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De change, les flux commerciaux ou commerces et la croissance économique de Madagascar. En d’autres termes nous avons étudié les effets de la volatilité et le mésalignement du taux de change sur les exportations, les importations, et la croissance économique. Pour pouvoir réaliser cette étude, nous avons utilisé des données annuelles entre la période 1971-2012 pour les exportations et importations globales, et la période 1990-2011 pour les exportations et importations par secteur. Nous avons mesuré la volatilité à l’aide de deux méthodes, et nous avons obtenu la volatilité par l’écart-type mobile et la volatilité calculée par le GARCH. La méthode de cointégration a été utilisée pour l’étude des variables. Avec le modèle NATREX, le mésalignement a été calculé comme la différence du TCER à l’instant t et TCER d’équilibre. Sur la dernière partie du travail et afin de répondre à notre problématique, nous faisons appel à la méthode SUR (Seemingly Unrelated Regression). Cette méthode nous a permis d’estimer notre modèle à deux equations pour les exportations en volume et les importations en volume. En bref, pour le cas Madagascar, d’une part en considérant l’exportation, le mésalignenemt a un impact positif significatif sur l’exportation globale quelle que soit la définition de la volatilité, en effet la sur-évaluation de l’Ariary augmente l’exportation. Par ailleurs, la volatilité a un impact positif significatif sur l’exportation globale uniquement avec la prise en compte du VOLGARCHTCEN. D’autre part en considérant l’importation, le mésalignenemt a un impact positif significatif sur l’importation globale avec la prise en compte du VOLMASDTCER, et du VOLMASDTCEN, la sur-évaluation de l’Ariary augmente l’importation. La volatilité a un impact positif significatif sur l’importation pour les trois cas suivants : VOLMASDTCEN, VOLGARCHTCER, VOLGARCHTCEN. Avec l’exportation globale ou l’importation globale, le mésalignement n’a pas d’impact significatif sur le taux de croissance, par contre la volatilité a un impact négatif significatif sur le taux de croissance en considérant le VOLMASDTCER, et le VOLMASDTCEN. / In this thesis, we tried to know the relationship between the variability of exchange rates, trade flows and economic growth in Madagascar. In other words, we have studied the effects of volatility and misalignment of the exchange rate on exports, imports, and economic growth. To conduct this study, we used annual data from the 1971-2012 period for global exports and imports, and the 1990-2011 period for exports and imports by sector. We measured the volatility using two methods, and we got the volatility by moving standard deviation and volatility calculated by the GARCH. The method of cointegration was used to study the variables. With NATREX model, the misalignment was calculated as the difference between REER at time t and REER equilibrium. On the last part of this work and to resolve our problem, we use the method SUR (Seemingly Unrelated Regression). This method allowed us to estimate our model with two equations for export volumes and import volumes.Finally, the results show that for the case of Madagascar, considering exports, misalignment has a significant positive impact on overall export whatever the definition of volatility, indeed over-evaluation increases export. Then, volatility has a significant positive impact on overall export only with the inclusion of VOLGARCHTCEN. Moreover considering imports, misalignment has a significant positive impact on the overall import with the inclusion of VOLMASDTCER, and VOLMASDTCEN, over-evaluation increases import. The volatility has a significant positive impact on the import in the case of : VOLMASDTCEN, VOLGARCHTCER, VOLGARCHTCEN. With the global export or import, misalignment has no significant impact on the growth rate, however volatility has a significant negative impact on growth rates considering VOLMASDTCER, and VOLMASDTCEN.

The continuous microreactor-assisted solution deposition (MASD) process was used for the deposition of CdS thin films on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) glass. The MASD system, including a T-junction micromixer and a microchannel heat exchanger is capable of isolating the homogeneous particle precipitation from the heterogeneous surface reaction. The results show a dense nanocrystallite CdS thin films with a preferred orientation at (111) plane. Focused-ion-beam was used for TEM specimen preparation to characterize the interfacial microstructure of CdS and FTO layers. The band gap of the microreactor-assisted deposited CdS film was determined at 2.44 eV. X-ray Photon Spectroscopy show the bindings of energies of Cd 3d₃/₂, Cd 3d₅/₂, S 2p₃/₂ and S 2p₁/₂ at 411.7 eV, 404.8 eV, 162.1 eV, and 163.4 eV, respectively. The film growth kinetics was studied by measuring the film thickness deposited from 1 minute to 15 minutes in physical (FIB-TEM) and optical (reflectance spectroscopy) approaches. A growth model that accounts for the residence time in the microchannel using empirical factor (η) obtained from previous reported experimental data. Applying this factor in the proposed modified growth model gives a surface reaction rate of 1.61*10⁶ cm⁴ mole⁻¹s⁻¹, which is considerable higher than the surface reaction rates obtained from the batch CBD process. With the feature of separating homogeneous and heterogeneous surface reaction, the MASD process provides the capability to tailor the surface film growth rate and avoid the saturation growth regime in the batch process. An in situ spectroscopy technique was used to measure the UV-Vis absorption spectra of CdS nanoparticles formed within the continuous flow microreactor. The spectra were analyzed by fitting the sum of three Gaussian functions and one exponential function in order to calculate the nanoparticle size. This deconvolution analysis shows the formation of CdS nanoparticles range from 1.13 nm to 1.26 nm using a residence time from 0.26 s to 3.96 s. Barrier controlled coalescence mechanism seems to be a reasonable model to explain the experimental UV-Vis data obtained from the continuous flow microreactor, with a rate constant k' value of 2.872 s⁻¹. Using CFD, low skewness value of the RTD curve at high flow rate (short τ) suggests good radial mixing at high flow rate is responsible for the formation of smaller CdS nanoparticles with a narrower size distribution. The combination of CdS nanoparticle solution with MASD process resulted in the hindrance of CdS thin film deposition. It is hypothesized that the pre-existing sulfide (S²⁻) ions and CdS nanoparticles changes the chemical species equilibrium of thiourea hydrolysis reaction. Consequently, the lack of thiourea slows down the heterogeneous surface reaction. To test the scalability of the MASD process, a flow cell and reel-to-reel (R2R)-MASD system were setup and demonstrated for the deposition of CdS films on the FTO glass (6" x 6") substrate. The film deposition kinetics was found to be sensitive to the flow conditions within the heat exchanger and the substrate flow cell. The growth kinetics of the CdS films deposited by R2R-MASD process was investigated by with a deposition time of 2.5 min, 6.3 min, and 9 min. In comparison with the continuous MASD process, the growth rate in R2R-MASD is higher, however more difficult to obtain a linear relationship with the deposition time. / Graduation date: 2012 / Access restricted to the OSU Community at author's request from Jan. 13, 2012 - Jan. 13, 2013