Research
🛰️ Solar arrays for space
Solar arrays for spacecraft, from low and medium Earth orbit to the Moon, Venus and deep space. Today at Blue Origin I work on solar arrays for TeraWave, the Blue Moon lunar lander and Blue Ring. TeraWave →
- Feasibility of power beaming through the Venus atmosphere 2023
- Low-intensity low-temperature analysis of perovskite solar cells for deep space applications 2023
- Countdown to perovskite space launch: Guidelines to performing relevant radiation-hardness experiments 2022
- Photovoltaic operation in the lower atmosphere and at the surface of Venus 2019
- Low-Intensity High-Temperature (LIHT) Solar Cells for Venus Atmosphere 2018
- Development of High-Performance Solar Cells for the Jupiter and Saturn Environments 2018
- Advanced-Architecture High-Efficiency Solar Cells for Low Irradiance Low Temperature (LILT) Applications 2017
- Solar cell measurements at high temperature 2015
📡 Power beaming
Beaming power to places the Sun cannot reach: through the Venus atmosphere, into the lunar night, to permanently shadowed craters, and for deep-space propulsion.
- Feasibility of power beaming through the Venus atmosphere 2023
- Laser Power Beaming for Lunar Night and Permanently Shadowed Regions 2021
- Power Beaming for Deep Space and Permanently Shadowed Regions 2020
- Directed-energy propulsion architecture for deep-space missions with characteristic velocities of order 100 km/s 2019
🪐 Spacecraft power systems
Power Subsystem Lead for NASA's Cassini spacecraft at JPL, through the Grand Finale dives between Saturn and its rings until the end of mission.
- Cassini Power During the 20-Year Mission and Until the Final Plunge into Saturn 2018
- Cassini Power Subsystem 2017
🌕 In-space resources & manufacturing
At Blue Origin: turning lunar regolith into metals, silicon and solar cells, using molten oxide electrolysis, crystal growth and solar heating. See patents.
🔬 Nanophotonics for photovoltaics
Light trapping with resonant dielectric nanospheres to make ultrathin solar cells absorb more light (Caltech, Atwater group).
- Photon and carrier management design for nonplanar thin-film copper indium gallium selenide photovoltaics 2017
- Temperature-Staged Thermal Energy Storage Enabling Low Thermal Exergy Loss Reflux Boiling in Full Spectrum Solar Systems 2016
- Full Spectrum hybrid photovoltaics and thermal engine utilizing high concentration solar energy 2016
- Absorption enhancing and passivating non-planar thin-film device architectures for copper indium gallium selenide photovoltaics 2016
- Efficient Heat Transfer Methods in a Hybrid Solar Thermal Power System for the FSPOT-X Project 2015
- Solar cell efficiency enhancement via light trapping in printable resonant dielectric nanosphere arrays 2013
- Graded Index Sol-Gel Antireflection Coatings 2013
- Simulations of solar cell absorption enhancement using resonant modes of a nanosphere array 2012
- Gallium Arsenide Solar Cell Absorption Enhancement Using Whispering Gallery Modes of Dielectric Nanospheres 2012
- Configuration Optimization of a Nanosphere Array on Top of a Thin Film Solar Cell 2012
- Simulations of solar cell absorption enhancement using resonant modes of a nanosphere array 2012
- Light absorption enhancement in ultrathin solar cells using whispering gallery modes in dielectric nanospheres 2011
💡 Plasmonics
Dielectric-loaded surface plasmon waveguides, with gain and integration with silicon photonics (PhD, Université de Bourgogne).
- Scanning near-field optical microscopy on dense random assemblies of metal nanoparticles 2013
- Plasmonics: From Basics to Advanced Topics 2012
- Efficient coupling between dielectric-loaded plasmonic and silicon photonic waveguides 2010
- Optical gain, spontaneous and stimulated emission of surface plasmon polaritons in confined plasmonic waveguide 2010
- Dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguides on a finite-width metal stripe at telecom wavelength 2010
- Leakage radiation microscopy of surface plasmon coupled emission: investigation of gain assisted propagation in an integrated plasmonic waveguide 2010
- Guide plasmonique polymère-métal 2010
- Integrated plasmonic waveguides: A mode solver based on density of states formulation 2009
- Gain-Assisted Propagation in a Plasmonic Waveguide at Telecom Wavelength 2009
- Guide plasmonique polymère-métal : composants passifs et actifs pour la photonique intégrée 2009
- Dielectric loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguide: Figures of merit and mode characterization by image and Fourier plane leakage microscopy 2008
- Differential method for modeling dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguides 2008
- Etude et caractérisation expérimentale de plasmons de surface confinés par des guides d’ondes diélectriques 2008
- Surface plasmon routing in dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguides 2008
- Polymer-metal waveguides characterization by Fourier plane leakage radiation microscopy 2007
- Surface plasmon propagation along co-planar coupled cavities 2007