Browsing Theoretical and Applied Physics by Subject "Dr Akin-Ojo Omololu"
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Calculations of Phonons and Phonon Dispersion in Lifep Pnictide Superconductor
(2010-12-20)Not too long ago(2008),a new pnictide Superconductor free from arsenic was discovered–LiFeP. It belongs to the family of the so called ‘111’ type iron Superconductor. It has unique characteristics in its normal state which ...
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The Design of an On-Chip Silicon Photonic Diode
(2013-05-13)This work presents numerical calculation of electromagnetic waves in unidirectional on-chip silicon optical diodes. An original optical diode, designed by Wang et. al. [Opt. Express. 19, 26948-26955 (2011)], is based on ...
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Development of a Correction Term for the Kinetic Energy Density Functional
(2014-12-15)Density functional theory (DFT) is a useful theoretical and computational tool for electronic structure calculations, which form the basis for the classification of materials into conductors, semiconductors or insulators. ...
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Femtosecond Laser Surface Texturing of Materials for Various Applications
(2013-05-13)Femtosecond lasers represent an electromagnetic field with field intensities approaching and even exceeding atomic binding field. When irradiated on a target, the material responses change from linear to nonlinear within ...
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Influence of Molecular Polarizability on the Active Layer of Organic Photovoltaic Cells: A case study of Poly(3-hexylthiophene)
(2013-05-13)The complexity of the microstructure of the active layer in organic photo- voltaics (OPVs) poses a unique challenge in improving the efficiency of OPV devices. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation provides a direct route ...
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Limiting Efficiency of Perovskite Solar Cells
(2014-12-15)The power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells has risen from as low as 3.8% to as high as 19.3% in just five years with yet a projected value of over 20% in the next few years by experimentalists. Such a ...
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Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Transport of Encapsulated Drug Through a Lipid Bilayer
(2014-12-15)Most anticancer drugs are polar, cytotoxic and have complicated structures which cause difficulty in their penetration through the cell membrane. This presents a serious problem in chemotherapy. Is it possible to use carbon ...
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Nonlinear Effect in-flow in Porous Duct
(2013-05-13)In general, it is assumed in some non viscous flows that the flow velocity is constant at a cross-section. In this thesis, If we impose more realistic boundary conditions by, for example, introducing viscosity,and suction ...
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Performance Optimization of Tin Halide Perovskite Solar Cells Via Numerical Simulation
(2014-12-15)Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells have attracted great attention in the photovoltaic research community in recent years due to its ease of processing, low cost of production, superb light-harvesting ...
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Simulation of Carbon Nanotube Growth
(2013-05-13)The basic understanding of the underlying techniques of growing Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) with a specific chirality is still obscure and needs to be understood so as to properly harness its potentials. Using both Classical ...
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Simulation-Based Model Thermal Ablation of Prostate Cancer Using High Intensity Focused Ultrasound
(2014-12-20)The use of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) in the medical treatment of cancer has attracted scientists and engineers with interest in achieving the most financially affordable but yet curative methods of curing ...
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Tight Binding Descriptions of Graphene and Its Derivatives
(2017-12-20)Graphene is an effectively two dimensional form of carbon atoms arranged in honeycomb lattice. Due to its lightweight, high electron mobility and other special electronic properties it is considered both an academically ...
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Towards a New Exchange-Correlation Density Functional for more Accurate Band Gap Predictions
(2016-06-17)Density-Functional Theory (DFT) offers a simplification to electronic structure problems by using the electron density instead of the wave-function. Unlike the wave-function which is a function of 3N variables (excluding ...