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When fully installed, the solar windows likely won’t fully power a building, but rather, offset other generating sources. “Apart from Ellsworth, we have letters of support from three other bases.” “Our technology resonated with civil engineers working on base resiliency around the country to reinforce energy reliability at aging military facilities,” McDaniel said.

UbiQD spoke with Air Force personnel around the country under an initial, $50,000 SBIR grant to promote its technology, leading to the phase II, $750,000 grant for installation at Ellsworth. “That’s what the Ellsworth base wants - grid-tied solar windows,” McDaniel said. The company has already deployed the window technology in various pilot projects, including the Holiday Inn Express in Los Alamos, and at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado.Īnd, in July, it installed the first half dozen WENDOWs of a 36-window installation at Western Washington University’s campus art gallery, where the university plans to power up things like art exhibits, while also offering clean-energy learning opportunities for students. The dots absorb solar energy, or photons, which are then channeled to solar cells attached to window frames. In contrast, UbiQD’s product is made through an alternative, inexpensive process that uses low-cost and nontoxic elements, paving the way for new market applications, such as the solar-generating WENDOWs, which are imbedded with quantum dots. But traditionally, they’ve been extremely expensive to make, and they’re usually composed of toxic materials. They’re used today in everything from transistors and sunscreen to LCD televisions, tablets and smartphones. The nanoscale particles manipulate light in unique ways, absorbing it and emitting it back out in specific colors.

Quantum dots are microscopic, three-dimensional structures that measure about 10,000 times smaller than a human hair.

The Air Force contract could significantly accelerate UbiQD’s march to market for its solar window, or “WENDOW,” technology, which the company began developing in 2014 using advancements in quantum dots originally developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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