Members

Country	Institution / Lab – Company / Service	Full name	Expertise (related to TPV)
Australia
	The University of New South Wales / QPV Research Group	Nicholas Ekins-Daukes	Thermoradiative cells
Canada
	University of Ottawa / Micro and Nano Systems Lab	Raphael St-Gelais	MEMS for near-field heat transfer control and near-field thermophotovoltaics
	York University / AM-SET-Lab	Paul O’Brien	Optical filters and cavities for TPV
	York University / AM-SET-Lab	Nima Talebzadeh	Solar TPV, optical cavities, TPV in cube-satellites
China
	Harbin Institute of Technology	Junming Zhao	Near-field TPV
	Kunming University of Science and Technology	Yu Wang	Emitters, narrow bandgap TPV cells, optical filters, thermal management
France
	INSA Lyon – CNRS – UCBL / CETHIL	Olivier Chapuis	Near field, emitters
	INSA Lyon – CNRS – UCBL / CETHIL	Thomas Châtelet (PhD candidate)	Near-field thermophotonics
	INSA Lyon – CNRS – UCBL / CETHIL	Julien Legendre (PhD candidate)	Near-field thermophotonics
	INSA Lyon – CNRS – UCBL / CETHIL	Wissal Sghaier (PhD candidate)	Near-field thermophotonics
	INSA Lyon – CNRS – UCBL / CETHIL	Mathieu Thomas (PhD candidate)	Near-field TPV, near-field thermophotonics
	Univ Gustave Eiffel – CNRS / ESYCOM Lab.	Elyes Nefzaoui	Emitters, absorbers
	Univ Montpellier – CNRS / IES	Philippe Christol	Fabrication and characterization of Sb-based devices
	Univ Montpellier – CNRS / IES	Basile Roux (PhD candidate)	Superlattice thermophotovoltaic cells
	Univ Montpellier – CNRS / IES	Rodolphe Vaillon	Emitters, cells, near-field TPV
	Université de Poitiers / Institut Pprime	Jérémie Drevillon	Emitters
Germany
	Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE	Henning Helmers	III-V TPV cells: design, epitaxy incl multi-junction, fabrication incl back reflector technology, characterization; TPV modules: dense arrays (maximal packing factor), active cooling, encapsulation; selective emitters
	Hamburg University of Technology and Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon	Manfred Eich	Emitters, metamaterials, degradation processes at high temperatures
	German Aerospace Center / Thermal Systems for Fluids	Thomas Bauer	TPV and thermal energy storage and/or concentrating solar power
India
	Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur / Department of Electrical Engineering	Ravita Lamba	Modeling and simulation of TPV systems
Italy
	ISM – CNR / DiaTHEMA Lab	Alessandro Bellucci	Hybrid thermionic-PV, ultra-high temperature emitters, surface nanostructuring
	ISM – CNR / DiaTHEMA Lab	Daniele Trucchi	Hybrid thermionic-PV, ultra-high temperature emitters, surface nanostructuring
	Università di Padova / Dipartimento di Fisica Astronomia	Enrico Napolitani
Japan
	Niigata University / Radiative Transfer Laboratory	Atsushi Sakurai	Metamaterials, absorbers, emitters, photovoltaic cells
	Tohoku University / REC	Makoto Shimizu	Emitters, solar TPV
Republic of Korea
	KAIST / TRAD	Bong Jae Lee	Emitters, cells, near-field TPV
Spain
	ICFO / Thermal Photonics Group	Georgia T. Papadakis	Surface plasmon polaritons, surface phonon polaritons, near-field heat transfer, thermodynamic limits, thermal emission
	ICFO / Thermal Photonics Group	Maxime Giteau (Postdoctoral researcher)	Theoretical bounds of TPV systems, high-efficiency concepts, design of thermal emitters in the far- and near-field
	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid / IES / III-V	Carlos Algora	Cells, emitters and whole systems
	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid / IES / SyNC	Alejandro Datas	Cells, latent heat TPV, hybrid thermionic-PV
	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid / IES / III-V	Iván García	Semiconductor epitaxy, cell fabrication, characterization and modeling
	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid / IES / SyNC	Pablo García-Linares	Cell processing and characterization, latent heat TPV, hybrid thermionic-PV
	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid / IES / SyNC	Esther López	Cell characterization, latent heat TPV systems
Sweden
	Lund University / NanoLund – Center for Nanoscience	Heiner Linke	Nanowires, heterostructures, hot-carrier photovoltaics, thermionic
Taiwan
	National Tsing Hua University / RTELab	Yu-Bin Chen	TPV emitters, emittance measurements
Thailand
	Chulalongkorn University	Naphatsorn Vongsoasup	Near-field TPV, cells
United Kingdom
	Lancaster University / School of Engineering	Peter Carrington	GaInAsSb based TPV materials and devices
USA
	Antora Energy	Brendan Kayes	TPV cell and module fabrication, process development, characterization, cost reduction, performance improvement, multijunctions, III-V, Si, Ge
	Antora Energy	Moritz Limpinsel	Development of TPV modules
	Antora Energy	Geordie Zapalac	TPV cell characterization
	Arizona State University	Liping Wang	Selective emitters/cells, optical and electrical characterizations of TPV cells, high-temperature spectral emittance measurements, far-field (solar) TPV tests, near-field TPV
	Arizona State University	Richard R. King	Low-bandgap III-V TPV cells, high reflectance back contacts, reduced contact coverage fraction, photon recycling in high-efficiency devices, low series resistance architectures, multijunction TPV cells
	Georgia Institute of Technology / Nanoscale Thermal Radiation Laboratory	Zhuomin Zhang	Near-field radiative heat transfer, radiative energy conversion devices, selected emitters including chiral materials and nonreciprocal materials
	MIT / ASE Group	Alina LaPotin (PhD candidate)	TPV characterization and integration, high-temperature thermal energy storage system using TPV
	NASA Glenn Research Center	Donald L. Chubb (retired)	Selective emitters, TPV space power systems, TPV with thermal storage, combined TPV-thermoelectric systems
	NREL	Ryan France	III-V materials and device development and characterization
	NREL / HECP	Myles Steiner	Growth, fabrication and characterization of III-V devices
	Purdue University	Dudong Feng (Postdoctoral researcher)	Near-field TPV, numerical modeling of TPV and other radiative energy converters, characterization of cell properties, cell test
	Purdue University / Birck Nanotechnology Center	Peter Bermel	Selective emitters, selective absorbers, direct thermal emission measurement, VASE ellipsometry, thin-film deposition
	University of Michigan / Lenert Lab	Andrej Lenert	Thin-film TPV cells, high-temperature emitter materials, model development, system integration and testing
	University of Michigan / Lenert Lab and OCM group	Rebecca Lentz (PhD candidate)	Si and III-V TPV cell growth, fabrication and characterization
	University of Michigan / Lenert Lab	Bosun Roy-Layinde (PhD candidate)	III-V cells, emitters, multijunction devices, fabrication and characterization of TPV cells, high sub-bandgap reflectance cells
	University of Michigan / OCM group	Deiju Fan (alumni)	Thin-film III-V and Si air-bridge TPV cells growth, fabrication, and characterization
	University of New Mexico / Center for High Technology Materials	Ganesh Balakrishnan	Antimonides, MBE, metamorphic buffer
	University of Oklahoma / QDL	Rui Q Yang	III-V narrow bandgap materials, mid-infrared semiconductor lasers, PV devices
	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Eric Tervo	Cells, III-V fabrication & characterization, near-field TPV

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