Amorphous Diamond Solar Cells
Silicon based photo voltaic panels are the mainstream of solar cells. However, there are intrinsic limitations of such devices for replacing power plants. The low conversion efficiency (
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Cold Cathode Fluorescence Light with Amorphous Diamond Coated Electrodes
Amorphous diamond is the only material that can emit electrons in vacuum when applied with an electrical field of only a few volts per micron and such current can increase hundreds or millions times when [...]
Y-nano X-micro Technologies: nanometric optical control
de Lima Monteiro D.W., Honorato F.P., Ferreira Jr A.I., Soloviev O., Vdovin G., Loktev M., Federal University of Minas Gerais, BR
Nanometric control of optical quality is relevant in many different fields, ranging from Ophthalmology to Lithography, where ordinary setups suffer from optical aberrations. Most common aberrations feature amplitudes in the nanometer range and are often [...]
Amorphous Diamond Electron Emission for Thermal Generation of Electricity
Sung E., Sung J.C-M, Sung M., Kan K., Sung E., Sung J.C-M, Sung M., Huang J-L, Sung E., Sung J.C-M, Sung M., Chen C-P, Hsu K-H, Tai M-F, Kinik Company, TW
Amorphous diamond represents a class of material of its own. It may be viewed to be a composite of metal (graphite) and insulator (diamond), but together they form a unique passage for electrons to flow [...]
Nanoscale Control of Light-induced Degradation in Amorphous Silicon
The major problem of amorphous silicon solar cell is the light-induced degration. A recent experiment shows that this problem may be solved by a CN treatment. In this paper, microscopic mechanism of this CN treatment [...]