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Prof. Emanuel M Sachs

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Primary DLC

Department of Mechanical Engineering

MIT Room: 35-136
(617) 253-5381

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Solar Energy
Renewable Energy
Photovoltaics
Flexible Manufacturing
Process Innovation
Rapid Prototyping/Desktop Manufacturing
3D Printing
Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM)
Electronic Materials Processing Design

Research Summary

Dr. Sachs is totally focused on PV for his research and he supervises a growing PV research group at MIT. The group is currently pursuing projects in wafer fabrication, surface texturing for light trapping, metallization, and light trapping at the module design level.

Recent Work

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