Publications related to Substrate (materials science)

Nanobridge Stencil Enabling High Resolution Arbitrarily Shaped Metallic Thin Films on Various Substrates

Jürgen Brugger, Giovanni Boero, Yi-Chiang Sun

Stencil lithography (SL), which uses a perforated membrane as a reusable shadow mask to locally add material patterns on substrates provides a simple but versatile approach for the fabrication of functional devices on a large variety of substrate materials ...

Wiley2022

Excitonic devices with van der Waals heterostructures: valleytronics meets twistronics

Andras Kis, Fedele Tagarelli, Ahmet Avsar, Alberto Ciarrocchi

2D semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides comprise an emerging class of materials with distinct properties, including large exciton binding energies that reach hundreds of millielectronvolts and valley-contrasting physics. Thanks to the van der Wa ...

2022

Optical arrangement

Yves Bellouard, Sargis Hakobyan

In an optical arrangement (A) for use in an optical circuit, wherein the optical arrangement (A) comprises a substrate plate (1), wherein the substrate plate (1) is configured to receive a multitude of optical components (12.2, 12.5), the substrate plate ( ...

2021

Corrosion behaviour of nitrided ferritic stainless steels for use in solid oxide fuel cell devices

Jan Van Herle, Manuel Bianco, Stéphane François Jean Poitel

Plasma nitriding was applied to ferritic stainless steel substrates to improve their performances as interconnects for solid oxide fuel cell devices. The samples underwent electrical conductivity test and SEM/EDS, TEM/EDS, environmental-SEM analyses. The f ...

2020

In-situ experimental benchmarking of solid oxide fuel cell metal interconnect solutions

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Priscilla Caliandro, Manuel Bianco

The progress in the diffusion of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) as commercial devices is not paired by literature production. Articles describing the behaviour of SOFC stacks are rare because of confidentiality reasons for commercial suppliers while research ...

2020

Fretting-corrosion behavior of electroless Ni-P/Ni-P-TiO2 coatings obtained on AZ91D magnesium alloy by a chromium-free process

Stefano Mischler, Angela Bermudez Castañeda

Ni-P electroless coatings are widely applied for protection of magnesium alloys and other materials due to the low energy consumption of the process and high resistance to corrosion and wear, properties that can be improved with the incorporation of partic ...

ELSEVIER2020

Photocatalytic indoor/outdoor air treatment and bacterial inactivation on CuxO/TiO2 prepared by HiPIMS on polyester cloth under low intensity visible light

Sami Rtimi

In this study, photoactive CuxO/TiO2 coatings were prepared using magnetron sputtering operated at different powers and modes (Direct-current magnetron sputtering and High Power Impulse magnetron sputtering). Indoor/outdoor air pollutions (Volatile Organic ...

2019

Towards a coherent database of thermal boundary conductance at metal/dielectric interfaces

Ludger Weber, Maïté Blank

The thermal boundary conductance (TBC) of metal/dielectric couples was measured for a large variety of metals on silicon, sapphire, and diamond using time domain thermoreflectance and compared to data previously obtained on diamond. In the case of silicon, ...

2019

Deciphering the Mechanisms of Bacterial Inactivation on HiPIMS Sputtered CuxO-FeOx-PET Surfaces: From Light Absorption to Catalytic Bacterial Death

Sami Rtimi, Adrien Alexis Paul Chauvet

The production of nontoxic, affordable, and efficient antibacterial surfaces is key to the well-being of our societies. In this aim, antibacterial thin films have been prepared using earth-abundant metals deposited using high-power impulse magnetron sputte ...

2019

Micromechanics of Amorphous Metal/Polymer Hybrid Structures with 3D Cellular Architectures: Size Effects, Buckling Behavior, and Energy Absorption Capability

Stefano Mischler, Johann Michler, Cédric Frantz

By designing advantageous cellular geometries and combining the material size effects at the nanometer scale, lightweight hybrid microarchitectured materials with tailored structural properties are achieved. Prior studies reported the mechanical properties ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

Small-scale metal castings, small-scale metal/transparent composite structures and process to produce same

Andreas Mortensen, Yves Bellouard, Raphaël Charvet, Cyril Dénéréaz

The method comprises at least the following steps: - exposing a substrate to focused laser irradiation at a preselected series of locations that trace a subset of the substrate volume that is connected to the surface of the substrate; some subsets of subst ...

2017

Identification of Soft Matter Binding Peptide Ligands Using Phage Display

Harm-Anton Klok

Phage display is a powerful tool for the selection of highly affine, short peptide ligands. While originally primarily used for the identification of ligands to proteins, the scope of this technique has significantly expanded over the past two decades. Pha ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Electrochemical coating stress sensor, apparatus and method for accurately monitoring and controlling electrochemical reactions and material coating

Terunobu Akiyama

The present invention relates to an electrochemical coating stress sensor comprising a stress member for receiving an electrochemical coating layer; a support frame supporting the stress member; at least two bridging portions separating the stress member f ...

2015

Flexible, low-temperature, solution processed ZnO-based perovskite solid state solar cells

Michael Graetzel, Nripan Mathews

A ZnO compact layer formed by electrodeposition and ZnO nanorods grown by chemical bath deposition (CBD) allow the processing of low-temperature, solution based and flexible solid state perovskite CH3NH3PbI3 solar cells. Conversion efficiencies of 8.90% we ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Low-firing thick-film piezoresistive sensors for medical instruments

Peter Ryser, Thomas Maeder, Caroline Jacq

In this work, a low-firing thick-film materials system allowing fabrication of piezoresistive sensors on surgical alloys is presented in detail, with application to a force-sensing surgical instrument. The system comprises a series of individual thick-film ...

Elsevier2011

Texture Formation in Hot-Dip Galvanized Coatings : Nucleation and Growth of Anisotropic Grains in a Confined Geometry

Aurèle Mariaux

Continuous hot-dip galvanization is a process during which steel sheets are coated with a layer of Zn-Al alloy to protect them against corrosion. As the name indicates, this is achieved by dipping the preheated sheet into a bath of molten alloy. The sheet ...

EPFL2010

Nano-Electro-Mechanical Switches Based on Carbon Nanotubes Arrays

Donatello Acquaviva

In the last forty years the semiconductor industry focused on the downscaling process of the CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) technology, trying to follow as much as possible the empirical Moore's Law. In the last five years this trend has be ...

EPFL2010

Modeling the absorption behavior of solar thermal collector coatings utilizing graded a-C:H/TiC layers

Andreas Schueler

Wavelength selective coatings are of common use in order to enhance the efficiency of devices heated by radiation such as solar thermal collectors. The use of suitable materials and the optimization of coating layer thicknesses are advisable ways to maximi ...

2009

Catalytic coating of virus particles with zinc oxide

Klaus Kern, Alexander Bittner, Sinan Balci

We show that the rod-shaped Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) can be coated with the wide band gap semiconductor zinc oxide by electroless deposition under mild reaction conditions. The process involves pretreatment with aqueous Pd(II), followed by nucleation of ...

2009

High quality superconducting NbN thin films on GaAs

Francis Lévy, Alessandro Surrente, Francesco Marsili, Alessandro Gaggero

A very promising way to increase the detection efficiency of nanowire superconducting single-photon detectors (SSPDs) consists in integrating them with advanced optical structures such as distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) and optical waveguides. This req ...

2009