Two-Dimensional BAs/InTe: A Promising Tandem Solar Cell with High Power Conversion Efficiency.

Tandem solar cells (SCs) connecting two subcells with different absorption bands have the potential to reach the commercialized photovoltaic standard. However, the performance improvement of tandem architectures is still a challenge, primarily owing to the mismatch of band gaps in two subcells. Here, we demonstrate a two-dimensional (2D) BAs/InTe-based tandem SC, which could achieve solar-to-electric conversion efficiency higher than 30%.

Propagation and self-healing properties of Bessel-Gaussian beam carrying orbital angular momentum in an underwater environment.

In this paper, we report on experimental demonstration of the propagation and self-healing property of Bessel-Gaussian (BG) beam carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) in an underwater environment. Especially, the effects of topological charge, temperature gradient, and salinity on the transmission and self-reconstruction of BG beam in underwater turbulence are analyzed. The results show that the detection probabilities both for propagation and self-healing greatly decrease with temperature gradient, and gradually decrease with salinity.

Comparison of Shannon information entropies in position and momentum space for an electron in one-dimensional nonuniform systems.

We investigate numerically the position- and momentum-space Shannon information entropies, S(x)(β) and S(p)(β), respectively, of energy eigenstates |β} for an electron in four kinds of one-dimensional (1D) nonuniform systems, i.e., the Harper model, the slowly varying potential ones, the complex quasiperiodic potential ones, and the random-dimer potential ones.

von Neumann entropy and localization-delocalization transition of electron states in quantum small-world networks.

The von Neumann entropy for an electron in periodic, disorder, and quasiperiodic quantum small-world networks (QSWN's) is studied numerically. For the disorder QSWN's, the derivative of the spectrum-averaged von Neumann entropy is maximal at a certain density of shortcut links p*, which can be as a signature of the localization-delocalization transition of electron states. The transition point p* is agreement with that obtained by the level statistics method.