Publications by Sylvain Lecoultre

Plasma generation by inductive coupling with a planar resonant RF network antenna

Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Christoph Hollenstein, Alan Howling, Sylvain Lecoultre

A planar antenna operating at 13.56MHz is presented for potential applications in plasma processing. It consists of interconnected elementary resonant meshes composed of inductive and capacitive elements. Due to its structure, the antenna exhibits a set of ...

2012

Resonant planar antenna as an inductive plasma source

Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Christoph Hollenstein, Alan Howling, Sylvain Lecoultre

A resonant planar antenna as an inductive plasma source operating at 13.56 MHz inside a low pressure vacuum vessel is presented for potential plasma processing applications. Its principle consists in interconnecting elementary resonant meshes composed of i ...

2012

Plasma generation by inductive coupling with a planar resonant RF network antenna (vol 45, 082001, 2012)

Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Christoph Hollenstein, Alan Howling, Sylvain Lecoultre

Iop Publishing Ltd2012

UV-visible absorption of small gold clusters in neon: Au-n (n=1-5 and 7-9)

Wolfgang Harbich, Alexandre Rydlo, Sylvain Lecoultre

We present optical absorption spectra in the UV-visible range (1.5 eV < E < 6 eV) for mass selected neutral gold clusters Au-n (n = 1-5 and 7-9) embedded in solid Ne at 7 K. The experimental spectra are compared with time-dependent density functional calcu ...

American Institute of Physics2011

Optical absorption of small copper clusters in neon: Cu-n, (n=1-9)

Wolfgang Harbich, Alexandre Rydlo, Sylvain Lecoultre

We present optical absorption spectra in the UV-visible range (1.6 eV < omega < 5.5 eV) of mass selected neutral copper clusters Cu-n(n = 1-9) embedded in a solid neon matrix at 7 K. The atom and the dimer have already been measured in neon ma ...

American Institute of Physics2011

Ultraviolet-visible absorption of small silver clusters in neon: Ag-n (n=1-9)

Wolfgang Harbich, Alexandre Rydlo, Sylvain Lecoultre

We present optical absorption and fluorescence spectra in the UV-visible range of size selected neutral Ag-n clusters (n = 1-9) in solid neon. Rich and detailed optical spectra are found with linewidths as small as 50 meV. These spectra are compared to tim ...

American Institute of Physics2011

Propriétés optiques de petits agrégats de métaux nobles en matrice de néon

Sylvain Lecoultre

The optical properties of small noble metal clusters have been studied by absorption and fluorescence for sizes between 1 and 10 atoms. The experimental technique consists in depositing size-selected clusters in a neon matrix and analyzing with a spectrome ...

EPFL2009

Gold dimer in neon: an absorption and fluorescence study

Wolfgang Harbich, Alexandre Rydlo, Sylvain Lecoultre

We report for the first time the absorption and fluorescence spectra of gold dimers in a neon matrix. The dimer absorption spectra show the A←X transition predicted from measurements in the gas phase and not observed so far in a matrix, as well as the so-c ...

2009

Optical absorption of small silver clusters: Agn, (n=4–22)

Fabien Conus, Alexandre Rydlo, Sylvain Lecoultre

We present a joint theoretical and experimental investigation of the absorption spectra of silver clusters Agn (4

2008

Efficient trapping of silver cations in a rare gas matrix: Ag3+ in argon

Alexandre Rydlo, Sylvain Lecoultre

Mass selected cations of Ag-clusters are deposited, together with Ar seeded with CO

_2

(or other electron scavengers such as O

_2

, N

_2

O, or CCl

_4

), on a cold substrate, while being flooded with low energy electrons. Optical absorption measurements re ...

2007

Matrix effects on the optical response of silver nanoclusters

Fabien Conus, Alexandre Rydlo, Sylvain Lecoultre

We report absorption spectra for Ag7, Ag9, and Ag11 in an argon matrix grown at a temperature of 28 K and compare them with previous spectra of the same species measured in matrices of argon grown at lower temperatures as well as in neon matrices. We discu ...

2006