Plasmonic organic solar cells using silver nanoprisms

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » History and development of photovoltaics A.E. Becquerel is probably the first researcher who reported the photovoltaic effect in 1839 [7]. This effect allows the transformation of solar energy directly into electricity. Then Charles...

State of the art of conversion of carbon dioxide

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » State of the art of conversion of carbon dioxide Actual state of the CO2 problem Carbon dioxide is one of the main gases presenting in the atmosphere of our planet. Since the beginning...

Real-world hydropower unit commitment: data and model pre-processing for infeasibilities

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Hydropower and hydroelectricity Basics of hydropower Hydropower denotes any form of power related to water. Though they are commonly used for one another – it will be the case in this thesis –...

The Role of Learning-by-Doing in the Adoption of a New Green Technology

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Transition towards a hydrogen-based passenger car transport: comparative policy analysis Abstract Major OECD countries including Germany and Japan have put in place a wide range of policy instruments addressing Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV)...

The Globalization of Virtual Water Flows

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Water conflicts and cooperation up and down African rivers Esther Delbourg & Eric Strobl "Why go to war over water? For the price of one week’s fighting, you could build five desalination plants....

Multi-Time and Multi-Moment Nonparametric Frontier-Based Fund Rating: Proposal and Buy-and-Hold Backtesting Strategy 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Single-Time and Multi-Moment Rating Framework The nonparametric frontier rating methods gauge the financial performance of MF, and these evaluations are done mostly using frontier-based models which originate from production theory. In this section,...

Peculiar aspects of the Standard Model and indirect probes of New Physics 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Overview of the analysis The BR of a given decay is proportional to the total number of observed signal events NB(s) and inversely proportional to the total number NB(s) of B0 (s) produced....

Analyzing and Improving Software Resilience against Unanticipated Exceptions

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Automatic Analysis and Improved Software Resilience We define in Section 3.1.1 two exceptions contracts applicable to try-catch blocks. We then describe an algorithm (see Section 3.1.2) and formal predicates (see Section 3.1.3) to...

Optimising Just-in-time compiler architectures 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Function-based architecture The first optimising JIT architecture invented [Hölzle 1994a] was designed to gen-erate optimised n-functions. From a given v-function, the optimising JIT performs a set of optimisations which includes inlining of other...

Organic polymer containing inorganic nanocrystals

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Artificially nanostructured materials: semiconductor quantum dots At the beginning of the 80s, a novel size effect induced by nanocrystals of very small size was discovered by A.L. Ekimov et al. [13]. In this...