Carposol

Carposol Technologies plans to commercialize a novel patented product for harvesting sunlight to power electronic devices off the grid.

  • Stage Product In Development
  • Industry Clean Technology
  • Location Orlando, FL, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded August 2009
  • Website carposol.com

Company Summary

With today’s proliferation of mobile electronic devices, it is frustratingly common to experience the inconvenience of a dead device when not having access to power for recharging. Carposol Technologies plans to commercialize a patented, novel product for harvesting sunlight to power electronic devices with a unique, low-cost technology based on waterproof, flexible solar sheets with a fabric-like texture assembled from thin plastic fibers.

Team

  • Esmaeil-Hooman Banaei
    Mr.

    Esmaeil-Hooman is current a PhD student in Electrical Engineering at UCF. He is developing Carposol’s core technology as of his PhD thesis at CREOL/UCF. He is co-founder and Director of Product Development at Carposol Technologies.

  • Ayman F. Abouraddy
    Prof.

    Ayman F. Abouraddy received the Ph.D. degree from Boston University, Boston, MA, in 2003 in electrical engineering. He then joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as a postdoctoral fellow and then Research Scientist at the Research Laboratory of Electronics. He joined CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics at UCF as an assistant professor in 2008. He is co-founder, President and technology advisor of Carposol Technologies.

  • Michael O'Donnell
    Mr.

    Michael is a faculty member at the College of Business at UCF. He has extensive experience with start-ups, as an angel investor and business advisor.

Advisors

  • Laura K. Spedick
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

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