Cu(2)FeSnS(4) (CFTS) nanocrystals with tunable crystal phase have been synthesized using a solution-based method. As-synthesized CFTS nanocrystals in the shape of oblate spheroid and triangular plate with band gaps of 1.54 ± 0.04 and 1.46 ± 0.03 eV, respectively, appear attractive as a low-cost substitute for thin film solar cells.

This paper is devoted to the comparison of various shape properties of triangular Bézier surfaces and of their Bézier nets, such as polyhedral convexity, axial convexity and subharmonicity. In order to better compare these properties, the different notations used by different authors are unified. It also includes counterexamples for the results that are not true.  1999 Elsevier Science B.V. Al...

We investigate the potential of shape information in assisting the computer-aided diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and its prodromal stage of mild cognitive impairment. We employ BrainPrint to obtain an extensive characterization of the shape of brain structures. BrainPrint captures shape information of an ensemble of cortical and subcortical structures by solving the 2D and 3D Laplace-Beltrami...

In high-density gas discharges in which the electrons, but not the ions, are confined by a magnetic field, the radial density profile is often observed to have a triangular shape, as if the ionization were concentrated on axis. However, such profiles can also result from nonlinear diffusion, in which the diffusion coefficient varies inversely with density.

Abstract Solar stills utilization has received great interest in arid isolated regions. In this study, experimental approaches have been investigated to prove the impact of corrugated absorber shape on hemispherical solar still performance. Four geometric shapes including present flat, triangular, semi-circular, square forms were tested for absorber. Five distillers fabricated and tested. The f...

An electrochemical method is developed to quantitatively modify and spectroscopically monitor the size and shape of Ag nanotriangles fabricated by nanosphere lithography (NSL) on an indium tin oxide (ITO) electrode surface. AFM and SEM results demonstrate that the preferential order of electrochemical oxidation for a nanotriangle is, surprisingly, bottom edges first, then triangular tips, then ...

We study the stability in the H1-seminorm of the L2-projection onto finite element spaces in the case of nonuniform but shape regular meshes in two and three dimensions and prove, in particular, stability for conforming triangular elements up to order twelve and conforming tetrahedral elements up to order seven.