Hybrid Solar Cells Based in Silicon Nanowires: Electronic Simulation and Optimization

Silicon - This paper presents recent progress in computational modeling on blend morphology of silicon nanowires (SiNWs) dispersed in a conjugated polymer poly(3-hexylthiophene) P3HT hybrid solar...     

Modeling of mobility in organic thin-film transistor based octithiophene (8T)

Thin-film organic field-effect transistor was made with vapor-deposited polycrystalline octithiophene on silicon oxide insulator layers. In conventional field-effect transistors, the extracted mobility does not take into account the distribution of charge carriers. However, in disordered organic field-effect transistors, the local charge carrier mobility decreases from the semiconductors/insulator interface in to the bulk, due to its dependence on the charge carrier density. It is demonstrated that the conventional field-effect mobility is a good approximation for the local mobility of the charge carriers at the interface. In this paper we present a new approach to the mobility in organic thin-film transistor (OTFTs), and with a new procedure we extract the electrical parameters of organic TFTs that possible to reproduce very well the device characteristic and mobility.     

An analytic procedure for extraction of metallic collector-up InP/InGaAsP/InGaAs HBT small signal equivalent circuit parameters

A parameter extraction procedure for determining an improved T-topology small signal equivalent circuit of a metallic collector-up HBT with composite base is presented. The proposed T-small signal equivalent circuit includes base and collector impedances modelled by parallel RC circuits. The new technique employs analytically derived expressions for direct calculation of HBT T-Model equivalent circuit element values in terms of the measured S-parameters. This approach avoids errors due to uncertainty in fitting to large, over determined equivalent circuits and does not require the use of test structures and extra measurement steps to evaluate parasitics. Physically realistic results are demonstrated under various biasing conditions for the n–p–n InP/InGaAsP/InGaAs composed base HBT with metallic collector-up structure (C-up MHBT). The agreement between the measured and model-produced data is excellent over the large frequency range and for several polarizations conditions for devices.