Publications related to Optical characterization of a solar concentrating dish system

Related publications (22)

Radiation Efficiency and Gain Bounds for Microstrip Patch Antennas

This article presents bounds on radiation efficiency and gain for microstrip patch antennas, demonstrating close alignment with the performance of classic antenna designs. These bounds serve as effective benchmarks for assessing antenna performance and eva ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2025

Machine-learning-empowered FDTD/FEM simulations for predictive solar energy absorption in plasmonic metamaterial nanocavity arrays

Amir Jafargholi

FDTD/FEM simulations, strengthened by machine learning, achieve 95.44% optical absorption efficiency in TiO 2 /TiN plasmonic nanocavities for solar energy harvesting. ...

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)2025

Sub-mm3 dimensional scaling of fully-integrated additively-fabricated microsupercapacitors for embedded energy storage applications

Vivek Subramanian, Amin Hodaei

Microsupercapacitors (MSCs) are attractive energy devices for applications in IoT, wireless sensors, and other microelectronic systems due to their small footprints. In this work, the dimensional scaling of fully-integrated additively-fabricated MSCs is sy ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2024

A method and system for optimizing design, implantation, and stimulation protocols of electrodes stimulating the nervous system

Silvestro Micera, Simone Romeni

A method for optimizing at least one of a geometry, an implantation procedure, and/or stimulation protocol of one or more electrodes for an electrical stimulation of a target structure in a nervous system of a living being by a computer device, the method ...

2024

Vapor Deposition of Perovskite Solar Cells

Quentin Jean-Marie Armand Guesnay

Thanks to the continuous improvement of crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells, largely dominating the market, photovoltaic electricity is nowadays the cheapest source of energy on the market. Yet, solar energy is far from being completely harvested, as t ...

EPFL2023

GeoNeRF: Generalizing NeRF with Geometry Priors

François Fleuret

We present GeoNeRF, a generalizable photorealistic novel view synthesis method based on neural radiance fields. Our approach consists of two main stages: a geometry reasoner and a renderer. To render a novel view, the geometry reasoner first constructs cas ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2022

An Accelerated First-Order Method for Non-convex Optimization on Manifolds

Christopher Arnold Criscitiello, Nicolas Boumal

We describe the first gradient methods on Riemannian manifolds to achieve accelerated rates in the non-convex case. Under Lipschitz assumptions on the Riemannian gradient and Hessian of the cost function, these methods find approximate first-order critical ...

SPRINGER2022

Large-scale evaluation of the suitability of buildings for photovoltaic integration: Case study in Greater Geneva

Roberto Castello, Gilles Desthieux

In the context of a rapid and massive deployment or renewable energy and in particular solar photovoltaic, it is necessary to develop methods and tools to guide this deployment. To this end, this work proposes a multicriteria approach for evaluating the su ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Photo‐Electrochemical Conversion of CO 2 Under Concentrated Sunlight Enables Combination of High Reaction Rate and Efficiency

Sophia Haussener, Silvan Suter, Etienne Boutin, Mahendra Patel

Photo-electrochemical production of solar fuels from carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight is an appealing approach. Nevertheless, it remains challenging to scale despite encouraging demonstrations at low power input. Higher current densities require notable ...

Wiley2022

Unfolding the multiscale structure of networks with dynamical Ollivier-Ricci curvature

Alexis Arnaudon, Adám Gosztolai

Describing networks geometrically through low-dimensional latent metric spaces has helped design efficient learning algorithms, unveil network symmetries and study dynamical network processes. However, latent space embeddings are limited to specific classe ...

Nature Portfolio2021

Voss surfaces: A design space for geodesic gridshells

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Nicolas Robin Montagne

The design of envelopes with complex geometries often leads to construction challenges. To overcome these difficulties, resorting to discrete differential geometry proved successful by establishing close links between mesh properties and the existence of g ...

2021

Structured light engineering using a photonic nanojet

Toralf Scharf, Maryam Yousefi

In this Letter, we present the photonic nanojet as a phenomenon in a structured light generator system that is implemented to modify the source focal spot size and emission angle. The optical system comprises a microlens array that is illuminated by a focu ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2021

Modeling cardiac muscle fibers in ventricular and atrial electrophysiology simulations

Alfio Quarteroni

Since myocardial fibers drive the electric signal propagation throughout the myocardium, accurately modeling their arrangement is essential for simulating heart electrophysiology (EP). Rule-Based-Methods (RBMs) represent a commonly used strategy to include ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021

Last Heir or First Engineer? An Intellectual Portrait of Vincenzio Viviani through his Working Papers

Simon François Dumas Primbault

Self-proclaimed Galileo’s ultimo discepolo, Vincenzio Viviani (1622-1703) strove all his life to become a renowned mathematician. Extolling the supposed purity of Euclid’s geometry, he sought to recover the lost knowledge of the Ancients, and fashioned him ...

2020

Coordinate Difference Matrices

Martin Vetterli, Gilles Baechler, Golnooshsadat Elhami, Miranda Krekovic

In many problems such as phase retrieval, molecular biology, source localization, and sensor array calibration, one can measure vector differences between pairs of points and attempt to recover the position of these points; this class of problems is called ...

SIAM PUBLICATIONS2020

Penalization and Bayesian numerical methods for multiscale inverse problems

Andrea Di Blasio

In this thesis we consider inverse problems involving multiscale elliptic partial differential equations. The name multiscale indicates that these models are characterized by the presence of parameters which vary on different spatial scales (macroscopic, m ...

EPFL2019

Volumetric untrimming: Precise decomposition of trimmed trivariates into tensor products

Pablo Antolin Sanchez

3D objects, modeled using Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD) tools, are traditionally represented using a boundary representation (B-rep), and typically use spline functions to parameterize these boundary surfaces. However, recent development in physic ...

2019

In-situ and post annealing effect on the microstructure and the optical properties of black Cu-Co-Mn oxide spinel coating for Parabolic Trough Collector (PTC) applications

Andreas Schueler, Josef Andreas Schuler, Anna Krammer, Samaneh Daviran

The present paper deals with the deposition of Cu-Co-Mn oxides thin film by magnetron sputtering to produce a black selective coating for solar Parabolic Trough Collector (PTC) systems. The effect of temperature was studied between the nominal temperature ...

IOP Science2019

Towards a GIS-based Multiscale Visibility Assessment Method for Solar Urban Planning

Pietro Florio

Urban areas are facing a growing deployment of solar photovoltaic and thermal tech-nologies on building envelopes, both on roofs and on façades, essential for the realization of the Swiss Energy Strategy 2050. This process often occurs regardless of the de ...

EPFL2018

Box-type solar cooker

Andreas Schueler, Dasaraden Mauree, Olivia Valérie Charlotte Bouvard

Solar cooker with a core comprising at least one insulating wall and at least one window having a glazing on which is deposited a low-e coating, characterized by the fact that said window(s) is/are oriented along several directions ...

2018