Diana Borca Tasciuc

Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering

About

D.-A. Borca-Tasciuc received her B.S. in Physics from Bucharest University in 1996, and M.S. and PhD. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California at Los Angeles in 2001 and respectively 2005. She was a visiting student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001 and 2002 and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute between 2003 and 2005. She joined RPI's Mechanical Engineering Department as an assistant professor in 2006.

Research

Other Focus Areas

Power Harvesting MEMS, Heat Transfer in Nanosystems, Luminescent Solar Concentrators (LSC), New PV Materials

Publications

The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Diana Borca Tasciuc has 106 indexed publications in the subjects of Engineering, Materials Science, and Physics and Astronomy.

A Novel Comb Design for Enhanced Power and Bandwidth in Electrostatic Mems Energy Converters
Jinglun Li, Habilou Ouro-Koura, Hannah Arnow, Arian Nowbahari, Matthew Galarza, Meg Obispo, Xing Tong, Mehdi Azadmehr, Mona M. Hella, John A. Tichy, Diana Andra Borca-Tasciuc
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
, 2023-January
, 2023
, pp.728-731
.
Water Thermodynamic Behavior Under Influence of Electric Field: A Molecular Dynamics Study
Malcolm Porterfield, Diana Andra Borca-Tasciuc
Journal of Heat Transfer
, 144
, 2022
.
Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Nanostructure-Based Asymmetric Light Transmission Interfaces for Solar Concentrator Applications
Vincent Oliveto, Michael Hughes, Duncan E. Smith, Diana Andra Borca-Tasciuc
Energies
, 15
, 2022
.
Effectiveness of Energy Transfer versus Mixing Entropy in Coupled Mechanical–Electrical Oscillators
Habilou Ouro-Koura, Zahra Sotoudeh, John Tichy, Diana Andra Borca-Tasciuc
Energies
, 15
, 2022
.
Towards a standard approach for annual energy production of concentrator-based building-integrated photovoltaics
Duncan E. Smith, Michael D. Hughes, Diana Andra Borca-Tasciuc
Renewable Energy
, 186
, 2022
, pp.469-485
.
WATER THERMODYNAMIC BEHAVIOR UNDER INFLUENCE OF ELECTRIC FIELD: A MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY
Malcolm Porterfield, Diana Borca-Tasciuc
Proceedings of ASME 2022 Heat Transfer Summer Conference, HT 2022
, 2022
.
Luminescent Solar Concentrators: A Review of Nanoengineering Opportunities for Reducing Surface Losses
Vincent James Oliveto, Christina Boyd, Duncan Smith, Michael Hughes, Diana Andra Borca-Tasciuc
IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
, 21
, 2022
, pp.360-366
.
Broadband asymmetric light transmission interfaces for luminescent solar concentrators
Vincent Oliveto, Diana Andra Borca-Tasciuc
Nanoscale Advances
, 3
, 2021
, pp.3627-3633
.
An open-source monte carlo ray-tracing simulation tool for luminescent solar concentrators with validation studies employing scattering phosphor films
Duncan E. Smith, Michael D. Hughes, Bhakti Patel, Diana Andra Borca-Tasciuc
Energies
, 14
, 2021
.
A predictive model for electrostatic energy harvesters with impact-based frequency up-conversion
Jinglun Li, John Tichy, Diana Andra Borca-Tasciuc
Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
, 30
, 2020
.

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