Prof. Tervo gave an invited talk titled “Empirical TPV Design Rules and Performance Predictions” at the 14th World Conference on Thermophotovoltaic Generation of Electricity. This presentation described a new way to predict TPV efficiency and …
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Two graduate students join the lab!
Welcome to the Energy Transport & Conversion Laboratory’s newest members! Parth Solanki is a M.S. student in Mechanical Engineering. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His …
New paper on efficient, scalable thermophotovoltaic cells published in Joule
Prof. Tervo’s new paper describing record-efficiency thermophotovoltaic cells has been published in Joule! This work, performed at the National Renewable Laboratory in collaboration with Antora Energy and Arizona State University, details single-junction and two-junction tandem …
Five Undergraduate Students Join the Lab!
A warm welcome to the Energy Transport & Conversion Lab’s newest members! Calvin Mestelle is a 2nd-year Electrical & Computer Engineering student, and he is modeling thermophotovoltaic cell electrical performance under a variety of operating …
CoE Features Prof. Tervo in a ‘New Faculty’ Article
The UW-Madison College of Engineering has featured Prof. Tervo in an article describing his research and background. Thanks to Jason Daley for writing a great description of his work! Check it out at the link …
Welcome!
Welcome to the website of the Energy Transport & Conversion Lab! We are a new research group (Fall ’22) with cross-disciplinary expertise in energy conversion, semiconductor materials & devices, and heat transfer. Our research includes …