| Peter Bermel |
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| Associate Professor | |||
| Purdue University | |||
| Electrical & Computer Engineering | |||
| Birck Nanotechnology Center | |||
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DR. PETER BERMEL is the Elmore Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. His research focuses on improving the performance of photovoltaic, thermophotovoltaic, and microelectronic systems using the principles of nanophotonics. Key enabling techniques for his work include electromagnetic and electronic theory, modeling, simulation, fabrication, and characterization.
Dr. Bermel is widely published in scientific peer-reviewed journals, and his work has been a recurring topic in international educational activities as well as publications geared towards the general public. His work, which has been cited over 9000 times, for an h-index value of 39, includes the following topics:
Dr. Bermel and his colleagues have built and made available on nanoHUB several widely used electromagnetic simulation tools, including the TPV efficiency simulation and TPXsim to simulate the efficiency of thermophotovoltaic systems; MEEPPV, a Finite-Difference Time Domain (FDTD) simulation for photovoltaic cells; and S4sim: a GUI to the Stanford Stratified Structure Solver, a frequency domain code to solve layered periodic structures.
| BS | May 2000 | University of North Carolina | Physics |
| MPhil | June 2002 | Cambridge University | Physics |
| PhD | May 2007 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Physics |
| Phi Beta Kappa | 1999-present |
| Materials Research Society | 2011-present |
| Optical Society of America | 2013-present |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers | 2014-present |
| SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering | 2015-present |
| Winston Churchill Foundation Scholar | 2000-2001 |
| Compton Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2001-2003 |
| NSF Graduate Research Fellow | 2001-2004 |
| NSF CAREER Awardee | 2015-2020 |
| Postdoctoral Associate | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | June 2007-May 2011 |
| Research Scientist | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | June 2011-December 2011 |
| Assistant Professor | Purdue University | January 2012-August 13,2017 |
| Associate Professor | Purdue University | August 14,2017-present |
| Principal Investigator (with Prof. Minghao Qi), Private Foundation Grant, "Improving thin-film crystalline silicon solar cell efficiencies with photonic crystals," February 2008 - January 2011, $600,000 (MIT and Purdue) |
| Co-principal Investigator (with John D. Joannopoulos, PI), NSF, "Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment," Grant No. OCI-10535, August 2011 - April 2013, Subcontract for 3.3 million service units. |
| Principal Investigator, PRF Research Grant, "Modeling Nonlinear Comb Generation with Coupled Mode Theory," Grant No. 205957, July 2012 - June 2013, $17,241. |
| Principal Investigator, SRC, "Designing and fabricating thermophotovoltaic systems for improved performanceand reliability," Grant No. P15383, October 2012 - September 2015, $255,000. |
| Principal Investigator, Bay Area PV Consortium, "Exploratory > Photovoltaic Modeling and Simulation: An End-to-End Technology Agnostic Approach," Grant No. 13011422, January 2013- December 2015, $600,000. Directly responsible for $158,706. |
| Principal Investigator, PRF Research Grant, "Multiphysics design and optimization of earth-abundant solar cells made from copper zinc tin sulfide (CZTS)," Grant No. 205958, July 2013 - June 2014, $17,241. |
| Principal Investigator, NREL Non-proprietary Partnering Opportunity, September 2014-June 2015. |
| Principal Investigator, Bay Area PV Consortium Grant, "Integrated approach to fundamental challenges in high-performance thin-film photovoltaics," January 2016 - June 2016, $125,000. Directly responsible for $48,000. |
| Principal Investigator, NSF CAREER Award, "Thermophotonics for efficient harvesting of waste heat as electricity," February 15, 2015 - January 31, 2020, $500,000. |
| Principal investigator, "Ultra-thin metasurfaces for redirecting light and managing thermal emission," Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, June 1, 2015 - May 31, 2016. $40,000. |
| Co-principal investigator, Center for Integrated Thermal Management of Aerospace Vehicles (CITMAV), August 15, 2015 - July 31, 2017. Directly responsible for $129,000. |
| Co-principal investigator, NEPTUNE Center, "GaN interface engineering," Office of Naval Research, September 1, 2015 - August 31, 2017, $2,000,000. Directly responsible for $280,000. |
| Co-principal investigator, NSF PRIME Award, "Evaluation Framework for Advanced STEM MOOCs," November 1, 2015 - October 31, 2018, $799,923. Directly responsible for $180,000. |
| Principal Investigator, NEC Corporation Award, "Characterization & filter design of high-performance rare earth-based thermophotovoltaics," December 1, 2015 - March 21, 2016, $31,284. |
| MRS | Session Chair, Photonic and Plasmonic Materials for Enhanced Photovoltaic Performance, MRS Fall Meeting, November 28-December 2, 2011 |
| SPIE | Session Chair, SPIE Optics + Photonics Conference, San Diego, CA, August 28-30, 2013 |
| OSA | Session Chair, OSA Renewable Energy & Environment Conference, Optical Nanostructures and Advanced Materials for Photovoltaics Session PM4C, Tucson, AZ, November 3-6, 2013 |
| MRS | Session Chair, MRS Fall 2014 Meeting, Symposium L on Metamaterials Session L7, Boston, MA, December 1-5, 2014 |
| SPIE | Session Chair, Infrared Remote Sensing and Instrumentation XXII, SPIE Optics + Photonics Conference, San Diego, CA, August 9-13, 2015 |
| OSA | Committee Member, Optical Nanostructures and Advanced Materials for Photovoltaics (PV), November 2-5, 2015 |
| IEEE | Program Committee Member (Deputy PV Jobs Chair) and Session Chair, IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, June 5-10, 2016 |
| SPIE | Session Chair, SPIE Optics+Photonics Conference, August 29-September 1, 2016 |
| Name | Degree | Thesis topic | Co-chair | |
| Geoff MacRae | gmacraes | PhD | Agricultural photovoltaics | |
| Changkyun Lee | lee2864 | PhD | Thermophotovoltaics and photovoltaics | |
| David Kortge | dkortge | PhD | Trusted microelectronics | |
| Jie Zhu | zhu797 | PhD | Quantum opto-electronics | Weng Chew |
| Name | Degree | Year | Thesis topic | Current position | |
| Oluseye Akomolede | oakomole | PhD | Quantum nanophotonics and trusted microelectronics | ||
| Ze Wang | wang3617 | PhD | Selective thermal emitters | ||
| Xufeng Wang | wang159@purdue.edu | PhD | 2014 | Photon recycling in high-performance PV | Technical Director of NSF NEEDS |
| James E. Moore | jemoore113@gmail.com | PhD | Photovoltaic characterization and modeling | 2015 | NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Naval Research Laboratory |
| Chao Zhou | zhouchao424@qq.com | MS | 2015 | Photovoltaic multiphysics simulation | |
| Dan Konopa | kokomokono@gmail.com | MS | 2016 | Opto-thermal characterization of laser diodes | |
| Haejun Chung | PhD | 2017 | Computational design for next-generation solar cells | ||
| Roman Shugayev | PhD | 2017 | Analysis and design of novel nanophotonic structures | ||
| Enas Sakr | PhD | 2018 | Spectral and Directional Control of Thermal Emission with Nanophotonics | ||
| Zhiguang Zhou | PhD | 2019 | Enhancing thermophotovoltaics via selective thermal emitters and radiative thermal management | ||
| PhD |
| Name | Status | Research topic | Chair | |
| Hassan Imran | himran | Visiting Ph.D. student from LUMS | Aglectric farm modeling | Nauman Butt |
| Daniela De Luca | Visiting Ph.D. student from Naples University | Selective solar absorbers | Roberto Russo |
| Name | Dates | Research topic | Sponsoring Program |
| Yujie Guo | Summer 2012 | Microresonator comb simulations on nanoHUB | SURF (through NCN) |
| Jiarui Kang | Fall 2012 - Spring 2013 | RCWA optical simulations on nanoHUB | |
| Chang Liu | Summer 2013 | S4sim: a simulation tool on nanoHUB | SURF (through NCN) |
| Qinshuang Chen | Summer 2013 - present | TPV system simulations | SURF (through NCN) |
| Xin Tze Joyce Tee | Summer 2013 - Spring 2014 | Thin-film PV simulations in MEEP on nanoHUB | SURF (through NCN) |
| Anubha Mathur | Summer 2014 | TPXsim | SURF (through NCN) |
| Dalton Chaffee | Summer-Fall 2014 | Full-wave light trapping in photovoltaics | |
| Evan Schlenker | Summer 2015 | TPV Experiment Simulation | SURF (through NCN) |
| Dominic Jarecki | Summer 2015 | Delamination in photovoltaic encapsulants | |
| Jacob Duritsch | Summer 2015 | Realistic material dispersion in photovoltaics | |
| Shailja Dhaka | Summer 2015-present | Direct Thermal Emission Simulation | SURF (through NCN) and DURI |
| Tianran Liu | Fall 2015-present | Direct Thermal Emission Measurement | DURI |
| Namrata Raghavan | Summer 2016-present | TPV experimentally feasible selective emitters | SURF (through NCN) |
| Sattwik Deb Mishra | Summer 2016 | Quantum photonic design | Bose Scholarship |
| Cindy Karina | Summer 2016 | TPV characterization and modeling | |
| Hans Torsina | Summer-Fall 2019 | Aglectric farm modelingNCN Undergraduate Research Experience | |
| Chankyun Lee | Summer-Fall 2019 | Selective thermal emitter modeling | DURI Fellowship |