Publications by Marcell Kristof Kiss

Temperature-dependent properties of single crystal diamond nanopillars

Diamonds possess significant hardness and durability; however, any attempt to deform them typically leads to brittle fracture. In this study, we comprehensively characterize nanoscale diamond at elevated temperatures, using a combination of experimental an ...

Elsevier BV2025

Method for flattening substrates or layers using 3d printing and etching

Niels Quack, Nathanaël Restori, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Teodoro Graziosi

The present invention concerns a layer or substrate flattening method comprising the steps of: - providing a layer or substrate (1) to be flattened; - measuring a topography or surface profile of at least one area (3) of the layer or substrate to be flatte ...

2021

Diamond diffractive optics-recent progress and perspectives

Niels Quack, Gergely Huszka, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Sichen Mi

Diamond is an exceptional material that has recently seen a remarkable increase in interest in academic research and engineering since high-quality substrates became commercially available and affordable. Exploiting the high refractive index, hardness, las ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2021

Integrated photonic devices in single crystal diamond

Niels Quack, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Teodoro Graziosi, Sichen Mi

The field of diamond photonics is reviewed, with a focus on recent experimental demonstrations of photonic integrated devices in a single crystal diamond. This field leverages the outstanding material properties of diamond with the aim to establish large-s ...

2020

Optical element

Niels Quack, Gergely Huszka, Marcell Kristof Kiss

The present invention concerns an optical grating comprising a body defining a first external surface and a second external surface. The first external surface defines a periodic structure comprising a plurality of elongated protrusions and a plurality of ...

2020

Reactive ion etching of single crystal diamond by inductively coupled plasma: State of the art and catalog of recipes

Niels Quack, Pascal Gallo, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Teodoro Graziosi, Sichen Mi, Mehdi Naamoun

2020

Diffractive optical elements in single crystal diamond

Niels Quack, Marcell Kristof Kiss

We demonstrate the design, fabrication, and experimental characterization of near-field binary phase transmission diffractive optical elements (DOEs) in single crystal diamond. Top-hat and arbitrary pattern DOE beam shapers were numerically optimized using ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2020

Advanced Diamond Microfabrication for Microoptics and Photonics

Marcell Kristof Kiss

Diamond is an exceptional material - hard, stiff, transparent, which makes it ideal for the fabrication of optical and mechanical systems that take advantage of these properties. Diamond is not only "better", but it offers the possibility of integrating br ...

EPFL2019

Single crystalline diamond diffractive optical elements and method of fabricating the same

Niels Quack, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Teodoro Graziosi

The present invention concerns a single crystalline diamond optical element production method. The method includes the steps of: ‐ providing a single crystalline diamond substrate or layer; ‐ applying a mask layer to the single crystalline diamond substrat ...

2019

Single crystalline diamond part production method for stand alone single crystalline mechanical and optical component production

Niels Quack, Pascal Gallo, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Teodoro Graziosi

The present invention relates to a free-standing single crystalline diamond part and a single crystalline diamond part production method. The method includes the steps of: - providing a single crystalline diamond substrate or layer; - providing a first adh ...

2019

High-quality single crystal diamond diffraction gratings fabricated by crystallographic etching

Christian Santschi, Niels Quack, Olivier Martin, Toralf Scharf, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Teodoro Graziosi

We demonstrate a novel method for fabricating single crystal diamond diffraction gratings based on crystallographic etching that yields high-quality diffraction gratings from commercially available diamond plates. Both V-groove and rectangular gratin ...

2019

Silicon Photonic MEMS Phase-Shifter

Niels Quack, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Teodoro Graziosi, Hamed Sattari

We present a design for an analog phase shifter based on Silicon Photonic MEMS technology. The operation principle is based on a two-step parallel plate electrostatic actuation mechanism to bring a vertically movable suspended tapered waveguide in a first ...

2019

Characterization of crystallographically etched single crystal diamond diffraction gratings

Niels Quack, Olivier Martin, Toralf Scharf, Marcell Kristof Kiss

We report on the fabrication and experimental characterization of single crystal diamond diffraction gratings fabricated with crystallographic dry etching. High aspect ratio atomic force microscopy reveals a characteristic V-groove profile exhibiting smoot ...

IEEE2018

Size control of self-organized gold nanoparticles on nanopatterned single crystal diamond

Christian Santschi, Niels Quack, Olivier Martin, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Sichen Mi

Surface patterning using plasmonic nanoparticles has attracted increasing interest owing to their wide use in sensing, imaging and medical applications. In this report we demonstrate bottom-up engineering of size distribution of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) ...

IEEE2018

Single crystal diamond micro-disk resonators by focused ion beam milling

Niels Quack, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Teodoro Graziosi, Sichen Mi

We report on single crystal diamond micro-disk resonators fabricated in bulk chemical vapor deposition diamond plates (3 mm x 3 mm x 0.15 mm) using a combination of deep reactive ion etching and Focused Ion Beam (FIB) milling. The resulting structures are ...

2018

Enhancement of optical quality factor by thermal annealing of single crystal diamond micro-resonators

Niels Quack, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Teodoro Graziosi, Sichen Mi

We report on the increase in optical quality factor of a suspended single crystal diamond micro-disk resonator by thermal annealing. The resonators are fabricated by Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE) to obtain circular pillars in bulk single crystal diamond ...

IEEE2018