Review on influencing parameters in the performance of concentrated solar power collector based on materials,heat transfer fluids and design

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - The solar collector (reflector and receiver) is the primary device being used in the concentrating solar power technologies for tapping the solar...     

Remotely-doped graded potential well structures

We present a new method to obtain high-mobility three-dimensional electron gas systems. We have achieved control of carrier density and of carrier profile by growth of the first remotely-doped parabolic potential well structures. Computer-controlled molecular beam epitaxy is used to grow a layer of ultra-fine superlattices with a programmable composition gradient. This produces conduction-band potentials which, in the absence of doping, are equivalent to the potential profiles of fixed charge distributions. When conduction electrons are introduced into these graded wells through remote doping of the barrier regions, they distribute themselves in such a way as to produce a uniform chemical potential at thermal equilibrium. We illustrate through computer simulations employing Fermi statistics that electrons introduced into a wide parabolic potential well distribute themselves uniformly. More significantly, the carrier distribution in the well is remarkably insensitive to the dopant sheet charge in the barrier, the more so at lower temperatures. We have fabricated remotely-doped graded potential well structures of the proposed type by molecular beam epitaxy. These structures exhibit the above effects. Measured mobilities of such three-dimensional electron gases grown using the GaAs/Al_xGa_1−xAs system are higher than those of bulk-doped GaAs doped to give the same uniform electron concentration.     

Homotopy of Non-Modular Partitions and the Whitehouse Module

We present a class of subposets of the partition lattice _n with the following property: The order complex is homotopy equivalent to the order complex of _n – 1, and the S _n -module structure of the homology coincides with a recently discovered lifting of the S _n – 1-action on the homology of _n – 1. This is the Whitehouse representation on Robinson's space of fully-grown trees, and has also appeared in work of Getzler and Kapranov, Mathieu, Hanlon and Stanley, and Babson et al.One example is the subposet P _n ⁿ – 1 of the lattice of set partitions _n , obtained by removing all elements with a unique nontrivial block. More generally, for 2 k n – 1, let Q _n ^k denote the subposet of the partition lattice _n obtained by removing all elements with a unique nontrivial block of size equal to k, and let P _n ^k = _{i = 2} ^k Q _n ⁱ . We show that P _n ^k is Cohen-Macaulay, and that P _n ^k and Q _n ^k are both homotopy equivalent to a wedge of spheres of dimension (n – 4), with Betti number . The posets Q _n ^k are neither shellable nor Cohen-Macaulay. We show that the S _n -module structure of the homology generalises the Whitehouse module in a simple way.We also present a short proof of the well-known result that rank-selection in a poset preserves the Cohen-Macaulay property.     

On integralEP r matrices

Periodica Mathematica Hungarica - This paper gives a characterization of integralEP r matrices and necessary and sufficient conditions for the generalized inverse of the product of two integralEP r...     

Ion-acoustic instability in a two-temperature collisional plasma

It is shown that, if one takes account of the non-stationary nature of the background equilibrium, then ion acoustic waves in a two-temperature, collisional, fully ionized plasma are stable.     

The reaction of PPh3 with Di-μ-chlorobis(arylazooximato)dipalladium(II)

Summary Di--chlorobis(arylazooximato)dipalladiuni(II) compounds react with PPh₃ to give the four-coordinate complexes (5) and (4) in which the azooxime acts as a unidentate and bidentate ligand respectively. Hydrogen bonding in polar solvents such as MeOH or EtOHetc. stabilize (5) whereas, polar solvents such as Me₂CO, py and Et₂O convert (5) into (4). The equilibrium: (4) + PPh₃ (5) exists in PhH solution and equilibrium constants at 30°C have been calculated spectrophotometrically. The variation in equilibrium constants and the stabilities of (5) have been explained on the basis of electron-releasing and electron-withdrawing properties of substituents, R, in the azooxime ligand.     

The semiclassical regime of the chaotic quantum-classical transition

An analysis of the semiclassical regime of the quantum-classical transition is given for open, bounded, one-dimensional chaotic dynamical systems. Environmental fluctuations-characteristic of all realistic dynamical systems-suppress the development of a fine structure in classical phase space and damp nonlocal contributions to the semiclassical Wigner function, which would otherwise invalidate the approximation. This dual regularization of the singular nature of the semiclassical limit is demonstrated by a numerical investigation of the chaotic Duffing oscillator.     

Transformation of a 4-membered ring zinc phosphate SBU to a sodalite-related 3-dimensional structure through a linear chain structure

A zero-dimensional zinc phosphate, comprising a 4-membered ring, is shown to spontaneously transform at room temperature, to a linear chain structure consisting of corner-shared 4-membered rings, the latter transforming to a 3-dimensional sodalite-related structure under mild conditions.