RESUMO: Podemos identificar 5 linhas de acção na tecnología de células solares baseadas em silício cristalino: (1) Migração da célula de Al BSF para células com tecnologia p-type PERC/n-type PERT, (2) células com contactos traseiros (IBC), (3) células com heterojunções (HET), (4) introdução de contactos passivantes e (5) novas células tandem baseadas em perovskites ou materiais III-V. A arquitectura da célula s...
RESUMO: A estratégia mais promissora para reduzir o custo da eletricidade fotovoltaica é o aumento da eficiência dos sistemas. As células de silício cristalino estão cada vez mais próximas do seu limite teórico de eficiência, sendo por isso progressivamente mais difícil aumentar a sua de eficiência. As células solares tandem com base em silício cristalino são um dos caminhos mais promissores para atingir uma ef...
RESUMO: A formação de uma junção de efeito túnel é um fator chave para atingir altas eficiências em células solares tandem. As técnicas reportadas para a formação de junções de silício em dispositivos monolíticos tandem de 2 terminais como a Deposição Química de Vapor Assistida por Plasma (PECVD) ou a Implantação Iónica possuem restrições do ponto de vista de custos ou de aplicação ao nível industrial. A altern...
Aim: Vascular disease such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, or retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy are common in diabetes. Maturity - onset diabetes of the young (MODY) describes a clinically heterogeneous group of familial diabetes characterized by monogenic, autosomal dominant inheritance that generally results from beta cell dysfunction. This study aims to assess the presence of vascular c...
Repairing an inconsistent knowledge base is a well known problem for which several solutions have been proposed and implemented in the past. In this paper, we start by looking at databases with active integrity constraints - consistency requirements that also indicate how the database should be updated when they are not met - as introduced by Caroprese et al.We show that the different kinds of repairs considere...
We introduce a mechanism called lifting to share predicates between the two components of a dl-program, integrating them in a tighter way. Using lifting, one can reason about the predicates being shared both via the description logic knowledge base and via Datalogstyle rules, and the deductions one makes are automatically reflected globally on both components. This is a capability not directly present in dl-pro...
Originally proposed in the mid-90s, design patterns for software development played a key role in object-oriented programming not only in increasing software quality, but also by giving a better understanding of the power and limitations of this paradigm. Since then, several authors have endorsed a similar task for other programming paradigms, in the hope of achieving similar benefits. In this paper we discuss ...
While heavy episodic drinking has been shown to be harmful to the heart, moderate alcohol consumption is thought to be protective against cardiovascular disease, through the regulation of rising HDL cholesterol levels. The cardio-protective effect of alcohol is now not thought to vary by beverage type. In fact, evidence for an additional cardio-protective effect of antioxidant polyphenols in red wine is weak. T...