{"id":1124,"date":"2022-10-18T17:27:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T17:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/?page_id=1124"},"modified":"2024-01-31T10:54:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T18:54:40","slug":"saeta","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/faculty-staff\/saeta\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Saeta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professor of Physics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Photovoltaics are the fastest-growing renewable energy source over the last three years and have the potential to supply a significant fraction of our electricity needs. Conventional silicon cells are made of thick crystals because silicon is a weak absorber in the infrared and much of the visible. Thin solar cells require less energy and material to make and may lead more swiftly to widespread deployment of photovoltaics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A challenge facing thin cells is to maximize the absorption of the solar spectrum. We explore the enhancements to absorption in thin-film cells made possible by metallic nanoparticles and other structures designed to scatter incident radiation into guided modes propagating parallel to the cell&#8217;s surface.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"archive-posts-wrapper page-default wp-block-mudd-latest-posts\">\n\t \n\n  \t<div class=\"archive-heading\">\n\t\t  <h2 class=\"archive-heading-description\">Recent Publications<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t  \t\t            <article class=\"archive-post-wrapper\">\n                          <div class=\"archive-post-summary\">\n                <h3 class=\"h2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/publications\/real-time-anticipation-and-prevention-of-hot-spots-by-monitoring-the-dynamic-conductance-of-photovoltaic-panels\/\">Real-Time Anticipation and Prevention of Hot Spots by Monitoring the Dynamic Conductance of Photovoltaic Panels<\/a><\/h3>\n                          <p>William Lamb, Dallon E. Asnes, Jonathan G. Kupfer, Emma Grace Lickey, Jeremy Kenechukwu Bakken, Richard Campbell Haskell*, Peter N. Saeta*, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n            <\/div>\n            <\/article>\n                    <article class=\"archive-post-wrapper\">\n                          <div class=\"archive-post-summary\">\n                <h3 class=\"h2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/publications\/simulations-of-asymmetric-membranes-illustrate-cooperative-leaflet-coupling-and-lipid-adaptability\/\">Simulations of Asymmetric Membranes Illustrate Cooperative Leaflet Coupling and Lipid Adaptability<\/a><\/h3>\n                          <p>Madison Rae Blumer, Sophia Laurice Harris, Mengzhe Li, Luis Angel Martinez, Michael Untereiner, Peter N. Saeta*, Timothy S. Carpenter, Helgi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n            <\/div>\n            <\/article>\n                    <article class=\"archive-post-wrapper\">\n                          <div class=\"archive-post-summary\">\n                <h3 class=\"h2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/publications\/4747\/\">Permittivity effects of particle agglomeration in ferroelectric ceramic-epoxy composites using finite element modeling<\/a><\/h3>\n                          <p>Jonas Leif Kaufman, Scott H. Tan, Kirklann Lau, Ashka Shailesh Shah, Robert G. Gambee, Christopher P. Gage, Lupe Maria MacIntosh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n            <\/div>\n            <\/article>\n                \t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.hmc.edu\/~saeta\/\">my research<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Physics Photovoltaics are the fastest-growing renewable energy source over the last three years and have the potential to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1094,"parent":860,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1124","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6201,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1124\/revisions\/6201"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}