What is the best method for tracking the sun position, is-it by solar position calculation along the day of the year or by other method?

In solar energy application, often we should know the sun position at each instant. With the sun position calculation, I think we can establish a database for this purpose. Then we can use-it for...

31 December 2014 7,264 12 View

In multilayer PV solar cells, how can I choose the materials (gap and contact type) in order to increase efficiency ?

When the PV solar cell is used in a multi layer form, the goal is to benefit of a large interval of solar radiations. I think that the gap and the contact of different layers must have certain...

31 December 2014 3,584 4 View

What is the energy value of a phonon generally measured in an indirect transition?

Is it possible to obtain a phonon energy of about 425 meV, or is it an indirect transition assisted with more than one phonon?

11 December 2014 6,267 1 View

Why we use the term of "optical constants" of a material in spite of their variations ? is-it by misnomer ?

Optical constants as well as the gap, represent the signing of a material. They must be specific for this material. However, optical constants depend of the size of the crystallites which form the...

11 December 2014 5,742 3 View

Can we predict barrier potential in a contact metal-semiconductor or semiconductor-semiconductor using a theoretical approach ?

From band structure obtained with an existing calculation method , can we reach the result relating to the contact barrier between two materials ?

11 December 2014 5,487 13 View

The IR radiations are harmful for the performances of photovoltaic solar cells; how is-it possible to eliminate these kind of radiations ?

Among the parameters which decrease the efficiency of the photovoltaic solar cells, we can note the solar IR radiations. This kind of radiation increases the temperature and then disturbs often...

11 December 2014 447 17 View

Is it possible to obtain a natural colored image using electron microscopy or ecography ?

Until today, a good colored image is obtained using exclusively light. Electron microscope uses electrons and echograph uses ultrason. That gives only gray images.

10 November 2014 7,733 11 View

What kind of chemical products are generally used in order to target a given thin film by the CBD technique?

08 September 2014 9,211 2 View

What is the best chemical solution which can be used to obtain tungsten oxide in the framework of chemical bath deposition (CBD)?

Especially to target the WO3 oxide.

02 March 2014 2,843 2 View

Why does the energy gap of a quantum dot vary with its dimension?

Because of the gap of each material represents a signature of this material, why is it not the case for a quantum dot made with the given material.

01 February 2014 8,339 3 View

1 nm thick MgO thin-film to be deposited on Si wafer using thermal evaporation. What will be the optimum deposition conditions?

Favourable conditions of base pressure, rate of deposition. Also, by which characterisation technique to be used to verify the thickness of the deposited film.

28 February 2021 3,640 3 View

In an eye with Tyndall, does each dot correspond to an individual cell?

When you observe the presence of Tyndall in an inflamed eye: Does each of the small floating dots correspond to an individual cell or to an aggregate of cells? Does a conventional slit lamp have...

27 February 2021 6,326 2 View

Suggest me some trending topics for phd research in text mining/AI/machine learning?

My master's research is in info retrieval and text mining. I would be grateful if you could help me to select a good topic for my phd research proposal.

24 February 2021 393 14 View

How to prepare a thin polymer film by post-polymerization/crosslinking?

24 February 2021 2,362 5 View

Is is possible to pole with corona poling pellets of the sample material instead of thin films?

As it is highly probable that pellets will have a higher degree of air gaps and voids than thin films, is it possible to pole the samples with corona poling nevertheless? Or is there the...

24 February 2021 1,349 1 View

How to troubleshoot Electrochromic Films and Electrochromic Devices?

I am trying to characterize an electrochromic system. The system uses ITO electrodes on glass, WO3 as the electrochromic film, and NiO as the ion storage layer. When I deposit NiO and WO3 and...

23 February 2021 9,592 2 View

Alternative to mediation analysis?

I am currently working on my dissertation and want to explore the role of competence as a mediator between the effect of colour of clothes on voting intention (focus on Western countries)....

21 February 2021 8,609 1 View

How to improve the adhesion between germanium and silicon monoxide thin film layers using EBEAM evaporation?

I want to deposit multilayer coating of germanium and silicon monoxide on silicon wafer using ebeam evaporation?

21 February 2021 2,141 3 View

How can I measure the thickness of thin layers deposited on textured glass susbtrates?

I want to measure the thickness of aluminum oxide and titanium oxide layers deposited on textured glass substates. The layer thicknesses are typically below 100nm.

21 February 2021 5,465 4 View

Color of spiro-ometad film?

What does the color of a spiro-ometad film indicate? I got purple, green, red, even black color of the spiro film. Is there anything we can get from the preliminary color analysis(e.g. oxidation...

21 February 2021 1,831 4 View