Solar Research Investments

South Dakota State University makes facilities investment to sustain solar research momentum. The university will build a new cleanroom which will be enabling research activities by the end of 2010. …

… “SDSU‘s 3,000-square-foot cleanroom will be be used chiefly for research with some use for the instruction of graduate students. ” …

Via Brookings Register: SDSU Cleanroom

Solar Cell Research at South Dakota State Univ: “There are currently two areas of solar cell research being conducted at SDSU; nano-crystalline silicon-based solar cells and photonic band gap structure to trap light in solar cells. ”