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Enhanced Efficiency of Light-Trapping Nanoantenna Arrays for Thin Film Solar Cells
We suggest a novel concept of efficient light-trapping structures for
thin-film solar cells based on arrays of planar nanoantennas operating far from
plasmonic resonances. The operation principle of our structures relies on the
excitation of chessboard-like collective modes of the nanoantenna arrays with
the field localized between the neighboring metal elements. We demonstrated
theoretically substantial enhancement of solar-cell short-circuit current by
the designed light-trapping structure in the whole spectrum range of the
solar-cell operation compared to conventional structures employing
anti-reflecting coating. Our approach provides a general background for a
design of different types of efficient broadband light-trapping structures for
thin-film solar-cell technologically compatible with large-area thin-film
fabrication techniques
On stochastic switching of bistable resonant-tunneling structures via nucleation
We estimate the critical size of the initial nucleus of the low current state
in a bistable resonant tunneling structure which is needed for this nucleus to
develop into a lateral switching front. Using the results obtained for
deterministic switching fronts, we argue that for realistic structural
parameters the critical nucleus has macroscopic dimensions and therefore is too
large to be created by stochastic electron noise.Comment: the extended version of the Comment on "Lifetime of metastable states
in resonant-tunneling structures" to appear in Phys. Rev.
Sub-wavelength imaging at infrared frequencies using an array of metallic nanorods
We demonstrate that an array of metallic nanorods enables sub-wavelength
(near-field) imaging at infrared frequencies. Using an homogenization approach,
it is theoretically proved that under certain conditions the incoming radiation
can be transmitted by the array of nanorods over a significant distance with
fairly low attenuation. The propagation mechanism does not involve a resonance
of material parameters and thus the resolution is not strongly affected by
material losses and has wide bandwidth. The sub-wavelength imaging with
resolution by silver rods at 30 THz is demonstrated numerically
using full-wave electromagnetic simulator.Comment: 12 pages, 16 figures, submitted to PR
On the origin of the distribution of binary-star periods
Pre-main sequence and main-sequence binary systems are observed to have
periods, P, ranging from one day to 10^(10) days and eccentricities, e, ranging
from 0 to 1. We pose the problem if stellar-dynamical interactions in very
young and compact star clusters may broaden an initially narrow period
distribution to the observed width. N-body computations of extremely compact
clusters containing 100 and 1000 stars initially in equilibrium and in cold
collapse are preformed. In all cases the assumed initial period distribution is
uniform in the narrow range 4.5 < log10(P) < 5.5 (P in days) which straddles
the maximum in the observed period distribution of late-type Galactic-field
dwarf systems. None of the models lead to the necessary broadening of the
period distribution, despite our adopted extreme conditions that favour
binary--binary interactions. Stellar-dynamical interactions in embedded
clusters thus cannot, under any circumstances, widen the period distribution
sufficiently. The wide range of orbital periods of very young and old binary
systems is therefore a result of cloud fragmentation and immediate subsequent
magneto-hydrodynamical processes operating within the multiple proto-stellar
system.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, ApJ, in pres
Lateral current density fronts in asymmetric double-barrier resonant-tunneling structures
We present a theoretical analysis and numerical simulations of lateral
current density fronts in bistable resonant-tunneling diodes with Z-shaped
current-voltage characteristics. The bistability is due to the charge
accumulation in the quantum well of the double-barrier structure. We focus on
asymmetric structures in the regime of sequential incoherent tunneling and
study the dependence of the bistability range, the front velocity and the front
width on the structure parameters. We propose a sectional design of a structure
that is suitable for experimental observation of front propagation and discuss
potential problems of such measurements in view of our theoretical findings. We
point out the possibility to use sectional resonant-tunneling structures as
controllable three-terminal switches.Comment: to appear in J.Appl.Phy
Collapse and stable self-trapping for Bose-Einstein condensates with 1/r^b type attractive interatomic interaction potential
We consider dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates with long-range attractive
interaction proportional to and arbitrary angular dependence. It is
shown exactly that collapse of Bose-Einstein condensate without contact
interactions is possible only for . Case is critical and requires
number of particles to exceed critical value to allow collapse. Critical
collapse in that case is strong one trapping into collapsing region a finite
number of particles.
Case is supercritical with expected weak collapse which traps rapidly
decreasing number of particles during approach to collapse. For
singularity at is not strong enough to allow collapse but attractive
interaction admits stable self-trapping even in absence of external
trapping potential
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