CdTe photovoltaics has achieved one of the lowest levelized costs electricity among all energy sources. However, for decades, carrier lifetimes have been inferior to those other prevalent solar cell materials. This quality inhibited common methods improve efficiency such as back-surface fields, electron reflectors, or bifacial cells. In this work, a significant increase in lifetime values excee...

A recurrent neural network is presented for solving systems of quadratic programming problems with equality constraints involving complex-valued coefficients. The proposed recurrent neural network is asymptotically stable and able to generate optimal solutions to quadratic programs with equality constraints. An opamp based analogue circuit realization of the recurrent neural network is describe...

In this work, a fully tin-based, mixed-organic-cation perovskite absorber (FA) x (MA)1-x SnI3 (FA = NH2CH = NH2+, MA = CH3NH3+) for lead-free perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with inverted structure is presented. By optimizing the ratio of FA and MA cations, a maximum power conversion efficiency of 8.12% is achieved for the (FA)0.75(MA)0.25SnI3-based device along with a high open-circuit voltage o...

A low-cost Si nanowire array/perovskite hybrid solar cell is proposed and simulated. The solar cell consists of a Si p-i-n nanowire array filled with CH3NH3PbI3, in which both the nanowires and perovskite absorb the incident light while the nanowires act as the channels for transporting photo-generated electrons and holes. The hybrid structure has a high absorption efficiency in a broad wavelen...

Vertical n-p-n and lateral p-n-p transistor structures of an integrated circuit are studied using an electrolytic tank analogue and it is shown that the presence of a proper field plate extending from the collector-base junction over most of the base surface will improve the current-gain factor considerably. Experimental results of the analogue study, simulating typical carrier lifetimes and ty...

An analogue adaptive filter for dynamic response compensation of a load cell sensor is presented. The filter employs only transistors and therefore it can be integrated using standard digital CMOS technology, which is suitable for System-on-Chip applications. To perform adaptive compensation over a wide range of measurand, a novel CMOS multiplier circuit was developed. The analogue adaptive fil...