Solar Laser Technology Laboratory

Media Report of our solar laser laboratory, 2018

SIC Notícias   Oct. 30, 2018 (63100 Views, one of the highest nnumber of views from SIC noícias videos)

https://www.facebook.com/sicnoticias/videos/316129865843740/

REN   https://www.ren.pt/pt-PT/media/comunicados/detalhe/laser_para_captacao_de_energia_do_sol_premio_ren_

e_expresso_dao_a_conhecer_exemplos_de_inovacao_nas_universidades_portuguesas/

EXPRESSO: Prioridade: eficiência energética (10 VÍDEOS QUE NÃO PODE PERDER) “E se, em vez de usarmos painéis solares, pudéssemos ter um laser no espaço a captar a energia do Sol e a enviá-la para a Terra? É a proposta dos investigadores da FCT Nova.” Nov. 20, 2018

https://expresso.pt/economia/2018-11-20-Prioridade-eficiencia-energetica

Cover page of Journal of Photonics for Energy,   July-September， 2020

Joana Almeida, Dawei Liang, Hugo Costa, Dário Garcia, Bruno Tibúrcio, Miguel Catela, Cláudia Vistas

 Seven-rod pumping concept for simultaneous emission of seven TEM00-mode solar laser beams

https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-photonics-for-energy?SSO=1

Joana Almeida  Antena 1  "90 s de Ciência" 2021

https://www.90segundosdeciencia.pt/episodes/ep-1049-joana-almeida/?fbclid=IwAR0Q-nD38d-L24GoEPFWlqpvWxnxEqAYthwMW8WNlDqugIh12tK98CI0z9U

Dawei Liang was in “World’s Top 2% Scientists list” by Stanford University in 2021.

https://www.fct.unl.pt/en/news/2021/11/more-researchers-nova-school-science-and-technology-world-top

Dawei Liang Guest Editor of Energies: Special Issue "Challenge and Research Trends of Solar Concentrators" 2021-2022

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/special_issues/Solar_Concentrators#editors

Dawei Liang, Joana Almeida and Cláudia Vistas  Guest Editors of Energies: Special Issue
"Challenge and Research Trends of Solar Concentrators II"  2022.2023 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/special_issues/X76516D6B3 

Dawei Liang Associate Editor of Journal of Photonics for Energy  from 2022

https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-photonics-for-energy/editorial-board#navBarAnchor

SPIE News Report on our solar laser design by Senior Editor Renae Keep,  Sept. 2022

https://spie.org/news/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping?SSO=1&fbclid=IwAR00Ui0m0rtWWj1gA8MejFp9-ltS_5Lu41Z0QSdECcr2S1s2hCYHEuPen0w 

The above report by SPIE on our solar laser was also mentioned by other media in Sept. 2022

https://earthpressnews.com/fr/propulser-les-lasers-solaires-vers-de-nouveaux-sommets-grace-au-pompage-a-quatre-miroirs/

https://mydroll.com/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping/

https://samacharcentral.com/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping/https://sixthnews.com/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping/

https://twitter.com/physorg_com/status/1567611678002479104

https://news.thenightale.com/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping/

https://physicsworld.com/a/new-design-for-solar-laser-could-have-applications-in-space/

https://www.azooptics.com/News.aspx?newsID=27879

https://www.miragenews.com/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-850928/

https://spaceandplanetarynewswire.com/impact/2022/09/08/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping

https://rentsobe.com/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping/

https://globalsecuritywire.com/infrastructure-technology/2022/09/08/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping

https://www.gofarzee.it/blog/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping/

https://topteknews.net/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping-s206349.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/964051

https://dubaitechnews.com/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping/

Our research on three Ce:Nd:YAG rod solar laser was reported by Senior Editor Sally Johnson 

LASER FOCUS WORLD  Oct. 4th   2022  

 "Solar pumping converts broadband sunlight into efficient laser light"    A novel three Ce:Nd:YAG rod solar-pumped laser achieves 4.64% solar-to-laser energy conversion efficiency 

https://www.laserfocusworld.com/lasers-sources/article/14283698/solar-pumping-converts-broadband-sunlight-into-efficient-laser-light

科学家利用太阳能泵浦技术实现了4.64%的激光转化效率  Oct 9th 2022

(Scientist utilize solar pumping technique to realize 4.64% laser conversion efficiency)  

https://laser.ofweek.com/2022-10/ART-8130-2400-30575824.html

http://www.dushi.cx/wap/wap.php?action=article&id=280501

https://www.gkzhan.com/news/detail/149262.html

http://bluestream-bj.com/view.php?id=222

Cover page of Journal of Photonics for Energy,   Volume 12. Issue 4, 2022

Hugo Costa, Joana Almeida, Dawei Liang, Dário Garcia, Miguel Catela, Bruno Tibúrcio, Cláudia Vistas

https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-photonics-for-energy 

SPIE Tweet                                    19 Dez. 2022

Researchers from @NOVAunl improved solar-to-laser power conversion efficiency with a multirod solar #laser station for the megawatt #solar furnace in Odeillo, France

https://twitter.com/SPIEtweets/status/1604944689681014792

Challenge and Research Trends of Solar Concentrators                   

Editors: Dawei Liang and Changming Zhao 

https://www.mdpi.com/books/book/6447-challenge-and-research-trends-of-solar-concentrators 

ISBN-13:  9783036560373    Dec. 2022  BOOK: MDPI AG 

Solar-Pumped Lasers   With Examples of Numerical Analysis of Solid-State Lasers                     

Dawei Liang, Joana Almeida, Cláudia Vistas, Bruno Tibúrcio, Dário Garcia

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-24785-9

BOOK:   Springer International Publishing                  March 2023 

Dawei Liang Topical Advisory Panel Members of “Photonics”  June, 2023

Section: Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors 

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/photonics/topic_editors/Lasers_Light_Sources_Sensors 

Dawei Liang  Editorial Board Member of "Clean Energy and Sustainability"    June, 2023

https://www.sciepublish.com/index/journals/editors/ces/23.html

Dawei Liang  Academic Editor of “Academia Green Energy”  August, 2023  

https://www.academia.edu/journals/7/academia_green_energy/about    

Featured Article of "PHOTONICS",  November, 2023  

M. Catela, D. Liang, J. Almeida, H. Costa, D. Garcia, B. Tibúrcio, E. Guillot, C. Vistas

https://www.df.fct.unl.pt/noticias/2023/11/trabalho-desenvolvido-pelo-grupo-de-tecnologia-laser-do-cefitec-departamento-de-fisica-da-fct-nova-d 

Dawei Liang was in “World’s Top 2% Scientists list” by Stanford University, Oct. 2023

https://www.fct.unl.pt/en/news/2023/10/nova-fct-researchers-among-best-world-according-standford-study

Bruno Tibúrcio was selected for human resource funding as FCT Junior Researcher (2023-2029).

https://www.fct.pt/concursos/concurso-estimulo-ao-emprego-cientifico-individual-6-edicao

Dawei Liang was in “World’s Top 2% Scientists list” by Stanford University, Oct. 2024.

https://www.fct.unl.pt/noticias/2024/09/ha-mais-investigadores-da-nova-fct-na-lista-dos-melhores-do-mundo

Dawei Liang  Editorial Board Member of "International Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications", 
from Nov. 2024.

https://www.ijeetc.com/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=lists&catid=18

Dawei Liang  Editor of “Physical Science & Biophysics Journal” (PSBJ), from Dec. 2024  

 https://medwinpublishers.com/PSBJ/editorial-board.php

Cláudia Vistas  FCT-MCTES RESTART Funding (50,000 Euros),  Dec. 2024

Dr. Cláudia Vistas was rated in the second position among eight successful proposals in Exact Science and Engineering 

RESTART Program-Second Edition

https://www.fct.pt/concursos/programa-restart-2-edicao