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Immersion graded index optics: theory, design, and prototypes
N Vaidya, O Solgaard
Microsystems & Nanoengineering 8, 69, 2022
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41378-022-00377-z
Lightweight carbon fiber mirrors for solar concentrator applications
N Vaidya, et. al., HA Atwater
IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 572-577, 2017
3D printed optics with nanometer scale surface roughness
N Vaidya, O Solgaard
Microsystems and Nanoengineering, Nature publication group 4 (18), 2018
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41378-018-0015-4
Effects of electron and proton radiation on perovskite solar cells for space solar power application
JS Huang, N Vaidya, et. al., HA Atwater
IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 1248-1252, 2017
Optical analog of black holes - broadband coherent perfect absorption
Plum, E., et al., Zheludev, N.I. and Vaidya, N.
Advanced Photonics, 7(2), pp.025001-025001, 2025
Invited talk, Vaidya, N., et al., ‘Photonic Black Hole’, SPIE Optics + Photonics, San Diego, USA, 20th Aug. 2023
Perks, M. E., Lewis, H. G., and Vaidya, N., ‘A Holistic Systems Thinking Approach to Space Sustainability via Space Debris Management’, 2nd International Orbital Debris Conference (IOC II), Texas, USA, 4-7th Dec., 2023
Invited talk, Vaidya, N., ‘Sustainability 'Moonshots' via Optics and Photonics’, UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS), CA, USA, 14th April 2023
Vaidya, N., et al. N.I. Zheludev., ‘Broadband Total Absorption of Light’, Breaking News Session, Materials Research Society (MRS) conference, San Francisco, USA, 13th Apr. 2023
Vaidya, N., et al. Atwater, H. A., ‘Anneal Recovery Post-Proton Irradiation of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Metal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells and Study of Radiation Effects on Each Component Material’, Breaking News Session Materials Research Society (MRS) conference, San Francisco, USA, 12th April 2023
S Loke, N Vaidya, et. al., HA Atwater
Optics Express 30 (16), 28268-28278, 2022
Invited contribution, Vaidya, N., ‘Functional Optics as Ultra-Lightweight 3D Printed Space Components’, UK Space LABS conference and publication 'Why Space?’, page 70, 2021
A Lightweight Space-based Solar Power Generation and Transmission Satellite
B Abiri, N Vaidya, et. al., S Pellegrino, A Hajimiri, and HA Atwater,
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08373, 2022
An ultralight concentrator photovoltaic system for space solar power harvesting
EC Warmann, N Vaidya, et. al., HA Atwater
Acta Astronautica 170, 443-451, 2020
A flexible phased array system with low areal mass density
MRM Hashemi, N Vaidya, et. al., HA Atwater, A Hajimiri
Nature electronics 2 (5), 195-205, 2019
Development of perovskite solar cells for space applications
MD Kelzenberg, N Vaidya, et. al., HA Atwater
25th Space Photovoltaic Research and Technology Conference, 24, 2019
Extremely broadband ultralight thermally-emissive optical coatings
A Naqavi, N Vaidya, et. al., HA Atwater
Optics Express 26 (14), 18545-18562 ,2018
https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-26-14-18545&id=395125
Ultralight energy converter tile for the space solar power initiative
MD Kelzenberg, N Vaidya, et. al., HA Atwater
2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC)(A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC & 34th EU PVSEC), 2018
E Gdoutos, N Vaidya, et. al., HA Atwater
2018 AIAA Spacecraft Structures Conference, 2202, 2018
Near-unity ultra-wideband thermal infrared emission for space solar power radiative cooling
A Naqavi, N Vaidya, et. al., HA Atwater
2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 521-524, 2017
Impact of space radiation environment on concentrator photovoltaic systems
P Espinet-Gonzalez, N Vaidya, et. al., HA Atwater
2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 512-516, 2017
Design and prototyping efforts for the space solar power initiative
MD Kelzenberg, N Vaidya, et. al., HA Atwater
2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 558-561, 2017
Effects of electron and proton radiation on perovskite solar cells for space solar power application
JS Huang, N Vaidya, et. al., HA Atwater
2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 1248-1252, 2017
2017 IEEE 44th Photovoltaic Specialist Conf.(PVSC)
J Huang, N Vaidya, et. al., HA Atwater
IEEE, 2017
Longitudinally graded index lens
O Solgaard, R Dauskardt, N Vaidya
US Patent 9,329,308, 2016
Graded Index Immersion Optics with Application as Solar Concentrators
N Vaidya
Stanford University, 2016
Immersion graded index optics for passive solar concentrators
N Vaidya, O Solgaard
2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 1-3, 2015
Axially graded AGILE lens acts as nontracking solar concentrator
N Vaidya
LASER FOCUS WORLD 50 (1), 15-16, 2014
AGILE: Axially Graded Index Lens as a non-tracking solar concentrator
N Vaidya, RH Dauskardt, O Solgaard
Optics for Solar Energy, JWD2, 2011
Model-based cross-correlation search for gravitational waves from the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1 in LIGO O3 data
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration
The Astrophysical journal letters 941 (2), 1-19, 2022
Search for subsolar-mass black hole binaries in the second part of Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s third observing run
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 524 (4), 5984-5992, 2023
Search for gravitational-lensing signatures in the full third observing run of the LIGO-Virgo network
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration
arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.08393, 2023
Open data from the third observing run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA and GEO
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration
arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.03676, 2023