abstract: There has been recent interest in demonstrating solar cells which approach the detailed-balance or thermodynamic efficiency limit in order to establish a model system for which mass-produced solar cells can be designed. Polycrystalline CdS/CdTe heterostructures are currently one of many competing solar cell material systems. Despite being polycrystalline, efficiencies up to 21 % have been demonstrated by the company First Solar. However, this efficiency is still far from the detailed-balance limit of 32.1 % for CdTe. This work explores the use of monocrystalline CdTe/MgCdTe and ZnTe/CdTe/MgCdTe double heterostructures (DHs) grown on (001) InSb substrates by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) for photovoltaic applications. Undoped CdTe/MgCdTe DHs are first grown in order to determine the material quality of the CdTe epilayer and to optimize the growth conditions. DH samples show strong photoluminescence with over double the intensity as that of a GaAs/AlGaAs DH with an identical layer structure. Time-resolved photoluminescence of the CdTe/MgCdTe DH gives a carrier lifetime of up to 179 ns for a 2 µm thick CdTe layer, which is more than one order of magnitude longer than that of polycrystalline CdTe films. MgCdTe barrier layers are found to be effective at confining photogenerated carriers and have a relatively low interface recombination velocity of 461 cm/s. The optimal growth temperature and Cd/Te flux ratio is determined to be 265 °C and 1.5, respectively. Monocrystalline ZnTe/CdTe/MgCdTe P-n-N DH solar cells are designed, grown, processed into solar cell devices, and characterized. A maximum efficiency of 6.11 % is demonstrated for samples without an anti-reflection coating. The low efficiency is mainly due to the low open-circuit voltage (V_oc), which is attributed to high dark current caused by interface recombination at the ZnTe/CdTe interface. Low-temperature measurements show a linear increase in V_oc with decreasing temperature down to 77 K, which suggests that the room-temperature operation is limited by non-radiative recombination. An open-circuit voltage of 1.22 V and an efficiency of 8.46 % is demonstrated at 77 K. It is expected that a coherently strained MgCdTe/CdTe/MgCdTe DH solar cell design will produce higher efficiency and V_oc compared to the ZnTe/CdTe/MgCdTe design with relaxed ZnTe layer. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Electrical Engineering 2014

abstract: The development of high efficiency III-V solar cells is needed to meet the demands of a promising renewable energy source. Intermediate band solar cells (IBSCs) using semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have been proposed to exceed the Shockley-Queisser efficiency limit [1]. The introduction of an IB in the forbidden gap of host material generates two additional carrier transitions for sub-bandgap photon absorption, leading to increased photocurrent of IBSCs while simultaneously allowing an open-circuit voltage of the highest band gap. To realize a high efficiency IBSC, QD structures should have high crystal quality and optimized electronic properties. This dissertation focuses on the investigation and optimization of the structural and optical properties of InAs/GaAsSb QDs and the development of InAs/GaAsSb QD-based IBSCs. In the present dissertation, the interband optical transition and carrier lifetime of InAs/GaAsSb QDs with different silicon delta-doping densities have been first studied by time-integrated and time-resolved photoluminescence (PL). It is found that an optimized silicon delta-doping density in the QDs enables to fill the QD electronic states with electrons for sub-bandgap photon absorption and to improve carrier lifetime of the QDs. After that, the crystal quality and QD morphology of single- and multi-stack InAs/GaAsSb QDs with different Sb compositions have been investigated by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and x-ray diffraction (XRD). The TEM studies reveal that QD morphology of single-stack QDs is affected by Sb composition due to strain reducing effect of Sb incorporation. The XRD studies confirm that the increase of Sb composition increases the lattice mismatch between GaAs matrix and GaAsSb spacers, resulting in increase of the strain relaxation in GaAsSb of the multi-stack QDs. Furthermore, the increase of Sb composition causes a PL redshift and increases carrier lifetime of QDs. Finally, the spacer layer thickness of multi-stack InAs/GaAsSb QDs is optimized for the growth of InAs/GaAsSb QD solar cells (QDSCs). The InAs/GaAsSb QDSCs with GaP strain compensating layer are grown and their device performances are characterized. The increase of GaP coverage is beneficial to improve the conversion efficiency of the QDSCs. However, the conversion efficiency is reduced when using a relatively large GaP coverage. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Electrical Engineering 2015

abstract: InAs/InAsSb type-II superlattices (T2SLs) can be considered as potential alternatives for conventional HgCdTe photodetectors due to improved uniformity, lower manufacturing costs with larger substrates, and possibly better device performance. This dissertation presents a comprehensive study on the structural, optical and electrical properties of InAs/InAsSb T2SLs grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy. The effects of different growth conditions on the structural quality were thoroughly investigated. Lattice-matched condition was successfully achieved and material of exceptional quality was demonstrated. After growth optimization had been achieved, structural defects could hardly be detected, so different characterization techniques, including etch-pit-density (EPD) measurements, cathodoluminescence (CL) imaging and X-ray topography (XRT), were explored, in attempting to gain better knowledge of the sparsely distributed defects. EPD revealed the distribution of dislocation-associated pits across the wafer. Unfortunately, the lack of contrast in images obtained by CL imaging and XRT indicated their inability to provide any quantitative information about defect density in these InAs/InAsSb T2SLs. The nBn photodetectors based on mid-wave infrared (MWIR) and long-wave infrared (LWIR) InAs/InAsSb T2SLs were fabricated. The significant difference in Ga composition in the barrier layer coupled with different dark current behavior, suggested the possibility of different types of band alignment between the barrier layers and the absorbers. A positive charge density of 1.8 × 1017/cm3 in the barrier of MWIR nBn photodetector, as determined by electron holography, confirmed the presence of a potential well in its valence band, thus identifying type-II alignment. In contrast, the LWIR nBn photodetector was shown to have type-I alignment because no sign of positive charge was detected in its barrier. Capacitance-voltage measurements were performed to investigate the temperature dependence of carrier densities in a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) structure based on MWIR InAs/InAsSb T2SLs, and a nBn structure based on LWIR InAs/InAsSb T2SLs. No carrier freeze-out was observed in either sample, indicating very shallow donor levels. The decrease in carrier density when temperature increased was attributed to the increased density of holes that had been thermally excited from localized states near the oxide/semiconductor interface in the MOS sample. No deep-level traps were revealed in deep-level transient spectroscopy temperature scans. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Materials Science and Engineering 2015

While exact methods, such as DDA or T-matrix, can be applied to particles withsizes comparable to the wavelength, computational demands mean that they are size limited. For particles much larger than the wavelength, the Geometric Optics approximation can be employed, but in doing so wave effects, such as interference and diffraction, are ignored. In between these two size extremes there exists a need for computational techniques which are capable of handling the wide array of ice crystal shapes and sizes that are observed in cirrus clouds. The Beam Tracing model developed within this project meets these criteria. It combines aspects of geometric optics and physical optics. Beam propagation is handled by Snell's law and the law of reflection. A beam is divided into reflected and transmitted components each time a crystal facet is illuminated. If the incident beam illuminates multiple facets it is split, with a new beam being formed for each illuminated facet. The phase-dependent electric field amplitude of the beams is known from their ampli- tude (Jones) matrices. These are modified by transmission and reflection matrices, whose elements are Fresnel amplitude coefficients, each time a beam intersects a crystal facet. Phase tracing is carried out for each beam by considering the path that its 'centre ray' would have taken. The local near-field is then mapped, via a surface integral formulation of a vector Kirchhoff diffraction approximation, to the far-field. Once in the far-field the four elements of the amplitude matrix are trans- formed into the sixteen elements of the scattering matrix via known relations. The model is discussed in depth, with details given on its implementation. The physical basis of the model is given through a discussion of Ray Tracing and how this leads to the notion of Beam Tracing. The beam splitting algorithm is described for convex particles followed by the necessary adaptations for concave and/or ab- sorbing particles. Once geometric aspects have been established details are given as to how physical properties of beams are traced including: amplitude, phase and power. How diffraction is implemented in the model is given along with a review of existing diffraction implementations. Comparisons are given, first against a modified Ray Tracing code to validate the geometric optics aspects of the model. Then, specific examples are given for the cases of transparent, pristine, smooth hexagonal columns of four different sizes and orientations; a highly absorbing, pristine, smooth hexagonal column and a highly absorbing, indented, smooth hexagonal column. Analysis of two-dimensional and one-dimensional intensity distributions and degree of linear polarisation results are given for each case and compared with results acquired through use of the Amster- dam Discrete-Dipole Approximation (ADDA) code; with good agreement observed. To the author's best knowledge, the Beam Tracer developed here is unique in its ability to handle concave particles; particles with complex structures and the man- ner in which beams are divided into sub-beams of quasi-constant intensity when propagating in an absorbing medium. One of the model's potential applications is to create a database of known particle scattering patterns, for use in aiding particle classification from images taken by the Small Ice Detector (SID) in-situ probe. An example of creating such a database for hexagonal columns is given.

L'objectif de cette thèse est d'étudier une technique de combinaison cohérente de faisceaux : l'amplification paramétrique optique (OPA) à multiple pompes. Cette technique permet de transférer instantanément l'énergie de nombreuses pompes en un unique faisceau signal sans stockage d'énergie, et ainsi s'affranchissant d'effets thermiques dans le milieu amplificateur. Ceci peut s'avérer intéressant pour combiner l'énergie de multiples lasers à fibre et réaliser l'amplification à forte cadence de lasers très énergétiques ou d'impulsions à spectre large. A l'aide d'un code de calcul général et d'une étude expérimentale utilisant comme cristal non linéaire du BBO ou du LBO, nous calculons dans un premier temps la localisation des pompes autour du signal à amplifier, ainsi que les tolérances angulaires correspondantes qui déterminent la criticité d'alignement d'une telle configuration. Nous nous intéressons ensuite aux mécanismes de recombinaisons parasites entre une pompe et l'idler correspondant à une autre pompe. Après avoir démontré expérimentalement que ces recombinaisons peuvent dégrader les caractéristiques spatiales et spectrales du signal amplifié, nous montrons qu'il est possible d'éliminer ces risques de couplages néfastes en écartant suffisamment les pompes entre elles. Une modélisation originale de l'OPA multi-pompes suggère de relier ces phénomènes parasites aux effets des réseaux résultant des interactions entre les différentes pompes. La dernière partie présente l'expérience d'OPA à 5 pompes qui nous a permis d'atteindre un rendement de transfert énergétique des pompes vers le signal de 27%, et obtenir ainsi un signal plus énergétique que chaque pompe prise séparément. / This work deals with a technique of combination of coherent beams: Optical Parametric Amplification (OPA) with Multiple Pumps. This technique is used to instantly transfer the energy of several pumps on one beam, without energy storage and thus avoiding thermal effects in the amplifying media. It can be useful to combine energy of numerous fiber lasers and to amplifiy with a high repetition rate very high energy lasers or broadband pulses. With a numerical and experimental study using BBO and LBO as nonlinear crystal, we determine how to dispose the pumps around the signal and the corresponding angular tolerances of such set up. Then we focus our attention on recombining mechanisms between a pump and a non-corresponding idler. We demonstrate experimentally that these cascading effects may decrease the spatial and spectral quality of the amplified signal, and that these phenomena can be avoided with a minimum angle between the different pumps. A novel modelling of multi-pumps OPA links these cascading effects to the gratings generated by the interaction between the pumps. The last part presents a 5 pump OPA experiment. We achieve a pump-to-signal efficiency of 27% and so that a signal more powerful than each pump is obtained.

Les travaux présentés dans cette thèse sont consacrés à l'enrichissement de la méthode de modélisation par éléments finis de type poutre multifibre. La méthode a fait ses preuves pour le calcul dynamique d'éléments de structures élancés, lorsque les contraintes normales prédominent. Toutefois, lorsque les contraintes de cisaillement sont prépondérantes, l'approximation de la cinématique utilisée par les éléments poutre n'est plus assez précise pour obtenir des résultats satisfaisants. L'objet de ces travaux de thèse est d'améliorer la méthode en créant un nouvel élément permettant de tenir compte du gauchissement des sections transversales dû au cisaillement. Ce développement est réalisé en deux étapes. Les éléments sont enrichis dans un premier temps par les déformations de gauchissement sous sollicitation de torsion. Le modèle de gauchissement est validé dans le domaine linéaire par confrontation aux résultats d'une modélisation numérique 3D. Après implémentation du gauchissement de torsion dans l'élément multifibre, des simulations numériques de poutres en torsion pure sont comparées à des résultats d'essais, permettant de valider le comportement des éléments poutre dans les domaines linéaire et non linéaire. Un modèle d'endommagement est utilisé pour le béton, et le gauchissement est mis à jour au fur et à mesure du calcul en tenant compte de l'évolution des propriétés matériau. L'étape suivante d'enrichissement est alors réalisée, avec l'élaboration d'un modèle de gauchissement complet sous toutes sollicitations de cisaillement, couplé au modèle d'endommagement. Une validation locale du profil de gauchissement élastique sous effort tranchant est effectuée par comparaison à la solution analytique, puis le profil de gauchissement sous sollicitations couplées de torsion et d'effort tranchant est validé par confrontation aux résultats d'une modélisation 3D. Outre la prise en compte du cisaillement par effort tranchant, la principale différence de cet enrichissement avec le modèle précédent est le calcul implicite du profil de gauchissement de la poutre au cours du calcul de structure. Les deux modèles développés sont comparés sur le comportement de poutres en torsion monotone, afin de quantifier l'impact de la méthode de calcul sur la précision des résultats et sur l'efficacité du calcul. Finalement, le modèle complet avec gauchissement est appliqué à la simulation sismique d'une structure. L'ensemble de ces cas-tests montre que l'enrichissement de la méthode par éléments finis multifibres est fonctionnel, avec des perspectives d'amélioration en ce qui concerne l'efficacité numérique notamment, et des perspectives intéressantes d'application. / The present work is dedicated to the numerical modeling of structures using multifiber beam elements. This numerical method was proved to be efficient to simulate the behavior of slender structural elements subject to normal stresses. However, the response of the model for shear-dominating stresses lacks of accuracy. This problem is addressed by introducing warping in the kinematics of multibfiber beam elements. A new multifiber element is developed in two steps. Torsional warping is first introduced in the deformations of an arbitrary-shaped composite cross section. The resulting warping profiles are validated by comparison with the axial displacements obtained by three-dimensional modeling of beams in torsion. After implementation of the warping kinematics in a Timoshenko multifiber beam element, the formulation is validated against the experimental behavior of beams subject to pure torsion. The material is modeled by a 3D damage law, and warping is updated throughout the computations to account for damage evolution. A comparison of torque–twist curves predicted with enhanced and classical beam elements to experimental curves highlights the importance of including warping in the model. The second step consists in formulating an element with additional warping degrees of freedom, accounting for the warping deformations due to both transverse shear and torsion. This element is validated using an analytical model for a beam subject to transverse shear. Then the linear elastic behavior of a beam subject to both shear and torsion is successfully compared to the results of a 3D simulation. The complete formulation is coupled to damage through an implicit soulution procedure for the beam and the warping degrees of freedom. The enhanced method is eventually used to compute the behavior of a full structure subject to a seismic loading.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:27:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-09-17Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:56:54Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 gomez_spp_me_arafo.pdf: 720577 bytes, checksum: f32f19712e837651d99f8642d99cbf3c (MD5) / As mudanças nos padrões de respiração nasal afetam profundamente o crescimento craniofacial. Avanços tecnológicos, como a tomografia computadorizada de feixe cônico (TCFC), têm sido utilizados com o propósito de se observar tridimensionalmente, o crânio, a face e o espaço aéreo faríngeo, sendo possível a avaliação das mudanças do espaço aéreo induzidas pelos aparelhos ortopédicos propulsores mandibular. O intuito deste estudo é apresentar um método de avaliação das vias aéreas de fácil reprodutibilidade, e avaliar, mediante a TCFC, os efeitos do aparelho de Herbst bandado no espaço aéreo orofaríngeo (EAOF), nasofaríngeo (EANF) e faríngeo superior (EAFS), em indivíduos com má oclusão classe II divisão 1ª. A amostra foi composta por imagens digitais de 15 indivíduos (idade média inicial de 15,7 anos ± 1.7, após surto de crescimento pubertário) com má oclusão classe II divisão 1ª, tratados com aparelho Herbst bandado (8 meses). Os exames tomográficos foram realizados antes (T1) e após (T2) o tratamento. A fase inicial foi realizada com a orientação do nos planos; axial, coronal e sagital. Foram mensurados: comprimento no software Dolphin 3D ®: comprimento, maior área no corte coronal, maior área no corte sagital, área mínima da secção transversal e volume, de EANF, EAOR e EAFS (orofaringe e nasofaringe). Dois avaliadores previamente calibrados mensuraram duas vezes apenas um tempo das tomografias, para observar a reprodutibilidade (inter-examinador) e replicabilidade (intra-examinador). Sendo confirmada a reprodutibilidade do método, foi avaliado o efeito do aparelho Herbst, analisando os períodos pré (T1) e pós (T2) tratamento ortopédico. A análise estatística dos dados foi realizada em duas etapas. Primeira etapa, a confiabilidade das medidas apresentaram boa replicabilidade (intra-examinador)... / Changes in nasal breathing patterns profoundly affects the craniofacial growth. Technological advances, such as cone beam computed tomography (CBCT), have been used in order to observe three-dimensionally: the skull, face and pharyngeal airway space, with possible assessment of airspace changes induced by orthopedic activators. The purposes of this study are to present a method for assessing airway that is easily reproducted, and evaluate through the CBCT the effects of banded Herbst appliance in the oropharyngeal airspace (EAOF), nasopharyngeal (EANF) and upper pharynx (EAFS) in individuals with malocclusion class II division 1. The sample consisted of digital images of 15 individuals (initial age of 15.7 years ± 1.7, after pubertal growth spurt) with malocclusion class II division 1, treated with banded Herbst appliance (8 months). CBCT scans were performed before (T1) and after (T2) treatment. The initial phase was conducted with the guidance of planes: axial, coronal and sagittal. The following were measured: the largest area in the coronal and sagittal, minimum cross-sectional area and volume of EANF, and EAOR EAFS (oropharynx and nasopharynx) by length in Dolphin 3D® software. Two calibrated evaluator mesured twice time of CBCT to observe the reproducibility (inter-examiner) and repeatability (intra-examiner). Once the reproductability of the method was coinfirmed, the effect of the Herbst applicance was evaluated before (T1) and after (T2) the orthodontic treatment. The statistical analysis was performed in two steps. First step, the reliability of the measurements showed good repeatability (intra-examiner) (ICC ≥ 0.984) and good reproducibility (inter-examiner) (ICC ≥ 0.911) for all measures except the minimum area of cross section of all regions, which showed variability. Second step, once confirmed the reliability of the measuremens, Student t test was appleid, significance... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

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