Objectives:

 

• Engineer the interaction of phonons and photons to harvest energy and develop sustainable thermal management solutions.

• Reduce the current high energy footprint of modern thermoregulation technologies

• Develop new passive thermoregulation systems using non-toxic materials

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Concepts :

 

• Radiative cooling

• IR thermal radiation

• Hybrid system (i.e radiative cooling with geotermal thermolectrics and solar photovoltaics

• Passive thermal management

• Control of light-matter interactions at infrared frequencies

• Surface Phonon Polaritons to harvest radiative heat transfer

• Novel sustainable energy technologies.