Very high conversion efficiency is reached with triple junction solar devices integrated in concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) modules. However, reduction of the active area for micro-CPV applications increases perimeter/area ratio, enhancing losses linked to edges. It therefore important characterize perimeter influence on final efficiency. For this purpose, I ( V ) characterization under dark an...

We present an eecient method for the partitioning of rectangular domains into equi-area sub-domains of minimum total perimeter. For a variety of applications in parallel computation, this corresponds to a load-balanced distribution of tasks that minimize interprocessor communication. Our method is based on utilizing, to the maximum extent possible, a set of optimal shapes for sub-domains. We pr...

We study fully convex polygons with a given area, and variable perimeter length on square and hexagonal lattices. We attach a weight tm to a convex polygon of perimeter m and show that the sum of weights of all polygons with a fixed area s varies as s(-theta(conv))eK(t)square root(s) for large s and t less than a critical threshold tc, where K(t) is a t-dependent constant, and theta(conv) is a ...

From the pentagon onwards, the area of the regular convex polygon with n sides and unit diameter is greater for each odd number n than for the next even number n + 1. Moreover, from the heptagon onwards, the difference in areas decreases when n increases. Similar properties hold for the perimeter. A new proof of a result of Reinhardt follows.

There exist tilings of the plane with pairwise noncongruent triangles of equal area and bounded perimeter. Analogously, there exist tilings with triangles of equal perimeter, the areas of which are bounded from below by a positive constant. This solves a problem of Nandakumar.

We provide an efficient data structure for dynamically maintaining a ham-sandwich cut of two overlapping point sets in convex position in the plane. The ham-sandwich cut of S1 and S2 is a line that simultaneously bisects the area, perimeter or vertex count of both point sets. Our algorithm supports insertion and deletion of vertices in O(log n) time, and area, perimeter and vertex-count queries...