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New Developments in Amorphous Silicon Based Microchannel Plates

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Samira Alexandra Frey, Mohammad Beygi

Microchannel plates fabricated from hydrogenated amorphous silicon (AMCPs) are a promising alternative to conventional glass microchannel plates. Their main advantages lie in their flexible fabrication processes, allowing for adaptable channel shapes and t ...

2023

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 ...

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Large Anomalous Nernst Angle in Co2MnGa Thin Film

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Haiming Yu, Simon Granville, Junfeng Hu, Yao Zhang, Song Liu

The new trends for anomalous Nernst effect (ANE)-based thermoelectric devices require materials with large ANE values to realize the scalable generation of voltage. Recently, very large ANE values have been observed in single crystals of some novel magneti ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Impact of rapid thermal processing on bulk and surface recombination mechanisms in FZ silicon with fired passivating contacts

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Andrea Ingenito, Audrey Marie Isabelle Morisset, Sofia Libraro, Mario Joe Lehmann

We investigate bulk and interface recombination in crystalline silicon with p-type fired passivating contacts. These consist of a chemical oxide and an in-situ doped layer of SiCx with low carbon content. Following a rapid thermal annealing to activate the ...

ELSEVIER2022

Multiple Effects Induced by Mo6+ Doping in BiVO4 Photoanodes

Kevin Sivula, Charles Roger Jean Lhermitte, Nukorn Plainpan, Annalisa Polo, Ivan Grigioni

Mo6+ doping increases the photoelectrochemical performance of BiVO4 photoanodes in water oxidation. Herein, the underlying mechanisms is elucidated through a systematic structural, morphological, and photoelectrochemical investigation on photoelectrodes of ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

{10(1)over-bar2} twinning mechanism during in situ micro-tensile loading of pure Mg: Role of basal slip and twin-twin interactions

Roland Logé, Johann Michler, Xavier Maeder, Amit Sharma, Daniele Casari, Nicolò Maria Della Ventura

An SEM in situ uniaxial tensile testing setup allowing HR-EBSD acquisition during deformation was used to study the extension twinning mechanism in magnesium(Mg) at the micron scale. Structures were fabricated with two different crystal orientations, respe ...

2021

Chemical Cell Surface Modification and Analysis of Nanoparticle-Modified Living Cells

Harm-Anton Klok, Tanja Thomsen

Cells are promising as carriers that can enhance the delivery of nanomedicines. Cells that carry nanomedicinal cargo, either immobilized on the cell surface or internalized, can allow for highly specific delivery and can enable the transport of nanomedicin ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

From bulk descriptions to emergent interfaces: Connecting the Ginzburg-Landau and elastic-line models

Elisabeth Agoritsas, Thierry Giamarchi

Controlling interfaces is highly relevant from a technological point of view. However, their rich and complex behavior makes them very difficult to describe theoretically, and hence to predict. In this work, we establish a procedure to connect two levels o ...

2020

Local structural investigation of hafnia-zirconia polymorphs in powders and thin films by X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Reinis Ignatans

Despite increasing attention for the recently found ferro- and antiferroelectric properties, the polymorphism in hafnia- and zirconia-based thin films is still not sufficiently understood. In the present work, we show that it is important to have a good qu ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Representations and descriptors unifying the study of molecular and bulk systems

Kevin Rossi

Establishing a unified framework for describing the structures of molecular and periodic systems is a long-standing challenge in physics, chemistry, and material science. With the rise of machine learning methods in these fields, there is a growing need fo ...

WILEY2019

Corncob Biorefinery for Platform Chemicals and Lignin Coproduction: Metal Chlorides as Catalysts

Wu Lan

A facile approach to a corncob biorefinery, focusing on both carbohydrate valorization and lignin stabilization, was proposed to coproduce platform chemicals (glucose, xylose, arabinose, and furfural) and lignin. Different metal chloride prehydrolyses of c ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Electron and Hole Polarons at the BiVO4-Water Interface

Alfredo Pasquarello, Julia Anna Wiktor

We determine the transition levels of electron and hole polarons at the BiVO4-water interface through thermodynamic integration within a hybrid functional scheme, thereby accounting for the liquid nature of the water component. The electron polaron is foun ...

2019

Local tuning of fused silica thermal expansion coefficient using femtosecond laser

Yves Bellouard, Pieter Vlugter, Erica Kathleen Block

Femtosecond laser exposure of fused silica in the nonablative regime can lead to various localized bulk modifications of the material structure. In this paper, we show that these laser-induced modifications can be used to tune silica thermal expansion prop ...

2019

Electronic localization in CaVO3 films via bandwidth control

Thorsten Schmitt, Vladimir N. Strocov, Xingye Lu, Sophie Beck

Understanding and controlling the electronic structure of thin layers of quantum materials is a crucial first step towards designing heterostructures where new phases and phenomena, including the metal-insulator transition (MIT), emerge. Here, we demonstra ...

Springer2019

Exciton control in a room temperature bulk semiconductor with coherent strain pulses

Majed Chergui, Edoardo Baldini, Tania Palmieri, Oliviero Cannelli

Controlling the excitonic optical properties of room temperature semiconductors using time-dependent perturbations is key to future optoelectronic applications. The optical Stark effect in bulk and low-dimensional materials has recently shown exciton shift ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)2019

Universality at large transverse spin in defect CFT

Marco Meineri, Sourav Sarkar

We study the spectrum of local operators living on a defect in a generic conformal field theory, and their coupling to the local bulk operators. We establish the existence of universal accumulation points in the spectrum at large s, s being the charge of t ...

Springer Nature2018

Hydration mediated interfacial transitions on mixed hydrophobic/hydrophilic nanodroplet interfaces

Sylvie Roke, Halil Ibrahim Okur, Nikolay Smolentsev, Rüdiger Scheu, Filip Kovacik

Interfacial phase transitions are of fundamental importance for climate, industry, and biological processes. In this work, we observe a hydration mediated surface transition in supercooled oil nanodroplets in aqueous solutions using second harmonic and sum ...

2018

eQE: An open-source density functional embedding theory code for the condensed phase

Oliviero Andreussi

In this work, we present the main features and algorithmic details of a novel implementation of the frozen density embedding (FDE) formulation of subsystem density functional theory (DFT) that is specifically designed to enable ab initio molecular dynamics ...

Wiley2017

Bulk diffusive relaxation mechanisms in optically excited topological insulators

Helmuth Berger, Arnaud Magrez, Alberto Crepaldi, Philippe Bugnon

The possibility to inject spin currents in topological insulators (TIs) by ultrashort optical pulses has stimulated intense studies of their out-of-equilibrium electronic properties. However, a comprehensive description of the electronic relaxation dynamic ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

Evolution of the Valley Position in Bulk Transition-Metal Chalcogenides and Their Monolayer Limit

Dumitru Dumcenco, Yi Zhang, Bo Zhou, Zahid Hussain, Gang Xu, Kai Yan

Layered transition metal chalcogenides with large spin orbit coupling have recently sparked much interest due to their potential applications for electronic, optoelectronic, spintronics, and valleytronics. However, most current understanding of the electro ...

American Chemical Society2016