Passivation of aluminium–n+ silicon contacts for solar cells by ultrathin Al2O3 and SiO2 dielectric layers

Ultra‐thin thermally grown SiO₂ and atomic‐layer‐deposited (ALD) Al₂O₃ films are trialled as passivating dielectrics for metal–insulator–semiconductor (MIS) type contacts on top of phosphorus diffused regions applicable to high efficiency silicon solar cells. An investigation of the optimum insulator thickness in terms of contact recombination factor J_{0_cont} and contact resistivity ρ_c is undertaken on 85 Ω/□ and 103 Ω/□ diffusions. An optimum ALD Al₂O₃ thickness of ～22 Å produces a J_{0_cont} of ～300 fAcm^–2 whilst maintaining a ρ_c lower than 1 mΩ cm² for the 103 Ω/□ diffusion. This has the potential to improve the open‐circuit voltage by a maximum 15 mV. The thermally grown SiO₂ fails to achieve equivalently low J_{0_cont} values but exhibits greater thermal stability, resulting in slight improvements in ρ_c when annealed for 10 minutes at 300 °C without significant changes in J_{0_cont}. The after‐anneal J_{0_cont} reaches ～600 fAcm^–2 with a ρ_c of ～2.5 mΩ cm² for the 85 Ω/□ diffusion amounting to a maximum gain in open‐circuit voltage of 6 mV. (© 2013 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

The high-resolution infrared spectrum of Si2H6: rotation–torsion analysis of the ν5 and ν7 fundamentals,and torsional splittings in the degenerate vibrational states

The infrared active ν₇ and ν₅ fundamentals of disilane, coupled by an x,y Coriolis interaction, have been analysed on a Fourier transform spectrum between 2120 and 2225?cm^?1, at the Doppler limited spectral resolution. A Fermi resonance with 2ν ₂?+?ν₉ affects the Δ K?=?1 side of ν₇, and both ν₇ and ν₅ show the effects of several additional localized perturbations. Line splittings in the ν₅ transitions are not observed, showing that the torsional splitting in the ν₅ excited state and in the vibrational ground state are almost equal. The intrinsic torsional splitting of ν₇ is found to be smaller than in the ground vibrational state by 0.0085?cm^?1. This splitting value and those found for the other two infrared active degenerate fundamentals, ν₈ and ν₉, follow the trend expected from our theoretical predictions. Exploratory numerical calculations show that the decrease of the torsional splittings, observed in the fundamental degenerate vibrational states of disilane, can actually be accounted for by the head–tail and torsional Coriolis coupling of all the degenerate vibrational fundamentals, in several torsional states.     

Rotation spectrum and infrared fundamental bands of 123SbD3. Determination of molecular geometry and ab initio calculations of spectroscopic parameters

The high resolution infrared spectrum of ¹²³SbD₃ has been recorded in the 20–350?cm^?1 range and in the regions of the ν₁, ν₃ and ν₂, ν₄ fundamental bands centred at 1350 and 600?cm^?1, respectively. Splitting of the K′′?=?3, 6 lines have been observed both in the rotation and ro-vibration spectra. A large number of ‘perturbation allowed‘ transitions with selection rules Δ(k??l) =?±?3,?±?6, and?±?9 have been identified in all fundamental bands. Accurate ground state molecular parameters have been determined by means of a simultaneous fit of the rotational transitions and about 12?000 ground state combination differences from the infrared bands. The A and B reductions of the rotational Hamiltonian provided almost equivalent results. The molecular parameters of the ν _i ?=?1 (i?=?1???4) states were obtained as a result of the simultaneous analysis of the ν₁ (A₁)/ν₃ (E) stretching and of the ν₂ (A₁)/ν₄ (E) bending dyads. In fact, the corresponding excited states are affected by strong perturbations due to rovibrational interactions of Coriolis and k-type that have been treated explicitly in the model adopted for the analysis. Improved effective ground state and equilibrium geometries were determined for the molecule and compared to those of ¹²³SbH₃. Ab initio calculations at the coupled cluster CCSD(T) level with an energy-consistent large-core pseudopotential and large basis sets were carried out to determine the equilibrium structure, the anharmonic force field, and the associated spectroscopic constants of ¹²³SbH₃ and ¹²³SbD₃. The theoretical results are in good agreement with the experimental data.     

Clustering of financial time series

This paper addresses the topic of classifying financial time series in a fuzzy framework proposing two fuzzy clustering models both based on GARCH models. In general clustering of financial time series, due to their peculiar features, needs the definition of suitable distance measures. At this aim, the first fuzzy clustering model exploits the autoregressive representation of GARCH models and employs, in the framework of a partitioning around medoids algorithm, the classical autoregressive metric. The second fuzzy clustering model, also based on partitioning around medoids algorithm, uses the Caiado distance, a Mahalanobis-like distance, based on estimated GARCH parameters and covariances that takes into account the information about the volatility structure of time series. In order to illustrate the merits of the proposed fuzzy approaches an application to the problem of classifying 29 time series of Euro exchange rates against international currencies is presented and discussed, also comparing the fuzzy models with their crisp version.     

Magnetic resonance image reconstruction using trained geometric directions in 2D redundant wavelets domain and non-convex optimization

Reducing scanning time is significantly important for MRI. Compressed sensing has shown promising results by undersampling the k-space data to speed up imaging. Sparsity of an image plays an important role in compressed sensing MRI to reduce the image artifacts. Recently, the method of patch-based directional wavelets (PBDW) which trains geometric directions from undersampled data has been proposed. It has better performance in preserving image edges than conventional sparsifying transforms. However, obvious artifacts are presented in the smooth region when the data are highly undersampled. In addition, the original PBDW-based method does not hold obvious improvement for radial and fully 2D random sampling patterns. In this paper, the PBDW-based MRI reconstruction is improved from two aspects: 1) An efficient non-convex minimization algorithm is modified to enhance image quality; 2) PBDW are extended into shift-invariant discrete wavelet domain to enhance the ability of transform on sparsifying piecewise smooth image features. Numerical simulation results on vivo magnetic resonance images demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the original PBDW in terms of removing artifacts and preserving edges.     

Rotational analysis of the v 2 + v 6 ±1, v 5 ∓1 + v 6 ∓1 and v 5 ∓1 + v 6 ±1 interacting infrared bands of methyl bromide

The rotational analysis of the infrared absorption spectrum of CH₃ ⁷⁹Br and CH₃ ⁸¹Br between 2150 and 2510 cm^-1 was performed on a Fourier transform spectrum with a resolution of 0·007 cm^-1. The bands v ₂ + v ₆(E) and v ₅ + v ₆(A ₁ + A ₂ + E) occur in this region, giving rise to several perturbations as in the corresponding system of methyl chloride [3]. Forbidden transitions, observed in correspondence of the level crossing of the x-y Coriolis coupling between v ₂ + v ₆ and v ₅ + v ₆(E), enabled us to estimate the value of A″ - 225D″_K at 5·16186 cm^-1 for CH₃ ⁷⁹Br and 5·16173 cm^-1 for CH₃ ⁸¹Br. The parallel system of v ₅ + v ₆ exhibits a perpendicular structure, and an l-type resonance couples those levels of the parallel and perpendicular components of v ₅ + v ₆ involved in transitions from the K″ = 0 levels of the ground state. The ^QQ ₀ branches of the A ₂ component of v ₅ + v ₆, made active by this resonance, are observed for both isotopic species.     

Bi2ZnOB2O6单晶偏振拉曼光谱

本文通过分析不同几何配置下的偏振拉曼光谱对非线性光学晶体的晶格振动模式进行了研究. 首先根据因子群分析,将晶体的振动模按晶体对称群的不可约表示进行分类,其次测量了晶体在10–1600 cm^-1范围内,不同几何配置下的偏振拉曼光谱,并在此基础上指认了晶体的晶格振动模式. 300 cm^-1以下的振动峰,归结为晶体的外振动,来自[BiO₆],[ZnO₄],[BO₄]和[BO₃]原子基团的平动和转动;300cm^-1以上为晶体的内振动,主要与Bi-O,和Zn-O键振动有关. 晶体拉曼光谱中最高振动频率达到1407 cm^-1,被指认为[BO₃]三角形中B-O键的伸缩振动,体现了[BO₃]基团中高的电子非局域化程度. 关键词： 2ZnOB₂O₆单晶')" href="#">Bi₂ZnOB₂O₆单晶 偏振拉曼光谱 振动模式     

串联系统可靠性虚拟系统法置信下限的小样本性质

本文讨论了具有r个成败型元件串联系统可靠性的置信下限问题。研究了虚拟系统法置信下限的小样本性质,证明了,在通常情况下虚拟系统法置信下限要大于常见的L-M法置信下限.更一般地,本文证明了在成败型试验中,当成功数与试验数之比保持不变时,试验次数的增加将直接缩小成功率置信区间的长度。     

An improved evaluation of the neutron background in the PandaX-Ⅱ experiment

In dark matter direct detection experiments,neutron is a serious source of background,which can mimic the dark matter-nucleus scattering signals.In this paper,we present an improved evaluation of the neutron background in the PandaX-II dark matter experiment by a novel approach.Instead of fully relying on the Monte Carlo simulation,the overall neutron background is determined from the neutron-induced high energy signals in the data.In addition,the probability of producing a dark-matter-like background per neutron is evaluated with a complete Monte Carlo generator,where the correlated emission of neutron(s)andγ(s)in the(α,n)reactions and spontaneous fissions is taken into consideration.With this method,the neutron backgrounds in the Run 9(26-ton-day)and Run 10(28-ton-day)data sets of PandaX-II are estimated to be(0.66±0.24)and(0.47±0.25)events,respectively.