News Archives - CooperLab - York University

Welcome new CooperLab members: Berk, Elia, Ghaith, and Victor!

Thomas Cooper — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 13:00:35 +0000

To our new members:

Berk (MASc student)
Elia (Master student, IVRT, ETH Zurich)
Ghaith (MASc student)
Victor (PhD student)

Welcome to the CooperLab!

Congratulations Rajiv Badaloo for successfully defending your MASc Thesis!

Thomas Cooper — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 21:00:59 +0000

Congratulations Gianpaolo Lenarduzzi for successfully defending your MASc Thesis!

Thomas Cooper — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 21:00:15 +0000

Congratulations Mubariz Nagi for successfully defending your MASc Thesis!

Thomas Cooper — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 21:00:00 +0000

Article in York University’s newsletter YFile highlights our work towards renewable solar fuels!

Thomas Cooper — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 02:33:13 +0000

The article highlights our research collaboration with Swiss company Synhelion, to target the efficient conversion of sunlight into renewable fuels.

Lassonde professor’s research helps turn sunlight into fuel

Check out our recent article in Optics Express!

Thomas Cooper — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 04:19:52 +0000

Please check out our recent article in Optics Express! This work was born out of Isaac’s undergraduate research in the NanoEngineering Group (Prof. Gang Chen) at MIT. Here we present the design of nonimaging solar concentrators with performance considerably surpassing the compound parabolic concentrator (CPC). To achieve this, we perturb the CPC profile using an optimized offset spline defined in tangent-normal space. The resulting designs achieve acceptance efficiencies up to 99.3%, the highest reported for any finite-length CPC-like optical concentrator.

Full paper can be found here (open access): https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.476189

Congratulations Matteo Timpano on your paper published in Solar Energy!

Thomas Cooper — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:39:31 +0000

This paper is available open access until Dec. 13, 2022: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1fzQt,tRdKniB

Congratulations Jushwin Mahal on your paper published in Solar Energy!

Thomas Cooper — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 13:57:57 +0000

Congratulations Jushwin Mahal on your paper published in Solar Energy in collaboration with industry-partner Synhelion! This paper presents the design and experimental demonstration of a thermal camera capable of seeing through glass and steam. We apply to device to successfully map the temperature of a solar receiver operating at 1400 °C.

Available here (open access until Dec 6, 2022): https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1fx1F_,5YmkuAX

Congratulations Matteo Timpano for successfully defending your MASc Thesis!

Thomas Cooper — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 18:00:53 +0000

Congratulations Tahzinul Islam for successfully defending your MASc Thesis!

Thomas Cooper — Tue, 10 May 2022 21:00:36 +0000