an integral part of energy harvesting systems, such as the regenerative braking systems of hybrid vehicles, according to explainthatstuff.com. However, supercapacitors are expensive. About half the materials cost comes from the use of activated carbon to coat the electrodes, according to Materials Today. Supercapacitor-grade activated carbon […]