Dunbar Birnie

Dunbar Birnie

Princeton, New Jersey, United States

“Solar Power and other Renewable Energy Technologies”

bio

I teach Materials Science and Engineering at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. I am a fan of patents and innovation and use patent examples in all my classes.

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“Solar Power and other Renewable Energy Technologies”

bio

I teach Materials Science and Engineering at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. I am a fan of patents and innovation and use patent examples in all my classes.

Activity

Awards

Teams

Dunbar Birnie's team

Kaetana DeGiovanni's team

Lucas Cruz's team

LUCAS CRUZ's team

Ross Rucker's team

Submissions

TNVBF- Transformation with a Tilt

We enhance vertical bifacial solar arrays by adding tilting functionality that significantly increases system energy productivity.

by Dunbar Birnie's team

Optical Coatings For Next-Generation Agrivoltaics

Antireflection coatings need to be designed and optimized for vertical installation in agrivoltaics arrays to improve energy production.

by Dunbar Birnie

Cadmium Selenide/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells

Cadmium selenide tandem modules are a pathway to increased solar efficiency while also providing long-term stability in the field

by Ross Rucker's team

Solar Multiplier District HVAC Retrofits

PV Panels are used to power heat pumps in district/campus HVAC systems and reap the "coefficient of performance" multiplier on energy yield.

by Dunbar Birnie