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Does anybody have any experience with optical interferometers to study the profile of a transparent thin film (<100nm)?

Thinking of using a Zygo on printed PEDOT:PSS.

06 July 2012 8,526 8 View

Guidelines

For future reference, it would be nice if everybody could be more specific if they have questions so that other people can more efficiently answer them. Also, please try to use proper grammar....

04 May 2011 930 4 View

Irradiation data for JAPAN?

Hi, Could you help me to get the latest (2019, 2020) solar resource data for a particular site in JAPAN? PV GIS and NSRDB data are not in reach to JAPAN, I'm looking for some other database for...

03 March 2021 961 3 View

Why are the velocities so high in my Boussinesq approximation Fluent simulation?

Hello, I have a mechanism where air rises due to convective flows. In this simulation, nothing is driving the air except this. I understand that the Boussinesq approximation only works for small...

02 March 2021 4,910 3 View

Help request in CST microwave?

im working now on TPV solar cells and metamaterials and i realy need our help in CST microwave i have a tpv cell simulation and i want to extract particullarly the absorbtion of only the active...

02 March 2021 2,246 2 View

Anyone found any research papers on solar furnace design calculations (for solar concentration)?

I am thinking about working on solar furnace with heliostats that concentrate sunlight and heat molten salt, but currently no luck with research. Not a lot of papers based on the subject. (check...

01 March 2021 5,023 5 View

How to size battery banks?

I am designing a small grid connected solar PV power-plant. As the battery's capacity is specified in Ah and demand in kWh. What is the best way to size the battery bank? I have battery price in...

28 February 2021 1,638 3 View

How to design a boost converter for a mppt controller?

I have a doubt on how to select the inductor and capacitor value when I want to implement MPPT controller. This is because we always take a maximum output voltage and current but in this case, we...

28 February 2021 3,637 2 View

How to sample data to increase presence of solar panels in the images?

I am working on creating deep neural network on geospatial dataset and wanted to know how to do the sampling so that I can increase the presence of solar panels in the images. I cannot use entire...

25 February 2021 3,936 6 View

Suppose we have a banana seller cart consisting of 4 wheels, weighing about 300 kg. How much torque motors are needed to pull of push it electrically?

I am thinking of electrifying the street food carts while harvesting energy using solar panels on top.

22 February 2021 4,323 3 View

Gallium Antimonide (GaSb). Can anyone help me to find vendor (provider) to sell GaSb solar cell ?

I am searching of provider (GaSb), I only found this one (https://jxcrystals.com/wp/about/). Can anyone help me?

21 February 2021 1,945 2 View

Could the "incoming radiation (net radiation)" values be negative?

Could the "incoming solar radiation" values be negative? What is the difference between "global solar radiation" and "incoming solar radiation"? Which one might be measured negative values?

21 February 2021 7,726 9 View

Tim A Johnston

https://lpo.energy.gov/ U.S Department of Energy EERE Funding opportunity Exchange. Keep in touch, I am currently working on a development project here.

Dominik Jurków

There are also some opportunities in finding funds in collaborative EU-USA projects from UE FP7 funding see http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/call_FP7#wlp_call_FP7. But you have to be lucky to find proper call.