Publications related to Electric field gradient

Advanced Silicon and SWIR Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes: Design, Simulation, and Characterization

Low-level light detection with high spatial and timing accuracy is a growing area of interest by virtue of applications such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), biomedical imaging, time-resolved Raman spectroscopy, and quantum applications. Single-phot ...

EPFL2024

Charging and Electric Field Effects on Hydrogen Molecules Physisorbed on Graphene

Klaus Kern, Shai Mangel, Alessio Scavuzzo, Tobias Wollandt

Molecular hydrogen adsorbed on graphene was investigated by analyzing rotational excitation spectra obtained with a gate-tunable scanning tunneling microscope (STM). Through the shift of the rotational excitation energy, the tunability of physisorbed H2 on ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Breakdown development in a nanosecond pulsed dielectric barrier discharge in humid air in plane-to-plane geometry

Ivo Furno, Xin Yang, Lorenzo Ibba

We used the ns electric field induced second harmonic (EFISH) generation diagnostic to measure the electric field evolution in a 200 ns pulse, dielectric barrier, plane-to-plane discharge in humid air, on the time scale shorter than the laser pulse duratio ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2023

Electrokinetic, electrochemical, and electrostatic surface potentials of the pristine water liquid-vapor interface

Philip Robin Loche

Although conceptually simple, the air-water interface displays rich behavior and is subject to intense experimental and theoretical investigations. Different definitions of the electrostatic surface potential as well as different calculation methods, each ...

AIP Publishing2022

Field-induced ultrafast modulation of Rashba coupling at room temperature in ferroelectric alpha-GeTe(111)

Jan Hugo Dil

Rashba materials have appeared as an ideal playground for spin-to-charge conversion in prototype spintronics devices. Among them, alpha-GeTe(111) is a non-centrosymmetric ferroelectric semiconductor for which a strong spin-orbit interaction gives rise to g ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Dynamical properties of a driven dissipative dimerized S=1/2 chain

Bruce Normand

We consider the dynamical properties of a gapped quantum spin system coupled to the electric field of a laser, which drives the resonant excitation of specific phonon modes that modulate the magnetic interactions. We deduce the quantum master equations gov ...

2021

Ag-doped As-S-Se chalcogenide glasses: a correlative study of structural and dielectrical properties

Mirjana Dimitrievska

This work is focused on investigating the effect of Ag doping on the dielectric and structural properties of the As-S-Se glass system and their suitability for potential applications in optoelectronics, such as electronic and switching components. A series ...

SPRINGER2021

Impact of Local Electric Fields on Charge-Transfer Processes at the TiO2/Dye/Electrolyte Interface

Nikolaos Vlachopoulos

Photoinduced electron -transfer processes at the TiO2/ dye/electrolyte interface are vital for various emerging technologies. Here, the impact of the local electric field at this interface on the charge -transfer processes was investigated in two aspects: ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Magnetoelectric effects in the skyrmion host material Cu2OSeO3

Helmuth Berger

Insulating helimagnetic Cu2OSeO3 shows sizeable magnetoelectric effects in its skyrmion phase. Using magnetization measurements, magneto-current analysis and dielectric spectroscopy, we provide a thorough investigation of magnetoelectric coupling, polariza ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Monitoring Charge Carrier Dynamics at Atomic Length Scales by STM-induced Luminescence

Christoph Grosse

The goal of this thesis is the combination of the high spatial resolution of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) with the high temporal resolution of optical spectroscopy, by monitoring the light emitted from the tunnel junction. Two complementary techniqu ...

EPFL2015

Electric field gradient wave (EFGW) in iron-based superconductor Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2 studied by Mossbauer spectroscopy

Janusz Andrzej Karpinski

The optimally doped '122' iron-based superconductor Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2 has been studied by Fe-57 Mossbauer spectroscopy versus temperature ranging from 4.2 K till 300 K with particular attention paid to the superconducting transition around 38 K. The spectra ...

Elsevier Science Sa2014

Large-Amplitude Spin Dynamics Driven by a THz Pulse in Resonance with an Electromagnon

Christoph Peter Hauri, Paul Beaud

Multiferroics have attracted strong interest for potential applications where electric fields control magnetic order. The ultimate speed of control via magnetoelectric coupling, however, remains largely unexplored. Here, we report an experiment in which we ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2014

High-energy collective electronic excitations in layered transition-metal dichalcogenides

Helmuth Berger

We characterize experimentally and theoretically the collective electronic excitations in two prototypical layered transition-metal dichalcogenides, NbSe2 and Cu0.2NbS2. The energy- and momentum-dependent dynamical structure factor was measured by inelasti ...

Amer Physical Soc2014

Iterative deconvolution of quadrupole split NMR spectra

Frédéric Mila

We propose a simple method to deconvolute NMR spectra of quadrupolar nuclei in order to separate the distribution of local magnetic hyperfine field from the quadrupole splitting. It is based on an iterative procedure which allows to express the intensity o ...

EDP Sciences, Springer2013

Real-time observation of the charge transfer to solvent dynamics

Majed Chergui, Andrea Cannizzo, Olivier Christian Bräm

Intermolecular electron-transfer reactions have a crucial role in biology, solution chemistry and electrochemistry. The first step of such reactions is the expulsion of the electron to the solvent, whose mechanism is determined by the structure and dynamic ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

Multi-octave MV/cm pulses filling the THz gap

Christoph Peter Hauri

Single-cycle THz pulses with electric field strength of MV/cm are required for wide range of applications from physics to biology and medicine [1]. Presently, high fields are still challenging to produce in the THz gap (0.1-10 THz) where important condense ...

IEEE2013

Evolution of magnetic and crystal structures in the multiferroic FeTe2O5Br

Helmuth Berger

Neutron diffraction and nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) measurements were employed to investigate magnetic order in the nonferroelectric phase preceding the low-temperature multiferroic state in FeTe2O5Br. Refinement of the neutron diffraction data and ...

American Physical Society2013

Phase diagram of the spin-1 Heisenberg model with three-site interactions on the square lattice

Frédéric Mila, Frédéric Alexis Michaud

We study the spin S = 1 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the square lattice with, in addition to the nearest-neighbor interaction, a three-site interaction of the form (S-i . S-j)(S-j . S-k) + H.c. This interaction appears naturally in a strong coupli ...

2013

Probing molecular absorption under slow light propagation using a photonic crystal waveguide

Luc Thévenaz, Isabelle Dicaire

High-resolution infrared absorption spectroscopy of acetylene gas is demonstrated in dispersion-engineered photonic crystal waveguides under slow light propagation. Individual absorption profiles are obtained for both TE and TM polarizations for group indi ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)2012

Eddy current effects on a clinical 7T-68 cm bore scanner

Rolf Gruetter, Tobias Kober, Wietske Van der Zwaag, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Gunnar Krüger

Eddy currents induced by switching of magnetic field gradients can lead to distortions in short echo-time spectroscopy or diffusion weighted imaging. In small bore magnets, such as human head-only systems, minimization of eddy current effects is more deman ...

2010