Silicon nanowires for photovoltaics : from the material to the device by Togonal, Alienor Svietlana

“…Indeed solar cells based on SiNW s benefit from their outstanding optical properties such as extreme light trapping and very low reflectance. In this research project, we have fabricated disordered SiNWs using a low-cost top-down approach named the Metal-Assisted-Chemical-Etching process (MACE). …”
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Delocalized Davydov D1 Ansatz for the Holstein polaron by Sun, Jin, Duan, Liwei, Zhao, Yang

“…Unique solutions are obtained with the delocalized D1 for different initial conditions when the transfer integral is 20 times the phonon frequency at the zone center, implying the absence of any self-trapping discontinuity. The scaled correlation variance is found to fit satisfactorily well with the predictions of the perturbation theories.…”
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Atomic-scale mechanisms of defect- and light-induced oxidation and degradation of InSe by Kistanov, Andrey A., Cai, Yongqing, Zhou, Kun, Dmitriev, Sergey V., Zhang, Yong-Wei

“…Moreover, under ambient conditions, the splitting of O2 enables the formation of substitutional (apical) oxygen atomic species, which further cause the trapping and subsequent rapid splitting of H2O molecules and ultimately the formation of hydroxyl groups. …”
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Three-dimensional modeling of near-field beam profiles from grating couplers using a deep neural network by Lim, Yu Dian, Tan, Chuan Seng

“…Integrated silicon photonics (SiPh) gratings have been widely studied for the optical addressing of trapped ions. As the formfactor of ion traps reduces, the ion-trapping height decreases, and may unavoidably fall into the reactive near-field region of SiPh gratings. …”
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Resistive switching memory phenomena in PEDOT PSS : coexistence of switchable diode effect and write once read many memory by Nguyen, Viet Cuong, Lee, Pooi See

“…The effect was explained as charge trapping of PEDOT PSS film and movement of proton. …”
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Parameter extraction of solar cells by Weng, YiJie

“…Although this low absorption coefficient can be overcome by light trapping, researchers have started looking into the context of organic solar cell. …”
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CFD analysis of flow across adjacent buildings with concave roof structure using large-eddy simulation (LES) by Foo, Tze Jie

“…On top of this application, the concave roof structure also provides a method of trapping onto the water instead of letting the rainwater flow down the roof, which can help reduce the chances of flash floods during heavy monsoon seasons. …”
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The effects of dub-off angle on chip evacuation in single-lip deep hole gun drilling by Wan, S., Tnay, Guan Leong, Woon, Keng Soon, Yeo, Swee Hock

“…This is demonstrated through a case study on improving the shoulder dub-off design of commercial gun drills, which have a high tendency in trapping chips at the hole bottom. A more effective design criterion for the shoulder dub-off is thus proposed.…”
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LaCNet : real-time end-to-end arbitrary-shaped lane and curb detection with instance segmentation network by Zhou, Hui, Wang, Han, Zhang, Handuo, Hasith, Karunasekera

“…To achieve this, the network is specially designed to guide lane and curb instances to learnable kernel through pixel grouping. This learnable kernel is capable to handle any number of arbitrary-shaped lanes and curbs no matter which angle the vehicle is heading at. …”
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Geometric primitive feature extraction : concepts, algorithms and applications by Prasad, Dilip Kumar.

“…For the problem of detecting ellipses in a set of digital curves, several innovative and fast pre-processing, grouping, and hypotheses evaluation concepts applicable for digital curves have been proposed and combined to form an ellipse detection method. …”
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Intelligent diagnostic feedback in virtual learning environment by Guo, Ruisheng

“…The work explores the potential benefits of integrating an artificial neural network (ANN) into a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) system as a means of identifying grouping together of students who would benefit from the same feedback. …”
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Who learns when workers are trained? a case of safety training of maintenance contractors’ workers for a major petrochemical plant shutdown by A., Fakhru'l-Razi, S.E., Iyuke, M.B., Hassan, M.S., Aini

“…It is recommended that, for a large group, it would be more effective to group the trainees according to their level of education. …”
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Effective dynamics of cold atoms flowing in two ring-shaped optical potentials with tunable tunneling by Aghamalyan, Davit, Amico, Luigi, Kwek, L. C.

“…In particular, we find that the macroscopic quantum self-trapping phenomenon is induced in the system if the flowing currents assume a nonvanishing difference.…”
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Hole array enhanced dual-band infrared photodetection by Suo, Fei, Tong, Jinchao, Chen, Xiren, Xu, Zhengji, Zhang, Dao Hua

“…In this work, we propose a photon-trapping hole-array structure integrated in a nip InAsSb-GaSb heterostructure for the enhancement of the photoresponse in both near- and mid-infrared regions. …”
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Modeling of functional materials : perovskite solar cells by Aruj Shukla

“…However, for a more holistic analysis of perovskite light harvesters as replacement to the existing TiO2 nano particles, a more nuanced modeling and analysis which incorporates a study of transport properties such as trapping effects (for further spike in efficiency), photo catalytic reaction kinetics and surface & bulk defects (for easier fabrication) is demanded as an integral part of future research plans.…”
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Electronics and optoelectronic applications of Van Der Waals heterostructures by Yang, Jian

“…By comparing the photocurrent of exposed and h-BN-encapsulated MoS2 photo-FETs, I found that the trapping states from the interfaces between MoS2 and SiO2 is the main reason for prolonged photoresponse. …”
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Influence of electron scatterings on thermoelectric effect by Li, Jing, Au Yeung, Tin Cheung, Kam, Chan Hin

“…In the case of weak scattering strength, electron trapping increases the electron density, thereby boosting the conductance significantly. …”
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Parameter optimization methods for calibrating tank model and neural network for rainfall-runoff modelling by Kuok, King Kuok

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Characterising the iron dependence of T-cells by Teh, MR

“…Interestingly, exogenous aspartate substantially rescues the proliferation of iron deprived CD8+ T-cells suggesting that endogenous aspartate sources are unusable, possibly due to trapping of aspartate within the mitochondria. Overall, this thesis demonstrates that iron deprivation impairs T-cell biochemistry at multiple nodes providing insight as to how metabolic and iron modulatory interventions could be coupled to augment or suppress immunity.…”

Range expansion of a declining forest species, the Western Gray Squirrel (Sciurus griseus), into semi-arid woodland by Sultaire, SM, Montgomery, RA, Jackson, PJ, Millspaugh, JJ

“…Using a network of remote camera traps deployed across the Sierra Nevada–Great Basin ecotone in northwestern Nevada, we detected western gray squirrels across 16 of 100 camera-trapping sites. …”