Why Pulse Duration Matters in Photovoltaics

Why studying intermodal duration discrimination matters

A critical issue in the field of time perception is whether or not explicit judgments about time are processed by some internal clock mechanism. A subsequent issue is whether or not this clock, if any, is central (i.e., is the same for a large range of durations, for whatever way of marking the intervals to be processed). There are several ways of marking time, including the use of signals deli...

Effects of pulse duration on the ns-laser pulse induced removal of thin film materials used in photovoltaics

The removal of thin films widely used in photovoltaics as (transparent) electrodes (e.g. SnO2, molybdenum) or solar absorber (e.g. amorphous silicon) materials is studied experimentally using multi-kHz diode-pumped solid state lasers in the visible and infrared spectral region. The film processing (or what is commonly known as P1, P2, or P3 laser scribing) is performed through the film-supporti...

Why physiology matters in medicine.

Physiology has a long history of two-way interactions with clinical medicine. Physiology as an experimental discipline emerged in North America during the 1820s as Beaumont studied the gastric secretions of the French-Canadian trapper Alexis St. Marin who had a posttraumatic fistula that permitted easy access to the gastric contents (42, 48). What follows are a few thoughts on why physiology ma...

Why emotion matters

Although much is known about the representation and processing of concrete concepts, our knowledge of what abstract semantics might be is severely limited. In this paper we first address the adequacy of the two dominant accounts (dual coding theory and the context availability model) put forward in order to explain representation and processing differences between concrete and abstract words. W...

Why Ecology Matters