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Seven projects selected for DARPA’s Rads to Watts
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected seven teams for its Rads to Watts program, setting off a competition to design radiovoltaic cells capable of providing power in extreme environments such as deep sea and space.
The teams are now working on developing a unit cell, simple demonstrations that their design ideas work. These are expected to be low power but capable of being scaled up into a higher-power array.
Kent F. Hansen
Chih H. WangOctave J. Du Temple
University of Florida (First Place)University of Missouri-Columbia (Second Place)University of Wisconsin (Second Place)
Eastern IdahoVirginia (Honorable Mention)Trinity-New Mexico (Honorable Mention)Richland (Honorable Mention)
David L. Galbraith
Richard F. Post
Charles Artandi
Gerald Tape
Experimental Breeder Reactor (EBR-II) Project Team
GraduatePurdue UniversityAlfred L. B. HoUndergraduateUniversity of TennesseeD. Cook, R. Gouldy, K. Harrington, P. Shelton, D. Sullivan, R. Wagner
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