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676 Scarpulla, MichaelEnhanced light absorption in thin-film silicon solar cells by scattering from Embedded Dielectric NanoparticlesWe investigate the light-trapping effects of dielectric nanoparticles embedded within the active semiconductor layer of a thin-film solar cell. The baseline model consists of a 1.0 μm slab of crystalline silicon on an aluminum back contact topped with a 75 nm Si3N4 anti-reflective coating. Using fi...2011-01-01
677 Scarpulla, MichaelEnhanced nitrogen incorporation by pulsed laser annealing of GaNxAs1-x formed by N ion implantationWe demonstrate that pulsed laser annealing followed by rapid thermal annealing greatly enhances incorporation of substitutional N in N1-implanted GaAs. Films implanted to 1.8% N exhibit a fundamental band gap of 1.26 eV (a band gap reduction of 160 meV), corresponding to an N activation efficiency ...Highly mismatched alloys; Gallium arsenide2002
678 Stevens, KennethEnhanced SDC support for relative timing designs2009-01-01
679 Tasdizen, Tolga; Whitaker, Ross T.; Marc, Robert E.; Jones, Bryan W.Enhancement of cell boundaries in transmission electon microscopy imagesTransmission electron microscopy (TEM) is an important modality for the analysis of cellular structures in neurobiology. The computational analysis of neurons entail their segmentation and reconstruction from TEM images. This problem is complicated by the heavily textured nature of cellular TEM ima...2005
680 Carter, JohnEnsuring prolonged participation and deterring cheating behaviors in a collectiveWe are building a system that harnesses the idle resources (cpu, storage, and bandwidth) of nodes (e.g., home desktops) distributed across the Internet to build useful distributed services like content distribution or remote backup. Users are compensated in return for contributing their nodes? id...Collective systems; Cheating; Idle resources; Nodes2008
681 Tiwari, AshutoshEpitaxial growth and properties of MoOx(2We report the growth of epitaxial molybdenum oxide (MoOx,2<x<2.75) films on c plane of sapphire substrate using pulsed laser deposition in oxygen environment. The structure was characterized using x-ray diffraction, high resolution transmission electron microscopy and x-ray photoelectron spectroscop...Epitaxy; MoO2005
682 Tiwari, AshutoshEpitaxial growth and properties of Zn1-xVxO diluted magnetic semiconductor thin filmsHere we report systematic studies on the epitaxial growth and properties of Zn1−xVxO[x=0.001-0.2] thin films deposited onto sapphire c-plane single crystals. The thin films were deposited using pulsed laser deposition technique and were found to be epitaxial in nature. X-ray diffraction and high ...ZnO; Vanadium2005
683 Liu, FengEpitaxial growth of large-gap quantum spin Hall insulator on semiconductor surface : The substrate orbital filtering effectFormation of topological quantum phase on conventional semiconductor surface is of both scientific and technological interest. Here, we demonstrate epitaxial growth of 2D topological insulator, i.e. quantum spin Hall (QSH) state, on Si(111) surface with a large energy gap, based on first-principles ...2014-01-01
684 Tiwari, AshutoshEpitaxial growth of magnetic nickel nanodots by pulsed laser depositionEpitaxial nickel magnetic nanodots were obtained by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique on Si (100) substrate using epitaxial TiN film as the template. Characterization methods include: high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) Z-...Nanodots; TiN; Nickel2003
685 Tiwari, AshutoshEpitaxial growth of TaN films on Si(100) and Si(111) using a TiN buffer layerWe have deposited high-quality epitaxial B1 NaCl-structured TaN films on Si(100) and Si(111) substrates with TiN as the buffer layer, using pulsed laser deposition. Our method exploits the concept of lattice-matching epitaxy between TiN and TaN and domain-matching epitaxy between TiN and silicon. X...Diffusion barriers; Buffer layers; Tantalum nitride; Silicon substrate2002
686 Tiwari, AshutoshEpitaxial growth of ZnO films on Si(111)In this paper, we report the growth of ZnO films on silicon substrates using a pulsed laser deposition technique. These films were deposited on Si(111) directly as well as by using thin buffer layers of AlN and GaN. All the films were found to have c-axis-preferred orientation aligned with normal to...Buffer layers; Aluminum nitride; Silicon substrate; Biaxial strain2002
687 Mathews, V. JohnEqualization of excursion and current-dependent nonlinearities in loudspeakersThis paper presents a novel equalizer for nonlinear distortions in direct-radiator loudspeakers in a closed cabinet by constructing an exact inverse of an electro-mechanical model of the loudspeaker. This exact inverse compensates for distortions introduced by excursion and current-dependent nonline...2014-01-01
688 Mathews, V. JohnEqualization of recursive polynomial systemsAbstract-This letter presents some theorems for the exact and pth-order equalization of nonlinear systems described by recursive polynomial input-output relationships. It is shown that the nonlinear equalizers derived on the basis of this theory have simple and computationally efficient structures. ...1999
689 Bedrov, Dmitro; Smith, Grant D.Equilibrium sampling of self-associating polymer solutions: a parallel selective tempering approachWe present a novel simulation algorithm based on tempering a fraction of relaxation-limiting interactions to accelerate the process of obtaining uncorrelated equilibrium configurations of self-associating polymer solutions. This approach consists of tempering (turning off) the attractive interactio...Equilibrium sampling; Self-associating systems; Parallel selective tempering2005
690 Liu, FengEquilibrium shape of two-dimensional islands under stressWe show that the equilibrium shape anisotropy of two-dimensional islands in heteroepitaxial growth depends on island size, a consequence of the presence of strain. Even in homoepitaxy, in which the island shape has conventionally been equated with the ratio of step energies, a substrate surface str...Two-dimensional islands; Equilibrium shape; Heteroepitaxial growth; Homoepitaxy2000-08
691 Cohen, ElaineError bounded approximate reparametrization of NURBS curvesThis paper reports research on solutions to the following reparametrization problem: approximate c(r(t)) by a NURBS where c is a NURBS curve and r may, or may not, be a NURBS function. There are many practical applications of this problem including establishing and exploring correspondence in geomet...Reparametrization; NURBS curve2000
692 Cohen, ElaineError bounded variable distance offset operator for free from curves and surfacesMost offset approximation algorithms for freeform curves and surfaces may be classified into two main groups. The first approximates the curve using simple primitives such as piecewise arcs and lines and then calculates the (exact) offset operator to this approximation. The second offsets the contro...Error bounded; Freeform curves1991
693 Lucich, Stephen; Smith, AmandaEstimating building CO2 emissions reductions with EnergyPlusThe aim of this research is to investigate the potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the buildings sector in the Salt Lake Valley by altering the operational strategies of existing buildings. Air quality efforts typically focus on reducing emissions from transportation and industri...Building energy modeling, Energy efficiency, HVAC, Greenhouse gas emissions2014-02-07
694 Brunvand, Erik L.Estimating performance of an ray- tracing ASIC designRecursive ray tracing is a powerful rendering technique used to compute realistic images by simulating the global light transport in a scene. Algorithmic improvements and FPGA-based hardware implementations of ray tracing have demonstrated realtime performance but hardware that achieves performance ...2006
695 Done, William JohnEstimation of the parameters of an autoregressive process in the presence of additive white noiseApplications of linear prediction (LP) algorithms have been successful in modeling various physical processes. In the area of speech analysis this has resulted in the development of LP vocoders, devices used in digital speech communication systems. The LP algorithms used in speech and other areas ar...Autoregressive process; Linear prediction algorithms; All-pole model1979
696 Lindstrom, Gary E.ETYMA: a framework for modular systemsModularity, i.e. support for the flexible construction, adaptation, and combination of units of software, is an important goal in many systems. In most cases, however, systems achieve only a few aspects of modularity. The problem can be traced to the inflexibility, or the limited view of modularity ...ETYMA; Modularity; Modular systems1994
697 Thompson, William B.Evaluating the accuracy of size perception in real and virtual environmentsAccurate perception of the size of 3D objects depicted on 2D desktop displays is important for many applications. Whether users perceive objects depicted on a display to be the same size as comparable real world objects is not well understood. We propose using affordances judgments as a way of measu...2012-01-01
698 Carter, John B.Evaluating the potential of programmable multiprocessor cache controllersThe next generation of scalable parallel systems (e.g., machines by KSR, Convex, and others) will have shared memory supported in hardware, unlike most current generation machines (e.g., offerings by Intel, nCube, and Thinking Machines). However, current shared memory architectures are constrained b...Programmable multiprocessor cache controllers; Scalable parallel systems; Shared memory1994
699 Hansen, Charles D.Evaluation of depth of field for depth perception in DVRIn this paper we present a user study on the use of Depth of Field for depth perception in Direct Volume Rendering. Direct Volume Rendering with Phong shading and perspective projection is used as the baseline. Depth of Field is then added to see its impact on the correct perception of ordinal depth...2013-01-01
700 Thomas, Tran T. D.Evaluation of renewable energy technologies and their potential for technical integration and cost-effective use within the U.S. energy sectorEnergy demands, environmental impacts of energy conversion, and the depletion of fossil; fuels are constant topics of discussion in the energy industry. Renewable energy technologies; have been proposed for many years to address these concerns. However, the transformation; from traditional methods o...Renewable energy; Power generation; Electrical grid; Emerging energy systems; System integration2017-07
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