On Friday, Sept. 26, experts in the solar energy field will converge on the UC Merced campus to present to a full house at "Solar Energy: Today and Tomorrow."
The goal of the symposium, jointly sponsored by the UC Merced Energy Research Institute (UCMERI) and the Dan David Foundation, is to promote public knowledge about present and future solar energy technologies.
At the newly-created UCMERI, more than a dozen UC Merced professors from the Schools of Engineering, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts are conducting cross-disciplinary research.
In the area of solar energy alone, UC Merced researchers are studying: thermodynamically efficient (nonimaging) solar concentration for photovoltaic, solar thermal, and solar daylighting; carbon nanotube solar cells and quantum dot semiconductors for solar energy conversion; and the combination of satellite and radar data with ground-based solar irradiance measurements to forecast solar irradiance.
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