Michaël Daenen

Principal Investigator at imo-imomec and Professor at Hasselt University
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Michaël Daenen received his master degree in Applied Physics at the Technical University Eindhoven (TU/e, Eindhoven, the Netherlands) in 2004. In 2008 he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Material Physics at Hasselt University (Hasselt, Belgium) on the topic of nano crystalline diamond synthesis and characterisation. He is working as a professor since 2014 and currently he is Associate Professor of Engineering Technology at Hasselt University. Michaël’s research group, Energy Systems Engineering (ESE) at imo-imomec, focusses on the reliability of PV modules and PV systems. He was involved in two European projects, PV Op Maat (Interreg) and SolSthore (EFRO–SALK) and is currently working on the project Rolling Solar (Interreg) and Belgian federal project BREGILAB (Transitiefonds). The imo-imomec ESE group is affiliated to imec (Leuven, Belgium) and EnergyVille (Genk, Belgium).

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Authored articles

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Predicting energy yields for photovoltaic systems with imec’s precision model

20/03/2024
Research update
Photovoltaics

How the Energy Yield Model, developed at EnergyVille, is guiding efficient solar energy utilization

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Critical failure modes in bifacial photovoltaics technology

08/12/2020
Longread
Photovoltaics

Potential-induced degradation is one of the most critical failure modes in (bifacial) photovoltaic systems.

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Can we integrate solar cells in sound barriers, cycle paths and motorways?

06/12/2019
Photovoltaics
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