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Structural divergence of molecular hole selective materials for viable p-i-n perovskite photovoltaics: a comprehensive review

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have garnered significant attention within the photovoltaic research community due to their remarkable progress in just one decade. Among the device configurations, the p-i-n structured PSC offers several advantages, including ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2024

Distributional justice, effectiveness, and costs of current and alternative solar PV incentive schemes in Switzerland

Philippe Thalmann

Like many other countries, Switzerland offers various incentives to promote residential solar PV, but not all households have equal access to them. Using a microsimulation approach based on merged data from the Swiss Household Budget Survey and Household E ...

IOP Publishing2024

Font Side Solutions for c-Si Solar Cells with High-Temperature Passivating Contacts

Ezgi Genç

In this work, we studied the potential of using thin films deposited by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) for two main purposes: introducing an n-type passivating contact at the front of a TOPCon solar cell, or simplifying the fabrication o ...

EPFL2024

Programmable Silicon Nitride Photonic Integrated Circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Rui Ning Wang, Anat Siddharth, Andrey Voloshin, Viacheslav Snigirev, Andrea Bancora, Vladimir Shadymov

Silicon Nitride (Si3N4) photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have emerged as core technology in a variety of applications ranging from LIDAR to quantum control and computing. However, the need for high-speed, low-voltage tuning and modulation has been a lon ...

IEEE2023

C-shells: Deployable Gridshells with Curved Beams

Mark Pauly, Francis Julian Panetta, Yingying Ren, Quentin Christian Becker, Seiichi Eduardo Suzuki Erazo, Davide Pellis

We introduce a computational pipeline for simulating and designing C-shells, a new class of planar-to-spatial deployable linkage structures. A C-shell is composed of curved flexible beams connected at rotational joints that can be assembled in a stress-fre ...

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)2023

A guide to preclinical evaluation of hydrogel-based devices for treatment of cartilage lesions

Dominique Pioletti, Peyman Karami, Yanheng Guo, Theofanis Stampoultzis

The drive to develop cartilage implants for the treatment of major defects in the musculoskeletal sys-tem has resulted in a major research thrust towards developing biomaterial devices for cartilage repair. Investigational devices for the restoration of ar ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Device Performance of Emerging Photovoltaic Materials (Version 4)

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Tor Jesper Jacobsson, Fei Guo

Following the 3rd release of the "Emerging PV reports", the best achievements in the performance of emerging photovoltaic (e-PV) devices in diverse e-PV research subjects are summarized, as reported in peer-reviewed articles in academic journals since Augu ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

From kirigami to hydrogels: a tutorial on designing conformally transformable surfaces

Yingying Ren, Tian Chen

Elastic surfaces that morph between multiple geometrical configurations are of significant engineering value, with applications ranging from the deployment of space-based PV arrays, the erection of temporary shelters, and the realization of flexible displa ...

2023

Rectilinear translation four-bar flexure mechanism based on four Remote Center Compliance pivots

Simon Nessim Henein, Charles Baur, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans, Loïc Benoît Tissot-Daguette, Quentin Gubler

This paper presents a novel planar four-bar linkage compliant mechanism (called 4-RCC) based on four flexure-based Remote Center of Compliance (RCC) pivots. With particular configurations and dimensions, the beam shortening of the RCC pivots can compensate ...

euspen2022

Step detection in power system waveforms for improved RoCoF and frequency estimation

Mario Paolone, Asja Derviskadic, Guglielmo Frigo, Alexandra Cameron Karpilow

The evaluation of the signal frequency and Rate of Change of Frequency (RoCoF) from voltage or current waveforms is used for critical grid control, monitoring and protection applications. However, when step changes in the amplitude or phase of the signal o ...

Elsevier2022

Design for Test With Unreliable Memories by Restoring the Beauty of Randomness

Andreas Peter Burg, Reza Ghanaatian Jahromi, Marco Widmer

This article presents a design-for-test methodology for embedded memories. The methodology relies on a fully random fault model of post-fabrication errors, which results in a low-overhead test strategy. The methodology's effectiveness is demonstrated on an ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

A cryo-CMOS chip that integrates silicon quantum dots and multiplexed dispersive readout electronics

Edoardo Charbon, Andrea Ruffino, Yatao Peng

An integrated circuit fabricated using industry-standard 40 nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology can combine silicon quantum devices, digital addressing and analogue multiplexed dispersive readout electronics. ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Spatio-Temporal Estimation of Renewable Energy Potential in Built Environments using Big Data

Alina Ursula Rosa Walch

To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change, governments around the world must shift to renewable energy (RE) to drastically reduce their CO2 emissions within the next 10-30 years. The development of effective strategies for RE integratio ...

EPFL2022

Biochemistry of Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetase and tRNAs and Their Engineering for Cell-Free and Synthetic Cell Applications

Sebastian Maerkl, Ragunathan Bava Ganesh

Cell-free biology is increasingly utilized for engineering biological systems, incorporating novel functionality, and circumventing many of the complications associated with cells. The central dogma describes the information flow in biology consisting of t ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Thermal Modelling and Experimental Validation in the Perspective of Tool Steel Laser Polishing

Eric Boillat, Alexandre Masserey

Laser polishing (LP) is a process that allows a significant reduction of the surface roughness of a metal workpiece via re-melting a shallow layer of material. However, the practical use of LP is limited due to the difficulty of satisfying the high surface ...

MDPI2022

Grassmannian diffusion maps based surrogate modeling via geometric harmonics

Ketson Roberto Maximiano Dos Santos

A novel surrogate model based on the Grassmannian diffusion maps (GDMaps) and utilizing geometric harmonics (GH) is developed for predicting the response of complex physical phenomena. The method utilizes GDMaps to obtain a low-dimensional representation o ...

Wiley2022

A 4D printed active compliant hinge for potential space applications using shape memory alloys and polymers

Jamie Paik, Zhenishbek Zhakypov, Jian-Lin Huang

This paper presents the proof-of-concept for a 4D printed active compliant hinge with a selectively variable stiffness for the deployment and reorientation of satellite appendages. We use 4D printing to create an active compliant hinge capable of bending t ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Employing bacterial mutations for the elucidation of photo-Fenton disinfection: Focus on the intracellular and extracellular inactivation mechanisms induced by UVA and H2O2

César Pulgarin, Stefanos Giannakis

The bacterial inactivation mechanisms by solar light and the photo-Fenton process is still a matter of debate. In this study, we bring evidence towards the elucidation of the mechanisms that govern photo-Fenton disinfection at near-neutral pH. With the use ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Preliminary analysis of alternative divertors for DEMO

Paolo Ricci, Holger Reimerdes, Marco Wischmeier, Fabio Riva, Mirko Wensing

A physics and engineering analysis of alternative divertor configurations is carried out by examining benefits and problems by comparing the baseline single null solution with a Snowflake, an X- and a Super-X divertor. It is observed that alternative confi ...

Elsevier2021

Quantification of existing rooftop PV hourly generation capacity and validation against measurement data

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Roberto Castello, Alina Ursula Rosa Walch

The spatio-temporal patterns of the existing rooftop photovoltaic (PV) production can provide valuable insights for the design of effective strategies for PV integration at large scale. In this work, we quantify the hourly production of existing rooftop PV ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021