Affiliated Researchers: Solar Energy

Affiliates are Penn Staters who have a connection to or an interest in the work of the Institute of Energy and the Environment.

Displaying 42 search result(s) for Solar Energy.

Greg Barber


Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Division of Mathematics & Natural Sciences (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Photonic Crystals, Surface Plasmons, Photonic Crystal, Solar Cells, Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

Dassou Nagassou


Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, School of Science, Engineering & Technology (Harrisburg)
Top research keywords: Carbon Dioxide, Plasmas, Decomposition, Solar Energy, Plasma

Julian Wang


Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Thermal Comfort, Building Windows, Building Envelope, Energy Performance, Glazing System

Olumide Ogunmodimu


Assistant Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Nigeria, Concentrated Solar Power, Vibrating Screen, Power Engineering, Granular Flow

Nutifafa Yao Doumon


Assistant Professor and Virginia S. & Philip L. Walker Jr. Faculty Fellow, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Organic Solar Cells, Solar Cell, Photovoltaics, Perovskite Solar Cell, Polymer

Jennifer Baka


Associate Professor and John T. Ryan, Jr. Faculty Fellow, College of Earth & Mineral Sciences
Top research keywords: Economic And Social Development, USA, Pennsylvania, Hydraulic Fracturing, Biofuel

Joseph Ranalli


Professor, Penn State Hazleton
Top research keywords: Transfer Function, Irradiance, Heat Release Rate, Advection, Flame Transfer Function

James Freihaut


Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation, Resuspension, Lamp, Case Study, Duct

Jiawei Gong



Top research keywords: Dye-sensitized Solar Cells, Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell, Rotational Shear, Thermal Conductivity, Ultimate Tensile Strength

Trevor Birkenholtz


Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: India, Rajasthan, Groundwater, Pakistan, Solar Park

Brian Fronk


Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Microchannel, Supercritical Carbon Dioxide, Condensation, Pressure Drop, Carbon Dioxide

Stephanie Buechler



Top research keywords: Mexico, Climate Change, USA, Political Ecology, Feminist Political Ecology

Gregory Pavlak


Assistant Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Residential Building, Thermal Comfort, Heat Storage, Case Study, Energy Use

Linxiao Zhu


Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Radiative Heat Transfer, Near-field, Radiative Cooling, Solar Cell, Near-field Radiative Heat Transfer

John Asbury


Professor, Chemistry
Top research keywords: Ultrafast, Organic Photovoltaics, Electron Transport, Excited State, Organic Solar Cells

Akhlesh Lakhtakia


Evan Pugh University Professor and Charles G. Binder Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics
Top research keywords: Thin Films, Chiral Sculptured Thin Film, Dielectric Material, Surface Plasmon Polaritons, Plane Wave

Enrique Gomez


Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Polymer, Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT), Block Copolymer, Organic Solar Cells, Conjugated Polymers

Hannah Wiseman


Associate Professor, Penn State Law (University Park)
Top research keywords: USA, United States, Energy Law, Economic And Social Development, Federalism

Dale Litwhiler


Associate Professor, Division of Engineering, Business & Computing (Berks)
Top research keywords: Engineering Technology, Technology Students, Mechanical Engineering, Microcontroller, LabVIEW

Christine J. Kirchhoff


Associate Professor, School of Engineering Design and Innovation
Top research keywords: USA, Climate Change, Climate Information, Decision Making, Potable Water

Osama Awadelkarim


Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics
Top research keywords: Silicon, Oxide Compound, Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor, Gate Oxide, Parylene C

Christopher Scott


Maurice K. Goddard Chair of Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Mexico, Economic And Social Development, India, Water Security, United States Of America

Bed Poudel


Associate Research Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Thermoelectrics, Thermoelectric Materials, Alloy, Density, Thermal Conductivity

Sohail Anwar


Professor, Division of Business, Engineering, and Information Sciences & Technology (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Engineering, Engineering Technology, Economic And Social Development, Penn State, Technology Students

Jeremy Gernand


Associate Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Accident Prevention, Pulmonary Toxicity, Dose-response, Engineering Students, Pennsylvania

Fan Liu


Assistant Professor, Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Protonic Ceramic Electrochemical Cells, Oxide Compound, Electrochemical Cell, High Performance, X-Ray Diffraction

Brian Thiede


Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: USA, Americas, Africa, United States, Sub-Saharan Africa

Mark Horn


Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics
Top research keywords: Thin Films, Film, Oxide Compound, Lithography, Vanadium

Soundar Kumara


Allen E. Pearce and Allen M. Pearce Professor, Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Top research keywords: Multi Agent Systems, Product Family, Neural Network, Supply Chain, Multi-agent Systems

Erica Smithwick


Distinguished Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Climate Change, Pinus, Prescribed Fire, Lodgepole Pine, Pennsylvania

Jose D. Fuentes


Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Boundary Layer, Ozone, Isoprene, Amazon, Atmospherics

Somayeh Asadi


Associate Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Energy Utilization, Scheduling, Renewable Energy Resources, Hot Temperature, Asphalt Pavements

Jie Zhao


Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Software Engineering, School of Engineering (Behrend)
Top research keywords: Wind Power Ramps, Federated Machine Learning, Quantum Federated Learning, Wind Power Ramp Forecasting, Student Engagement

Nelson Yaw Dzade


Assistant Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Density, Density Functional Theory, Heterojunction, Adsorption, Photovoltaics

Daniel Ciolkosz


Associate Research Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Torrefaction, Torrefied, Glucose Yield, Lighting System, Switchgrass

Zi-Kui Liu


Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Alloy, First-principles Calculations, Density, Thermodynamics Modeling, Thermodynamic Modeling

Richard Mistrick


Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Daylight, Lighting System, Photosensor, Illuminance, Systems Performance

Donghai Wang


Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Top research keywords: Anodes, Lithium Sulfur Batteries, Anode, Lithium-ion Batteries, Cathodes

Mark Kleinginna


Adjunct Lecturer, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences

Ivy Mawusi Asuo


Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering