Publications

2020

Annie Rabi Bernard, Xuyao Duan, Celia Wilkins, Ryan Eriksen and Malay Mazumder, “Environmental durability of the Electrodynamic Screen (EDS) film as a self – cleaning technology for photovoltaic modules and concentrated solar mirrors to Mitigate energy yield loss caused by soiling,” 47th PVSC IEEE, June 14-19, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2020.

Annie Rabi Bernard, Ryan Eriksen and Malay Mazumder, “Development of Transparent Hybrid Electrode Based Electrodynamic Screen Film for Self-Cleaning CSP Mirrors with High Specular Reflectivity and Environmental Durability,” Proceedings of the ASME ES 14th International Conference on Energy Sustainability – For a Sustainable Planet, Denver, CO, June 7-11, 2020.

Dylan Jones, Merlin Hoffman, Annie Rabi Bernard, Shannon Chang, Celia Wilkins, Ryan Eriksen, Carolyn Ellinger, Sean Garner, Andreas Rothacker, Chris Thellen, Malay Mazumder, “Lamination of Prototype Transparent Electrodynamic Screen Films for Their Industrial Production and Application to Self-Cleaning Photovoltaic Modules and Concentrated Solar Power Mirrors,” MRS Annual Meeting Spring 2020/ MRS Energy and Sustainability, Phoenix, Arizona, April 13-17, 2020.

2019

Annie Rabi Bernard, Ryan Eriksen, Malay Mazumder, “Water Free Cleaning Solution: Environmental Durability of Electrodynamic Screen (EDS) Films in Water-Free Cleaning of Solar Collectors,” 46th IEEE PVSC Conference, Chicago IL. USA, June 16-21, 2019.

Joshua Bone, Ryan Eriksen, Carolyn Ellinger, Kevin O’Connor, Doug Garman, Annie Bernard, Malay Mazumder, Mark Horenstein, “Electrical and Optical Modeling of Electrode Configuration for Optimal Dust Removal in Electrodynamic Screens (EDS),” 46th IEEE PVSC Conference, Chicago IL. USA, June 16-21, 2019.

Malay K Mazumder, Carolyn R Ellinger, Kevin M O’Conner, Ryan S Eriksen, Annie A. R. Bernard, Mark N Horenstein, Julius E Yellowhair, Nitin R Joglekar, Sean M Garner, Joshua T Bone, Cristian Morales, Acuna O Hugo, “PV Modules and System Reliability Industrial Production and Field Evaluation of Transparent Electrodynamic Screen (EDS) Film for Water-free Cleaning of Solar Collectors,” 46th IEEE PVSC Conference, Chicago IL, USA, June 16-21, 2019.

2018

R Eriksen, A Turkoglu, A Bernard, N Joglekar, M Horenstein, M Mazumder, “Water and Cost Reduction from the Application of EDS to Facilitate Water Free Cleaning in Concentrated Solar Power,” MRS Advances 3 (25), 1405-1410, 2018.

Malay K. Mazumder, Caroline Ellinger, Kevin O’Connor, Sean Garner, Julius Yellowhair, Ryan Eriksen, Annie Rabi Bernard, Cristian Morales, Mark Horenstein, “Large-Scale Printing of Micro-Wire Electrodes for Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Transparent Electrodynamic Screen (EDS) Films for Self-Cleaning Solar Collectors,” 2018 MRS Fall Meeting, November 25 – 30, Boston, MA. 2018.

Annie A.R. Bernard, Ryan S. Eriksen, Malay.K.Mazumder, “Development of Hybrid Structures of Silver Nanowire Electrodes for the Electrodynamic Screen (EDS) Films to Mitigate Energy Yield Loss Incurred by Solar Collectors due to Soiling,” 2018 MRS Fall Meeting, November 25 – 30, Boston, MA. 2018.

Joshua Bone, Cristian Morales, Ryan Eriksen, Malay Mazumder, Mark Horenstein, “Simulating Specular Reflectance in Solar Cleaning Films using LiveLink™ for MATLAB® and COMSOL® Particle Tracing,” COMSOL Conference Boston, Boston, MA, 2018.

Annie A.R. Bernard, Ryan S. Eriksen, Mark.N.Horenstein, Malay.K.Mazumder, “How does sand get unipolar charge in an Electrodynamic Screen (EDS),” 2018 Electrostatics Joint Conference, June 18-20, Boston, 2018.

Annie A.R. Bernard, Ricci la Centra, Eric Argentieri, Ryan S. Eriksen, Sean Garner,
Mark.N.Horenstein, Malay.K.Mazumder, “Optimization of Optical Performance and Dust Removal Efficiency of Electrodynamic Screen (EDS) Films for Improving Energy-Yield of Solar Collectors,” World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC-7), June 10-15, Waikoloa, Hawaii, 2018.

2017

Annie A.R. Bernard, Cristian Morales, Ryan S. Eriksen, Sean Garner, Mark.N.Horenstein, Malay.K.Mazumder, “Dust Settles, We Don’t: The Electrodynamic Screen – a Self-Cleaning Technology for Concentrated Solar Power Mirrors and Photovoltaic Panels,” MRE-2017-0080, MRS Annual Meeting Fall 2017/ MRS Energy and Sustainability, Boston, MA, November 27th, 2017.

Ryan Eriksen, Aykut Turkoglu, Annie Bernard, Cristian Morales, Nitin Joglekar, Mark Horenstein, Malay Mazumder, “Application of EDS to Facilitate Water Free Cleaning in Concentrated Solar Power,” MRSF17-2799048, MRS Annual Meeting Fall 2017/ MRS Advances, Boston, MA, November 27th, 2017.

Cristian Morales, Ryan Eriksen, Mark Horenstein, Malay Mazumder, “Increasing Dust Removal Efficiency of Electrodynamic Screens using Frequency Optimization via COMSOL,” COMSOL Conference Boston, Boston, MA, October 2017.

Malay K. Mazumder, Mark N. Horenstein, Nitin R. Joglekar, Arash Sayyah, Jeremy W.Stark, Annie A. R. Bernard, Sean M. Garner, Julius E. Yellowhair, Hung Yi Lin, Ryan S.Eriksen, Alecia C. Griffin, Yujie Gao, Ricci La Centra, and Alexis H. Lloyd, “Mitigation of Dust Impact on Solar Collectors by Water-Free Cleaning With Transparent Electrodynamic Films: Progress and Challenges,” IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, July 2017.

Annie Bernard, Cristian Morales, Ryan S. Eriksen, Alecia C. Griffin , Yujie Gao ,Ramakrishnan Lakshmanan, Ricci La Centra, Arash Sayyah, Julius E. Yellowhair, Sean M. Garner, Mark N. Horenstein, Malay K. Mazumder, “Design, Development, and Evaluation of Electrodynamic Screens for Self-Cleaning Solar Panels and Concentrating Mirrors,” 44th PVSC IEEE conference 2017.

Cristian Morales, Annie Bernard, Ryan Eriksen , Julius Yellowhair, Sean Garner ,Ricci La Centra , Alecia Griffin , Alexis Lloyd; Yujie Gao, Ramakrishnan Lakshmanan ,Mark Horenstein, and Malay Mazumder, “Field-Evaluation of Electrodynamic Screens for Maintaining High Optical Efficiency Operation of Solar Collectors,” 44th PVSC IEEE conference 2017.

Annie Bernard, Ryan Eriksen, Mark Horenstein, and Malay Mazumder, “Development of self-cleaning reflective electrodynamic screen and its applications to CSP mirrors for solar thermal energy generation,” MRS Fall 2017.

Mark Horenstein, Ryan Eriksen and Malay Mazumder, “Quasi Three-Phase Traveling Wave Generation for an Electrodynamic Screen via Snake Electrode Pattern with No High-Voltage Crossover Connections,” Joint conference of ESA and IEEE IAS, Ottawa, Canada, June 2017.

Malay K. Mazumder, Mark N. Horenstein, Nitin R. Joglekar, Arash Sayyah, Jeremy W. Stark, Ryan S. Eriksen, Annie A. R. Bernard, Cristian Morales, Alecia C. Griffin, Yujie Gao, Ricci La Centra, Alexis H. Lloyd, “Mitigation of Dust Impact on Solar Collectors by Water-Free Cleaning with Transparent Electrodynamic Films,” Cabot Student Materials Research Forum, Billrica, MA, June 7th, 2017.

A Sayyah, DR Crowell, A Raychowdhury, MN Horenstein, MK Mazumder, “An experimental study on the characterization of electric charge in electrostatic dust removal,” Journal of Electrostatics 87, 173-179 2017.

2016

Malay K. Mazumder, Mark N. Horenstein, Nitin R. Joglekar, Arash Sayyah, Jeremy W.Stark, Annie A. R. Bernard, Sean M. Garner, Julius E. Yellowhair, Hung Yi Lin, Ryan S.Eriksen, Alecia C. Griffin, Yujie Gao, Ricci La Centra, and Alexis H. Lloyd, “Mitigation of dust impacts on solar collectors by water-free cleaning with transparent electrodynamic films: Progress and challenges,” IEEE 43rd Photovoltaic Specialists Conference 2016.

A Sayyah, RS Eriksen, MN Horenstein, MK Mazumder, “Performance analysis of electrodynamic screens based on residual particle size distribution,” IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 7 (1), 221-229 2016.

A Sayyah, MN Horenstein, MK Mazumder, G Ahmadi, “Electrostatic force distribution on an electrodynamic screen,” Journal of Electrostatics 81, 24-36, 2016.

2015

M. K. Mazumder, J. W. Stark, C. Heiling, M. Liu, A. Bernard, M. N. Horenstein, S.Garner, and H. Y. Lin, “Development of Transparent Electrodynamic Screens on Ultrathin Flexible Glass Film Substrates for Retrofitting Solar Panels and Mirrors for Self-Cleaning Function,” MRS Fall 2015.

David R. Crowell, Annie A.R Bernard, Carlos H.P. Coutinho, Michael P. Condakes, Mu Liu, Arash Sayyah, and Mark N. Horenstein, “Electrostatic Charging of Particles in Electrodynamic Screens,” Particulate Science and Technology 2015.

A Sayyah, MN Horenstein, MK Mazumder, “A comprehensive analysis of the electric field distribution in an electrodynamic screen,” Journal of Electrostatics 76, 115-126 2015.

A Sayyah, MN Horenstein, MK Mazumder, “Performance restoration of dusty photovoltaic modules using electrodynamic screen,” IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 1-3, 2015.

Malay K Mazumder, Mark N Horenstein, Calvin Heiling, Jeremy W Stark, Arash Sayyah, Julius Yellowhair, Atri Raychowdhury, “Environmental degradation of the optical surface of PV modules and solar mirrors by soiling and high RH and mitigation methods for minimizing energy yield losses,” IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 1-6 2015.

2014

A Sayyah, MN Horenstein, MK Mazumder, “Energy yield loss caused by dust deposition on photovoltaic panels,” Solar Energy 107, 576-604 2014.

Malay Mazumder, Mark Horenstein, Jeremy Stark, John N Hudelson, Arash Sayyah, Calvin Heiling, Julius Yellowhair, “Electrodynamic removal of dust from solar mirrors and its applications in concentrated solar power (CSP) plants,” IEEE Industry Application Society Annual Meeting, 1-7, 2014.

N. Joglekar, E. Guzelsu, M. K. Mazumder, A. Botts, and C. Ho, “A levelized cost metric for EDS-based cleaning of mirrors in CSP power plants,” in ASME 8th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, 2014.

Arash Sayyah, Jeremy W Stark, John N Hudelson, Mark N Horenstein, Malay K Mazumder, “Optimization of electrodynamic screens for efficient removal of dust particles,” ASME 2014 8th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2014 12th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology.

Malay K Mazumder, Mark N Horenstein, Jeremy W Stark, John N Hudelson, Arash Sayyah, Nitin Joglekar, Julius Yellowhair, Adam Botts, “Self-cleaning solar mirrors using electrodynamic dust shield: Prospects and progress,” ASME 2014 8th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2014 12th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology.

2013

A Sayyah, MN Horenstein, MK Mazumder, “Mitigation of soiling losses in concentrating solar collectors,” Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), IEEE 39th, 0480-0485, 2013.

Malay Mazumder, Mark Horenstein, Jeremy Stark, Daniel Erickson, Arash Sayyah, Steven Jung, Fang Hao, “Development of self-cleaning solar collectors for minimizing energy yield loss caused by dust deposition,” ASME 2013 7th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conference and the ASME 2013 11th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology.

M. K. Mazumder, M. N. Horenstein, J. W. Stark, P. Girouard, R. Sumner, B. Henderson, O. Sadder, I. Hidetaka, A. S. Biris, R. Sharma, “Characterization of electrodynamic screen performance for dust removal from solar panels and solar hydrogen generators,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 1793–1800, 2013.