RENEWABLE ENERGY AND APPLIED PHOTONICS
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REAP Labs Director
Prof. Vandervelde has a B.S. in both Astronomy and Physics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an M.A. and Ph.D in Physics from the University of Virginia. Tom has extensive research experience in optoelectronics and photonics.
https://engineering.tufts.edu/ece/people/faculty/thomas-vandervelde
Contact: tvanderv@ece.tufts.edu
Research Professor (Part Time)
Areas of Study: Thermophotovoltaics, Waste Heat Harvesting, Nanophotonics
Dante has a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Tufts University in Electrical Engineering. His research is focused on infrared energy harvesters with a focus on waste heat applications.
https://engineering.tufts.edu/ece/people/faculty/dante-demeo
Contact: dante.demeo@tufts.edu
PhD Candidate
Areas of Study: Group IV Alloys for Narrow Bandgap Applications
Amanda Lemire started his mechanical engineering and material science PhD program at Tufts in 2018. His work concerns the growth of GeSn alloys by molecular beam epitaxy, and is defending in 2024. He holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry and material science. Amanda intends to work in clean energy. He has two cats, Athena and Haephuzztus, and likes to knit.
Contact: amanda.lemire@tufts.edu
PhD Student
Areas of Study: Chris is a 1st year PhD student in the Electrical Engineering - Materials Science & Engineering joint program. He earned his BS in Physics from Georgia Tech. He is currently in training and anticipates working on group IV material growths in the VG90 MBE system. In undergraduate years, Chris worked on various projects covering sustainability and climate policy, with an interest in continuing such work at Tufts.
Contact: christian.jamison@tufts.edu
PhD Student
Areas of Study: Optoelectronics
Zach received a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in physics before beginning his career at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 2017. Currently, he is pursuing a dual degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Material Science Engineering (ECE/MSE) to compliment his many years of infrared photodetector technology experience. Zach is a researcher for REAP labs and also is a TA at Tufts.
Contact: zachary.kranefeld@tufts.edu
PhD Candidate
John is a PhD candidate in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He earned a BS in Physics from Boston College. He is currently working on the growth and characterization of low-bandgap semiconductors for use in infrared optoelectronics.
Contact: john.mcelearney@tufts.edu
PhD Student
Kareena is a second year PhD student in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She holds a BS in Physics from Mount Holyoke College. Her research focuses on semiconductor device fabrication and characterization for thermophotovoltaic applications.
PhD Student
Areas of Study: III-V Photonic Semiconductors, Material Characterization
Pan Menasuta is a PhD student in the joint Electrical Engineering/Material Science and Engineering (EE/MSE) program, holding a BA in Physics and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Boston University. His research focuses on Molecular Beam Epitaxy of III-V photonic semiconductors, using the Veeco GEN Xplor system. He specializes in the epitaxial thin film growth and electrical and optical characterization of novel materials such as GaAs, GaSb, and Bismides/Bismuthides. He also works as TA. In his free time, he enjoys calisthenics, cooking, and trying new foods.
Contact: thachachanok.menasuta@tufts.edu
PhD Student Reece is a 1st year PhD student in the electrical engineering/ material science and engineering joint program. She earned a BA in physics and chemistry from Mount Holyoke College. She is currently in training for semiconductor device fabrication and diode fabrication.
Electrical Engineering
Patrick Hennessey is a first year undergraduate student pursuing a degree in electrical engineering from Tufts University.
Electrical Engineering
Victor Vazquez is a 2nd-year Undergraduate Student. He is earning a BS in Electrical Engineering at Tufts University. He is currently working on analyzing dopes semiconductor wafers for their optical characteristics to improve the growth parameters of the VG90. He is highly interested in photovoltaics and their applications in renewable energy and heat waste recycling.
Research Assistant Professor
Areas of Study: Electronic Materials; Semiconductor Materials; Semiconductor Devices; Materials Characterization; Thin-film Deposition; Optical Properties Electronic Materials;
Kevin served as the laboratory manager of the Tufts Epitaxial Core Facility, where he worked to enable the research of students and other scientists in the areas of epitaxial thin film growth and electrical and optical characterization of materials. Kevin also actively conducted research as part of Renewable Energy and Applied Photonics laboratory at Tufts and with a number of outside collaborators.
https://facultyprofiles.tufts.edu/kevin-grossklaus
Contact: kevin.grossklaus@tufts.edu
PhD Student
Areas of Study: Thermal Photovoltaic Cell, Metamaterial, Semiconductor, Photonic Devices and Fabrication
Sifat Hossain is a PhD Student. He has interest in working with Photonic Devices and Fabrication, Thermal Photovoltaic Cells, Metamaterial, Semiconductor related research and different Electrical and Optical Characterization tools.
Minsu holds a BS in Materials Science and Engineering and an MS in Optical Engineering. During his PhD in REAP Labs, his research interests included metamaterials and optical thin films for thermophotovoltaic applications.
Emily Carlson is a former graduate student in Electrical Engineering at Tufts University, where she was awarded the Tufts School of Engineering Outstanding Contribution to Engineering Education Award in 2021. Her interest in solar cells and optics led her to join the Renewable Energy and Applied Photonics Lab at Tufts University. While there, she designed, simulated, and fabricated optical elements to improve the efficiency of thermophotovoltaics (solar cells that use heat to generate electricity).
Maggie has a B.S. from Mt. Holyoke College in Physics and is working on advanced epitaxial techniques to create small bandgap semiconductors and semimetals, as well as, the applications of lattice mismatched material.
Ahmed has an M.S. in Material Science and Engineering from Masdar Institute of Science and Technology and a B.S. from the American University of Sharjah. Ahmed has researched concentred solar photovoltaics included split spectrum systems.
Jon Manninen has completed a BS from Tufts University in Electrical Engineering and is working on a Masters of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. He is presently working on the epitaxial process of silicon-germanium-tin, specifically to achieve the realization of CMOS compatible silicon-photonics.
BS Physics 2019
John has a Ph.D. and M.S. from Tufts in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. in Physics from The University of Massachusetts Amherst and is currently researching earth abundant transparent conducting oxides for use with photovoltaics.
Corey recieved a M.S. and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Tufts. He then completed an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Texas at El-Paso, and is now a Humbholt Fellow at TU Kaiserslautern in Germany.
Chandler has a PhD, M.S., B.S. from Tufts University in Electrical Engineering and has researched novel materials for use with high efficiency III-V photovoltaics.
Neville has an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and a B.S. in EE from Syracuse University.
Abigail has an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University and a B.S. from Mt. Holyoke College in Physics and is working on application specific research for long wavelength thermophotovoltaics including the development of a microcombustor. Abbey is also developing unique educational tools for photovoltaic and semiconductor sciences geared towards a wide range of students.
Nicole has an M.S. from Tufts University in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. from Purdue University in Physics and is a member of REAP Labs working on metamaterial thermal emitters as well as dynamic metamaterial polarizers. Nicole has previous research experience with molecular beam epitaxy and will soon be working to set up the new REAP Labs MBE systems.
Former Undergraduate Students
Charlie Dickerson - Graduated 2024 with a BS in Chemical Engineering. He performed an optical characterization study of n-and p-GaAs as a function of carrier concentration.
Isaac Pizarro - BS ECE 2019
Lisa Fantini- Graduated 2018 with a BS in Engineering Physics. Lisa developed a photoluminescence and quantum efficiency test apparatus to characterize photovoltaic cells.
Shelly Kwok
Nathan Krinsky - BS ECE 2019
Danielle Skufca - BS ECE 2018 - Danielle designed a lab course for intro first year engineers to create their own solar cells and refurbishing a set of semiconductor processing for the course.
Norihito Naka - Testing ohmic contacts for semiconductor and photovoltaic devices.
Katie Levinson - Optical characterization of semiconductor materials in the infrared
Robert Rockmore (BS-Phys '14) - Testing and developing ohmic contacts to semiconductors and photovoltaic devices, as well as improving the labaratory photoluminescense testing apparatus.
Jake Hellman (BS-EE'16) - Working on computer animations of REAP research topics.
Ben Kim (BS-EE '16) -Testing and developing ohmic contacts to semiconductors and photovoltaic devices.
Anders Simpson-Wolf (BS-EE '13) - Worked on the development of microcombustors for energy generation applications.
Meth Bandara (BS-EE '13) - Worked on the develoment microcombusters project under funding from the Tufts Summer Scholars Program, as well as a solar insolation meter for his senior design project.
Emir Salih Magden (BS-EE '12) - 3+1 multijunction concentrator
Han Chen (BS-EE '11) and Michael Motola-Barnes (BSEE '11) started the research and development of a micro-combuster unit to utilize TPV
Adam Santos (BS-ME '10), Robert Bayless (BSME '10), Alexander Schmieder (BSME'10)
Atiyah S. Ahsan (BS-EE '10), Roman Khasidov (BSEE '10), Cherag Kapadia (BSEE'10), Edward Portney (BSEE '10), Golam R. Khan (BSEE '10), Matthew Woerner (BS-EE'10), and Jackson Dolan (BSME '10)
Duytam Pham (BS-EE '09) - Now at Tufts Medical School