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An Antireflective Tco Film For Czts Solar Cells, Feng Zhan Oct 2016

An Antireflective Tco Film For Czts Solar Cells, Feng Zhan

The 8th International Conference on Physical and Numerical Simulation of Materials Processing

No abstract provided.


Transparent Glass Ceramic Containing Ndf3 Nanocrystals For Magneto-Optical Application, Wei Li, Youting Huang, Wenzhe Chen Oct 2016

Transparent Glass Ceramic Containing Ndf3 Nanocrystals For Magneto-Optical Application, Wei Li, Youting Huang, Wenzhe Chen

The 8th International Conference on Physical and Numerical Simulation of Materials Processing

No abstract provided.


Fluorescent Materials Design At Nanoscale For Biomedical Photonics In Near Infrared Window, Kohei Soga, Masao Kamimura Oct 2016

Fluorescent Materials Design At Nanoscale For Biomedical Photonics In Near Infrared Window, Kohei Soga, Masao Kamimura

The 8th International Conference on Physical and Numerical Simulation of Materials Processing

No abstract provided.


Molecular Dynamics Study Of Growth Of Silicon From Melt And Formation Of Dislocation, Naigen Zhou, Chi Zhang, Bo Liu, Rongyao Luo, Ke Li, Lang Zhou Oct 2016

Molecular Dynamics Study Of Growth Of Silicon From Melt And Formation Of Dislocation, Naigen Zhou, Chi Zhang, Bo Liu, Rongyao Luo, Ke Li, Lang Zhou

The 8th International Conference on Physical and Numerical Simulation of Materials Processing

No abstract provided.


Dft Calculations And Experimental Study Of The Lattice Distortion On Phase Transition Properties Of The Polycrystalline Vo2 Thin Film, Langping Wang, Tiegui Lin, Yuqiang Ge, Xiaofeng Wang Oct 2016

Dft Calculations And Experimental Study Of The Lattice Distortion On Phase Transition Properties Of The Polycrystalline Vo2 Thin Film, Langping Wang, Tiegui Lin, Yuqiang Ge, Xiaofeng Wang

The 8th International Conference on Physical and Numerical Simulation of Materials Processing

No abstract provided.


Large Scale Monolithic Solar Panel Simulation - A Study On Partial Shading Degradation, Suhas V. Baddela, Xingshu Sun, Muhammad A. Alam Aug 2016

Large Scale Monolithic Solar Panel Simulation - A Study On Partial Shading Degradation, Suhas V. Baddela, Xingshu Sun, Muhammad A. Alam

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium

Shadow-induced degradation is a major concern for both power output and long-term reliability in solar cells. Apart from the obvious fact that shading reduces the amount of solar irradiance available to solar panels, it may lead to formation of hot spots, where solar cells are forced to reverse breakdown with localized heating, and potentially, permanent damage. To get a better understanding of shadow-induced degradation, we develop an electro-thermal coupled simulator that can self-consistently solve the electrical and thermal distributions of solar panel under arbitrary shading conditions. The simulation framework consists of two part: a) compact models that can describe the …


Photonicstd-2d: Modeling Light Scattering In Periodic Multilayer Photonic Structures, Alexey Bondarev, Shaimaa Azzam, Zhaxylyk Kudyshev, Alexander V. Kildishev Aug 2016

Photonicstd-2d: Modeling Light Scattering In Periodic Multilayer Photonic Structures, Alexey Bondarev, Shaimaa Azzam, Zhaxylyk Kudyshev, Alexander V. Kildishev

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium

Efficient modeling of electromagnetic processes in optical and plasmonic metamaterials is important for enabling new and exciting ways to manipulate light for advanced applications. In this work, we put together a tool for numerical simulation of propagation of normally incident light through a nanostructured multilayer composite material. The user builds a unit cell of a given material layer-by-layer starting from a substrate up to a superstrate, splitting each layer further into segments. The segments are defined by width and material -- dielectric, metal or active medium. Simulations are performed with the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. A database of …


Wearable Piezotronic Devices For Heart Rate Monitoring, Adam J. Miller, Wenzhuo Wu Dr. Aug 2016

Wearable Piezotronic Devices For Heart Rate Monitoring, Adam J. Miller, Wenzhuo Wu Dr.

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium

Self-powered multifunctional wearable devices that are capable of human-device interfacing are highly desired. Piezotronic devices utilize piezoelectricity and semiconductor properties to enable devices to have seamless interaction between human and device. One important use for piezotronic devices is for pressure sensing. Pressure sensing devices have been employed in smart skins, biomonitoring, gesture recognition, and many more applications. This study aims to create a flexible piezotronic device, specifically for use in pressure sensing to monitor heart rate. ZnO nanowires are grown on a flexible polymer substrate so that they can be made into wearable devices. A p-n heterojunction is formed by …


Spin-Gapless Semiconductivity And Half Metallicity In Heusler Alloys, Bradley A. Staten, Pavel V. Lukashev Mar 2016

Spin-Gapless Semiconductivity And Half Metallicity In Heusler Alloys, Bradley A. Staten, Pavel V. Lukashev

Research in the Capitol

In recent years, ever increasing interest in spin-based electronics (spintronics) has resulted in the search for a new class of materials that can provide a high degree of transport spin polarization. An ideal candidate would act like insulator for one spin channel and a conductor or semiconductor for the opposite spin channel (e.g. half metals (HM), spin gapless semiconductors (SGS)). In this work, we present results of our computational and theoretical study (Staten, et al., J. Appl. Phys. 117, 17D115 (2015)) of Heusler compounds with potential commercial applications in the field of spintronics. We show that naturally these materials are …