Peter Bermel

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Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Design and global optimization of high-efficiency thermophotovoltaic systems
    Peter Bermel
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02139, USA
    Opt Express 18:A314-34. 2010
  2. ncbi Tailoring photonic metamaterial resonances for thermal radiation
    Peter Bermel
    Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Nanoscale Res Lett 6:549. 2011
  3. ncbi Enabling high-temperature nanophotonics for energy applications
    Yi Xiang Yeng
    Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:2280-5. 2012
  4. ncbi Frequency-selective near-field radiative heat transfer between photonic crystal slabs: a computational approach for arbitrary geometries and materials
    Alejandro W Rodriguez
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    Phys Rev Lett 107:114302. 2011
  5. ncbi Purcell effect in nonlinear photonic structures: a coupled mode theory analysis
    Rafif E Hamam
    Center for Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
    Opt Express 16:12523-37. 2008
  6. ncbi Design and global optimization of high-efficiency solar thermal systems with tungsten cermets
    David Chester
    Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
    Opt Express 19:A245-57. 2011
  7. ncbi Tailoring optical nonlinearities via the Purcell effect
    Peter Bermel
    Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
    Phys Rev Lett 99:053601. 2007
  8. ncbi Global optimization of silicon photovoltaic cell front coatings
    Michael Ghebrebrhan
    Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
    Opt Express 17:7505-18. 2009

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Publications8

  1. ncbi Design and global optimization of high-efficiency thermophotovoltaic systems
    Peter Bermel
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02139, USA
    Opt Express 18:A314-34. 2010
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  2. ncbi Tailoring photonic metamaterial resonances for thermal radiation
    Peter Bermel
    Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Nanoscale Res Lett 6:549. 2011
    ..This represents a 250% increase in efficiency and 94% decrease in selective emitter area compared to a standard, angular-insensitive selective absorber.PACS: 42.70.Qs; 81.05.Xj; 78.67.Pt; 42.79.Ek...
  3. ncbi Enabling high-temperature nanophotonics for energy applications
    Yi Xiang Yeng
    Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:2280-5. 2012
    ..Finally, a precise high-temperature measurement technique is developed to confirm that emission at 1,225 K can be primarily confined to wavelengths shorter than the cutoff wavelength...
  4. ncbi Frequency-selective near-field radiative heat transfer between photonic crystal slabs: a computational approach for arbitrary geometries and materials
    Alejandro W Rodriguez
    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
    Phys Rev Lett 107:114302. 2011
    ..We also find that heat transfer can be further enhanced at selective frequencies when the slabs are brought into a glide-symmetric configuration, a consequence of the degeneracies associated with the nonsymmorphic symmetry group...
  5. ncbi Purcell effect in nonlinear photonic structures: a coupled mode theory analysis
    Rafif E Hamam
    Center for Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
    Opt Express 16:12523-37. 2008
    ..Our results agree well with exact finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) results. Therefore, this approach can also in certain circumstances be used as a potential substitute for the more numerically intensive FDTD method...
  6. ncbi Design and global optimization of high-efficiency solar thermal systems with tungsten cermets
    David Chester
    Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
    Opt Express 19:A245-57. 2011
    ..66% at 1000 K using realistic design parameters. The marginal benefit of adding more than 4 cermet layers is small (less than 0.26%, relative)...
  7. ncbi Tailoring optical nonlinearities via the Purcell effect
    Peter Bermel
    Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
    Phys Rev Lett 99:053601. 2007
    ..For example, in realistic physical systems, enhancement of the Kerr coefficient by one to two orders of magnitude could be achieved...
  8. ncbi Global optimization of silicon photovoltaic cell front coatings
    Michael Ghebrebrhan
    Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
    Opt Express 17:7505-18. 2009
    ..For the entire solar bandwidth, however, a second FC layer improves performance by 6.1% for 256 microm wafer-based cells, or by 3.6% for 2 microm thin-film cells, while additional layers yield rapidly diminishing returns...