List of Publications
Links are provided below to the paper’s abstract. If you need a PDF version of the paper, and cannot download it from the publication site, please contact me!
Dissertations:
- My PhD thesis from the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley: “Thermodynamics, Entropy, Information and the Efficiency of Solar Cells” Full Text or online Link.
- My MSc thesis in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University: “Patterning Large Scale Electronic Networks of Carbon Nanotubes” Full Text (slightly reduced in size/quality)
Primary Author: (meaning, I wrote the paper)
18. “Measuring Anti-Reflection Coatings on Patterned Glass”, B. Brophy, Z.R. Abrams, P. Gonsalves, in: European Photovoltaic Specialist Conference 2016. Link.
17. “Field and Lab Verification of Hydrophobic Anti-Reflective and Anti-Soiling Coatings on Photovoltaic Glass”, Z.R. Abrams, P. Gonsalves, B. Brophy, J. Posbic, In: European Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2014. Link.
16. “Alternative Strategies for Maximizing the Output of Multi-Junction Photovoltaic Panels”, Ze’ev R. Abrams (unpublished) 2014. Link.
5. “A New Methodology for Calculating the Efficiency of Multi-Junction Solar Cells” Ze’ev R. Abrams. In: Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, 3-8 June 2012, Austin, TX, USA. Link
14. “Multijunction Solar Cell Efficiencies: Effect of Spectral Window, Optical Environment and Radiative Coupling”, Carissa Eisler, Ze’ev R. Abrams, Matt Sheldon, Xiang Zhang and Harry Atwater (in submission, 2014) Note: Carissa wrote this one!
13. “The Concentration Limit of Solar Cells Based on Entropy Production”, Ze’ev R. Abrams & Xiang Zhang. Link (Note: I decided to stop pursuing this submission after graduating)
12. “Overcoming the Bandgap Limitation on Solar Cell Materials”, A. Niv, Z. R. Abrams, M. Gharghi, C. Gladden and X. Zhang, Applied Physics Letters 100 083901 (2012). Link
11. “A Comparison of 3rd Generation Solar Cell Efficiencies Using Thermodynamic Transfer Functions: Which Method is Best? “, Z.R. Abrams, A. Niv, M. Gharghi, C. Gladden and X. Zhang, In: Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, 19-24 June 2011, Seattle, WA, USA. Link
10. “Theoretical Efficiency of 3rd Generation Solar Cells: Comparison between Carrier Multiplication and Down-Conversion”, Ze’ev R. Abrams, Majid Gharghi, Chris Gladden & Xiang Zhang, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 99 308(2012). Link
9. “Solar energy enhancement using down-converting particles: A rigorous approach”, Ze’ev R. Abrams, Avi Niv & Xiang Zhang, Journal of Applied Physics, 109 114905 (2011). Link
8. “Signals and circuits in the Purkinje neuron”, Ze’ev R. Abrams & Xiang Zhang, Frontiers in Neural Circuits 5 11 (2011). Link
7. “Tunable Oscillations in the Purkinje Neuron”, Ze’ev R. Abrams, Ajithkumar Warrier, Yuan Wang, Dirk Trauner & Xiang Zhang, Physical Review E 85 041905 (2012). Link
6. “A signal processing analysis of Purkinje cells in vitro”, Ze’ev R. Abrams, Ajithkumar Warrier, Dirk Trauner & Xiang Zhang, Frontiers in Neural Circuits 4 13 (2010). Link
5. “Iron assisted growth of copper tipped multi-walled carbon nanotubes”, Z. R. Abrams, D. Szwarcman, Y. Lereah, G. Markovich and Y. Hanein, Nanotechnology, 18 495602 (2007). Link
4. “A complete scheme for creating large scale networks of carbon nanotubes”, Ze’ev R. Abrams, Zvi Ioffe, Alexander Tsukernik, Ori Cheshnovsky and Yael Hanein, Nano Letters 7 2666 (2007).Link
3. “Radial deformation measurements of isolated pairs of single-walled carbon nanotubes”, Z. R. Abrams and Y. Hanein, Carbon 45 783 (2007). Link
2. “Transmission electron microscope imaging of single-walled carbon nanotube interactions and mechanics on nitride grids”, Z. R. Abrams, Y. Lereah and Y. Hanein, Nanotechnology 17 4706 (2006). Link
1. “Tube-Tube and Tube-Surface Interactions in Straight Suspended Carbon Nanotube Structures”, Z. R. Abrams and Y. Hanein, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 110 21419 (2006).Link
Co-Author: (meaning, someone else wrote the paper, and I helped in parts)
1. “Electro-chemical properties of carbon nanotube based multi-electrode arrays”, Tamir Gabay, Moti Ben-David, Itshak Kalifa, Raya Sorkin, Ze’ev R. Abrams and Yael Hanein, Nanotechnology 18 035201 (2007). Link
2. “Integrating peptide nanotube in micro-fabrication processes”, N. B. Sopher, Z. R. Abrams, M. Reches, E. Gazit and Y. Hanein, Journal of Microelectronics and Microengineering 17 2360 (2007).Link
3. “Dissipative particle dynamics model of carbon nanotubes”, Orly Levy, Ze’ev R Abrams, Yael Hanein, David Kauzlaric, Andreas Greiner and Jan G. Korvink, Molecular Simulation 34 737 (2008).Link
4. “Electromagnetic approach to ultrathin solar cell efficiencies”, A. Niv, M. Gharghi, Z.R. Abrams, C. Gladden and X. Zhang, ArXiv (2011) – Note: this paper has a critical error! Link