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Agrivoltaic Simulation
Presentation Materials | 23 Sep 2019 | Contributor(s):: Hans Torsina, Allison Perna, Peter Bermel
With the continually increasing food and energy demands which require sustainability, novel solutions in which agrivoltaic (agrophotovoltaic) is a part of are pushed to solve local land shortages and increase land productivity. Compared to...
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RadCool: a Web-enabled Simulation Tool for Radiative Cooling
Presentation Materials | 14 Aug 2017 | Contributor(s):: Yu-wen (Wendy) Lin, Evan L Schlenker, Zhou Zhiguang, Peter Bermel
Thermophotovoltaic (TPV) systems can generate electricity from high-temperature heat sources via thermal radiation. However, the intense heating of a photovoltaic (PV) cell can greatly reduce the overall efficiency of the system. Therefore, it is critical to develop techniques to keep the PV...
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PUMP: A tool of global meteorological data for optimizing
Presentation Materials | 07 Aug 2017 | Contributor(s):: Binglin Zhao, Xingshu Sun, Muhammad A. Alam
We have build a PUMP can facilitate the development and optimization of solar farms globally by providing quick access to various meteorological database. Solar energy is one of the top runners among the renewable energy. The design and...
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Reproducing simulations in "High efficiency rare-earth emitter for thermophotovoltaic applications"
Presentation Materials | 18 Aug 2015 | Contributor(s):: Enas Sakr
In this presentation we use the Thermophotonic Selective Emitter Simulation tool in nanoHUB to reproduce results of the paper "High efficiency rare-earth emitter for thermophotovoltaic applications" published in Applied Physics Letters. The paper abstract is below. In this work, we...
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Thermophotovoltaic Efficiency Simulation
Presentation Materials | 25 Mar 2014 | Contributor(s):: Qingshuang Chen, Roman Shugayev, Peter Bermel
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NEGF theory of quantum photovoltaic devices
Presentation Materials | 22 Sep 2011 | Contributor(s):: Urs Aeberhard
Many high-efficiency photovoltaics concepts require an advanced control and manipulation of the optoelectronic properties of the active device structure, leading to a prominent role of low dimensional absorbers such as quantum wells, wires and dots in the implementation of these concepts....