31 research outputs found
Mode Coupling Approach for spin-facilitated kinetic Ising models
The d-dimensional n-spin facilitated kinetic Ising model is studied
analytically starting from usual master equations and their transformation into
a Fock-space representation. The evolution of relevant operators is rewritten
in terms of a projection formalism. The obtained frequency matrices and memory
terms are analyzed. Especially, the influences of the memory terms is
approached by using standard techniques of the usual mode coupling approach.
The temperature dependence of the relaxation times related to the n-spin
facilitated kinetic Ising model shows a weak non-Arrhenius behavior.
Furthermore, a characteristic stretched decay of the correlation function is
obtained.Comment: Written in REVTex, 18 pages, 7 figures in Postscrip
Multiple State Representation Scheme for Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells: A Novel Analysis Perspective
The physics of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells is studied within a
six state model, which is used to analyze the factors that affect
current-voltage characteristics, power-voltage properties and efficiency, and
their dependence on nonradiative losses, reorganization of the nuclear
environment, and environmental polarization. Both environmental reorganization
and polarity is explicitly taken into account by incorporating Marcus
heterogeneous and homogeneous electron transfer rates. The environmental
polarity is found to have a nonnegligible influence both on the stationary
current and on the overall solar cell performance. For our organic bulk
heterojunction solar cell operating under steady-state open circuit condition,
we also find that the open circuit voltage logarithmically decreases with
increasing nonradiative electron-hole recombination processes.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
Capture numbers and islands size distributions in models of submonolayer surface growth
The capture numbers entering the rate equations (RE) for submonolayer film
growth are determined from extensive kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations for
simple representative growth models yielding point, compact, and fractal island
morphologies. The full dependence of the capture numbers on island size, and on
both the coverage and the D/F ratio between the adatom diffusion coefficient D
and deposition rate F is determined. Based on this information, the RE are
solved to give the RE island size distribution (RE-ISD). The RE-ISDs are shown
to agree well with the corresponding KMC-ISDs for all island morphologies. For
compact morphologies, however, this agreement is only present for coverages
smaller than about 5% due to a significantly increased coalescence rate
compared to fractal morphologies. As found earlier, the scaled KMC-ISDs as a
function of scaled island size approach, for fixed coverage, a limiting curve
for D/F going to infinity. Our findings provide evidence that the limiting
curve is independent of the coverage for point islands, while the results for
compact and fractal island morphologies indicate a dependence on the coverage.Comment: 13 pages, 12 figure