We consider the heat flux through a domain with subregions in which the thermal capacity approaches zero. In these subregions the parabolic heat equation degenerates to an elliptic one. We show the well-posedness of such parabolic-elliptic differential equations for general non-negative L∞-capacities and study the continuity of the solutions with respect to the capacity, thus giving a rigorous ...

We have fabricated tungsten-diamond-like-nanocomposite (W-DLN) Schottky contacts on n-type and p-type 6H SiC (Si-face). The as-deposited n-type and ptype contacts are rectifying and measurement results suggest that the electrical characteristics are dominated by the properties of the tungsten SiC interface. The n-type contacts have a reverse leakage current density of 4.1 x 10 -3 Acm -2 and the...

Experimental investigation of electron-ion coupling and electron heat capacity of copper in warm and dense states are presented. From time-resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy, the temporal evolution of electron temperature is obtained for non-equilibrium warm dense copper heated by an intense femtosecond laser pulse. Electron heat capacity and electron-ion coupling are inferred from the init...

Heat capacity (Cp) is one of several major thermodynamic quantities commonly measured in proteins. With more than half a dozen definitions, it is the hardest of these quantities to understand in physical terms, but the richest in insight. There are many ramifications of observed Cp changes: The sign distinguishes apolar from polar solvation. It imparts a temperature (T) dependence to entropy an...

The temperature T may be expressed as the rate of energy increase per unit increase in the state uncertainty under no-work conditions. The consequences of such a choice for heat capacities are explored. I show that the ratio of the total thermal energy E to kT is the multiplicity exponent ~log–log derivative of the multiplicity! with respect to energy, as well as the number of base-b units of m...

Abstract Radiation tolerance of Cu(In,Ga)Se 2 (CIGS) solar cells has been investigated using high-fluence proton beam irradiation for application to devices in extremely-high-radiation environment. CIGS deteriorated after high-energy with non-ionizing energy loss 1 × 10 16 MeV n eq /cm , however, the could generate power irradiation. The ideality factors increased from 1.3 2.0, and series resis...

• Non ionic eutectic solvents: phenol-cyclohexanol mixture. SLE phase diagram by DSC experiment. Microscopic structure and hydrogen bonding IR spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction theoretical calculations. deep solvents (type V) have been recently proposed as innovative alternative solvents. Prepared mixing the starting components, their mixtures show strong deviations from thermodynamic ideality. A...

ethyl benzene used increasingly each year is the raw material of producing styrene monomer. this substanceis produced from benzene alkylation with ethylene or ethanol, depending on the availability and cost of rawmaterials. in this study benzene alkylation in the presence of ethanol in a catalytic fixed bed reactor inthree states of isotherm, adiabatic and non-isotherm-non-adiabatic is mathemat...

Molecular Dynamics (MD) is used in computational heat transfer to determine the thermal response of nanostructures. Finding basis in classical statistical mechanics, MD relates the thermal energy of the atom to its momentum by the equipartition theorem. Momenta of atoms in an ensemble are determined by solving Newton’s equations with inter-atomic forces derived from Lennard-Jones potentials. St...