A review of Sb2Se3 photovoltaic absorber materials and thin-film solar cells

High-quality optical fibers can be produced now at a low cost and large quantity, and this has further promoted the development of fiber optic (chemical) sensors. After over 30 years of innovation, fiber optic sensing technology has become mature because of acceptable costs, compact instrumentation, high accuracy and the capability of performing measurements at inaccessible sites, over large distances, in strong (electro)magnetic fields and in harsh environment. The technology is still proceeding quickly in terms of innovation, and respective applications have been found in highly diversified fields. This review covers work published in the time period between October 2015 and October 2019. It is written in continuation of previous reviews.

Fiber-Optic Chemical Sensors and Biosensors (2015-2019).

In this paper, a novel partial type-b crystalline core with more compact cladding in hexagonal packing photonic crystal fiber (CC-PCF)-based optical sensor has been proposed for sensing different blood components. This fiber has investigated in terahertz (THz) region from 1.5 to 3.50 THz, intending to superior relative sensitivity with low confinement loss (CL). Circular air holes have been employed in the formation of the partial type-b crystalline core in a symmetric manner. A significant relative sensitivity response of 80.93%, 80.56%, 80.13%, 79.91%, and 79.39% are achieved for the targeted analytes such as RBCs, hemoglobin, WBCs, plasma, and water at frequency ${f} = 1.5$ THz. In X-polarization mode, a negligible CL of $1.23\times 10^{-11}$ dB/m, $8.63\times 10^{-12}$ dB/m, $4.93\times 10^{-12}$ dB/m, $2.93\times 10^{-12}$ dB/m, and $1.13\times 10^{-12}$ dB/m are also gained, respectively, for same analytes and at same THz frequency. Moreover, effective area ( A eff), V-Parameter ( $V_{\mathrm{ eff}}$ ), dispersion ( $\beta _{2}$ ), spot size ( $W_{\mathrm{ eff}}$ ), and beam divergence ( $\theta $ ) have been determined over the investigated region. The improved outcomes are anticipated that the proposed CC-PCF sensor will be opened a new epoch in biomedical sensing purposes.

Refractive Index-Based Blood Components Sensing in Terahertz Spectrum

Nano graphene (Gr) particles are of abundant methodical and scientific interest as having the astonishing prospective to usage as the sensors element in the miniaturized and biomedical sensor device. The nano Gr particles have been appeared on the life science and health platform due to their interesting material performance like; excellent biocompatibility, conductivity, super para magnetism, thermal, chemical, mechanical and metallurgical properties to use as a sensor component. In recent years, Gr as nanoparticles has acquired powerful technological and scientific attention and having potential applications like; for fabrication of super-capacitors, batteries, solar or fuel cells, miniaturized and biomedical sensors. Gr is one of the most influential nano composites with endowment of use in the sensing mechanism like; bio-sensing, bio-imaging and diagnostic of diseases due to stimulating material behavior like; biocompatibility, cell growing properties, excellent surface behavior thermally and chemically etc. The present discussion explores the state of art review and prospective of the Gr in the miniaturized and biomedical sensors. The sensing mechanism for each of the sensors has been discussed for betters understanding of the functionality and prospective of the Gr in the sensors.

Graphene as biomedical sensing element: State of art review and potential engineering applications

The particularly sensitive circular lattice Photonic Crystal Fiber (PCF) based Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) sensor is proposed to gain high sensitivity for the detection of unknown analytes. In this model, two-layer PCF based on the SPR has been designed. A plasmonic chemically inactive material gold (Au) with thickness 35 nm is used to the outside of the PCF structure which exhibits negative real permittivity. A circular perfectly match layer (PML) outside the structure is applied to evaluate the performance of the sensor. The raised design has consisted of symmetric air-hole. Three small air-holes are used in second layer and center which help us to produce more evanescent field. Using the wavelength interrogation method the proposed model shows the maximum wavelength sensitivity of 9000 nm/RIU (Refractive Index Unit) and using the amplitude interrogation method it shows the maximum amplitude sensitivity of 318 RIU−1 with maximum sensor resolution 1.11 × 10−5 in the sensing range among analyte 1.34–1.37. Here the proposed model is investigated how phase matching points are varied with changing parameters as like diameter, PML, thickness of gold (Au), sensing layer and pitch. The obtained result reveals that the proposed model may be used in biochemical and biological analyte detection to find out the important application.

Gold-coated photonic crystal fiber biosensor based on surface plasmon resonance: Design and analysis

Quantum dot-cellular automata (QCA) are one of novel emerging nanotechnology, which seem to be excellent alternatives to the conventional complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology. QCA technology has a wide range of optimize facet such as ultra-low power consumption, faster switching speed and extremely density structure. In this paper, a novel exclusive-OR (XOR) gate is presented. This proposed XOR gate requires only 12 cells and dissipates 12.11 meV energies at 1.0Ek tunneling energy level. To inspect the efficacy of proposed XOR gate, new QCA design of half and full subtractor is introduced here. In comparison with previous QCA designs, the proposed layouts are implemented with the minimum area, minimum number of cells and delay without any wire-crossing techniques. The proposed, half and full subtractors require 19 and 32 cells and occupy 0.0186 μm2 and 0.0287 μm2 area respectively. To validate the accuracy of the proposed design, QCADesigner, a familiar QCA simulation tool is employed.

A novel 3-input XOR function implementation in quantum dot-cellular automata with energy dissipation analysis

In this paper, a highly sensible photonic crystal fiber based on a modified hexagonal structure has mentioned and demonstrated modal analysis precisely. Numerical investigation of the proposed fiber is rigorously computed using full vector finite element method (FV-FEM) with anisotropic perfect match layers. Liquid analytes are used here to infiltrate fiber core. Relative sensitivity is numerically investigated and optimized by varying the different parameters of the proposed structure at a wider wavelength regime 1.0–1.7 μm within IR region. The proposed simple structural PCF shows higher sensitivity as a chemical sensor for lower refractive index chemicals such as Water, Ethanol and Benzene. Moreover, some essential properties such as confinement loss, V parameter, spot size, beam divergence, and nonlinearity are also represented distinctly. The proposed PCF gains higher sensitivity of 53.22%, 48.19% and 55.56% for Ethanol, Water and Benzene respectively at 1.33 μm wavelength with lower confinement loss. Above result reveals that proposed fiber is capable to provide potential impact in telecommunications, chemical sensing as well as bio-sensing also.

Liquid-infiltrated photonic crystal fiber for sensing purpose: Design and analysis

Quantum Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is a rising innovation which seems to be a good competitor for the next generation of digital systems and widely utilized as a part of advanced frameworks. It is an appealing substitute to ordinary CMOS innovation because of diminutive size, faster speed, extremely scalable feature, ultralow power consumption and better switching frequency. The realization of quantum computation is not possible without reversible logic. Reversible logic has enlarged operations in quantum computation. Generally reversible computing is executed when system composes of reversible gates. It has numerous fields of use as applied science, quantum dot cellular automata as well as low power VLSI circuits, low power CMOS, digital signal processing, computer graphics. In this paper, the quantum implementation of primitive reversible gate has been presented. The proposed gates have been designed and simulated using QCADesigner. General Terms Quantum Cellular Automata and Reversible Logic Gates

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A Review on Reversible Logic Gates and its QCA Implementation

A simulation study of a Cu(In1 − xGax)Se2 (CIGS) thin film solar cell has been carried out with maximum efficiency of 24.27 % (Voc = 0.856 V, Jsc = 33.09 mA/cm2 and FF = 85.73 %). This optimized efficiency is obtained by determining the optimum band gap of the absorber and varying the doping concentration of constituent layers. The Ga content denoted by x = Ga/(In + Ga) is selected as 0.35 which provides the optimum band gap of absorber layer as 1.21 eV. Theoretically, the effects of Ga fraction “x” on CIGS absorber band gap are investigated and to avoid the lattice mismatch effect, the efficiency measurements due to the CIGS band gaps >1.21 eV have not come to the consideration. A one-dimensional simulator ADEPT/F 2.1 has been used to analyze the fabricated device parameters and hence to calculate open circuit voltage, short circuit current, fill factor and efficiency.

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An investigation into the effects of band gap and doping concentration on Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cell efficiency

In a vastly rapid progress of very large scale integration (VLSI) archetype, it is the requirement of moment to attain a consistent model with swifter functioning speed and low power utilization. Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is an inimitable transistorless computation approach that is based on semiconductor substantial and a substitute for customary CMOS and VLSI archetype at nanoscale point which comprises a better switching frequency, enhanced scale integration and small extent. In the design of digital logic, a comparator is the essential forming component which implements the resemblance of two numbers and a binary full adder is a major entity in digital logic systems. This paper deals with an expanded layout of reversible 1-bit comparator and proficient full adder without wire-crossing in QCA. The proposed layouts are significantly declined in terms of area and cell complexity, assessed to other layouts and clock cycle is retained at least. Quantum costs of the proposed circuits are es...

Ali Newaz Bahar

Papers

A novel 3-input XOR function implementation in quantum dot-cellular automata with energy dissipation analysis

Liquid-infiltrated photonic crystal fiber for sensing purpose: Design and analysis

A Review on Reversible Logic Gates and its QCA Implementation

An investigation into the effects of band gap and doping concentration on Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar cell efficiency

Optimized design and performance analysis of novel comparator and full adder in nanoscale