• Radiación solar..
• Diseño óptico de no-imagen..
• Desarrollo de sensores inteligentes.
• Diseño de sistemas de concentración solar para calor y electricidad.
• Desarrollo de materiales avanzados selectivos solares.

2019

• Leopoldo Martínez-Manuel, Manuel I. Peña-Cruz, Carlos A. Pineda-Arellano, J. Gonzalo Carrillo-Baeza, and Daniel A. May-Arrioja. Optical improvement for modulating a high flux solar simulator designed for solar thermal and thermochemical research. Appl. Opt. 58, 2605-2615
• Valentín, Luis; Peña-Cruz, Manuel I.; Moctezuma, Daniela; Peña-Martínez, Cesar M.; Pineda-Arellano, Carlos A.; Díaz-Ponce, Arturo. Towards the Development of a Low-Cost Irradiance Nowcasting Sky Imager. Appl. Sci. 2019, 9, 1131.

2018

• C. Iriarte-Cornejo, C.A. Arancibia-Bulnes, J.F. Hinojosa, Manuel I. Peña-Cruz, Effect of spatial resolution of heliostat surface characterization on its concentrated heat flux distribution. Solar Energy 174 (2018) 312–320.


• Manuel I. Peña-Cruz, Patricio J. Valadés-Pelayo, Camilo A. Arancibia-Bulnes, Carlos A. Pineda-Arellano, Iván Salgado-Tránsito, Fernando Martell-Chavez, Annual optical performance of a solar CPC photo-reactor with multiple catalyst support configurations by a multi-scale model, International Journal of Photoenergy. Article ID 8718172.
• Alejandro Mateos-Canseco, Manuel I. Peña-Cruz, Arturo Díaz-Ponce, Jean-Luc Battaglia, Christophe Pradère and Luis David Patino-Lopez, “Time-Resolved Temperature Map Prediction of Concentration Photovoltaics Systems by Means of Coupled Ray Tracing Flux Analysis and Thermal Quadrupoles Modelling, Energies (2018), 11, 2042; doi:10.3390/en11082042.
• Martínez-Manuel, L., Peña-Cruz, M.I., Villa-Medina, M., Ojeda-Bernal, C., Prado-Zermeño, M., Prado-Zermeño, I., Pineda-Arellano, C.A., Carrillo, J.G., Salgado-Tránsito, I., Martell-Chavez, F. A 17.5 kW_el high flux solar simulator with controllable flux-spot capabilities: Design and validation study, Solar Energy, 170 (2018), 807–819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2018.05.088 .
• Velázquez-Martínez, S., Silva-Martínez, S., Pineda-Arellano, C.A., Jiménez-González, A., Salgado-Tránsito, I., Morales-Pérez, A.A., Peña-Cruz, M.I. Modified sol-gel/hydrothermal method for the synthesis of microsized TiO₂ and iron-doped TiO₂, its characterization and solar photocatalytic activity for an azo dye degradation. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry (2018), 93–101; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochem.2018.04.002.
• Miguel Terron Hernandez, Manuel I. Peña-Cruz, U. Diego-Ayala, Vicente Flores-Lara, and J. Carrillo, Solar Ray Tracing Analysis to Determine Energy Availability in a CPC Designed for use as a Residential Water Heater, Energies (2018), 11, 291; doi:10.3390/en11020291.

2017

• Patricio J Valades-Pelayo, Camilo Bulnes, Ivan Salgado-Transito, Heidi I Villafan-Vidales, Manuel I Peña-Cruz, Antonio E Jimenez- Gonzalez, Effect of catalyst support parameters on radiation absorption in a multi-tubular solar photocatalytic reactor. Chemical Engineering Science 161 (2017) 24–35.
• Camilo A Arancibia-Bulnes, Manuel I Peña-Cruz, Amaia Mutuberria, Rufino Diaz-Uribe, Marcelino Sanchez- Gonzalez, A Survey of Methods for the Evaluation of Reflective Solar Concentrator Optics. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 69 (2017) 673–684.

2014

• Manuel I. Peña-Cruz, Camilo A. Arancibia-Bulnes, Ana Monreal Vidal, Marcelino Sánchez González, Improving Parabolic Trough Mirror Module Qualification By Focus Tool. , Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 6, 013118 (2014); doi: 10.1063/1.4862787.