Impact of built-in fields and contact configuration on the characteristics of ultra-thin GaAs solar cells

We discuss the effects of built-in fields and contact configuration on the photovoltaic characteristics of ultrathin GaAs solar cells. The investigation is based on advanced quantum-kinetic simulations reaching beyond the standard semi-classical bulk picture concerning the consideration of charge carrier states and dynamics in complex potential profiles. The thickness dependence of dark and photocurrent in the ultra-scaled regime is related to the corresponding variation of both, the built-in electric fields and associated modification of the density of states, and the optical intensity in the films. Losses in open-circuit voltage and short-circuit current due to leakage of electronically and optically injected carriers at minority carrier contacts are investigated for different contact configurations including electron and hole blocking barrier layers. The microscopic picture of leakage currents is connected to the effect of finite surface recombination velocities in the semi-classical description, and the impact of these non-classical contact regions on carrier generation and extraction is analyzed.Comment: 5 pages, 8 figure

LMI based Stability and Stabilization of Second-order Linear Repetitive Processes

This paper develops new results on the stability and control of a class of linear repetitive processes described by a second-order matrix discrete or differential equation. These are developed by transformation of the secondorder dynamics to those of an equivalent first-order descriptor state-space model, thus avoiding the need to invert a possibly ill-conditioned leading coefficient matrix in the original model

Supersymmetric analogue of BC_N type rational integrable models with polarized spin reversal operators

We derive the exact spectra as well as partition functions for a class of $BC_N$ type of spin Calogero models, whose Hamiltonians are constructed by using supersymmetric analogues of polarized spin reversal operators (SAPSRO). The strong coupling limit of these spin Calogero models yields $BC_N$ type of Polychronakos-Frahm (PF) spin chains with SAPSRO. By applying the freezing trick, we obtain an exact expression for the partition functions of such PF spin chains. We also derive a formula which expresses the partition function of any $BC_N$ type of PF spin chain with SAPSRO in terms of partition functions of several $A_K$ type of supersymmetric PF spin chains, where $K\leq N-1$. Subsequently we show that an extended boson-fermion duality relation is obeyed by the partition functions of the $BC_N$ type of PF chains with SAPSRO. Some spectral properties of these spin chains, like level density distribution and nearest neighbour spacing distribution, are also studied.Comment: 36 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1402.275

Relevance of Induced Gauge Interactions in Decoherence

Decoherence in quantum cosmology is shown to occur naturally in the presence of induced geometric gauge interactions associated with particle production.A new 'gauge '-variant form of the semiclassical Einstein equations is also presented which makes the non-gravitating character of the vacuum polarisation energy explicit.Comment: 10 pages, LATEX, IC/94/16

Rapidly rotating strange stars for a new equation of state of strange quark matter

For a new equation of state of strange quark matter, we construct equilibrium sequences of rapidly rotating strange stars in general relativity. The sequences are the normal and supramassive evolutionary sequences of constant rest mass. We also calculate equilibrium sequences for a constant value of $\Omega$ corresponding to the most rapidly rotating pulsar PSR 1937 + 21. In addition to this, we calculate the radius of the marginally stable orbit and its dependence on $\Omega$, relevant for modeling of kilo-Hertz quasi-periodic oscillations in X-ray binaries.Comment: Two figures, uses psbox.tex and emulateapj5.st