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In the present work, we have designed a novel CdS/CdTe solar cell based on CdS nanowires, as a window layer, and CdTe nanoparticles, as a absorber layer. CdS nanowires and CdTe nanoparticles were synthesized by solvothermal method. The samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction diffractometer (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM), Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and Ultraviolet–Visible (UV–vis) spectroscopy spectrometer. Photocurrent measurements were carried out using a 150 W xenon lamp with an air-mass (AM) 1.5 filter. The performance of the solar cell based on the CdS nanowire (NW-CdS) film with 225 nm thickness and CdTe nanoparticle (NP-CdTe) film with 6 μm... 

Laminar-to-turbulent transition is very important concept in fluid dynamics due to its significant role on skin friction drag and heat transfer. It is more important in the fluid-based systems such as wind turbines. Employing computational fluid dynamics is still not efficient on prediction of flow transition, especially in complex problems such as oscillating airfoils. In one hand, flow transition models are not still suitable for general engineering flows such as oscillating airfoils. On other hand, due to the lack of experimental data, the existing flow solvers have not proven in the accurate simulation of the flow field simulation for complex problems such as oscillating airfoils. This... 

With a fast progress in nanotechnology devices and components, e.g., MEMS/NEMS, heat transfer study in micro/nanoscales has become so critical for the systematic design and precise control of such miniaturized devices towards the integration and automation of Lab-on-a-chip devices. Demands in high heat transfer rates have returned the concerns to impinging jet cooling systems. However, studying impinging jets in the micro/nano scales is requires the molecular dynamics knowledge to analyze the true micro/nanoscale flow behavior accurately. According to the importance of this subject, we use direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method to simulate nano impinging jet gas flows. The thesis is... 

In recent years, cancer is the second leading cause of human death. Cancer treatment is based on surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Choice of treatment method depends on the degree of progression and type of cancer. However, the goal is destruction of cancer cells and minimal harmful side effects on healthy cells. In this thesis two types of polysaccharide-anticancer drug conjugate were prepared and evaluated for radiation therapy and chemotherapy; chitosan- and DTPA modified chitosan – Gallium 66 conjugates for radiation therapy and nano diacid starch –cisplatin conjugate for chemotherapy. Chitosan –gallium 66 conjugate was prepared in radiochemical purity higher than 99% at... 

The low female labor force participation rate in the Iranian labor market relative to the global average and even to countries that do not differ significantly from the socio-economic characteristics of our country is one of the important questions of the Iranian labor market. In this study, we seek to answer the question of whether the economic participation rate of married women will increase if the gender gaps in wages, job findings and job losses among women and men are eliminated in the Iranian labor market. To answer this question using household expenditure and income data and labor force data, we show that between the two categories of occupations, in terms of the share of women's... 

Fatigue crack growth can have harmful effects on the reliability rotary machine. While an early warning to crack, can be used to extend the life of these expensive machines and increase reliability.Structural Vibration Condition Monitoring as a primary fault detection method, achieved to a lot amazing result and for this reason studies vibration behavior of cracked rotational shaft is a big issue for engineers of dynamic machine.In this research, first check the fault detection methods based on structural vibration condition monitoring, mode shape methods were extracted. Then by modeling rotational shaft in computer and creation of crack on it, fault detection quality of these methods have... 

In the present study, the effects of increasing the value of shale gas production, either due to increased production or price increases, have been studied on economic variables such as employment, wage, property value and the number of births. In this regard, the data for each of these variables was used at the county level in the United States of America between 2000 and 2011. In order to estimate the desired effects, counties are divided into two types of boom and non-boom counties. The findings indicate that increasing natural gas production will lead to more employment and wage growth in boom counties than non-boom counties. Also, during the period of increasing production, the value of... 

It is important to provide an appropriate and economically method with technical and engineering considerations to stabilize excavated underground spaces. The necessity of this, especially for the construction of underground metro stations located in the cities which faces many problems, is more evident. In this research, it has been tried to introduce an optimal method according to the type of area for the construction of the underground station. In order to obtain stress and strain condition in structural elements and surface deformations due to different stages of excavating, numerical modeling in FLAC3D has been used. By examining the parameters that affect the sustainability of this... 

In this study, we aim to learn representations from microscopic cell images that effectively capture the features of drugs affecting the cells, allowing us to identify effective drugs for treating a disease. We employ two parallel learning paths using predictive and generative models. Specifically, we have achieved a predictive model on the RxRx19a dataset that, unlike previous models, is interpretable, optimized, and robust to dras- tic changes in drug properties. Additionally, we have developed the first generative model on this dataset, which not only generates high-quality images but also discovers a meaningful latent space. This latent space divides the representation into relevant... 

Co-movement between inflation and nominal interest in response to an interest rate shock, dubbed neo-fisherianism, has been the subject of contentious debate since the advent of non-inflationary ZLB environment. We design an economic model rich with banking features to understand the economic responses to permanent and long-term interest rate shocks. We find that responses to a permanent positive interest rate shock depend on the monetary authorities’ speculation of the new long-term inflation rate, with the most probable outcome being a permanent increase in inflation. Responses to a long-term positive interest rate shock depict an increase and then decrease in inflation. We also discover... 

Generally, virtual loads is used to test all AC power and energy meters and are usually passive. To prevent possible damage of this heat and to control the temperature, cooling blowers are used which increases the volume and weight. So, recycling the power delivered from the grid causes a small amount of power to be converted to heat in proportion to the load efficiency. The purpose of this study is design, predictive controller model for programmable electronic regenerative AC load. The structure used is a back-to-back converter consisting of an AC-DC converter and a DC-AC converter, which according to existence of capacitance between these two structures, two converters can be controlled... 

Influence of excavating the Tehran metro line 7 tunnel on surface settlement, stresses and deformations induced in Towhid tunnel is investigated using numerical modeling. Construction of Metro tunnel as the new one must be carried out without imposing any damage to the Towhid tunnel as the existing tunnel. Towhid tunnel is a set of twin tunnels along the Chamran highway in Tehran. The tunnels were constructed using sequential excavation method and lined with cast in place reinforced concrete; on the other side metro line 7 is being constructed using 2 EPB tunnel boring machines and lined with reinforced concrete segments. This research consists of the study of the effects of pillar width,... 

Foam injection for enhanced oil recovery is concerned by petroleum engineers because it decreases adverse effects of fingering and gravity segregation caused by the injected fluid .Obviously foam stability is an important factor in the efficiency of this process. So investigating it is an imperative. One of the ways that less studied and can improve foam stability is using of nanoparticles. In this project effect of nanoparticles on foam stability and displacement mechanism during foam flooding has been discussed.
Study consisted of two sets of experiments. In the first part, the static foam stability in the presence of silica nanoparticles has been investigated. Also influence of...