Dr. Kitt C. Reinhardt Profile

Dr. Kitt C. Reinhardt

Program Manager at Air Force Office of Scientific Research

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Proceedings Article | 15 May 2012 Paper

A NANO enhancement to Moore's law

Jerry Wu, Yin-Lin Shen, Kitt Reinhardt, Harold Szu

Proceedings Volume 8401, 84010P (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.921203

KEYWORDS: Transistors, Semiconductors, Electrons, Nanotechnology, Carbon nanotubes, Mobile devices, Spintronics, Quantum computing, Manufacturing, Magnetic semiconductors

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Proceedings Article | 21 September 2011 Paper

High-efficiency quantum dot solar cells due to inter-dot n-doping

K. Sablon, J. Little, V. Mitin, A. Sergeev, N. Vagidov, K. Reinhardt

Proceedings Volume 8111, 81110H (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.894618

KEYWORDS: Solar cells, Electrons, Doping, Photovoltaics, Solar energy, Gallium arsenide, Quantum dots, Solar concentrators, Solar radiation, Photons

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Proceedings Article | 9 June 2011 Paper

Non-cryogenic cooled MWIR with swap-limited carbon nanotubes

H. Szu, Y. L. Shen, J. Wu, K. Reinhardt

Proceedings Volume 8058, 80580P (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.887539

KEYWORDS: Semiconductors, Mid-IR, Carbon nanotubes, Electrons, Sensors, Graphene, Carbon, Compressed sensing, Fermions, Field effect transistors

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Proceedings Article | 9 June 2011 Paper

Compressive sampling by artificial neural networks for video

Harold Szu, Charles Hsu, Jeffrey Jenkins, Kitt Reinhardt

Proceedings Volume 8058, 805803 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.887596

KEYWORDS: Video, Video compression, Video surveillance, Compressed sensing, Content addressable memory, Image restoration, Sensors, Cameras, Independent component analysis, Binary data

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Proceedings Article | 18 May 2011 Paper

Nanoscale engineering: optimizing electron-hole kinetics of quantum dot solar cells

K. Sablon, V. Mitin, A. Sergeev, J. Little, N. Vagidov, K. Reinhardt, K. Olver

Proceedings Volume 8035, 80350M (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.883307

KEYWORDS: Solar cells, Quantum dots, Electrons, Luminescence, Gallium arsenide, Solar energy, Energy harvesting, Current controlled current source, Temperature metrology, Quantum efficiency

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SPIE Journal Paper | 1 August 2010

Absorption enhancement in thin-film silicon solar cells by two-dimensional periodic nanopatterns

Shaomin Wu, Wei Wang, Kitt Reinhardt, Yalin Lu, Shaochen Chen

JNP, Vol. 4, Issue 01, 043515, (August 2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.3490295

KEYWORDS: Absorption, Nanostructures, Solar cells, Nanoparticles, Amorphous silicon, Thin film solar cells, Surface plasmons, Aluminum, Resonance enhancement, Thin films

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Proceedings Article | 19 March 2009 Paper

Designs of solar voltaic cells based on carbon nano-tubes II

Yin-Lin Shen, Jong-Horng Dai, Kenneth Ou, Kit Reinhardt, Harold Szu

Proceedings Volume 7343, 73430V (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.821903

KEYWORDS: Near infrared, Solar energy, Solar cells, Visible radiation, Quantum efficiency, Scalable video coding, Glasses, Carbon, Carbon nanotubes, Diffraction

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Inspired by Asian rice-paddy and Firefighter spiraling steps staircase, we employ a nano-manipulator augmented with CAD as a nano-robot water-buffalo, promised to improve by an order of the magnitude the pioneer work of GE Solar voltaic cell (SVC) made of one Carbon NanoTube (CNT) enjoyed QE_CNT~5%. Our CNT was made of the semiconductor at NIR wavelength E_BG= 1.107 eV which can absorb any photon whose wavelength λ ≤ λ_NIR =1.11 μm. This EBG is chosen due to the cutoff of Pb-Crown glass which happened put us in the equal amount of solar energy spectrum as silicon p-n junction SVC. Nevertheless, the exceeding of the Shockley and Queisser efficiency limit 30% might be due to the fact that we have much compact one-dimensional building block CNT of a tiny diameter 0.66 nm. It allows us to construct 3D structure, called volume pixel, "voxel," in a much efficient spiraling steps staircase fashion to capture the solar spectral energy spreading naturally by a simple focusing lens without occlusion. For real-estate premium applications, in Space or Ocean, we designed a volume pixel (Voxel) housing a stack of 16 CNTs steps spiraling 22° each like the fire house staircase occupying the height of 16 x d_CNT =16 x 0.66nm= 10.56 nm and covering over 360°. The total SVC had the size 2x2 meter², consisting of 100×100 lenslet array. Each lens was made of Pb-Crown glass which was inexpensive simple spherical lens having the diameter of D_lens=2 cm and F#=0.7. It can focus the sunlight a millionth times stronger in a smallest possible focal spot size, λ_Yellow=0.635 μm< λ_{Max photons} <λ_Red=0.73 μm, where the largest number of solar photons, 68%, according to the Plank radiation spectrum at 6000°K and the Lord Rayleigh diffraction limit. The solar panel seals individually such an array of 3D cavities of SVC enjoying theoretically from the UV 12% (wasted in passing through) visible 68% to the infrared 20% at a total of 16x5%~80% total QECNT per cell. The solar panel is made of light-weight carbon composite tolerating about 20% inactive fill factor and 10% dead pixels.

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SPIE Conference Volume | 5 April 2010

Independent Component Analyses, Wavelets, Neural Networks, Biosystems, and Nanoengineering VIII

SPIE Conference Volume | 13 April 2009

Independent Component Analyses, Wavelets, Neural Networks, Biosystems, and Nanoengineering VII

Conference Committee Involvement (11)

Independent Component Analyses, Compressive Sampling, Large Data Analyses (LDA), Neural Networks, Biosystems, and Nanoengineering XIII

23 April 2015 | Baltimore, MD, United States

Independent Component Analyses, Compressive Sampling, Wavelets, Neural Net, Biosystems, and Nanoengineering XII

7 May 2014 | Baltimore, MD, United States

Independent Component Analyses, Compressive Sampling, Wavelets, Neural Net, Biosystems, and Nanoengineering XI

1 May 2013 | Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Independent Component Analyses, Compressive Sampling, Wavelets, Neural Net, Biosystems, and Nanoengineering X

25 April 2012 | Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Independent Component Analyses, Wavelets, Neural Networks, Biosystems, and Nanoengineering VIII

7 April 2010 | Orlando, Florida, United States

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