Novel approach by MTL core faculty member Evelyn Wang yields both electricity and heat.
Nenad Miljkovic (left) and Evelyn Wang of Mechanical Engineering are designing a specially adapted solar energy collector that will simultaneously produce electricity and steam or hot water at wide-ranging temperatures suited for home or industrial use. This research was supported in part by the MIT Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the US Department of Energy. Photo: Dominick Reuter