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Energy harvesting is increasingly gaining importance as a means to charge battery powered devices such as sensor nodes. Efficient transmission strategies must be developed for Wireless Energy Harvesting Nodes (WEHNs) that take into account…
Experimental evidence shows that a variety of photosynthetic systems can preserve quantum beats in the process of electronic energy transfer, even at room temperature. However, whether this quantum coherence arises in vivo and whether it…
Photosynthesis is the basic process used by plants to convert light energy in reaction centers into chemical energy. The high efficiency of this process is not yet understood today. Using the formalism for the description of open quantum…
We present a predictive and general approach to investigate near-field energy transfer processes between localized defects in semiconductors, which couples first principle electronic structure calculations and a nonrelativistic quantum…
Energy efficiency has become an encouragement, and more than this, a requisite for the design of next-generation wireless communications standards. In current work, a dual-hop cognitive (secondary) relaying system is considered,…
In this paper, we consider a scenario where one energy harvesting and one battery operated sensor cooperatively transmit a common message to a distant base station. The goal is to find the jointly optimal transmission (power allocation)…
Situations where a spontaneous process of energy or matter transfer is enhanced by an external device are widespread in nature (human sweating system, enzyme catalysis, facilitated diffusion across bio-membranes, industrial heat…
The question of how quantum coherence facilitates energy transfer has been intensively debated in the scientific community. Since natural and artificial light-harvesting units operate under the stationary condition, we address this question…
Recognising the limitations of various existing channel-estimation schemes for energy beamforming, we propose an energy-preserving indirect feedback-based approach for finding the optimal beamforming vector. Upon elaborating on the key…
The ultrafast dynamics of photon-to-charge conversion in an organic light harvesting system is studied by femtosecond time-resolved X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (TR-XPS) at the free-electron laser FLASH. This novel experimental…
We propose a dynamic mechanism for the reversible regulation of photosynthesis in varying light environments. We employ a three-level quantum model to take into account the correlations between charge donors and charge acceptors immediately…
This paper investigates a discrete energy state transition model for energy harvesting (EH) in cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) networks. A Markov chain-based stochastic process is conceived to characterize the…
Recent ultrafast optical experiments show that excitons in large biological light-harvesting complexes are coupled to molecular vibration modes. These high-frequency vibrations will not only affect the optical response, but also drive the…
The remarkable rotational symmetry of the photosynthetic antenna complexes of purple bacteria has long been thought to enhance their light harvesting and excitation energy transport. We study the role of symmetry by modeling hypothetical…
Optimizing energy and charge transport is key in design and implementation of efficient two-dimensional (2D) conductive metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for practical applications. In this work, for the first time, we investigate the role of…
In this paper, we investigate the performance of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in a point-to-point system, adopting practical $M$-ary modulation. We take into account the fact that the receiver's…
We investigate the quantum coherent dynamics of an externally driven effective two-level system subjected to a slow Ohmic environment characteristic of biomolecular protein-solvent reservoirs in photosynthetic light harvesting complexes. By…
Light harvesting 2 (LH2) complex is a primary component of the photosynthetic unit of purple bacteria that is responsible for harvesting and relaying excitons. The electronic absorption line shape of LH2 contains two major bands at 800 nm…
Molecular machines composed of coupled subsystems transduce free energy between different external reservoirs, in the process internally transducing energy and information. While subsystem efficiencies of these molecular machines have been…
The lifetime and the sustainability of the wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be increased with energy harvesting transmitters utilizing optimum packet scheduling. On the other hand, WSNs are observed to collect spatially or temporally…