Engineering phonon band structure for hot-carrier solar cells 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Auger scattering and carrier multiplication Auger scattering and carrier multiplication are opposite phenomena (figure 1.3), and belong to the inelastic-type scattering as the number of particles is not conserved. The latter involves the...

Near-ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (NAP-XPS)

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Polar surface structures of the ZnO crystal Compared with the non-polar surfaces ((101̅ 0) and (112̅ 0)), the polar surfaces of ZnO ((0001)-Zn and (0001̅ )-O surfaces) are more interesting from the scientific...

Parity violation detection in a cesium cell: strategy and preliminary results

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Parity violation detection in a cesium cell: strategy and preliminary results In this chapter we describe the Paris experiment setup with its latest modifications, which should allow to measure the atomic Parity Violation...

Algebraic Bethe Ansatz for the six-vertex model

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Exactly solvable models for polymers and the IQHE plateau transition As announced in the previous chapter, both the problems of calculating correlation func-tions of two-dimensional polymers and studying transport observables at the Quantum...

Incinerator – Stale references detection and elimination

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The Smart Home Properties The smart home is a particular hardware and software environment. This section describes the main properties of the smart home, and describes the challenges introduced by each property. Each...

spectrum of multi-space euclidean random matrices 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » THE LOW-DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLD HYPOTHESIS Before starting this long journey it is essential to spend a few pages for discussing the low-dimensional manifold hypothesis, which encapsulates the key motivations that inspired this thesis. Although...

Nanocomposite elastomers filled with soft interpenetrable particles

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » From the physics of polymer to reinforced elastomers Introduction Elastomers are very interesting polymeric materials due to their particular ability to deform reversibly. They are naturally soft extensible materials but suffer from intrinsically...

Preparation and microstructure of a dual-crosslink hydrogel

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » From polymer physics to the toughening of hydrogels Polymeric materials are used in a large variety of applications, in particular because of their interesting and easily tunable mechanical properties. By playing on the...

The influence of calcination temperature on hydrotalcite structure 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Chemical utilization of carbon dioxide The growing concerns about global climate change and increasing social awareness of the environmental problems have created a need for more sustainable development. Thus, our society needs to...

The role of striatal feedforward inhibition in the maintenance of absence seizures 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Collective dynamics in basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical net-work Oscillations in Parkinson’s disease There are two prominent frequency bands in oscillations of Parkinson’s disease, one peaked within 3{8 Hz (\tremor frequency") and another within 8{15 Hz...