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Designing III-V Multijunction Solar Cells on Silicon
Single junction Si solar cells dominate photovoltaics but are close to their
efficiency limits. This paper presents ideal limiting efficiencies for tandem
and triple junction multijunction solar cells subject only to the constraint of
the Si bandgap and therefore recommending optimum cell structures departing
from the single junction ideal. The use of III-V materials is considered, using
a novel growth method capable of yielding low defect density III-V layers on
Si. In order to evaluate the real potential of these proposed multijunction
designs, a quantitative model is presented, the strength of which is the joint
modelling of external quantum efficiency and current-voltage characteristics
using the same parameters. The method yields a single parameter fit in terms of
the Shockley-Read-Hall lifetime. This model is validated by fitting
experimental data of external quantum efficiency, dark current, and conversion
efficiency of world record tandem and triple junction cells under terrestrial
solar spectra without concentration. We apply this quantitative model to the
design of tandem and triple junction solar cells, yielding cell designs capable
of reaching efficiencies without concentration of 32% for the best tandem cell
and 36% for the best triple junction cell. This demonstrates that efficiencies
within a few percent of world records are realistically achievable without the
use of concentrating optics, with growth methods being developed for
multijunction cells combining III-V and Si materials.Comment: Preprint of the paper submitted to the journal Progress in
Photovoltaics, selected by the Executive Committee of the 28th EU PVSEC 2013
for submission to Progress in Photovoltaics. 10 pages, 7 figure
Unitary Dual of GL_n at archimedean places and global Jacquet-Langlands correspondence
In [7], results about the global Jacquet-Langlands correspondence, (weak and
strong) multiplicity-one theorems and the classification of automorphic
representations for inner forms of the general linear group over a number field
are established, under the condition that the local inner forms are split at
archimedean places. In this paper, we extend the main local results of [7] to
archimedean places so that this assumption can be removed. Along the way, we
collect several results about the unitary dual of general linear groups over
\bbR, \bbC or \bbH of independent interest
Remarkable virtual SUSY effects in production at high energy hadron colliders
We present a complete 1-loop study of the electroweak corrections to the
process in MSSM and SM.
The occurrence of a number of remarkable properties in the behavior of the
helicity amplitudes at high energies is stressed, and the crucial role of the
virtual SUSY contributions in establishing them, is emphasized. The approach to
asymptopia of these amplitudes is discussed, comparing the effects of the
logarithmic and constant contributions to the mass suppressed ones, which are
relevant at lower energies. Applying crossing to , we obtain all
subprocesses needed for the 1-loop electroweak corrections to
-production at LHC. The SUSY model dependence of such a production is
then studied, and illustrations are given for the transverse momentum
distribution, as well as the angular distribution in the subprocess center of
mass.Comment: 21 pages, 12 figures, version to appear in Phys.Rev.
Spin dynamics of hole doped Y2BaNiO5
Starting from a multiband Hamiltonian containing the relevant Ni and O
orbitals, we derive an effective Hamiltonian for the low energy
physics of doped YBaNiO For hole doping, describes O
fermions interacting with S=1 Ni spins in a chain, and cannot be further
reduced to a simple one-band model. Using numerical techniques, we obtain a
dynamical spin structure factor with weight inside the Haldane gap. The nature
of these low-energy excitations is identified and the emerging physical picture
is consistent with most of the experimental information in Y%
CaBaNiOComment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Logarithmic expansion of electroweak corrections to four-fermion processes in the TeV region
Starting from a theoretical representation of the electroweak component of
four-fermion neutral current processes that uses as theoretical input the
experimental measurements at the Z peak, we consider the asymptotic high energy
behaviour in the Standard Model at one loop of those gauge-invariant
combinations of self-energies, vertices and boxes that contribute all the
different observables. We find that the logarithmic contribution due to the
renormalization group running of the various couplings is numerically
overwhelmed by single and double logarithmic terms of purely electroweak
(Sudakov-type) origin, whose separate relative effects grow with energy,
reaching the 10% size at about one TeV. We then propose a simple "effective"
parametrization that aims at describing the various observables in the TeV
region, and discuss its validity both beyond and below 1 TeV, in particular in
the expected energy range of future linear electron-positron (LC) and muon-muon
colliders.Comment: 23 pages and 9 figures; version submitted to Phys.Rev.D. e-mail:
[email protected]
The role of the top mass in b-production at future lepton colliders
We compute the one loop contribution coming from vertex and box diagrams,
where virtual top quarks are exchanged, to the asymptotic energy behaviour of
pair production at future lepton colliders. We find that the effect
of the top mass is an extra linear logarithmic term of Sudakov type that is not
present in the case of (u,d,s,c) production. This appears to be particularly
relevant in the case of the cross section.Comment: 9 pages and 3 figures; version submitted to Phys.ReV.D,Rapid. e-mail:
[email protected]
The roughness of stylolites: Implications of 3D high resolution topography measurements
Stylolites are natural pressure-dissolution surfaces in sedimentary rocks. We
present 3D high resolution measurements at laboratory scales of their complex
roughness. The topography is shown to be described by a self-affine scaling
invariance. At large scales, the Hurst exponent is and
very different from that at small scales where . A
cross-over length scale at around \L_c =1~mm is well characterized.
Measurements are consistent with a Langevin equation that describes the growth
of a stylolitic interface as a competition between stabilizing long range
elastic interactions at large scales or local surface tension effects at small
scales and a destabilizing quenched material disorder.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
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