PhD student Debarati Sen and Prof. Tervo both presented at the recent SPIE Photonics West Conference. Deb described her work on the design of simple, scalable structures for tunable thermal emission. These could enable ultra-narrow …
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Welcome Max to the group!
A warm welcome to Max, our newest group member! Max is a M.S. student in Mechanical Engineering. He received his B.S. degree from UW-Madison (welcome back!), and he then spent several years as an engineer …
Welcome Yeonghoon to the group!
We are happy to welcome postdoctoral researcher Yeonghoon Jin to the group! Yeonghoon obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2023 from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) with a focus on thin-film …
Titi & Yuting present at SPIE Optics+Photonics conference
PhD students Titilope Dada and Yuting Li presented their research at the recent SPIE Optics+Photonics conference! Titi described her work on direct measurements of thermal emission from coated refractory metals, which could be used as …
Vida & Parth graduate with their Ph.D. and M.S. degrees!
Congratulations to Dr. Vida Nooshnab for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation and to Parth Solanki for defending and completing his M.S. degree! Vida made great contributions to improving our measurement techniques and understanding of quantum …
TPV performance predictions published in Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells!
Thermophotovoltaics (TPVs) offer a promising solution for efficient energy conversion from infrared photons to electricity, with applications ranging from solar-thermal energy conversion to waste heat recovery. Despite significant advancements, predicting optimal performance across various temperatures …
Vida presents at MRS Spring Meeting
PhD student Vida Nooshnab presented her research on measuring the optical properties of quantum cascade structures at the recent MRS Spring Meeting! In this talk, she described an approach combining spectroscopic ellipsometry and computational optical …
Titi presents at Photonics West
PhD student Titilope Dada presented her research on modeling of thermophotovoltaic (TPV) systems at the recent SPIE Photonics West conference! In this talk, she described the need for accurate and realistic models of TPV performance …
Welcome Umar & Yuxuan to the group
We are happy to welcome Umar Khan and Yuxuan Chen to the group! Umar is a undergraduate Computer Science and Data Science student who will work on open-source models for photovoltaic devices. Yuxuan is an …
Research on zero-gap TPVs published in Energy & Environmental Science!
One of the most challenging aspects of thermophotovoltaic (TPV) systems is creating and maintaining a gap between the hot thermal emitter and cool cell, especially for near-field devices. In research just published in Energy & …