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Gerardo Andrés Silva Oelker

Profesor Asociado

Universidad Mayor de Chile

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Focus on energy conversion, photovoltaics and thermophotovoltaics, radiative cooling, numerical modeling, uncertainty quantification, optimization, computational electromagnetics, quantum effects, and radiative heat transfer.

Educación

  •  Electrical Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME. Estados Unidos, 2019
  •  Ingeniería Eléctrica, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2019
  •  Ingeniería Eléctrica, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2019
  •  Ingeniería Mecánica, UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE. Chile, 2010
  •  Ingeniería Civil Mecánica, UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE. Chile, 2010
  •  Ingeniería Mecánica, UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE. Chile, 2008

Experiencia Académica

  •   Adjunct Profesor Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE

    Ingeniería

    Santiago, Chile

    2011 - 2015

  •   Académico Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLOGICA METROPOLITANA

    Ingeniería

    Santiago, Chile

    2019 - 2022

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Ingeniero de proyectos Full Time

    Thermal Engineering

    Santiago, Chile

    2009 - 2013

  •   Research Scientist Full Time

    NearWave

    Austin, Estados Unidos

    2023 - 2024

Formación de Capital Humano


Courses:
Thermodynamics
Finite element method
Nanoscale energy transport
Numerical methods in nanophotonics
Methods of optimization
Electromagnetic fields and waves
Scientific communication
Numerical methods

Supervision:
Dr. Ancy Albert, postdoctoral researcher, Universidad Mayor
Ignacio Carrión, undergraduate, Universidad Mayor
Matías Gamboa, undergraduate, Universidad Mayor
Nelson Toledo, undergraduate, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
Fabián Osorio, undergraduate, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
Ignacio Álvarez, undergraduate, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
Javier Iturra, undergraduate, Universidad de Talca



 

Article (12)

Insight mechanisms of complex roughening dynamics and investigation of fractal parameters, optical constant, and dispersion parameters of CdS thin films for p-n (n-CdS/p-Si) heterojunction-based photodetector

Pathak, S; Morales-Ferreiro, JO; Silva-Oelker, G; Chaudhary, S; Shrivastav, M; Kumar, C; Singh, K; Kashyap, V; Kumar, N; Guzman, F; et al.

Article ISI
EMERGENT MATERIALS  (2025)

Numerical study of high-temperature, disk-based tungsten and molybdenum thermophotovoltaic selective thermal emitters

Silva-Oelker, G; Fernandez, JJ; Toledo, N

Article ISI
OPTICS EXPRESS  (2025)

Uncertainty quantification in diffraction gratings reliability analysis using a reduced basis method

Aylwin, R; Pinto, J; Silva-Oelker, G

Article ISI
JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION  (2025)

Polarization-Graded High-Electron-Mobility Transistors for Improved Johnson's Figure of Merit

Venkatesan N.; Silva-Oelker, G; Turner, W; Moon, JS; Fay, P

Article ISI
PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI A-APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE  (2024)

Tuning the Electronic Bandgap of Penta-Graphene from Insulator to Metal Through Functionalization: A First-Principles Calculation

Morales-Ferreiro, J. O.; Silva-Oelker, Gerardo; Kumar, Chandra; Zambra, Cristopher; Liu, Zeyu; Diaz-Droguett, Donovan; CELENTANO, DIEGO JAVIER

Article ISI SCOPUS
NANOMATERIALS  (2024)

Numerical study of sodalime and PDMS hemisphere photonic structures for radiative cooling of silicon solar cells

Silva-Oelker, Gerardo; Jaramillo-Fernández, Juliana

Article ISI SCOPUS
OPTICS EXPRESS  (2022)

Study of Photonic Radiative Coolers Based on Semispheres for Silicon Photovoltaic Cells

Silva-Oelker, Gerardo; Jaramillo-Fernández, Juliana

Article SCOPUS
 (2022)

Diffraction efficiency optimization for multilayered parametric holographic gratings

Pinto, Jose; Aylwin, Ruben; Silva-Oelker, Gerardo; Jerez-Hanckes, Carlos

Article ISI
OPTICS LETTERS  (2021)

Optimization methods for achieving high diffraction efficiency with perfect electric conducting gratings

Aylwin, Ruben; Silva-Oelker, Gerardo; Jerez-Hanckes, Carlos; Fay, Patrick

Article ISI
JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION  (2020)

High-temperature tungsten-hafnia optimized selective thermal emitters for thermophotovoltaic applications



Article ISI SCOPUS
JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY & RADIATIVE TRANSFER  (2019)

Quantifying the Impact of Random Surface Perturbations on Reflective Gratings

Silva-Oelker, G; Aylwin, R; Fay, P

Article ISI SCOPUS
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION  (2018)

Study of W/HfO2 grating selective thermal emitters for thermophotovoltaic applications



Article ISI SCOPUS
Optics Express  (2018)

ConferencePaper (3)

Assessing Image Reproducibility in Free-Form Raster Scan fdNIRS Imaging

Gerardo Silva-Oelker, Roy Stillwell, Eric Sheeder, Lyla Senn, Adam Longoria, and Thomas D. O’Sullivan

ConferencePaper
 (2024)

Passive radiative cooling materials integrated in renewable energy technologies for enhanced performance

Jaramillo-Femandez, J; Silva-Oelker, G; Astrain, D

ConferencePaper ISI
QCD@WORK 2024 - INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS - THEORY AND EXPERIMENT  (2024)

Graded-Channel GaN-Based HEMTs for High Linearity Amplifiers at Millimeter-Wave

Venkatesan N.

ConferencePaper SCOPUS
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2020  (2019)

ConferencePoster (1)

High Temperature Optimized W-HfO2 Thermal Emitters for Thermophotovoltaic Applications

Silva, Gerardo ; Fay, Patrick ; Jerez, Carlos

ConferencePoster
 (2018)

3
Carlos Jerez

Dean, Full Professor

Faculty of Engineering and Sciences

Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

Santiago, Chile

2
Jorge Morales

Director Escuela de Ingeniería

Ingeniería Industrial

Universidad Mayor de Chile

Santiago, Chile

16
Gerardo Silva

Profesor Asociado

Ingeniería

Universidad Mayor de Chile

Santiago, Chile