Crystalline Efficiency

Pure pyridine may be prepared from technical coal-tar pyridine in the following manner. The technical pyridine is first dried over solid sodium hydroxide, distilled through an efficient fractionating column, and the fraction, b.p. 114 116° collected. Four hundred ml. of the redistilled p)rridine are added to a reagent prepared by dissolving 340 g. of anhydrous zinc chloride in a mixture of 210 ml. of concentrated hydrochloric acid and 1 litre of absolute ethyl alcohol. A crystalline precipitate of an addition compound (probable composition 2C5H5N,ZnCl2,HCl ) separates and some heat is evolved. When cold, this is collected by suction filtration and washed with a little absolute ethyl alcohol. The yield is about 680 g. It is recrystaUised from absolute ethyl alcohol to a constant m.p. (151-8°). The base is liberated by the addition of excess of concentrated... 

Dissolve 200 g. of sodium nitrite in 400 ml. of water in a 2-litre beaker provided with an efficient mechanical stirrer, and add 40 g. of copper powder (either the precipitated powder or copper bronze which has been washed with a little ether). Suspend the fluoborate in about 200 ml. of water and add it slowly to the well-stirred mixture. Add 4-5 ml. of ether from time to time to break the froth. The reaction is complete when all the diazonium compound has been added. Transfer the mixture to a large flask and steam distil until no more solid passes over (about 5 litres of distillate). Filter off" the crystalline solid in the steam distillate and dry upon filter paper in the air this o-dinitrobenzene (very pale yellow crystals) has m.p. 116° (t.c., is practically pure) and weighs 29 g. It may be recrystallised from alcohol the recrystallised solid melts at 116-5°. 

Germane is used, along with silane, SiH, to make amorphous or crystalline siUcon solar cells having an extended solar energy absorption range to increase conversion efficiency. 

The cost of a PV device is determined by several factors. These include the kind of materials used and the amount of materials requited, choice of substrates, device design, and fabrication processes. Crystalline devices ate generally mote efficient, but thin-film devices ate anticipated to cost less in flat-plate configurations. The use of concentrated light permits retention of efficiency with simultaneous reduction in cost. 

Crystalline silicon technology is the most mature and best understood of PV technologies. Researchers have identified the principal barriers that limit efficiency and, as a result, since the mid-1980s laboratory cells have climbed from 18 to - 23% and commercial production from 12 to - 15%. This is a particularly impressive achievement since crystalline silicon was regarded as mature in the early 1980s. 

A concept gaining support is a hybrid approach to making thick crystalline silicon efficient in thin layers. Although conventional crystalline silicon cells have gone from 400—600-p.m thick to 200—300-p.m, thin-film crystalline silicon cells have reached 10% efficiency while being only 10-p.m thick. 

Amorphous Silicon. Amorphous alloys made of thin films of hydrogenated siUcon (a-Si H) are an alternative to crystalline siUcon devices. Amorphous siUcon ahoy devices have demonstrated smah-area laboratory device efficiencies above 13%, but a-Si H materials exhibit an inherent dynamic effect cahed the Staebler-Wronski effect in which electron—hole recombination, via photogeneration or junction currents, creates electricahy active defects that reduce the light-to-electricity efficiency of a-Si H devices. Quasi-steady-state efficiencies are typicahy reached outdoors after a few weeks of exposure as photoinduced defect generation is balanced by thermally activated defect annihilation. Commercial single-junction devices have initial efficiencies of ca 7.5%, photoinduced losses of ca 20 rel %, and stabilized efficiencies of ca 6%. These stabilized efficiencies are approximately half those of commercial crystalline shicon PV modules. In the future, initial module efficiencies up to 12.5% and photoinduced losses of ca 10 rel % are projected, suggesting stabilized module aperture-area efficiencies above 11%. 

Small-area thin-film CdTe solar cells have been fabricated with sunlight-to-electricity conversion efficiencies near 16%, comparable to crystalline siUcon solar cells in large-scale manufacturing. Large-area monolithic integrated CdTe modules have been fabricated with efficiencies of ca 10%, comparable to crystalline siUcon modules commercially available. 

The role of cerium in these lighting phosphors is not as the emitting atom but rather as the sensitizer. The initial step in the lighting process is the efficient absorption of the 254 nm emission Ce ", with broad absorption bands in the uv, is very suitable. This absorbed energy is then transferred to the sublattice within the crystalline phosphor eventually the activator ion is fed and emission results. Cerium, as a sensitizer ion, is compatible in crystal lattices with other lanthanide ions, such as Eu and Tb, the usual activator atoms. 

Another matrix diffusional implant consists of an outer layer of micronized, crystalline 17P-estradiol dispersed in siUcone mbber over a nonmedicated, cylindrical siUcone mbber core. The system, implanted subcutaneously in the ears of cattie, releases estradiol for up to 400 days with kinetics to improve growth rate and feed efficiency (83). 

A. Ethyl Sodium Phthalimidoinalonate.—To a solution of 9.2 g. (0.4 gram atom) of sodium in 300 cc. of absolute alcohol at 60° is added, with efficient stirring, 126 g. (0.41 mole) of ethyl phthalimidomalonate (Org. Syn. Coll. Vol. i, 266). The mixture is rapidly chilled to 0° and the crystalline product filtered at once by suction and washed successively with two 200-cc. portions of absolute alcohol and two 200-cc. portions of ether. After first drying in a vacuum desiccator and then heating for eight hours imder 15 mm. pressure in a flask suspended in an oil bath at 145-155° (Note i), it weighs 108-III g. (82-85 per cent of the theoretical amount). 

As an allergen for testing purposes, synthetic 3-pentadecylcatechol is more useful than natural poison ivy extracts (of which it is one component). A stable crystalline solid, it is efficiently prepared in pure form from readily available starting materials. Outline a reasonable synthesis of this compound from 2,3-dimethoxybenzaldehyde and any necessary organic or inorganic reagents. 

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