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High Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells with Bilayer Passivation Structure
(2009)
Sun, W. C.
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Chang, W. L.
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Chen, C. H.
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Du, C. H.
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Wang, T. Y.
lThe effects of passivation on monocrystalline silicon solar cells were investigated. Al(2)O(3) and SiO(2) films, prepared by atomic layer deposition and thermal oxidation, respectively, were used as passivation layers. Passivation using a monolayer (SiO(2)) yielded a cell efficiency of 17.5%. However, the Al(2)O(3)/SiO(2) bilayer structure drastically increased cell efficiency to 20.1%. Quantum efficiency results revealed a significant improvement in the IR range, suggesting that bilayer passivation was effective on the back of a solar cell in providing a high energy conversion efficiency. (C) 2009 The Electrochemical Society. [DOI: 10.1149/1.3194252] All rights reserved.
Observation of Electron-Antineutrino Disappearance at Daya Bay
(2012-04-23)
An, F. P.
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Bai, J. Z.
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Balantekin, A. B.
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Band, H. R.
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Beavis, D.
The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has measured a nonzero value for the neutrino mixing angle 0(13) with a significance of 5.2 standard deviations. Antineutrinos from six 2.9 GW(th) reactors were detected in six antineutrino detectors deployed in two near (flux-weighted baseline 470 m and 576 m) and one far (1648 m) underground experimental halls. With a 43 000 ton-GW(th)-day live-time exposure in 55 days, 10 416 (80 376) electron-antineutrino candidates were detected at the far hall (near halls). The ratio of the observed to expected number of antineutrinos at the far hall is R = 0.940 +/- 0.011(stat.) +/- 0.004(syst.). A rate-only analysis finds sin(2)2 theta(13) = 0.092 +/- 0.016(stat.) +/- 0.005(syst.) in a three-neutrino framework.
Performance enhancement of the nMOSFET low-noise amplifier by package strain
(2007-01-01)
Hua, W. -C.
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Chang, H. -L.
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Wang, T.
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Lin, C. -Y
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Lin, C. -P.
The package strain improves the noise figure (NF) of the low-noise amplifier (LNA). The maximum noise reduction is similar to 0.53 dB (13%) at the operating frequency of 2.4 GHz under the biaxial tensile strain of 0.037%. The NIT reduction of the strained LNA is mainly due to the enhanced transconductance and cutoff frequency of the individual nMOSFET device under the same strain and bias conditions.
The detector system of the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment
(2016-03-01)
An, F. P.
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Bai, J. Z.
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Balantekin, A. B.
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Band, H. R.
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Beavis, D.
The Daya Bay experiment was the first to report simultaneous measurements of reactor antineutrinos at multiple baselines leading to the discovery of (nu) over bar (e) oscillations over km-baselines. Subsequent data has provided the world\'s most precise measurement of sin 2 2013 and the effective mass splitting Delta m(ee)(2). The experiment is located in Daya Bay, China where the cluster of six nuclear reactors is among the world\'s most prolific sources of electron antineutrinos. Multiple antineutrino detectors are deployed in three underground water pools at different distances from the reactor cores to search for deviations in the antineutrino rate and energy spectrum due to neutrino mixing. Instrumented with photomultiplier tubes, the water pools serve as shielding against natural radioactivity from the surrounding rock and provide efficient muon tagging. Arrays of resistive plate chambers over the top of each pool provide additional muon detection. The antineutrino detectors were specifically designed for measurements of the antineutrino flux with minimal systematic uncertainty. Relative detector efficiencies between the near and far detectors are known to better than 0.2%. With the unblinding of the final two detectors\' baselines and target masses, a complete description and comparison of the eight antineutrino detectors can now be presented. This paper describes the Daya Bay detector systems, consisting of eight antineutrino detectors in three instrumented water pools in three underground halls, and their operation through the first year of eight detector data-taking. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.