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A simple model of space radiation damage in GaAs solar cells
A simple model is derived for the radiation damage of shallow junction gallium arsenide (GaAs) solar cells. Reasonable agreement is found between the model and specific experimental studies of radiation effects with electron and proton beams. In particular, the extreme sensitivity of the cell to protons stopping near the cell junction is predicted by the model. The equivalent fluence concept is of questionable validity for monoenergetic proton beams. Angular factors are quite important in establishing the cell sensitivity to incident particle types and energies. A fluence of isotropic incidence 1 MeV electrons (assuming infinite backing) is equivalent to four times the fluence of normal incidence 1 MeV electrons. Spectral factors common to the space radiations are considered, and cover glass thickness required to minimize the initial damage for a typical cell configuration is calculated. Rough equivalence between the geosynchronous environment and an equivalent 1 MeV electron fluence (normal incidence) is established
A model for the kinetics of a solar-pumped long path laser experiment
A kinetic model for a solar-simulator pumped iodine laser system is developed and compared to an experiment in which the solar simulator output is dispersed over a large active volume (150 cu cm) with low simulator light intensity (approx. 200 solar constants). A trace foreign gas which quenches the upper level is introduced into the model. Furthermore, a constant representing optical absorption of the stimulated emission is introduced, in addition to a constant representing the scattering at each of the mirrors, via the optical cavity time constant. The non-uniform heating of the gas is treated as well as the pressure change as a function of time within the cavity. With these new phenomena introduced into the kinetic model, a best reasonable fit to the experimental data is found by adjusting the reaction rate coefficients within the range of known uncertainty by numerical methods giving a new bound within this range of uncertainty. The experimental parameters modeled are the lasing time, laser pulse energy, and time to laser threshold
Spin resonance in the d-wave superconductor CeCoIn5
Neutron scattering is used to probe antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations in
the d-wave heavy fermion superconductor CeCoIn (T=2.3 K).
Superconductivity develops from a state with slow (=0.3 0.15
meV) commensurate (=(1/2,1/2,1/2)) antiferromagnetic spin
fluctuations and nearly isotropic spin correlations. The characteristic
wavevector in CeCoIn is the same as CeIn but differs from the
incommensurate wavevector measured in antiferromagnetically ordered
CeRhIn. A sharp spin resonance ( meV) at
= 0.60 0.03 meV develops in the superconducting state removing spectral
weight from low-energy transfers. The presence of a resonance peak is
indicative of strong coupling between f-electron magnetism and
superconductivity and consistent with a d-wave gap order parameter satisfying
.Comment: (5 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett.
From incommensurate correlations to mesoscopic spin resonance in YbRh2Si2
Spin fluctuations are reported near the magnetic field driven quantum
critical point in YbRh2Si2. On cooling, ferromagnetic fluctuations evolve into
incommensurate correlations located at q0=+/- (delta,delta) with delta=0.14 +/-
0.04 r.l.u. At low temperatures, an in plane magnetic field induces a sharp
intra doublet resonant excitation at an energy E0=g muB mu0 H with g=3.8 +/-
0.2. The intensity is localized at the zone center indicating precession of
spin density extending xi=6 +/- 2 A beyond the 4f site.Comment: (main text - 4 pages, 4 figures; supplementary information - 3 pages,
3 figures; to be published in Physical Review Letters
From soft harmonic phonons to fast relaxational dynamics in CHNHPbBr
The lead-halide perovskites, including CHNHPbBr, are
components in cost effective, highly efficient photovoltaics, where the
interactions of the molecular cations with the inorganic framework are
suggested to influence the electronic and ferroelectric properties.
CHNHPbBr undergoes a series of structural transitions
associated with orientational order of the CHNH (MA) molecular
cation and tilting of the PbBr host framework. We apply high-resolution
neutron scattering to study the soft harmonic phonons associated with these
transitions, and find a strong coupling between the PbBr framework and
the quasistatic CHNH dynamics at low energy transfers. At higher
energy transfers, we observe a PbBr octahedra soft mode driving a
transition at 150 K from bound molecular excitations at low temperatures to
relatively fast relaxational excitations that extend up to 50-100 meV.
We suggest that these temporally overdamped dynamics enables possible indirect
band gap processes in these materials that are related to the enhanced
photovoltaic properties.Comment: (main text - 5 pages, 4 figures; supplementary information - 3 pages,
3 figures
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