Doctoral Degrees (Physics)
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Baseline demand responsiveness framework for the conventional grid through appliance scheduling by evolutionary metaheuristics.
(2020)A major problem of many energy environments nowadays, is an obsolete and highly inefficient electricity supply system, the Conventional Grid (CG), characterized by a high peak to average ratio, out of an uncontrollable ... -
Non-linear multivariate analysis of the global solar radiation received across five cities in South Africa.
(2019)South Africa is considered one of the most developed countries in Africa, however with more than 80% of its electricity being generated from coal, this country is considered one of the highest contributors to greenhouse ... -
Fabrication and characterization of solution processed thin film solar cells.
(2018)This research focused on developing new organic and inorganic semiconductor materials and techniques for use in design and fabrication of organic photovoltaic solar cells. Despite OPVs having benefitted from material ... -
Synthesis, structural and magnetic characterization of spinel nanoparticle ferrites with applications for electrochemical sensors.
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Quantum machine learning for supervised pattern recognition.
(2017)Humans are experts at recognising patterns in past experience and applying them to new tasks. For example, after seeing pictures of a face we can usually tell if another image contains the same person or not. Machine ... -
Quantum simulation of open quantum systems.
(2016)Over the last two decades the field of quantum simulations has experienced incredible growth, which, coupled with progress in the development of controllable quantum platforms, has recently begun to allow for the ... -
Clustering analysis for classification and forecasting of solar irradiance in Durban, South Africa.
(2017)Classification and forecasting of solar irradiance patterns has become increasingly important for operating and managing grid-connected solar power plants. A powerful approach for classification of irradiance patterns ... -
Quantum analogues of classical optimization algorithms.
(2017)This thesis explores the quantum analogues of algorithms used in mathematical optimization. The thesis focuses primarily on the iterative gradient search algorithm (algorithm for finding the minimum or maximum of a ... -
Synthesis and magnetic properties of Sn, Mn and Mg substituted feₓcr₁.₈−ₓO₃ nano oxides.
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Optimizing the synthesis of vanadium oxide nano-structures by plasma plume dynamics.
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Tropospheric ozone climatology over equatorial and Southern Africa using climate change parameters.
(2016)Tropospheric ozone climatology over equatorial and southern Africa has been at the core of this study. SHADOZ (Southern Hemisphere ADditional OZonesondes) network data for the period 1998-2013, from Irene (South Africa) ... -
Synthesis and magnetic properties of Sn, Mn and Mg substituted Fe(x) Cr(1.8−x) O(3) nano oxides.
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Synthesis, characterisation and biological studies of novel pyrimidine derivatives.
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Probing the conceptions and mental models of students from diverse educational backgrounds in the context of a science centre show on sound.
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Wind tunnel simulations to detect and quantify the turbulent effects of a propagating he-ne laser beam in air.
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Bulk heterojunction organic solar cells and thin film electrode buffer layers : synthesis, preparation and characterization.
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Simulating thermal fluctuations in soft matter models.
(2015)The research carried out in this work is in two parts: In the first part, we derive a configurational temperature Nosé-Hoover thermostat by reformulating the original Braga and Travis thermostat [J. Chem. Phys. 123 ... -
Computational and experimental study of thin films of polymer blends.
(2016)Abstract available in PDF file.