QESST

The Quantum Energy and Sustainable Solar Technologies (QESST) lab is an Engineering Research Center. QESST is an Engineering Research Center (ERC) sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that focuses on advancing photovoltaic science, technology, and education in order to address one of society's greatest challenges: sustainably transforming electricity generation to meet the growing demand for energy... QESST was established in 2011 as an NSF-DOE funded Engineering Research Center. It represents a collaboration between multiple universities... For the past decade, the PV industry has expanded at an average compound annual growth rate of nearly 40 percent. At this growth rate, the PV industry can satisfy the all-new global demand for electricity in the next 10 years. Sustaining such growth rates is an enormous challenge-but one that has been met by other semiconductor industries. The goal of the QESST ERC is to develop a technology..