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Semiconductor heterojunctions have gained significant attention for efficient optoelectronic devices owing to their unique interfaces and synergistic effects. Interaction between charge carriers with the heterojunction plays a crucial role…

A new diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow of two incompressible fluids with different densities is introduced using methods from rational continuum mechanics. The model fulfills local and global dissipation inequalities and is also…

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Organic solar cells are a promising avenue for renewable energy, and our study introduces a comprehensive model to investigate exciton dissociation processes at the donor-acceptor interface. Examining quantum efficiency and emitted phonons…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-05 Jouda Jemaa Khabthani , Khouloud Chika , Alexandre Perrin , Didier Mayou

The use of continuum phase-field models to describe the motion of well-defined interfaces is discussed for a class of phenomena, that includes order/disorder transitions, spinodal decomposition and Ostwald ripening, dendritic growth, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 K. R. Elder , Martin Grant , Nikolas Provatas , J. M. Kosterlitz

We adapt and extend a formulation for soluble surfactant transport in multiphase flows recently presented by Muradoglu & Tryggvason (JCP 274 (2014) 737-757) to the context of the Level Contour Reconstruction Method (Shin et al. IJNMF 60…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Seungwon Shin , Jalel Chergui , Damir Juric , Lyes Kahouadji , Omar K. Matar , Richard V. Craster

A new diffuse interface model has been proposed in this study for simulating binary alloy solidification under universal cooling conditions, involving both equilibrium and non-equilibrium solute partitioning. Starting from the Gibbs-Thomson…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-22 Chuanqi Zhu , Yusuke Seguchi , Masayuki Okugawa , Yuichiro Koizumi

A design tool was formulated for optimizing the efficiency of inorganic, thin-film, photovoltaic solar cells. The solar cell can have multiple semiconductor layers in addition to antireflection coatings, passivation layers, and buffer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Tom H. Anderson , Benjamin J. Civiletti , Peter Monk , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

This article presents a new phase-field formulation for non-equilibrium interface conditions in rapid phase transformations. With a particular way of defining concentration fields, the classical sharp and diffuse (thick) interface theories…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-03 Yue Li , Lei Wang , Junjie Li , Jincheng Wang , Zhijun Wang

In this paper, we present the derivation of a multicontinuum model for the coupled flow and transport equations by applying multicontinuum homogenization. We perform the multicontinuum expansion for both flow and transport solutions and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Dmitry Ammosov , W. T. Leung , Buzheng Shan , Jian Huang

We consider a continuum mechanical model of cell invasion through thin membranes. The model consists of a transmission problem for cell volume fraction complemented with continuity of stresses and mass flux across the surfaces of the…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-06 Mark A. J. Chaplain , Chiara Giverso , Tommaso Lorenzi , Luigi Preziosi

We develop a generalized theory for the scattering process produced by interface roughness on charge carriers and which is suitable for any semiconductor heterostructure. By exploiting our experimental insights into the three-dimensional…

Motivated by the radiation damage of solar panels in space, firstly, the results of Monte Carlo particle transport simulations are presented for proton impact on triple-junction Ga$_{0.5}$In$_{0.5}$P/GaAs/Ge solar cells, showing the proton…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-13 Natalia E. Koval , Fabiana Da Pieve , Emilio Artacho

We extend the nonequilibrium dynamical mean field (DMFT) formalism to inhomogeneous systems by adapting the "real-space" DMFT method to Keldysh Green's functions. Solving the coupled impurity problems using strong-coupling perturbation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-15 Martin Eckstein , Philipp Werner

In order to optimize the optoelectronic properties of novel solar cell architectures, such as the amorphous-crystalline interface in silicon heterojunction devices, we calculate and analyze the local microscopic structure at this interface…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-25 Philippe Czaja , Massimo Celino , Simone Giusepponi , Michele Gusso , Urs Aeberhard

In this paper, we propose a novel iterative multiscale framework for solving high-contrast contact problems of Signorini type. The method integrates the constrained energy minimizing generalized multiscale finite element method (CEM-GMsFEM)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Zishang Li , Changqing Ye , Eric T. Chung

When modelling tissue-level cardiac electrophysiology, continuum approximations to the discrete cell-level equations are used to maintain computational tractability. One of the most commonly used models is represented by the bidomain…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2012-08-22 Doug Bruce , Pras Pathmanathan , Jonathan P. Whiteley

A thin-interface phase-field model of electrochemical interfaces is developed based on Marcus kinetics for concentrated solutions, and used to simulate dendrite growth during electrodeposition of metals. The model is derived in the grand…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-22 Daniel A. Cogswell

Computational studies of electrochemical interfaces based on density-functional theory (DFT) play an increasingly important role in present research on electrochemical processes for energy conversion and storage. The homogeneous background…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-26 Arthur Hagopian , Marie-Liesse Doublet , Jean-Sébastien Filhol , Tobias Binninger

The honeycomb connection of carbon atoms by covalent bonds in a macroscopic two-dimensional scale leads to fascinating graphene and solar cell based on graphene/silicon Schottky diode has been widely studied. For solar cell applications,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-30 Xiaoqiang Li , Shengjiao Zhang , Peng Wang , Huikai Zhong , Zhiqian Wu , Hongshen Chen , Cheng Liu , Shisheng Lin

In this paper, two approaches for modeling three-component fluid flows using diffusive interface method are discussed. Thermodynamic consistency of the proposed models is preserved when using an energetic variational framework to derive the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-12 Arkadz Kirshtein , James Brannick , Chun Liu