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Following its fifth-round Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Core Technology Research funding opportunity announcement on 5 May, the US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has released its fifth-round SSL Product Development funding opportunity announcement.

The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Building Technologies Program, is soliciting applications from industrial organizations to perform high-priority product development activities for up to two years that will advance the state-of-the-art of SSL for general lighting applications.
The release marks the fifth DOE SSL Product Development funding opportunity in a series expected to span a decade. Product Development projects are designed to develop or improve commercially viable materials, devices, or systems.

Technical activities are to be focused on a targeted market application with fully defined price, efficacy, and other performance parameters necessary for success of the proposed product.

The defined program areas of interest are:

• LED-based integrated luminaries;
• High-efficiency LEDs or arrays;
• Phosphors or encapsulants;
• Electronics development;
• Organic light emitting diode (OLED) lighting panel;
• Low-cost substrates and encapsulation for OLEDs;
• Off-grid SSL products.

DOE anticipates making 2-5 awards of up to $900,000 each per year for program areas of interest 1-6 and up to $400,000 per year for program area of interest 7, totaling $7.5m.

DOE expects to notify recipients by the end of 2008 and to make the awards by April 2009.

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