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Influence of ionization and cumulative effects on laser-induced crystallization in multilayer dielectrics

Yves Bellouard, Victor Carle Adrien Boureau, Ruben Ricca

Crystallization of amorphous layers has been demonstrated under various radically different laser-exposure conditions, including continuous wave (cw) and pulsed lasers. Here, we investigate the specific role of ionization in the crystallization of dielectr ...

2024

Shaped Laser Pulses for Microsecond Time-Resolved Cryo-EM: Outrunning Crystallization during Flash Melting

Marcel Drabbels, Ulrich Lorenz, Constantin Richard Krüger, Nathan Junior Mowry

Water vitrifies if cooled at rates above 3 × 105 K/s. In contrast, when the resulting amorphous ice is flash heated, crystallization occurs even at a more than 10 times higher heating rate, as we have recently shown. This may present an issue for microseco ...

2024

Scenario optimization for the tokamak ramp-down phase in RAPTOR. Part B: safe termination of DEMO plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Simon Van Mulders, Cassandre Ekta Contré, Emiliano Fable, Anna Teplukhina

An optimized plasma current ramp-down strategy is critical for safe and fast termination of plasma discharges in a tokamak demonstration fusion reactor (DEMO), both in planned and emergency scenarios, avoiding plasma disruptions and excessive heat loads to ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Printed ecoresorbable temperature sensors for environmental monitoring

Danick Briand, Nicolas Francis Fumeaux, James Alec Pierce Bourely, Melissa Kossairi

Electronic waste has become a pressing issue, necessitating sustainable solutions for the disposal of electronic devices. While the development of environmentally degradable electronics has gained attention, the fabrication of stable and performant sensors ...

2023

GeSn as next-generation material for short-wave infrared single-photon detection

Andrea Giunto

In recent years, the automotive industry has aspired to bring self-driving vehicles to the general public and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors have emerged as the preferred solution for car vision systems. At present, LiDAR technologies employ e ...

EPFL2023

Gas generating membrane-less electrolyser

Demetri Psaltis, Pooria Hadikhani, Steven Alexandre Schenk

Electrolyser including a reactor (2) comprising a housing (4), fluidic channels (6a, 6b, 6c) within the housing, and electrodes (16a, 16c) comprising an anode (16a) and a cathode (16c). The fluidic channels include an inter-electrode channel (6b) arranged ...

2023

Zinc hybrid sintering for printed transient sensors and wireless electronics

Danick Briand, Nicolas Francis Fumeaux

Transient electronics offer a promising solution for reducing electronic waste and for use in implantable bioelectronics, yet their fabrication remains challenging. We report on a scalable method that synergistically combines chemical and photonic mechanis ...

2023

Two statistical regimes in the transition to filamentation

Debbie Eeltink

We experimentally investigate fluctuations in the spectrum of ultrashort laser pulses propagating in air, close to the critical power for filamentation. Increasing the laser peak power broadens the spectrum while the beam approaches the filamentation regim ...

Optica Publishing Group2023

Search for long-lasting electronic coherence using on-the-fly ab initio semiclassical dynamics

Jiri Vanicek, Alan Scheidegger, Nikolay Golubev

Using a combination of high-level ab initio electronic structure methods with efficient on-the-fly semiclassical evaluation of nuclear dynamics, we performed a massive scan of small polyatomic molecules searching for a long-lasting oscillatory dynamics of ...

AIP Publishing2022

The Geometry and Charge of the Streamer Bursts Generated by Lightning Rods under the Influence of High Electric Fields

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

The streamer bursts generated during the initiation and propagation of leaders play an important role in the creation and maintenance of hot discharge channels in air. The most important parameters related to streamer bursts in this respect are the length ...

2022

Photoresponsive Nanocarriers Based on Lithium Niobate Nanoparticles for Harmonic Imaging and On-Demand Release of Anticancer Chemotherapeutics

Sandrine Gerber, Jérémy Vuilleumier, Adrian Stefan Gheata, Dario Diviani, Luigi Bonacina, Simon Kaiser

Nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems have the potential for increasing the efficiency of chemotherapeutics by enhancing the drug accumulation at specific target sites, therebyreducing adverse side effects and mitigating patient acquired resistance. In ...

2022

LMA observations of upward lightning flashes at the Santis Tower initiated by nearby lightning activity

Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Mohammad Azadifar, Amirhossein Mostajabi, Jacopo Grazioli, Nikola Besic, Urs Martin Germann

We present in this paper lightning current measurements, LMA (Lightning Mapping Array) data and fast antenna electric fields associated with upward flashes observed at the Santis Tower during summer of 2017. The LMA network consists of six stations that we ...

Elsevier2020

Imaging plasma formation in isolated nanoparticles with ultrafast resonant scattering

Christoph Bostedt, Daniela Rupp, Alessandro Colombo

We have recorded the diffraction patterns from individual xenon clusters irradiated with intense extreme ultraviolet pulses to investigate the influence of light-induced electronic changes on the scattering response. The clusters were irradiated with short ...

2020

Localized Photon Lasing in a Polaritonic Lattice Landscape

Daniel Oberli, Marcia Portella Oberli, Fauzia Jabeen, Morteza Navadeh Toupchi

Periodic photonic structures have attracted much interest due to their versatility for controlling light propagation. The dispersion of photon modes in photonic lattices exhibits an energy band structure analo-gous to the electronic one in crystals. An imp ...

American Physical Society (APS)2020

Flash light synthesis of noble metal nanoparticles for electrochemical applications: silver, gold, and their alloys

Hubert Girault, Victor Costa Bassetto, Carlos Manuel De Melo Pereira, Wanderson Oliveira Da Silva

The synthesis of noble metal nanoparticles (i.e., silver and gold) for electrochemical applications has been widely studied using mainly wet synthesis chemical methods or electrochemical deposition methods. In this work, we propose a single-step flash phot ...

SPRINGER2020

Two Possible Scenarios for the Formation of Category 1 Bipolar Lightning Flashes

Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Davide Pavanello, Qi Li

We present and discuss the current and electric field waveforms associated with two upward bipolar lightning flashes that occurred at the Säntis Tower. According to the traditional classification of bipolar flashes, both observed flashes could be classifie ...

2019

Print-Light-Synthesis of Ni and NiFe-nanoscale catalysts for oxygen evolution

Hubert Girault, Emad Oveisi, Mounir Driss Mensi, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Victor Costa Bassetto

By hyphenating inkjet printing and flash light irradiation, Ni- and NiFe-nano-electrocatalysts of diameters below 2.5 nm with ultralow loadings below 2 µg·cm–2 are synthesized. To achieve this, nanoliter ink volumes containing Ni and Fe chlorides as cataly ...

2019

Chopped-Anodic-Phase Charge Balancing Method for Electrical Stimulation

Alexandre Schmid, Reza Ranjandish

Providing safety of stimulation is a critical requirement in the design of biomedical electrical stimulators. Charge balancing circuits are required to guarantee safety of electrical stimulators. Chopped-anodic-phase (CAP) is one of the methods used for ch ...

IEEE2019

Inkjet printing and electrocatalysis

Victor Costa Bassetto

The transition in energy matrix, from fossil to renewable energy sources, will require the utilization of grid levelling alternatives to cope with the intermittent characteristic of renewable energy. Advanced electrochemical energy conversion and storage d ...

EPFL2019

High power modular LED-based illumination system for lithography applications

Hans Peter Herzig, Marcel Groccia, Toralf Scharf, Wilfried Noell, Raoul Kirner, Johana Bernasconi

Mask-aligner lithography is a technology used to transfer patterns with critical dimensions in the micrometer range from below 1 micron for contact printing to a dozen of microns in proximity printing. This technology is widely used in the fabrication of M ...

2018