cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dry Etch Black Silicon with Low Surface Damage: Effect of Low Capacitively Coupled Plasma Power
Creators: name: Iandolo, B.
name: Plakhotnyuk, M.
name: Gaudig, M.
name: Schmidt Davidson, R.
name: Lausch, D.
name: Hansen, O.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: Silicon Photovoltaics
Characterisation & Simulation Methods

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 841-843
description: Black silicon fabricated by reactive ion etch (RIE) is promising for integration into silicon solar cells thanks to its excellent light trapping ability. However, intensive ion bombardment during the RIE induces surface damage, which results in enhanced surface recombination velocity. Here, we present a RIE optimization leading to reduced surface damage while retaining excellent light trapping and low reflectivity. In particular, we demonstrate that the reduction of the capacitively coupled power during reactive ion etching preserves a reflectance below 1% and improves the effective minority carrier lifetime thanks to reduced ion energy. Surface passivation using atomic layer deposition of Al2O3 improves the effective lifetime to 7.5 ms and 0.8 ms for black silicon n- and p-type wafers, respectively.
Monte Carlo population synthesis of post-common-envelope white dwarf binaries and type Ia supernova rate
Creators: name: Ablimit, Iminhaji
name: Maeda, Keiichi
name: Li, Xiang-Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Binary population synthesis (BPS) study provides a comprehensive way to understand evolutions of binaries and their end products. Close white dwarf (WD) binaries have crucial characteristics in examining in uence of yetunresolved physical parameters on the binary evolution. In this paper, we perform Monte Carlo BPS simulations, investigating the population of WD/main sequence (WD/MS) binaries and double WD binaries, with a publicly available binary star evolution code under 37 different assumptions on key physical processes and binary initial conditions. We considered different combinations of the binding energy parameter (lambda_g:considering gravitational energy only, lambda_b: considering both gravitational energy and internal energy, and lambda_e:considering gravitational energy, internal energy, and entropy of the envelope, the values of them derived with the MESA code), CE effciency, critical mass ratio, initial primary mass function and metallicity. We find that a larger number of post-CE WD/MS binaries in tight orbits are formed when the binding energy parameters is set by lambda_e than the cases adopting the other prescriptions. We also find effects of the other input parameters on orbital period and mass distributions of post-CE WD/MS binaries as well. Containing at least one CO WD, the double WD system evolved from WD/MS binaries may explode as type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) by merging. In this work, we also investigate a frequency of two WD mergers and compare it to the SNe Ia rate.
description: 31 pages, 10 figures, 1 table, accepted by ApJ
Investigations on a mutant of staphlococcus aureus which produces translucent colonies
Creators: name: Dean, Harley Francis.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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An overview of visible light communication systems
Creators: name: Cevik, Taner
name: Yilmaz, Serdar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Visible Light Communication (VLC) has gained great interest in the last decade due to the rapid developments in Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) fabrication. Efficiency, durability and long life span of LEDs make them a promising residential lighting equipment as well as an alternative cheap and fast data transfer equipment. Appliance of visual light in data communication by means of LEDs has been densely searched in academia. In this paper, we explore the fundamentals and challenges of indoor VLC systems. Basics of optical transmission such as transmitter, receiver, and links are investigated. Moreover, characteristics of channel models in indoor VLC systems are identified and theoretical details about channel modelling are presented in detail.
MOSAICS session at OMAI 2023
Creators: name: Philips, Birgit
name: Calderon de Palma, Ignacio
name: Beckers, Loes
name: Philpott, Nikki
name: Migliorini, Enrico
name: Huinck, Wendy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cochlear implant
Speech perception outcomes
Reaction times
Neurocognition
Individualized training
Individualized fitting

description: European industrial research project dessimination at the objective measures in auditory implants conference 2023. All four early stage researchers presented part of their work within the MOSAICS project. The following topics were discussed:
 - Exploring reaction times as objective measures of auditory periphery. - Assessing top-down auditory processing using objective measures based on electroencephalographic recordings and behaviour. - Individualised phoneme training fro adult CI users - AuDiET: Auditory Diagnostics and Error-based Treament - Towards performance-based fitting.
Additional file 1 of Patient satisfaction with computer-assisted structured initial assessment facilitating patient streaming to emergency departments and primary care practices: results from a cross-sectional observational study accompanying the DEMAND intervention in Germany
Creators: name: Schäfer, Ingmar
name: Menzel, Agata
name: Herrmann, Tobias
name: Oltrogge, Jan Hendrik
name: Lühmann, Dagmar
name: Scherer, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table A. Intervention sites, federal states and participation status. Table B. Location of intervention sites, periods of data collection and local response rates. Table C. Health problems with prevalence ≥ 2% (pursuant to ICPC-2).
Industrial Solutions for Light Induced Degradation in p-Type mc-Si PERC Solar Cell
Creators: name: Dong, J.
name: Lv, J.
name: Wang, W.
name: Ye, Q.
name: Yang, Y.
name: Cai, W.
name: Zhang, H.
name: Shen, Z.
name: Chen, G.
name: Gu, W.
name: Chen, X.
name: Sheng, J.
name: Yang, J.
name: Zhang, C.
name: Zhou, X.
name: Zheng, J.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: Silicon Photovoltaics
Manufacturing & Production

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 975-977
description: Light-induced degradation (LID) is regarded as a great challenge for both P-type
Czochralski (Cz) and multi-crystalline silicon PERC solar cells in mass production. For P-type Cz
silicon PERC cell, boron-oxygen related defects are acknowledged to be the main reason for LID,
which can be permanently deactivated through a regeneration process. In recent years, a new light
and elevated temperature induced degradation effect (LeTID) has been detected in P-type mc-Si
PERC cell, which cannot be explained by the activation of boron-oxygen (B-O) complexes or the
division of iron-boron (FeB) pairs, there is no physical understanding about the degradation effect.
In this work, industrial solutions for LeTID were evaluated. Under mass production condition,
LeTID of partly P-type mc-Si PERC solar cells can be mitigated by treatment-1, the LeTID is
between 0.5% and 6% rel.. Treatment-2 looks good for most p-type mc-Si PERC solar cells, the
LeTID can be controlled below 2% rel. post treating. Treatment-2 also result in mc-Si PERC cell
efficiency increasing ~0.1% abs. Mass production results reveal that treatment-2 is a promising
industrial solution for mitigating LeTID in p-type mc-Si PERC solar cells.
Emissivity Control in Textured Silicon Solar Cells
Creators: name: Alonso-Álvarez, D.
name: Ferre-Llin, L.
name: Liu, Y.
name: Mellor, A.
name: Riverola, A.
name: Chemisana, D.
name: Paul, D.J.
name: Ekins-Daukes, N.J.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: Silicon Photovoltaics
Characterisation & Simulation Methods

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 902-904
description: Surface textures are a key part on most silicon-based solar cells. Typically, they are optimized for
maximum coupling of sunlight into the solar cell, in the wavelength range from 0.3 μm to 1.1 μm. However, recent
applications such as radiative cooling and hybrid photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) systems require to consider also their
performance at much longer wavelength, in the mid-infrared (MIR, 5-20 μm). In this work, we study experimentally
the emissivity from 0.3 μm to 20 μm of upright and inverted pyramids for a range of pyramid sizes. We conclude that
pyramids with sizes in the range of 0.7-2 μm are able to result in high absorptivity in the solar range and low emissivity
in the MIR, suitable for PV-T, while the largest pyramids result in high absorptivity and emissivity at all wavelengths,
suitable for radiative cooling.
On the analysis of tuberculosis studies with intermittent missing sputum data
Creators: name: Scharfstein, Daniel
name: Rotnitzky, Andrea
name: Abraham, Maria
name: McDermott, Aidan
name: Chaisson, Richard
name: Geiter, Lawrence
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In randomized studies evaluating treatments for tuberculosis (TB), individuals are scheduled to be routinely evaluated for the presence of TB using sputum cultures. One important endpoint in such studies is the time of culture conversion, the first visit at which a patient's sputum culture is negative and remains negative. This article addresses how to draw inference about treatment effects when sputum cultures are intermittently missing on some patients. We discuss inference under a novel benchmark assumption and under a class of assumptions indexed by a treatment-specific sensitivity parameter that quantify departures from the benchmark assumption. We motivate and illustrate our approach using data from a randomized trial comparing the effectiveness of two treatments for adult TB patients in Brazil.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/15-AOAS860 in the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Fire Regions as Environmental Niches: A New Paradigm to Define Potential Fire Regimes in Africa and Australia
Creators: name: Zubkova, M.
name: Boschetti, L.
name: Abatzoglou, J. T.
name: Giglio, L.
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2022
Subjects: fire regimes
Australia
Africa
drivers of fire activity

description: Despite the widespread use of the “fire regime” concept for describing spatial and temporal patterns and ecosystem impacts of fire, this concept lacks an unambiguous, quantitative definition. By adopting from the ecological literature the concept of climate niche, that is, the environmental conditions that allow a specie to exist, we propose a new framework where variables that promote fuel accumulation and desiccation were used to define the environmental space at the continental level, later divided into regions (“fire regions”) with distinct fire potential. Our proposed approach emphasizes climate controls on fire patterns, distinct from the controls that humans exert on observed fire activity. By applying this framework, we identified nine fire regions in Africa and eight in Australia, distinguishing differences in fire patterns between continents as a result of changes in environmental gradient. Not only did we find that fire size and intensity varied significantly between continents, but biomes at a continental level were also found to be heterogeneous in terms of fire frequency, size, and intensity. For example, within African tropical savannas, the total annual rainfall and tree cover change drastically North and South of the equator, resulting in fire regions with significantly different fire characteristics. Meanwhile, in Australia, a strong gradient of annual temperature and precipitation seasonality was observed within tropical savannas and xeric shrublands, which was recognized by dividing those biomes into five regions with statistically different fire activity. Additionally, human presence led to some heterogeneity of fire patterns within delineated fire regions that also varied across biomes.
On the Exact Distribution of Mutual Information of Two-user MIMO MAC Based on Quotient Distribution of Wishart Matrices
Creators: name: Pivaro, Gabriel
name: Kumar, Santosh
name: Fraidenraich, Gustavo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose the exact calculation of the probability density function (PDF) and cumulative distribution function (CDF) of mutual information (MI) for a two-user MIMO MAC network over block Rayleigh fading channels. So far the PDF and CDF have been numerically evaluated since MI depends on the quotient of two Wishart matrices, and no closed-form for this quotient was available. We derive exact results for the PDF and CDF of extreme (the smallest/the largest) eigenvalues. Based on the results of quotient ensemble the exact calculation for PDF and CDF of mutual information is presented via Laplace transform approach and by direct integration of joint PDF of quotient ensemble's eigenvalues. Furthermore, our derivations also provide the parameters to apply the Gaussian approximation method, which is comparatively easier to implement. We show that approximation matches the exact results remarkably well for outage probability, i.e. CDF, above 10%. However, the approximation could also be used for 1% outage probability with a relatively small error. We apply the derived expressions to analyze the effects of adding receiving antennas on the receiver's performance. By supposing no channel knowledge at transmitters and successive decoding at receiver, the capacity of the first user increases and outage probability decreases with extra antennas, as expected.
description: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
High-Speed Curing of AR Coatings on PV Modules by Laser Irradiation: An End-of-Line Approach for Improved Power Output
Creators: name: Cauchois, R.
name: Hawelka, D.
name: Pirch, N.
name: Johnigk, C.
name: Li, Y.
name: Stollenwerk, J.
name: Schoot, H.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: Thin Film Photovoltaics
CI(G)S, CdTe and Related Thin Film Solar Cells and Modules

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 1096-1098
description: The aim of this work was to up-scale a process for curing AR coatings on cover glass of PV modules
based on laser irradiation. To achieve high throughput on a production line, an approach combining the integration of
high power laser generators, the technological development of a high-speed laser beam scanner, and the process
engineering to tailor the final performance of the AR coating has been conducted. The scientific innovation resides in
the development of a high-speed curing technology of silica-based antireflective coatings on the cover glass of PV
modules, by applying a high energy density radiation to the AR coating while scanning at high speed (~2x speed of
sound). This process was successfully applied to cure the coating on a full-size (0.6 m x 1.2 m) thin-film module with
a processing rate of about 18 m2/h, leading to a theoretical throughput of 25-30 modules per hour. This approach is
therefore particularly relevant to coat and cure assembled modules in an end-of-line process.
Can a Programmable Phase Plate Serve as an Aberration Corrector in the Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM)?
Creators: name: Ibáñez, Francisco Vega
name: Béché, Armand
name: Verbeeck, Johan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current progress in programmable electrostatic phase plates raises questions about their usefulness for specific applications. Here, we explore different designs for such phase plates with the specific goal of correcting spherical aberration in the Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM). We numerically investigate whether a phase plate could provide down to 1 $Å$ngström spatial resolution on a conventional uncorrected TEM. Different design aspects (fill-factor, pixel pattern, symmetry) were evaluated to understand their effect on the electron probe size and current density. Some proposed designs show a probe size ($d_{50}$) down to 0.66$Å$, proving that it should be possible to correct spherical aberration well past the 1Å~ limit using a programmable phase plate consisting of an array of electrostatic phase shifting elements.
Nontriviality results for the characteristic algebra of a DGA
Creators: name: Rizell, Georgios Dimitroglou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16E45 (primary), 16E60, 53D42

description: Assume that we are given a semifree noncommutative differential graded algebra (DGA for short) whose differential respects an action filtration. We show that the canonical unital algebra map from the homology of the DGA to its characteristic algebra, i.e. the quotient of the underlying algebra by the two-sided ideal generated by the boundaries, is a monomorphism. The main tool that we use is the weak division algorithm in free noncommutative algebras due to P. Cohn.
description: 15 pages
A Successful Conversion of Silicon Thin-Film Solar Module Production to High Efficiency Heterojunction Technology
Creators: name: Andronikov, D.
name: Abramov, A.
name: Abolmasov, S.
name: Emtsev, K.
name: Ivanov, G.
name: Kukin, A.
name: Nyapshaev, I.
name: Orekhov, D.
name: Semenov, A.
name: Shelopin, G.
name: Terukova, E.
name: Terukov, E.
name: Belkova, N.
name: Dubrovskiy, A.
name: Ishmuratov, P.
name: Ivanov, A.
name: Saykin, D.
name: Shakhray, I.
name: Smirnov, A.
name: Tarasov, V.
name: Timakov, V.
name: Tomchinskiy, A.
name: Kekelidze, G.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: Silicon Photovoltaics
Heterojunction Solar Cells

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 732-735
description: In this work we report first results of successful conversion of Hevel LLC micromorph production line
to Si HJ technology with production kicked-off in Q1 2017. Implementation of in-house Si HJ cell technology
developed by R&D Center TFTE using Gen5 (1.4 m2) KAI PECVD reactors with rear emitter bifacial cell design, O3
based IPA free texturing technology from Singulus, PVD tools and SmartWire module assembly line from Meyer
Burger allowed to reach average cell efficiency of 21,7% with respective average 60 cell module power of 300W at
production level and cell efficiencies as high as 22,77% at R&D. Achieved average module power after conversion
from TF to Si HJ technology has almost doubled the annual line capacity from 97 to 160 MWp.
Anatomical and electrophysiological studies of the auditory input to the pontine nuclei of the cat .
Creators: name: Boyd, Janis.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Cell Design Optimization for Shingled Modules
Creators: name: Rudolph, D.
name: Rabanal-Arabach, J.
name: Ullmann, I.
name: Halm, A.
name: Schneider, A.
name: Fischer, T.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: Silicon Photovoltaics
Characterisation & Simulation Methods

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 880-883
description: In order to identify an optimum cell design in respect to cell width and corresponding front metallization finger grid design for cells used in shingled modules, simulations on the power output for cell stripes with varying width and front metal grid are performed. Based on this information, Al-BSF cells with a different amount of busbars are fabricated and cut into 4 to 6 stripes. For verification of the simulation a comparison between experimental and simulation results is made, which shows that the simulation predicts the correct cell to stripe power loss and hence could be used to find the optimum metallization layout. Further, these stripes are used to assemble different types of shingled mini modules to optimize the stripe overlap.
Der orthodoxe Gottesdienst als Anfrage an das gottesdienstliche Leben in den lutherischen Kirchen
Creators: name: Thöle, Reinhard
Publisher: name: Lutherische Beiträge
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Beiträge, Bd. 21 Nr. 3 (2016): Lutherische Beiträge, Band 21, Heft 3
On the physical realizability of quantum stochastic walks
Creators: name: Taketani, Bruno G.
name: Govia, Luke C. G.
name: Wilhelm, Frank K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum walks are a promising framework that can be used to both understand and implement quantum information processing tasks. The quantum stochastic walk is a recently developed framework that combines the concept of a quantum walk with that of a classical random walk, through open system evolution of a quantum system. Quantum stochastic walks have been shown to have applications in as far reaching fields as artificial intelligence. However, there are significant constraints on the kind of open system evolutions that can be realized in a physical experiment. In this work, we discuss the restrictions on the allowed open system evolution, and the physical assumptions underpinning them. We show that general implementations would require the complete solution of the underlying unitary dynamics, and sophisticated reservoir engineering, thus weakening the benefits of experimental investigations.
description: 5 pages
Additional file 2 of Patient satisfaction with computer-assisted structured initial assessment facilitating patient streaming to emergency departments and primary care practices: results from a cross-sectional observational study accompanying the DEMAND intervention in Germany
Creators: name: Schäfer, Ingmar
name: Menzel, Agata
name: Herrmann, Tobias
name: Oltrogge, Jan Hendrik
name: Lühmann, Dagmar
name: Scherer, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Patient questionnaire.
A One-Sun Spectrum-Splitting Minimodule With Prismatic Encapsulation: Ray-Trace Simulation Using Zemax Opticstudio
Creators: name: Concha-Ramon, B.
name: Keevers, M.J.
name: Green, M.A.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: Silicon Photovoltaics
Characterisation & Simulation Methods

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 889-892
description: A computer ray-trace model of a one-sun spectrum-splitting minimodule has been developed using Zemax OpticStudio. The minimodule consists of a fused silica triangular prism, a Si solar cell, a GaInP/GaInAs/Ge triple junction solar cell and a spectrum-splitting dielectric filter. In 2016, such a minimodule set a world record efficiency of 34.5% for the conversion of unconcentrated sunlight to electricity. Here we describe initial ray-trace simulations of the minimodule, assuming a perfect AR coating and idealised AOI-independent pillbox-shaped filter, for either AM1.5 direct or global normal illumination. Our investigation of the AOI response of the minimodule efficiency reveals acceptance angles of 180° and 114° for the TJ-first and Si-first cases, respectively.
First observational support for overlapping reionized bubbles generated by a galaxy overdensity
Creators: name: Castellano, M.
name: Dayal, P.
name: Pentericci, L.
name: Fontana, A.
name: Hutter, A.
name: Brammer, G.
name: Merlin, E.
name: Grazian, A.
name: Pilo, S.
name: Amorin, R.
name: Cristiani, S.
name: Dickinson, M.
name: Ferrara, A.
name: Gallerani, S.
name: Giallongo, E.
name: Giavalisco, M.
name: Guaita, L.
name: Koekemoer, A.
name: Maiolino, R.
name: Paris, D.
name: Santini, P.
name: Vallini, L.
name: Vanzella, E.
name: Wagg, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the analysis of deep HST multi-band imaging of the BDF field specifically designed to identify faint companions around two of the few Ly-alpha emitting galaxies spectroscopically confirmed at z~7 (Vanzella et al. 2011). Although separated by only 4.4 proper Mpc these galaxies cannot generate HII regions large enough to explain visibility of their Ly-alpha line, thus requiring a population of fainter ionizing sources in their vicinity. We use deep HST and VLT-Hawk-I data to select z~7 Lyman break galaxies around the emitters. We select 6 new robust z~7 LBGs at Y~26.5-27.5 whose average spectral energy distribution is consistent with the objects being at the redshift of the close-by Ly-alpha emitters. The resulting number density of z~7 LBGs in the BDF field is a factor ~3-4 higher than expected in random pointings of the same size. We compare these findings with cosmological hydrodynamic plus radiative transfer simulations of a universe with a half neutral IGM: we find that indeed Ly-alpha emitter pairs are only found in completely ionized regions characterized by significant LBG overdensities. Our findings match the theoretical prediction that the first ionization fronts are generated within significant galaxy overdensities and support a scenario where faint, "normal" star-forming galaxies are responsible for reionization.
description: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 6 pages, 5 figures
Optical Simulation of Bifacial Silicon Solar Cells at Module Level
Creators: name: Duerinckx, F.
name: Aleman, M.
name: Van Der Heide, A.S.H.
name: Voroshazi, E.
name: Szlufcik, J.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: Silicon Photovoltaics
Characterisation & Simulation Methods

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 884-888
description: While bifacial modules are receiving increased attention in the PV community, questions remain on the best methods to maximize light trapping in the active device, especially with cells expected to become thinner in the future to further reduce material costs. This work focusses on optimizing the light trapping behavior of such bifacial cells in a module by looking at the impact of the cell’s rear surface morphology. Ray tracing simulations using the “Module ray Tracer” from PVLighthouse have been used to quantify the impact of changing the angle of the pyramids on the rear surface of a bifacial cell (from polished to alkaline textured and all conditions in between). The result of these simulations is that neither a polished nor a fully textured rear surface is ideal for light trapping at the module level. A semi-polished rear surface (pyramids with a base angle ~ 25º) results in the highest simulated Jsc for glass/glass encapsulated bifacial cells, even when considering bifacial illumination. This has been confirmed experimentally from reflectance and transmittance measurements for encapsulated bifacial samples with different rear surface morphologies.
Pituitary control of insulin secretion
Creators: name: Burton, Andrew John.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Lutherisches Gesangsbuch, hg. v. d. Evangelisch-Lutherischen Freikirche
Creators: name: Kelter, Gert
Publisher: name: Lutherische Beiträge
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Beiträge, Bd. 21 Nr. 2 (2016): Lutherische Beiträge, Band 21, Heft 2
Measurement Setup for In-Situ Quantum Yield Characterization of Solar Cells during High Energy Particle Irradiation
Creators: name: Neitzert, H.-C.
name: Carrano, V.
name: Landi, G.
name: Gialanella, L.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: Silicon Photovoltaics
Characterisation & Simulation Methods

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 911-913
description: nt spectra of solar cells under harsh measurement conditions without the need of optical windows or
moving parts. The small photocurrent, induced by the sequential illumination by a series of LEDs with different
emission wavelengths, distributed within the responsivity range of the tested solar cell, is converted to a proportional
frequency and then monitored using the audio-card of a personal computer and an appropriate Labview-based Software.
Subsequently the quantum yield measurements were performed in-situ during the irradiation of a conventional
crystalline Silicon solar cell with 1.7 MeV protons in the spectral range between 400 nm and 880 nm. In this case the
complete photocurrent spectrum can been monitored continuously with good temporal resolution.
Additional file 1 of Tailoring cultural offers to meet the needs of older people during uncertain times: a rapid realist review
Creators: name: Tierney, Stephanie
name: Libert, Sebastien
name: Gorenberg, Jordan
name: Wong, Geoff
name: Turk, Amadea
name: Husk, Kerryn
name: Chatterjee, Helen J.
name: Eccles, Kathryn
name: Potter, Caroline
name: Webster, Emma
name: McDougall, Beth
name: Warburton, Harriet
name: Shaw, Lucy
name: Roberts, Nia
name: Mahtani, Kamal R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Overview of included papers.
Simulating cold shear flows on a moving mesh
Creators: name: Zier, Oliver
name: Springel, Volker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rotationally supported, cold, gaseous disks are ubiquitous in astrophysics and appear in a diverse set of systems, such as protoplanetary disks, accretion disks around black holes, or large spiral galaxies. Capturing the gas dynamics accurately in these systems is challenging in numerical simulations due to the low sound speed compared to the bulk velocity of the gas, the resolution limitations of full disk models, and the fact that numerical noise can easily source spurious growth of fluid instabilities if not suppressed sufficiently well, negatively interfering with real physical instabilities present in such disks (like the magneto-rotational instability). Here we implement the so-called shearing-box approximation in the moving-mesh code AREPO in order to facilitate achieving high resolution in local regions of differentially rotating disks and to address these problems. While our new approach offers manifest translational invariance across the shearing-box boundaries and offers continuous local adaptivity, we demonstrate that the unstructured mesh of AREPO introduces unwanted levels of "grid-noise" in the default version of the code. We show that this can be rectified by high-order integrations of the flux over mesh boundaries. With our new techniques we obtain highly accurate results for shearing-box calculations of the magneto-rotational instability that are superior to other Lagrangian techniques. These improvements are also of value for other applications of the code that feature strong shear flows.
description: 19 pages, 16 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Binary Polar Codes are Optimized Codes for Bitwise Multistage Decoding
Creators: name: El-Khamy, Mostafa
name: Lin, Hsien-Ping
name: Lee, Jungwon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Polar codes are considered the latest major breakthrough in coding theory. Polar codes were introduced by Arıkan in 2008. In this letter, we show that the binary polar codes are the same as the optimized codes for bitwise multistage decoding (OCBM), which have been discovered before by Stolte in 2002. The equivalence between the techniques used for the constructions and decodings of both codes is established.
description: Accepted at Electronics Letters
Lambertian Optics in Textured Si Solar Cells with Not-Randomizing Front Surface
Creators: name: Abenante, L.
name: Izzi, M.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: Silicon Photovoltaics
Characterisation & Simulation Methods

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 905-906
description: We study a Lambertian light-trapping scheme for textured solar cells, which is not included in the
Lambertian models that are considered in the literature, but can be implemented in the numerical simulation program
PC1D. We call this scheme Quasi-Lambertian model. In the Quasi-Lambertian model, at the first pass of coupled
light, the optical propagation angle is determined by the texture facet angle. Light direction randomizes at the rear
surface so that, at the second and remaining optical passes, the optical propagation angle is assigned a mean value
equal to 60°. We show that the presented model is practically equivalent to a Lambertian optical model reported in
the literature, where front surface randomizes light direction as soon as light enters the device.
Additional file 2 of Tailoring cultural offers to meet the needs of older people during uncertain times: a rapid realist review
Creators: name: Tierney, Stephanie
name: Libert, Sebastien
name: Gorenberg, Jordan
name: Wong, Geoff
name: Turk, Amadea
name: Husk, Kerryn
name: Chatterjee, Helen J.
name: Eccles, Kathryn
name: Potter, Caroline
name: Webster, Emma
name: McDougall, Beth
name: Warburton, Harriet
name: Shaw, Lucy
name: Roberts, Nia
name: Mahtani, Kamal R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. A selection of data extracts used to develop Context-Mechanism-Outcome Configurations (CMOCs), which were also informed by our discussions with stakeholders.
Minimum-Rank Dynamic Output Consensus Design for Heterogeneous Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems
Creators: name: Nguyen, Dinh Hoa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we propose a new and systematic design framework for output consensus in heterogeneous Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) general nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) subjected to directed communication topology. First, the input-output feedback linearization method is utilized assuming that the internal dynamics is Input-to-State Stable (ISS) to obtain linearized subsystems of agents. Consequently, we propose local dynamic controllers for agents such that the linearized subsystems have an identical closed-loop dynamics which has a single pole at the origin whereas other poles are on the open left half complex plane. This allows us to deal with distinct agents having arbitrarily vector relative degrees and to derive rank-$1$ cooperative control inputs for those homogeneous linearized dynamics which results in a minimum rank distributed dynamic consensus controller for the initial nonlinear MAS. Moreover, we prove that the coupling strength in the consensus protocol can be arbitrarily small but positive and hence our consensus design is non-conservative. Next, our design approach is further strengthened by tackling the problem of randomly switching communication topologies among agents where we relax the assumption on the balance of each switched graph and derive a distributed rank-$1$ dynamic consensus controller. Lastly, a numerical example is introduced to illustrate the effectiveness of our proposed framework.
description: Revised version submitted to IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
Implicit Function Theorem: Estimates on the size of the domain
Creators: name: Jindal, Ashutosh
name: Chatterjee, Debasish
name: Banavar, Ravi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this article, we present explicit estimates of the size of the domain on which the Implicit Function Theorem and the Inverse Function Theorem are valid. For maps that are twice continuously differentiable, these estimates depend upon the magnitude of the first-order derivatives evaluated at the point of interest, and a bound on the second-order derivatives over a region of interest. One of the key contributions of this article is that the estimates presented require minimal numerical computation. In particular, these estimates are arrived at without any intermediate optimization procedures. We then present three applications in optimization and systems and control theory where the computation of such bounds turns out to be important. First, in electrical networks, the power flow operations can be written as Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programs (QCQPs), and we utilize our bounds to compute the size of permissible power variations to ensure stable operations of the power system network. Second, the robustness margin of positive definite solutions to the Algebraic Riccati Equation (frequently encountered in control problems) subject to perturbations in the system matrices are computed with the aid of our bounds. Finally, we employ these bounds to provide quantitative estimates of the size of the domains for feedback linearization of discrete-time control systems.
description: 36 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Effects of autochthonous and homologous lymphocytes and sera on human neoplastic cells in tissue culture
Creators: name: Nind, Antony Patrick Pitt.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
 make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
SiOx:H Passivation Layer Fabricated by Atomic Layer Deposition for Heterojunction Solar Cells
Creators: name: Lozach, M.
name: Nunomura, S.
name: Sai, H.
name: Matsui, T.
name: Matsubara, K.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: Silicon Photovoltaics
Heterojunction Solar Cells

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 749-752
description: Hydrogenated silicon oxide (SiOx:H) has been developed as an alternative passivation layer for
heterojunction solar cells and deposited by atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique. Such process allows a precise
control of ultra-thin film thickness in the order of 10 to 20 Å, necessary for the carrier transport via tunneling effect.
We demonstrate that hydrogen atoms from SiOx:H films greatly enhance the effective lifetime up to 0.5 ms of
symmetric structure p-type amorphous silicon on Fz-Si wafers after a thermal annealing between 250-300ºC using only
such thin passivation layer. We investigated the effective lifetime and the constitution properties of amorphous silicon
layer / hydrogenated silicon oxide layers using QSSPC method, FTIR analysis, and Raman spectroscopy in function of
the annealing temperature by thermal process. The effective lifetime was related to Si-H binding, the hydrogen
concentration, and the crystallinity of amorphous silicon layers at each annealing temperature.
Laser-Induced Crystallization of Sputtered Unhydrogenated Silicon at Low Temperatures
Creators: name: Saugar Gotor, E.
name: González, J.P.
name: Fernández, S.
name: Gandía, J.J.
name: Cárabe, J.
name: Canteli, D.
name: Morales, M.
name: Molpeceres, C.
name: García-Pérez, F.
name: Gómez-Mancebo, M.B.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: Silicon Photovoltaics
Thin Film and Foil-Based Solar Cells

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 815-819
description: 10-μm-thick non-hydrogenated amorphous-silicon (a-Si) films were deposited at relatively high rates (≥ 10 Å/s) by radio-frequency magnetron sputtering (RFMS) on different large-area buffer-layer-coated glass substrates at deposition temperatures ranging from room temperature (RT) to 300ºC. These amorphous samples were subsequently crystallized by means of a continuous-wave diode laser, looking for conditions to reach liquid-phase crystallization. The influence of deposition conditions on the quality of the final micro-crystalline silicon films has been studied.
Identifying heterogeneous transgenerational DNA methylation sites via clustering in beta regression
Creators: name: Han, Shengtong
name: Zhang, Hongmei
name: Lockett, Gabrielle A.
name: Mukherjee, Nandini
name: Holloway, John W.
name: Karmaus, Wilfried
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This paper explores the transgenerational DNA methylation pattern (DNA methylation transmitted from one generation to the next) via a clustering approach. Beta regression is employed to model the transmission pattern from parents to their offsprings at the population level. To facilitate this goal, an expectation maximization algorithm for parameter estimation along with a BIC criterion to determine the number of clusters is proposed. Applying our method to the DNA methylation data composed of 4063 CpG sites of 41 mother-father-infant triads, we identified a set of CpG sites in which DNA methylation transmission is dominated by fathers, while at a large number of CpG sites, DNA methylation is mainly maternally transmitted to the offspring.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/15-AOAS865 in the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
c-Si Surface Passivation Optimization of ALD ALOX Deposited Layers
Creators: name: Monna, R.
name: Denis, C.
name: Veau, A.
name: Bounaas, L.
name: Dubois, S.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: Silicon Photovoltaics
Homojunction Solar Cells

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 690-693
description: This study focuses on the optimization of the passivation properties of AlOx layers deposited either by
ALD. Different thicknesses of AlOx layers have been deposited by ALD on p-type Cz silicon wafers and annealed at
different temperatures. In the absence of “SiNx capping”, the increase of the forming gas annealing temperature
improves the passivation regardless to the ALD deposited AlOx layer thickness. Very high passivation performances
were obtained before SiNx capping (i-Voc around 720 mV) with AlOx ALD deposited layers annealed at 550°C. The
deposition of a silicon nitride capping layer remarkably improves the surface passivation (i-Voc gain of 30 to 40 mV)
on low temperature annealed AlOx layers but has no influence on the passivation quality of high T annealed AlOx
layers. After SiNx capping, i-Voc around 720 mV are obtained regardless to the ALD deposited AlOx thickness and
annealing temperature. The same passivation quality is obtained when an AlOx layer is directly covered with a SiNx
layer (the AlOx was not annealed before).
A Nonparametric Bayesian Technique for High-Dimensional Regression
Creators: name: Guha, Subharup
name: Baladandayuthapani, Veerabhadran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper proposes a nonparametric Bayesian framework called VariScan for simultaneous clustering, variable selection, and prediction in high-throughput regression settings. Poisson-Dirichlet processes are utilized to detect lower-dimensional latent clusters of covariates. An adaptive nonlinear prediction model is constructed for the response, achieving a balance between model parsimony and flexibility. Contrary to conventional belief, cluster detection is shown to be aposteriori consistent for a general class of models as the number of covariates and subjects grows. Simulation studies and data analyses demonstrate that VariScan often outperforms several well-known statistical methods.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1407.5472
Growth of Silicon on Reorganized Porous Silicon Substrates by Steady-State Solution Growth for Photovoltaic Applications
Creators: name: Ehlers, C.
name: Bansen, R.
name: Uebel, D.
name: Teubner, T.
name: Boeck, T.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2017
Subjects: Silicon Photovoltaics
Thin Film and Foil-Based Solar Cells

description: 33rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 820-822
description: A silicon solar cell requires only several ten micrometers of silicon in order to absorb sunlight
efficiently. Therefore, we have developed a process that allows for the continuous deposition of silicon on
reorganized porous silicon substrates from a tin solution by steady-state liquid phase epitaxy. The grown epilayer can
be detached from the silicon substrate with the intention of processing the epilayer into a solar cell, while reusing the
substrate multiple times for a porosification and reorganization process and subsequent epitaxy. We will present cross
section scanning electron microscope (SEM) images showing successful growth results of detachable layers.