Research Proposal

Guidelines for Milestones

e core research project must include the milestones and projected time of completion. Good milestones should be ambitious,
ptions should detail the anticipated contributions to the research project and include dependencies and expected results, deliv
have completed the tasks set for that milestone and/or that you have reached a decision-making point regarding the next st

earch proposal will guide your research and will be used to assess progress towards completion of the research project during
s reports timeline:
and Final Reports

estones as needed per time period. Milestones may be divided in individual steps to highlight dependencies and particular step
es not count against the page limit for the research proposal.

organize your milestones.

for Milestones
 Research Proposal
Milestones
For more information: Guidelines for Milestones

Description of Milestone Sub Steps (if any)

6 months

Example of a good milestone: Identify the efficiency loss

mechanisms in multicrystalline silicon wafers that can increase
minority carrier lifetimes several-fold, and cell efficiencies by 10-
40% relative, when these defects are removed.

Sub Step #1
Milestone #2 Sub Step #2
Sub Step #3
9 months
Sub Step #1
Milestone #1 Sub Step #2
Sub Step #3
Sub Step #1
Milestone #2 Sub Step #2
Sub Step #3
12 months
Sub Step #1
Milestone #1 Sub Step #2
Sub Step #3
Sub Step #1
Milestone #1 Sub Step #2
Sub Step #3
15 months
Sub Step #1
Milestone #2 Sub Step #2
Sub Step #3
18 months
Sub Step #1
Milestone #1 Sub Step #2
Sub Step #3
Sub Step #1
Milestone #2 Sub Step #2
Sub Step #3
21 months
Sub Step #1
Milestone #1 Sub Step #2
Sub Step #3
Sub Step #1
Milestone #2 Sub Step #2
Sub Step #3
24 months
Sub Step #1
Milestone #1 Sub Step #2
Sub Step #3
Sub Step #1
Milestone #2 Sub Step #2
Sub Step #3

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