Aaswath Raman
@aaswath.bsky.social
Associate Prof @UCLA in Materials Science and Engineering. http://www.aaswathraman.com
As one surprising example we show that a recent NREL-designed 6-junction cell would be *more* efficient in low Earth orbit if you removed the lowest-bandgap junction, because it would operate at a lower temperature!
June 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
As one surprising example we show that a recent NREL-designed 6-junction cell would be *more* efficient in low Earth orbit if you removed the lowest-bandgap junction, because it would operate at a lower temperature!
This was part of our UCLA Sustainable LA-funded project "Heat Resilient LA". Heat already kills more people than any other weather-related phenomenon here in the United States. There is an urgent need for more engineering research, innovation and investment in this area!
May 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This was part of our UCLA Sustainable LA-funded project "Heat Resilient LA". Heat already kills more people than any other weather-related phenomenon here in the United States. There is an urgent need for more engineering research, innovation and investment in this area!
A good comment from hacker news on all this:
April 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
A good comment from hacker news on all this:
On a 55 min Waymo ride from the Westside to Downtown LA, AMA
March 28, 2024 at 3:37 PM
On a 55 min Waymo ride from the Westside to Downtown LA, AMA
If you're at #F23MRS our group will have three talks, including two invited talks I'll be giving.
In the first of them, since my first rooftop experiment demonstrating daytime radiative cooling was almost exactly 10 years ago (!) I'll try to both summarize progress and look to the future. 💡
In the first of them, since my first rooftop experiment demonstrating daytime radiative cooling was almost exactly 10 years ago (!) I'll try to both summarize progress and look to the future. 💡
November 27, 2023 at 6:44 PM
If you're at #F23MRS our group will have three talks, including two invited talks I'll be giving.
In the first of them, since my first rooftop experiment demonstrating daytime radiative cooling was almost exactly 10 years ago (!) I'll try to both summarize progress and look to the future. 💡
In the first of them, since my first rooftop experiment demonstrating daytime radiative cooling was almost exactly 10 years ago (!) I'll try to both summarize progress and look to the future. 💡
Can you spot the solar eclipse in this graph? Love that we produce so much solar in CA that an eclipse needs to be managed and planned for: www.caiso.com/about/Pages/...
October 14, 2023 at 9:03 PM
Can you spot the solar eclipse in this graph? Love that we produce so much solar in CA that an eclipse needs to be managed and planned for: www.caiso.com/about/Pages/...
I think Claude is better than ChatGPT at writing a natural sounding email to a professor asking about phd positions in their lab. (Though it makes some strong assumptions about who's asking!)
September 30, 2023 at 4:49 PM
I think Claude is better than ChatGPT at writing a natural sounding email to a professor asking about phd positions in their lab. (Though it makes some strong assumptions about who's asking!)
The fact that his former students signed the letter asking for the retraction and stating they felt pressured to be on the paper is just awful. And that he sent them a cease and desist letter when they shared a draft of the letter they were going to send to Nature. Fireable offenses, all of it.
September 27, 2023 at 11:00 PM
The fact that his former students signed the letter asking for the retraction and stating they felt pressured to be on the paper is just awful. And that he sent them a cease and desist letter when they shared a draft of the letter they were going to send to Nature. Fireable offenses, all of it.