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III-V Solar Cells
III-V materials show a wide range of gaps making them ideal for the design of
high efficiency solar cells. This chapter reviews relevant growth methods and
material properties of these materials and discusses methods of combining
heterogeneous materials, demonstrating the flexibility of design possible with
these materials. The fundamental loss mechanisms of solar cells are analysed
and quantified as a prelude to analysing high efficiency cell designs in
single, tandem, and triple junction solar cells. The detailed analysis of loss
mechanisms is used to obtain understanding of the limiting behaviour of these
designs, and show that bulk cells remain dominated by non-radiative losses
despite unity ideality factors. To conclude, this is contrasted with the
operating regime of nanostructured solar cells which can be shown to operate in
a radiatively dominated mode, and which therefore approach ideal solar cell
efficiency limits.Comment: Draft of chapter in Materials Challenges: Inorganic Photovoltaic
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ENHANCED VIDEO AND WEB CONFERENCING SECURITY FOR DUAL ACCOUNT ENDPOINTS
Dual account video and web conferencing endpoints have both a personal user account and a shared room account that are registered on the same device. When such an endpoint joins a meeting (e.g., after completing a pairing process) it raises a number of security, etc. challenges. To address these types of challenges, various solutions are presented herein through several techniques. In particular, the techniques may include support for devices utilizing proximity in a reverse fashion (i.e., personal mode endpoints may use ultrasound pairing to detect that the personal user is in proximity to a device and allow them to perform authenticated actions directly using the device’s user interface (UI)). The techniques may further provide a way of pairing personal devices with clients without the need for ultrasound or manual pairing
The real time rolling shutter
From an early age children are often told either, you are creative you should do art but stay away from science and maths. Or that you are mathematical you should do science but you're not that creative. Compounding this there also exist some traditional barriers of artistic rhetoric that say, "don't touch, don't think and don't be creative, we've already done that for you, you can just look...". The Real Time Rolling Shutter is part of a collaborative Art/Science partnership whose core tenets are in complete contrast to this. The Art/Science exhibitions we have created have invited the public to become part of the exhibition by utilising augmented digital mirrors, Kinects, feed-back camera and projector systems and augmented reality perception helmets. The fundamental underlying principles we are trying to adhere to are to foster curiosity, intrigue, wonderment and amazement and we endeavour to draw the audience into the interactive nature of our exhibits and exclaim to everyone that you can be what ever you chose to be, and that everyone can be creative, everyone can be an artist, everyone can be a scientist... all it takes is an inquisitive mind, so come and explore the real-time rolling shutter and be creative
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Local Dynamics in Decision Making: The Evolution of Preference within and across Decisions
Within decisions, perceived alternatives compete until one is preferred. Across decisions, the playing field on which these alternatives compete evolves to favor certain alternatives. Mouse cursor trajectories provide rich continuous information related to such cognitive processes during decision making. In three experiments, participants learned to choose symbols to earn points in a discrimination learning paradigm and the cursor trajectories of their responses were recorded. Decisions between two choices that earned equally high-point rewards exhibited far less competition than decisions between choices that earned equally low-point rewards. Using positional coordinates in the trajectories, it was possible to infer a potential field in which the choice locations occupied areas of minimal potential. These decision spaces evolved through the experiments, as participants learned which options to choose. This visualisation approach provides a potential framework for the analysis of local dynamics in decision-making that could help mitigate both theoretical disputes and disparate empirical results.Engineering and Applied Science
NASA Space applications of high-temperature superconductors
The application of superconducting technology in space has been limited by the requirement of cooling to near liquid helium temperatures. The only means of obtaining these temperatures has been with cryogenic fluids which severely limit mission lifetime. The development of materials with superconducting transition temperatures above 77 K has made superconducting technology more attractive and feasible for employment in aerospace systems. Here, potential applications of high temperature superconducting technology in cryocoolers, remote sensing, communications, and power systems are discussed
Growth Route Toward III-V Multispectral Solar Cells on Silicon
To date, high efficiency multijunction solar cells have been developed on Ge
or GaAs substrates for space applications, and terrestrial applications are
hampered by high fabrication costs. In order to reduce this cost, we propose a
breakthrough technique of III-V compound heteroepitaxy on Si substrates without
generation of defects critical to PV applications. With this technique we
expect to achieve perfect integration of heterogeneous Ga1-xInxAs
micro-crystals on Si substrates. In this paper, we show that this is the case
for x=0. GaAs crystals were grown by Epitaxial Lateral Overgrowth on Si (100)
wafers covered with a thin SiO2 nanostructured layer. The cristallographic
structure of these crystals is analysed by MEB and TEM imaging. Micro-Raman and
Micro-Photomuminescence spectra of GaAs crystals grown with different
conditions are compared with those of a reference GaAs wafer in order to have
more insight on eventual local strains and their cristallinity. This work aims
at developping building blocks to further develop a GaAs/Si tandem demonstrator
with a potential conversion efficiency of 29.6% under AM1.5G spectrum without
concentration, as inferred from our realistic modeling. This paper shows that
Epitaxial Lateral Overgrowth has a very interesting potential to develop
multijunction solar cells on silicon approaching the today 30.3% world record
of a GaInP/GaAs tandem cell under the same illumination conditions, but on a
costlier substrate than silicon.Comment: Preprint of the 28th EUPVSEC proceedings, September 2013, Paris,
France. (5 pages
HP-UHP FLUID INCLUSION POST-ENTRAPMENT EVOLUTION PREDICTED BY MOLECULAR AND ELECTROLYTIC FLUID THERMODYNAMIC MODELS
Endogenous Presentation of CD8+ T Cell Epitopes from Epstein-Barr Virus–encoded Nuclear Antigen 1
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)–encoded nuclear antigen (EBNA)1 is thought to escape cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) recognition through either self-inhibition of synthesis or by blockade of proteasomal degradation by the glycine-alanine repeat (GAr) domain. Here we show that EBNA1 has a remarkably varied cell type–dependent stability. However, these different degradation rates do not correspond to the level of major histocompatibility complex class I–restricted presentation of EBNA1 epitopes. In spite of the highly stable expression of EBNA1 in B cells, CTL epitopes derived from this protein are efficiently processed and presented to CD8+ T cells. Furthermore, we show that EBV-infected B cells can readily activate EBNA1-specific memory T cell responses from healthy virus carriers. Functional assays revealed that processing of these EBNA1 epitopes is proteasome and transporter associated with antigen processing dependent. We also show that the endogenous presentation of these epitopes is dependent on the newly synthesized protein rather than the long-lived stable EBNA1. Based on these observations, we propose that defective ribosomal products, not the full-length antigen, are the primary source of endogenously processed CD8+ T cell epitopes from EBNA1
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