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Limiting process in shallow junction solar cells
In extending the violet and nonreflective cell technology to lower resistivities, several processes limiting output power were encountered. The most important was the dark diffusion current due to recombination at the front grid contacts. After removal of this problem by reduction of the silicon metal contact area (to 0.14 percent of the total area), the electric field enhanced junction recombination current J sub r was the main limitation. Alteration of the diffusion profile to reduce the junction field is shown to be an effective means of influencing J sub r. The remaining problems are the bulk recombination in the n+ layer and the surface recombination at the oxide-silicon interface; both of these problems are aggravated by band-narrowing resulting from heavy doping in the diffused layer. Experimental evidence for the main limitations is shown, where increased diffusion temperature is seen to reduce both the influence of the front grid contacts and the junction electric field by increasing the junction depth. The potential for further significant improvement in efficiency appears to be high
Observation of non-classical rotational inertia in bulk solid 4He
In recent torsional oscillator experiments by Kim and Chan (KC), a decrease
of rotational inertia has been observed in solid 4He in porous materials and in
a bulk annular channel. This observation strongly suggests the existence of
"non-classical rotational inertia" (NCRI), i.e. superflow, in solid 4He. In
order to study such a possible "supersolid" phase, we perform torsional
oscillator experiments for cylindrical solid 4He samples. We have observed
decreases of rotational inertia below 200 mK for two solid samples (pressures P
= 4.1 and 3.0 MPa). The observed NCRI fraction at 70 mK is 0.14 %, which is
about 1/3 of the fraction observed in the annulus by KC. Our observation is the
first experimental confirmation of the possible supersolid finding by KC.Comment: 6 pages, 3 firures, submitted to J. Low Temp. Phys. (Proceedings of
QFS2006
Zero-point vacancies in quantum solids
A Jastrow wave function (JWF) and a shadow wave function (SWF) describe a
quantum solid with Bose--Einstein condensate; i.e. a supersolid. It is known
that both JWF and SWF describe a quantum solid with also a finite equilibrium
concentration of vacancies x_v. We outline a route for estimating x_v by
exploiting the existing formal equivalence between the absolute square of the
ground state wave function and the Boltzmann weight of a classical solid. We
compute x_v for the quantum solids described by JWF and SWF employing very
accurate numerical techniques. For JWF we find a very small value for the zero
point vacancy concentration, x_v=(1.4\pm0.1) x 10^-6. For SWF, which presently
gives the best variational description of solid 4He, we find the significantly
larger value x_v=(1.4\pm0.1) x 10^-3 at a density close to melting. We also
study two and three vacancies. We find that there is a strong short range
attraction but the vacancies do not form a bound state.Comment: 19 pages, submitted to J. Low Temp. Phy
Giant Coulomb broadening and Raman lasing on ionic transitions
CW generation of anti-Stokes Raman laser on a number of blue-green argon-ion
lines (4p-4s, 4p-3d) has been demonstrated with optical pumping from metastable
levels 3d'^2G, 3d^4F. It is found, that the population transfer rate is
increased by a factor of 3-5 (and hence, the output power of such Raman laser)
owing to Coulomb diffusion in the velocity space. Measured are the excitation
and relaxation rates for the metastable level. The Bennett hole on the
metastable level has been recorded using the probe field technique. It has been
shown that the Coulomb diffusion changes shape of the contour to exponential
cusp profile while its width becomes 100 times the Lorentzian one and reaches
values close to the Doppler width. Such a giant broadening is also confirmed by
the shape of the absorption saturation curve.Comment: RevTex 18 pages, 5 figure
Search for supersolidity in 4He in low-frequency sound experiments
We present results of the search for supersolid 4He using low-frequency,
low-level mechanical excitation of a solid sample grown and cooled at fixed
volume. We have observed low frequency non-linear resonances that constitute
anomalous features. These features, which appear below about 0.8 K, are absent
in 3He. The frequency, the amplitude at which the nonlinearity sets in, and the
upper temperature limit of existence of these resonances depend markedly on the
sample history.Comment: Submitted to the Quantum Fluids and Solids Conf. Aug. 2006 Kyot
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A practical synthesis of diethyl 1-methylthio-2-oxo-2-phenylethylphosphonates from diethyl methylthiomethylphosphonate
An efficient synthesis of 2'- and 3'-substituted diethyl 1-methylthio-2-oxo-2-phenylethylphosphonates 3a-k from 2'- and 3'-substituted benzoyl chlorides 2a-k using diethyl methylthio-l-lithiomethylphosphonate is described.81248125
Two-body correlations and the superfluid fraction for nonuniform systems
We extend the one-body phase function upper bound on the superfluid fraction
in a periodic solid (a spatially ordered supersolid) to include two-body phase
correlations. The one-body current density is no longer proportional to the
gradient of the one-body phase times the one-body density, but rather it
depends also on two-body correlation functions. The equations that
simultaneously determine the one-body and two-body phase functions require a
knowledge of one-, two-, and three-body correlation functions. The approach can
also be extended to disordered solids. Fluids, with two-body densities and
two-body phase functions that are translationally invariant, cannot take
advantage of this additional degree of freedom to lower their energy.Comment: 13 page
BCC vs. HCP - The Effect of Crystal Symmetry on the High Temperature Mobility of Solid He
We report results of torsional oscillator (TO) experiments on solid He at
temperatures above 1K. We have previously found that single crystals, once
disordered, show some mobility (decoupled mass) even at these rather high
temperatures. The decoupled mass fraction with single crystals is typically 20-
30%. In the present work we performed similar measurements on polycrystalline
solid samples. The decoupled mass with polycrystals is much smaller, 1%,
similar to what is observed by other groups. In particular, we compared the
properties of samples grown with the TO's rotation axis at different
orientations with respect to gravity. We found that the decoupled mass fraction
of bcc samples is independent of the angle between the rotation axis and
gravity. In contrast, hcp samples showed a significant difference in the
fraction of decoupled mass as the angle between the rotation axis and gravity
was varied between zero and 85 degrees. Dislocation dynamics in the solid
offers one possible explanation of this anisotropy.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Journal of Low Temperature Physics
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The glassy response of solid He-4 to torsional oscillations
We calculated the glassy response of solid He-4 to torsional oscillations
assuming a phenomenological glass model. Making only a few assumptions about
the distribution of glassy relaxation times in a small subsystem of otherwise
rigid solid He-4, we can account for the magnitude of the observed period shift
and concomitant dissipation peak in several torsion oscillator experiments. The
implications of the glass model for solid He-4 are threefold: (1) The dynamics
of solid He-4 is governed by glassy relaxation processes. (2) The distribution
of relaxation times varies significantly between different torsion oscillator
experiments. (3) The mechanical response of a torsion oscillator does not
require a supersolid component to account for the observed anomaly at low
temperatures, though we cannot rule out its existence.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, presented at QFS200
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