This study illustrates how a manufacturer can use leadtime differentiation- selling the same product to different customers at different prices based on delivery leadtime- to simultaneously increase revenue and reduce capacity requirements. The manufacturer's production facility is modeled by...

Many technologies in energy, transportation, and telecommunications require large infrastructure systems to deliver benefits to adopters and society. Policymakers seeking to promote the diffusion of infrastructure-dependent technologies are often confronted with the ``chicken-and-egg" problem:...

Alkali metal Na is beneficial to the performance of CuInGaSSe thin film solar cells. This work studies the addition and optimization of a sputtering SiO 2 barrier layer on the SLG to optimize the Na content that diffuses into the absorber layer from the SLG. The resulting Se content and...