Peter Bermel

8.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
157 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Peter Bermel is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Bermel has authored 157 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 64 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 52 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Peter Bermel's work include Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (52 papers), solar cell performance optimization (48 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (28 papers). Peter Bermel is often cited by papers focused on Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (52 papers), solar cell performance optimization (48 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (28 papers). Peter Bermel collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Italy. Peter Bermel's co-authors include Steven G. Johnson, Mihai Ibanescu, David Roundy, J. D. Joannopoulos, John D. Joannopoulos, Ardavan Oskooi, Marin Soljačić, Ivan Čelanović, Zhiguang Zhou and Lionel C. Kimerling and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Peter Bermel

149 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Meep: A flexible free-software package for electromagnetic simulations by the FDTD method

2009 1.9k citations Peter Bermel et al. profile →
Improving thin-film crystalline silicon solar cell efficiencies with photonic crystals

2007 535 citations Peter Bermel, John D. Joannopoulos et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Peter Bermel	3.7k	3.4k	2.1k	1.5k	1.1k	157	6.8k
Jeremy N. Munday	2.6k 0.7×	2.3k 0.7×	934 0.4×	2.0k 1.3×	846 0.8×	113	6.1k
Svetlana V. Boriskina	2.0k 0.5×	1.9k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	2.2k 1.4×	1.4k 1.3×	152	7.3k
Shawn-Yu Lin	3.4k 0.9×	4.3k 1.3×	984 0.5×	1.7k 1.1×	936 0.9×	113	6.4k
Xinhua Hu	1.2k 0.3×	1.4k 0.4×	804 0.4×	1.8k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	109	4.8k
Aaswath P. Raman	1.6k 0.4×	2.7k 0.8×	6.8k 3.2×	911 0.6×	1.0k 1.0×	69	8.8k
Otto L. Muskens	2.4k 0.6×	1.5k 0.4×	538 0.3×	3.2k 2.1×	2.5k 2.4×	149	6.7k
Boon S. Ooi	8.7k 2.4×	2.9k 0.8×	996 0.5×	2.0k 1.3×	2.3k 2.1×	512	13.8k
Yaoguang Ma	1.9k 0.5×	1.4k 0.4×	2.0k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	684 0.6×	91	4.8k
Adam Overvig	1.0k 0.3×	1.8k 0.5×	2.1k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	2.5k 2.3×	48	5.4k
Cefe López	4.1k 1.1×	7.1k 2.1×	415 0.2×	2.9k 1.9×	1.4k 1.3×	188	10.2k

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Chung, Hsiao L., et al.. (2025). Design strategies, manufacturing, and applications of radiative cooling technologies. Nanophotonics. 14(14). 2355–2395. 1 indexed citations

Song, Jiawei, Zihao He, Chao Shen, et al.. (2024). Design of All‐Oxide Multilayers with High‐Temperature Stability Toward Future Thermophotovoltaic Applications. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 11(5). 2 indexed citations

Bermel, Peter, et al.. (2024). Special Section Guest Editorial: Introducing the Special Section on Thermophotovoltaic Systems. Journal of Photonics for Energy. 14(4). 1 indexed citations

Cammarano, Davide, et al.. (2024). Optimizing corn agrivoltaic farming through farm-scale experimentation and modeling. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 100290–100290. 1 indexed citations

Sanità, Gennaro, et al.. (2024). A Highly Efficient, Selective, and Thermally Stable Dielectric Multilayer Emitter for Solar Thermophotovoltaics. Solar RRL. 8(10). 4 indexed citations

Agrawal, Rakesh, et al.. (2024). Simulation and Design Aspects of a Bifacial Single-Axis Tracker Across North America, to Enhance the Efficiency of Solar Radiation Utilization. 523–525.

Gosney, Michael J., Michael V. Mickelbart, Sylvie M. Brouder, et al.. (2023). Optimized agrivoltaic tracking for nearly-full commodity crop and energy production. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 191. 114018–114018. 27 indexed citations

Chowdhury, Prabudhya Roy, Jiawei Song, Zihao He, et al.. (2023). Machine Learning Designed and Experimentally Confirmed Enhanced Reflectance in Aperiodic Multilayer Structures. Advanced Optical Materials. 12(4). 5 indexed citations

Bermel, Peter, et al.. (2023). Numerical simulation of probabilistic computing to NP-complete number theory problems. Journal of Photonics for Energy. 13(2).

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Song, Jiawei, et al.. (2023). Temperature-dependent optical dispersion spectra for a single CeO₂ thin-film layer in UV–vis and its reflection and transmission in the IR region. Journal of Optics. 25(8). 85901–85901. 2 indexed citations

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Maize, Kerry, et al.. (2023). Concurrent characterization of GaN MOSHEMT gate leakage via electrical and thermoreflectance measurements. Microelectronics Reliability. 148. 115122–115122. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Ze, et al.. (2021). Explaining an unusual electromigration behavior—A comprehensive experimental and theoretical analysis using finite element method. Journal of Applied Physics. 129(21). 5 indexed citations

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Sun, Yubo, et al.. (2019). Comparing Front- and Rear-Junction GaInP Photovoltaic Devices Through Detailed Numerical and Analytical Modeling. IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. 9(2). 437–445. 11 indexed citations

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Noh, Jinhyun, Peide D. Ye, Marko J. Tadjer, et al.. (2019). High Performance ${\beta}$ -Ga₂O₃ Nano-Membrane Field Effect Transistors on a High Thermal Conductivity Diamond Substrate. IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society. 7. 914–918. 50 indexed citations

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Misra, Sudhajit, Jeffery A. Aguiar, Yubo Sun, et al.. (2019). Observation and Implications of Composition Inhomogeneity Along Grain Boundaries in Thin Film Polycrystalline CdTe Photovoltaic Devices. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 6(16). 5 indexed citations

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Douglas, Kerrie, et al.. (2019). Motivation and perceived costs to achievement in advanced moocs: a mixed method study of advanced engineering mooc engineering learners’ motivation and perceived barriers. International journal of engineering education. 35(5). 1540–1550. 1 indexed citations

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Chung, Hsiao L., Zhiguang Zhou, & Peter Bermel. (2017). Collimated thermal radiation transfer via half Maxwell's fish-eye lens for thermophotovoltaics. Applied Physics Letters. 110(20). 8 indexed citations

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Čelanović, Ivan, Peter Bermel, & Marin Soljačić. (2011). Thermophotovoltaic power conversion systems: current performance and future potential (持続可能社会を「エコ技術」により支える応用物理). 80(8). 687–691.

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Ghebrebrhan, Michael, et al.. (2011). Tailoring thermal emission via Q matching of photonic crystal resonances. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 4 indexed citations

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Čelanović, Ivan, Peter Bermel, & Marin Soljačić. (2011). Thermophotovoltaic power conversion systems: Current performance and future potential. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 80(8). 4 indexed citations

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