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A Streamline Upwind Petrov-Galerkin Reduced Order Method for Advection-Dominated Partial Differential Equations Under Optimal Control

Gianluigi Rozza, Fabio Zoccolan

In this paper we will consider distributed Linear-Quadratic Optimal Control Problems dealing with Advection-Diffusion PDEs for high values of the Peclet number. In this situation, computational instabilities occur, both for steady and unsteady cases. A Str ...

Walter De Gruyter Gmbh2024

Surface Passivation of FAPbI3-Rich Perovskite with Cesium Iodide Outperforms Bulk Incorporation

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Mounir Driss Mensi, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Lukas Pfeifer, Jing Gao, Brian Irving Carlsen, Essa Awadh R Alharbi, Thomas Paul Baumeler, George Cameron Fish, Georgios Kakavelakis

Metal halide perovskites (MHPs) have shown an incredible increase in efficiency, reaching as high as 25.7%, which now competes with traditional photovoltaic technologies. Herein, we excluded CsX and RbX (X = I–, Br–, Cl–), the most commonly used cations to ...

2023

VO2:Ge based thermochromic solar absorber coatings

Josef Andreas Schuler, Anna Krammer

Flat plate solar collectors face the problem of overheating and the ensuing high thermal stresses and general collector damage lead to high maintenance costs. To address this challenge, absorber coatings with a passive optical switch at critically high ope ...

ELSEVIER2022

A parabolic local problem with exponential decay of the resonance error for numerical homogenization

Assyr Abdulle, Doghonay Arjmand, Edoardo Paganoni

This paper aims at an accurate and efficient computation of effective quantities, e.g. the homogenized coefficients for approximating the solutions to partial differential equations with oscillatory coefficients. Typical multiscale methods are based on a m ...

WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD2021

Enhancement of riveted steel bridges by adding a trough in UHPFRC acting in composite action

Eugen Brühwiler

Riveted railway bridges are commonly considered as being “old”, having fatigue damage and are therefore replaced. While this practice should be by now obsolete by using novel engineering methods like structural monitoring, prolongation of the service durat ...

Taylor & Francis2021

Methylammonium Triiodide for Defect Engineering of High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Mounir Driss Mensi, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Bowen Yang, Lukas Pfeifer, Linfeng Pan, Paramvir Ahlawat, Essa Awadh R Alharbi, Claudia Esther Avalos, Mathias Dankl, George Cameron Fish, Thomas Paul Baumeler, Anurag Krishna, Olivier Ouellette, Viktor Skorjanc

The defects present in metal halide perovskite are deleterious to both the performance and stability of photovoltaic devices. Consequently, there is an intense focus on developing defect mitigation strategies. Herein we report a facile strategy that employ ...

2021

Methylamine Gas Treatment Affords Improving Semitransparency, Efficiency, and Stability of CH3NH3PbBr3-Based Perovskite Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Hongwei Zhu

High bandgap semitransparent solar cells based on CH3NH3PbBr3 perovskites are attractive for building integration, tandem cells, and electrochemical applications. The lack of control of the CH3NH3PbBr3 perovskite growth limit the exploitation of CH3NH3PbBr ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

On the asymptotic behavior of the solutions to parabolic variational inequalities

Maria Colombo

We consider various versions of the obstacle and thin-obstacle problems, we interpret them as variational inequalities, with non-smooth constraint, and prove that they satisfy a new constrained Lojasiewicz inequality. The difficulty lies in the fact that, ...

2020

In-situ and post annealing effect on the microstructure and the optical properties of black Cu-Co-Mn oxide spinel coating for Parabolic Trough Collector (PTC) applications

Andreas Schueler, Josef Andreas Schuler, Anna Krammer, Samaneh Daviran

The present paper deals with the deposition of Cu-Co-Mn oxides thin film by magnetron sputtering to produce a black selective coating for solar Parabolic Trough Collector (PTC) systems. The effect of temperature was studied between the nominal temperature ...

IOP Science2019

Solar cooking potential in Switzerland: Nodal modelling and optimization

Andreas Schueler, Josef Andreas Schuler, Dasaraden Mauree, Luc Burnier, Olivia Valérie Charlotte Bouvard, Jérémy Jacques Antonin Fleury

Solar cooking is one possible solution to reduce the domination of fossil fuel in the domestic sector and to benefit from renewable energy. This study assesses the solar cooking potential in Switzerland. A nodal model, based on energy balance equations of ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Retarding Thermal Degradation in Hybrid Perovskites by Ionic Liquid Additives

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Mounir Driss Mensi, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Cristina Roldán Carmona, Zhangjun Huang, Marius Franckevicius, Nikita Drigo

Recent years have witnessed considerable progress in the development of solar cells based on lead halide perovskite materials. However, their intrinsic instability remains a limitation. In this context, the interplay between the thermal degradation and the ...

2019

Box-type solar cooker

Andreas Schueler, Dasaraden Mauree, Olivia Valérie Charlotte Bouvard

Solar cooker with a core comprising at least one insulating wall and at least one window having a glazing on which is deposited a low-e coating, characterized by the fact that said window(s) is/are oriented along several directions ...

2018

Solar-Driven High-Temperature Electrolysis Reactor for Fuel Processing : Modeling, Optimization, and Experimentation

Meng Lin

Solar-driven high-temperature electrolysis (HTE) and thermochemical cycles (TCC) are two promising pathways for fuel processing and energy storage, which are considered in this thesis. The goals of this thesis are: i) offering engineering guidelines at sys ...

EPFL2018

Isomer-Pure Bis-PCBM-Assisted Crystal Engineering of Perovskite Solar Cells Showing Excellent Efficiency and Stability

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jingshan Luo, Chenyi Yi, Norman Pellet, Dongqin Bi, Xiong Li, Fei Zhang

A fullerene derivative (alpha-bis-PCBM) is purified from an as-produced bis-phenyl-C-61-butyric acid methyl ester (bis-[60]PCBM) isomer mixture by preparative peak-recycling, high-performance liquid chromatography, and is employed as a templating agent for ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

High Temperature-Stable Perovskite Solar Cell Based on Low-Cost Carbon Nanotube Hole Contact

Michael Graetzel, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Michael Saliba, Antonio Abate, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Konrad Domanski

Mixed ion perovskite solar cells (PSC) are manufactured with a metal-free hole contact based on press-transferred single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) film infiltrated with 2,2,7,-7-tetrakis(N, N-di-p-methoxyphenylamine)-9,90-spirobifluorene (Spiro-OMeTAD ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Real-Time Power-Reference Tracking Method for PV Converters

Mario Paolone, Lorenzo Enrique Reyes Chamorro

Due to the increasing presence of renewable inertia-less energy sources, power electronics interfaces are required to exploit their flexibility in order to support the overall grid quality of service. One way to achieve this, is that power converters are c ...

IEEE2017

Incorporation of rubidium cations into perovskite solar cells improves photovoltaic performance

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Michael Saliba, Antonio Abate, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Konrad Domanski, Jiyoun Seo, Amita Ummadisingu

All of the cations currently used in perovskite solar cells abide by the tolerance factor for incorporation into the lattice. We show that the small and oxidation-stable rubidium cation (Rb+) can be embedded into a "cation cascade" to create perovskite mat ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2016

Demonstration of a 5x5 cm(2) self-tracking solar concentrator

Eric Tremblay, Volker Günter Zagolla

Solar concentration is using optics in order to minimize the amount of expensive photovoltaic cell material needed. For concentration factors higher than approximately 4, tracking the sun's position is needed to keep the focal spot on the solar cell. Based ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

Multi-band reflectarray antennas in Ku and THz frequency bands

Hamed Hasani

Printed reflectarrays are low-cost, low-profile high gain antennas demonstrating distinctive advantages over conventional parabolic reflectors and phased-arrays. The flat, low weight reflecting surface of a reflectarray makes it an attractive alternative w ...

EPFL2015

Stationary solar concentrator delivering beyond the étendue law with homogeneous illumination

Marilyne Andersen, Boris Clément Karamata

We describe a concept for a novel stationary solar concentrator that relies on a new self-adaptive optical valve, non-imaging optics and the integrating sphere principle. Our analytical model reveals that this unique combination theoretically allows reachi ...

2014