Light trapping photonic crystal (PhC) patterns on the surface of Si solar cells provides a novel opportunity to approach the theoretical efficiency limit of 32.3%, for light-to-electrical power conversion with a single junction cell. This is beyond the efficiency limit implied by the Lambertian limit of ray trapping ~ 29%. The interference and slow light effects are harnessed for collecting light even at the long wavelengths near the Si band-gap. We compare two different methods for surface patterning, that can be extended to large area surface patterning: 1) laser direct write and 2) step-&-repeat 5 × reduction projection lithography. Large area throughput limitations of these methods are compared with the established electron beam lithography (EBL) route, which is conventionally utilised but much slower than the presented methods. Spectral characterisation of the PhC light trapping is compared for samples fabricated by different methods. Reflectance of Si etched via laser patterned mask was ~ 7% at visible wavelengths and was comparable with Si patterned via EBL made mask. The later pattern showed a stronger absorbance than the Lambertian limit 6 .
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development of devices that exhibit both superconducting and
semiconducting properties is an important endeavor for emerging quantum
technologies. We investigate superconducting nanowires fabricated
on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform. Aluminum from deposited
contact electrodes is found to interdiffuse with Si along the entire
length of the nanowire, over micrometer length scales and at temperatures
well below the Al–Si eutectic. The phase-transformed material
is conformal with the predefined device patterns. The superconducting
properties of a transformed mesoscopic ring formed on a SOI platform
are investigated. Low-temperature magnetoresistance oscillations,
quantized in units of the fluxoid, h/2e, are observed.
Nanoscale superconducting quantum interference devices (nano-SQUIDs) with Dayem bridge junctions and a physical loop size of 50 nm have been engineered in boron-doped nanocrystalline diamond films using precision Ne-ion beam milling. In an unshunted device, the nonhysteretic operation can be maintained in an applied field exceeding 0.1 T with a high flux-tovoltage transfer function, giving a low flux noise 0.14 / Hz noise 0 ϕ μ ϕ = at 1 kHz and a concurrent spin sensitivity of 11 spins/ Hz . At elevated magnetic fields, up to 2 T, flux modulation of the nano-SQUID output voltage is maintained but with an increase in period, attributed to an additional phase bias induced on the nano-SQUID loop by up to 16 vortices per period penetrating the nano-SQUID electrodes.
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