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Cláudia Vistas

Postdoctoral researcher

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c.vistas@fct.unl.pt

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I obtained my PhD degree in 2012 under the MIT-Portugal Program in Bioengineering by Instituto Superior Técnico. I started working in the solar laser field since 2014 to explore the renewable Mg recovery from MgO using the solar furnace and solar lasers. The combination of laser physics with renewable solar energy has become the focus of my research career, involving the improvement of both solar-to-laser conversion efficiency and output beam quality of solar-pumped lasers. On the way to increase efficiency, I am strongly fascinated by new laser materials: the pioneer discover of Ce:Nd:YAG in solar lasers as an alternative to the common Nd:YAG and Cr:Nd:YAG media had a great impact on my career path.  



 



Main publications

 


Liang, D.; Almeida, J.; Catela, M.; Costa, H.; Garcia, D.; Tibúrcio, B. D.; Vistas, C. R. Lowest threshold solar-pumped Ce:Nd:YAG laser with 2.06% solar-to-TEM00 mode laser conversion efficiency. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 270, 112817 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2024.112817


Book: Liang, D.; Almeida, J.; Vistas, C. R.; Tibúrcio, B.D.; Garcia, D.. Solar-Pumped Lasers. Springer 2023.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24785-9


Vistas, C. R.; Liang, D.; Costa, H.; Catela, M.; Garcia, D.; Tibúrcio, B. D.; Almeida, J. High Brightness Ce:Nd:YAG Solar Laser Pumping Approach with 22.9 W/m2 TEM00-Mode Collection Efficiency, Energies 16, 5143 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/en16135143


Vistas, C. R.; Liang, D.; Garcia, D.; Catela, M.; Tibúrcio, B. D.; Costa, H.; Guillot, E.; Almeida, J. Uniform and Non-Uniform Pumping Effect on Ce:Nd:YAG Side-Pumped Solar Laser Output Performance. Energies 15, 3998 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3390/en15103577


Vistas, C. R.; Liang, D.; Almeida, J.; Tibúrcio, B. D.; Garcia, D.; Catela, M.; Costa, H.; Guillot, E. Ce:Nd:YAG side-pumped solar laser. J. Photonics Energy 11 018001 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JPE.11.018001 Featured in JPE


Vistas, C. R.; Liang, D.; Garcia, D.; Almeida, J.; Tibúrcio, B. D.; Guillot, E. Ce:Nd:YAG continuous-wave solar-pumped laser. Optik 207, [163795] (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijleo.2019.163795


Vistas, C. R.; Liang, D.; Almeida, J.; Tibúrcio, B. D.; Garcia, D. A doughnut-shaped Nd:YAG solar laser beam with 4.5 W/m2 collection efficiency. Sol. Energy 182, 42-47 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.02.030


 


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