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During the course of the last decade, traveling wave accelerating structures for a future Linear Collider have been the object of intense R&D efforts. An important problem is the efficient computation of the long range wakefield with the…

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Light trapping in sub-wavelength semiconductor nanowires (NWs) offers a promising approach to simultaneously reducing material consumption and enhancing photovoltaic performance. Nevertheless, the absorption efficiency of a NW, defined by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Yiming Yang , Xingyue Peng , Steven Hyatt , Dong Yu

Superconducting microwave resonators are reliable circuits widely used for detection and as test devices for material research. A reliable determination of their external and internal quality factors is crucial for many modern applications,…

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Defects are detrimental for optoelectronics devices, such as stacking faults can form carrier-transportation barriers, and foreign impurities (Au) with deep-energy levels can form carrier traps and non-radiative recombination centers. Here,…

We develop the generalized rotating-wave approximation (GRWA) approach (Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 173601 (2007)) to study the single-photon scattering on a two-level system (TLS) with arbitrarily strong coupling to a local mode in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-03 Z. H. Wang , Yong Li , D. L. Zhou , Chang-pu Sun , Peng Zhang

Current methods for evaluating solar cell efficiencies cannot be applied to extremely thin cells where phenomena from the realm of near field optics prevail. We overcome this problem by offering a rigorous electromagnetic calculation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-06-09 A. Niv , M. Gharghi , Z. R. Abrams , C. Gladden , X. Zhang

Our previously-developed calculational method (the partial wave cutoff method) is employed to evaluate explicitly scalar one-loop effective actions in a class of radially symmetric background gauge fields. Our method proves to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gerald V. Dunne , Jin Hur , Choonkyu Lee , Hyunsoo Min

We show that the threshold of a photonic crystal surface-emitting laser can be calculated from first-principles by the method of rigorous coupled wave analysis (RCWA), which has been widely used to simulate the response spectra of passive…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-31 Alex Y. Song , Akhil Raj Kumar Kalapala , Weidong Zhou , Shanhui Fan

The extended near-field range in future mm-Wave and sub-THz wireless networks demands a precise and efficient near-field channel simulator for understanding and optimizing wireless communications in this less-explored regime. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Vahid Yazdnian , Atsutse Kludze , Yasaman Ghasempour

We demonstrate an efficient core-shell GaAs/AlGaAs nanowire photodetector operating at room temperature. The design of this nanoscale detector is based on a type-I heterostructure combined with a metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) radial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 X. Dai , S. Zhang , Z. Wang , G. Adamo , H. Liu , Y. Huang , C. Couteau , C. Soci

For experimental and simulated solar cells and modules discrete current-voltage data sets are measured. To evaluate the quality of the device, this data needs to be fitted, which is often achieved within the single-diode equivalent-circuit…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 Mario Zinßer

We propose a novel numerical approach for the optimal design of wide-area heterogeneous electromagnetic metasurfaces beyond the conventionally used unit-cell approximation. The proposed method exploits the combination of Rigorous Coupled…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Krupali D. Donda , Ravi S. Hegde

We have implemented the so called GW approximation (GWA) based on an all-electron full-potential Projector Augmented Wave (PAW) method. For the screening of the Coulomb interaction W we tested three different plasmon-pole dielectric…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Arnaud , M. Alouani

Slow light propagation is an important phenomenon in quantum optics. Here, we theoretically study the properties of slow light in a simple optomechanical system considering an effect of non-rotating wave approximation (NRWA) that was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 Xiao-Bo Yan

Nanowires have unique optical properties [1-4] and are considered as important building blocks for energy harvesting applications such as solar cells. [2, 5-8] However, due to their large surface-to-volume ratios, the recombination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-26 Yaping Dan , Kwanyong Seo , Kuniharu Takei , Jhim H. Meza , Ali Javey , Kenneth B. Crozier

In order to explore the effects of high levels of electron correlation on the real-time coupled cluster formalism and algorithmic behavior, we introduce a time-dependent implementation of the CC3 singles, doubles and approximate triples…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-01-23 Zhe Wang , Håkon Emil Kristiansen , Thomas Bondo Pedersen , T. Daniel Crawford

A wide range of numerical and semi-analytical approaches has been developed for optical modeling of photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers (PCSELs). However, a systematic framework for comparing their predictive capabilities and…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-06 Arstan Bisianov , Andreas Waag

Nanowire devices have long been proposed as an efficient alternative to their planar counterparts for different optoelectronic applications. Unfortunately, challenges related to the growth and characterization of doping and p-n junction…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-23 Vidur Raj , Yi Zhu , Kaushal Vora , Lan Fu , Hark Hoe Tan , Chennupati Jagadish

Nanowires are versatile nanostructures, which allow an exquisite control over bandgap energies and charge carrier dynamics making them highly attractive as building blocks for a broad range of photonic devices. For optimal solutions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Muhammad Usman

The planning and operation of renewable energy, especially wind power, depend crucially on accurate, timely, and high-resolution weather information. Coarse-grid global numerical weather forecasts are typically downscaled to meet these…