A foldable origami spring structure is presented in this paper, which can be expanded and collapsed. Based on this structure, one origami antenna is designed with operating frequency that can be changed based on its height. The return loss, far-field radiation pattern and peak gain of this antenna are presented.
2,4,4'-Tribromodiphenyl ether (BDE-28) was selected as a typical congener of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) to examine its fate both in the atmosphere and in water solution. All the calculations were obtained at the ground state. The mechanism result shows that the oxidations between BDE-28 and OH radicals are highly feasible especially at the less-brominated phenyl ring. Hydroxylated dibrominated diphenyl ethers (OH-PBDEs) are formed through direct bromine-substitution reactions (P1∼P3) or secondary reactions of OH-adducts (P4∼P8). Polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PBDDs) resulting from o-OH-PBDEs are favored products compared with polybrominated dibenzofurans (PBDFs) generated by bromophenols and their radicals. The complete degradation of OH adducts in the presence of O2/NO, which generates unsaturated ketones and aldehydes, is less feasible compared with the H-abstraction pathways by O2. Aqueous solution reduces the feasibility between BDE-28 and the OH radical. The rate constant of BDE-28 and the OH radical is determined to be 1.79 × 10(-12) cm(3) molecule(-1) s(-1) with an atmospheric lifetime of 6.7 days.
Antimony
selenide is a promising abundant absorber material for solar
cells. However, current Sb2Se3 photovoltaic
devices, which are fabricated via thermal evaporation, tend to have
stoichiometric problems and show suboptimal performance. In this paper,
we use a modified thermal evaporator to fabricate high-quality Sb2Se3 films. By dedicatedly cooling the substrate,
we can improve both the Sb2Se3 morphology and
the Sb2Se3/CdS heterojunction interface substantially.
We find a suitable annealing atmosphere, H2S, which can
largely compensate for possible deficiencies of Se and remove the
antimony-oxide layer on the film surface. Thanks to cooling control
and H2S treatment, we obtain a significantly improved efficiency
(6.24%) for the Sb2Se3 solar cells. Our results
indicate that this thermal evaporation technique is a promising approach
to improve the large-scale fabrication of antimony chalcogenide solar
cells.
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