Publications related to Tellurium

Femtosecond-laser direct-write photoconductive patterns on tellurite glass

Yves Bellouard, Gözden Torun, Anastasia Romashkina

We report the formation of arbitrary photoconductive patterns made of tellurium (Te) nanocrystals by exposing a tellurite (TeO2-based) glass to femtosecond laser pulses. During this process, Te/TeO2-glass nanocomposite interfaces with photoconductive prope ...

American Physical Society (APS)2024

Ancestral genome reconstruction enhances transposable element annotation by identifying degenerate integrants

Didier Trono, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Wayo Matsushima

Growing evidence indicates that transposable elements (TEs) play important roles in evolution by providing genomes with coding and non-coding sequences. Identification of TE-derived functional elements, however, has relied on TE annotations in individual s ...

2024

Chalcogen bonding catalysis

Jieping Zhu

Catalysts play a major role in chemical synthesis, and catalysis is considered to be a green and economic process. Catalysis is dominated by covalent interactions between the catalyst and substrate. The design of non-covalent catalysts came into limelight ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2024

Formation Mechanism of Elemental Te Produced in Tellurite Glass Systems by Femtosecond Laser Irradiation

Yves Bellouard, Gözden Torun

The formation of elemental trigonal tellurium (t-Te) on tellurite glass surfaces exposed to femtosecond laser pulses is discussed. Specifically, the underlying elemental crystallization phenomenon is investigated by altering laser parameters in common tell ...

Wiley2023

Murunskite - a new class of functional material

Davor Tolj

The subject of the present work is discovery and in-depth characterization of a new class of functional materials. Tuning of the bond polarity and orbital occupation with a goal of establishing balance between localization and delocalization of electrons - ...

EPFL2023

Modeling high-entropy transition metal alloys with alchemical compression

Michele Ceriotti, Guillaume André Jean Fraux, Sandip De, Nataliya Lopanitsyna

Alloys composed of several elements in roughly equimolar composition, often referred to as high-entropy alloys, have long been of interest for their thermodynamics and peculiar mechanical properties, and more recently for their potential application in cat ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Modelling of metal alloys in realistic conditions with machine learning

Nataliya Lopanitsyna

Computer simulations based on statistical methods have emerged as a powerful tool for studying structure-property relationships at the atomistic level. However, to provide reliable insights into materials in realistic conditions, it is essential to accurat ...

EPFL2023

Femtosecond laser-induced modifications and self-organization in complex glass systems

Gözden Torun

Ultrashort laser pulses, i.e., pulses emitted shorter than a picosecond, can tailor material properties by introducing permanent modifications locally in three dimensions. Remarkably, under a certain exposure condition, these modifications are accompanied ...

EPFL2023

Direct-write laser-induced self-organization and metallization beyond the focal volume in tellurite glass

Yves Bellouard, Gözden Torun

We report on a self-organized process initiated on a potassium-tungsten-tellurite glass surface under repetitive femtosecond laser irradiation in a regime where cumulative effects lead to a localized melting. Specifically, we show that self-organized perio ...

2021

Atom-surface van der Waals potentials of topological insulators and semimetals from scattering measurements

Davide Campi

The phenomenology of resonant scattering has been known since the earliest experiments upon scattering of atomic beams from surfaces and is a means of obtaining experimental information about the fundamentals of weak adsorption systems in the van der Waals ...

2021

Exploring the origin of low-metallicity stars in Milky-Way-like galaxies with the NIHAO-UHD simulations

Pascale Jablonka

The kinematics of the most metal-poor stars provide a window into the early formation and accretion history of the Milky Way (MW). Here, we use five high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations (similar to 5 x 10(6) star particles) of MW-like galaxies ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2021

Radial Spin Texture of the Weyl Fermions in Chiral Tellurium

Majed Chergui, Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Marco Grioni, Oleg Yazyev, Luc Testa, Daniel Gosalbez Martinez, Michele Puppin, Philippe Bugnon, Luca Moreschini, Alberto Crepaldi, Mauro Fanciulli, Gianmarco Gatti, Simon Karl Moser, Edoardo Martino, Silvan Dino Marcos Roth, Serhii Polishchuk

Trigonal tellurium, a small-gap semiconductor with pronounced magneto-electric and magneto-optical responses, is among the simplest realizations of a chiral crystal. We have studied by spin- and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy its unconventional ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Gold Chain Formation via Local Lifting of Surface Reconstruction by Hot Electron Injection on H-2(D-2)/Au(111)

Klaus Kern, Anna Maria Roslawska, Abhishek Grewal

The hexagonal close packed surface of gold shows a 22 x root 3 "herringbone" surface reconstruction which makes it unique among the (111) surfaces of all metals. This long-range energetically favored dislocation pattern appears in response to the strong te ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Effect of Ag Addition on the Hot Deformation, Constitutive Equations and Processing Maps of a Hot Extruded Mg-Gd-Y Alloy

Roland Logé

Hot deformation behavior of the extruded Mg-6Gd-3Y (GW63) and Mg-6Gd-3Y-1Ag (GW63-1Ag) alloys was assessed by shear punch testing (SPT) method in the temperature range of 623 K to 723 K and shear strain rate of 1.6 x 10(-2)to 1.3 x 10(-1) s(-1). Microstruc ...

SPRINGER2020

Zn-doped Sb70Se30 thin films with multiple phase transition for high storage density and low power consumption phase change memory applications

Xiao Zhou, Haitao Zhou

The single layer Zn44Sb39Se17 thin film, being fabricated by Sb70Se30 and Zn using co-sputtering method, exhibits double phase change transition. The double phase change processes are mainly attributed to the crystallization of the Sb and ZnSb phases. The ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Cu2O photocathodes with band-tail states assisted hole transport for standalone solar water splitting

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Liang Yao, Yuhang Liu, Dan Ren, Linfeng Pan

Photoelectrochemical water splitting provides a promising solution for harvesting and storing solar energy. As the best-performing oxide photocathode, the Cu2O photocathode holds the performance rivaling that of many photovoltaic semiconductor-based photoc ...

Nature Research2020

Topological phase transitions driven by strain in monolayer tellurium

Oleg Yazyev, Quansheng Wu, Wei Zhang

Two-dimensional (2D) Xenes of a single type of element can offer fascinating electronic properties, such as massless Dirac fermions for extremely high charge-carrier mobility and topological insulators for dissipationless electron transport. However, the r ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2018

Ab-initio calculation of surface phonons at the Sb2Te3(111) surface

Davide Campi

Density functional perturbation theory is used to study the phonon dispersion relations at the (111) surface of the topological insulator Sb2Te3. Inelastic Helium atom scattering experiments at the (111) surface of the similar Bi2Se3 topological insulator ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

Topological phonons and thermoelectricity in triple-point metals

Quansheng Wu

Recently published discoveries of acoustic- and optical-mode inversion in the phonon spectrum of certain metals became the first realistic example of noninteracting topological bosonic excitations in existing materials. However, the observable physical and ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2018

Boosting the performance of Cu2O photocathodes for unassisted solar water splitting devices

Linfeng Pan, Jinhyun Kim, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Jingshan Luo, Matthew Thomas Mayer, Amita Ummadisingu, Minkyu Son

Although large research efforts have been devoted to photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting in the past several decades, the lack of efficient, stable and Earth-abundant photoelectrodes remains a bottleneck for practical application. Here, we report a ...

2018