What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Renewable energy
- Electrical engineering
- Electricity generation
Vasilis Fthenakis mostly deals with Photovoltaic system, Renewable energy, Solar energy, Photovoltaics and Environmental engineering.
His research integrates issues of Wind power and Environmental economics in his study of Renewable energy.
He has researched Solar energy in several fields, including Grid parity, Organic solar cell, Cadmium telluride photovoltaics and Copper indium gallium selenide solar cells.
His Cadmium telluride photovoltaics study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Emerging technologies, Crystalline silicon and Engineering physics.
His Photovoltaics research incorporates elements of Life-cycle assessment, Natural resource economics, Electricity and Process engineering.
His study in Environmental engineering is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Waste management, Coal, Operations management, Land use and Electricity generation.
His most cited work include:
- Emissions from photovoltaic life cycles (374 citations)
- Land use and electricity generation: A life-cycle analysis (321 citations)
- Land use and electricity generation: A life-cycle analysis (321 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
His primary areas of study are Photovoltaic system, Photovoltaics, Waste management, Environmental engineering and Solar energy.
His Photovoltaic system study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Electricity, Electricity generation, Environmental economics, Cadmium telluride photovoltaics and Renewable energy.
His Renewable energy study incorporates themes from Wind power, Cost of electricity by source and Energy storage.
His studies in Photovoltaics integrate themes in fields like Life-cycle assessment, Production, Natural resource economics, Fossil fuel and Process engineering.
His studies deal with areas such as Flow and Coal as well as Environmental engineering.
His study looks at the relationship between Solar energy and topics such as Engineering physics, which overlap with Nanotechnology.
He most often published in these fields:
- Photovoltaic system (53.74%)
- Photovoltaics (37.00%)
- Waste management (22.47%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2013-2021)?
- Photovoltaic system (53.74%)
- Environmental economics (19.38%)
- Electricity (17.18%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
Photovoltaic system, Environmental economics, Electricity, Photovoltaics and Renewable energy are his primary areas of study.
His Photovoltaic system research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Waste management, Solar energy, Perovskite solar cell, Solar power and Electricity generation.
The various areas that he examines in his Environmental economics study include Energy policy and Emerging technologies.
The study incorporates disciplines such as Production, Sunlight and Electric power system in addition to Electricity.
In his research, Life-cycle assessment and VRLA battery is intimately related to Environmental engineering, which falls under the overarching field of Photovoltaics.
His Renewable energy research integrates issues from Natural resource economics, Efficient energy use, Cost of electricity by source and Energy storage.
Between 2013 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- Life cycle inventories and life cycle assessment of photovoltaic systems (124 citations)
- Methodology Guidelines on Life Cycle Assessment of Photovoltaic Electricity 3rd Edition (99 citations)
- Crystalline silicon photovoltaic recycling planning: macro and micro perspectives (79 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Electrical engineering
- Renewable energy
- Waste management
Vasilis Fthenakis mainly investigates Photovoltaic system, Environmental economics, Electricity, Photovoltaics and Life-cycle assessment.
His Photovoltaic system research incorporates themes from Waste management, Emerging technologies and Solar power.
His work carried out in the field of Environmental economics brings together such families of science as Crystalline silicon and Payback time.
His Electricity study also includes fields such as
- Electric power system and related Electrical engineering and Business economics,
- Renewable energy together with Automotive engineering, Operations research, Wind power and Hydroelectricity.
His Photovoltaics research includes elements of Energy policy, Externality, Cadmium telluride photovoltaics and Solar energy.
He has included themes like Halide, Environmental engineering and Photovoltaic electricity in his Life-cycle assessment study.
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