The UNSW node of the Hot Carrier Solar Cell project is investigating absorbers which slow the rate of carrier cooling an essential element of a successful cell. It has also further developed the work on energy selective contacts for Hot Carrier cells. This work includes modelling the limiting efficiencies of cells using real material properties and modelling the phonon dispersions of ordered ar...

the electronic conductance at zero temperature through a quantum wire with side-connected asymmetric quantum ring (as a scatter system) is theoretically studied using the non-interacting hamiltonian anderson tunneling method. in this paper we concentrate on the configuration of the quantum dot rings. we show that the asymmetric structure of qd-scatter system strongly influences the amplitude an...

We present a novel model to calculate single-electron states in random quantum dot superlattices made of wide-gap semiconductors. The source of disorder comes from the random arrangement of the quantum dots (configu-rational disorder) as well as spatial inhomogeneities of their shape (morphological disorder). Both types of disorder break translational symmetry and prevent the formation of minib...

Quantum dot cellular automata (QCA) introduces a pioneer technology in nano scale computer architectures. Employing this technology is one of the solutions to decrease the size of circuits and reducing power dissipation. In this paper, two new optimized FlipFlops with reset input are proposed in quantum dot cellular automata technology. In addition, comparison with related works is performed.Th...

CdSe quantum dots were in situ deposited on various structures of TiO2 photoanode by successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR). Various sensitized TiO2 structures were integrated as a photoanode in order to make quantum dot sensitized solar cells. High power conversion efficiency was obtained; 2.89 % (Voc=524 mV, Jsc=9.78 mA/cm2, FF=0.56) for the cells that sensitized by SILAR meth...