Publications associées à Saphir

Towards Scalable Electronics: Synthetic 2D Materials for Large-Area 2D Circuit Integration

In the past decades, a significant increase of the transistor density on a chip has led to exponential growth in computational power driven by Moore's law. To overcome the bottleneck of traditional von-Neumann architecture in computational efficiency, effo ...

EPFL2024

Excitonic devices with van der Waals heterostructures: valleytronics meets twistronics

Andras Kis, Fedele Tagarelli, Ahmet Avsar, Alberto Ciarrocchi

2D semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides comprise an emerging class of materials with distinct properties, including large exciton binding energies that reach hundreds of millielectronvolts and valley-contrasting physics. Thanks to the van der Wa ...

2022

Wafer-scale MoS2 with water-vapor assisted showerhead MOCVD

Aleksandra Radenovic, Andras Kis, Mukesh Kumar Tripathi, Mukeshchand Thakur, Michal Daniel Macha, Yanfei Zhao, Hyungoo Ji, Jing Zhang

Among numerous thin film synthesis methods, metalorganic chemical vapor deposition performed in a showerhead reactor is the most promising one for broad use in scalable and commercially adaptable two-dimensional material synthesis processes. Adapting the m ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

High-useful yield and new autoionizing state of resonantly ionized tungsten

Reto Georg Trappitsch

In order to measure tungsten isotopic composition in presolar stardust grains that contain a limited number of atoms, we developed a new three-photon three-color resonance ionization scheme using titanium:sapphire lasers and the Laser Ionization of Neutral ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Superconducting 2D NbS2 Grown Epitaxially by Chemical Vapor Deposition

Aleksandra Radenovic, Andras Kis, Mukesh Kumar Tripathi, Michal Daniel Macha, Yanfei Zhao, Guilherme Migliato Marega, Zhenyu Wang, Cheol Yeon Cheon, Hyungoo Ji

Metallic two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are attracting great attention because of their interesting low-temperature properties such as superconductivity, magnetism, and charge density waves (CDW). However, further studies and ...

2021

Diamond on GaN integration for power semiconductor devices with efficient thermal management

Reza Soleiman Zadeh Ardebili

The international actions against global warming demands reductions in carbon emission and more efficient use of energy. Energy efficiency in the conversion and use of electricity, as an important form of energy in the modern life, has strong environmental ...

EPFL2021

Deciphering the interactions between single arm dislocation sources and coherent twin boundary in nickel bi-crystal

Helena Van Swygenhoven

The introduction of a well-controlled population of coherent twin boundaries (CTBs) is an attractive route to improve the strength ductility product in face centered cubic (FCC) metals. However, the elementary mechanisms controlling the interaction between ...

Nature Research2021

Dry-pressed anodized titania nanotube/CH3NH3PbI3 single crystal heterojunctions: The beneficial role of N doping

László Forró, Endre Horvath, Bálint Náfrádi, Konrad Domanski, Márton Kollár, Pavao Roko Andricevic

Highly ordered, anodically grown TiO2 nanotubes on titanium supports were annealed in ammonia atmosphere in order to incorporate nitrogen doping (

2019

Towards a coherent database of thermal boundary conductance at metal/dielectric interfaces

Ludger Weber, Maïté Blank

The thermal boundary conductance (TBC) of metal/dielectric couples was measured for a large variety of metals on silicon, sapphire, and diamond using time domain thermoreflectance and compared to data previously obtained on diamond. In the case of silicon, ...

2019

Chemo-mechanical effects on the tribocorrosion behavior of titanium/ceramic dental implant pairs in artificial saliva

Anna Neus Igual Muñoz, Alejandro Roda Buch

In this paper, the degradation mechanisms of the ceramic and the metal in Titanium/Zirconia pairs for biomedical applications were analyzed. To do that, an experimental set-up with well-controlled mechanical and chemical conditions was used based on a unid ...

2019

Bulk single-crystal growth of the theoretically predicted magnetic Weyl semimetals RAlGe (R = Pr, Ce)

Jonathan White, Neeraj Kumar

We explore two methods for single-crystal growth of the theoretically proposed magnetic Weyl semimetals RAlGe (R = Pr, Ce), which prove that a floating-zone technique, being both crucible- and flux-free, is crucial to obtain perfectly stoichiometric RAlGe ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Raman imaging through multimode sapphire fiber

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie, Georgia Konstantinou, Sunan Deng

We report on a sapphire fiber Raman imaging probe's use for challenging applications where access is severely restricted. Small-dimension Raman probes have been developed previously for various clinical applications because they show great capability for d ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2019

Calcium phosphate formation on titanium-based surfaces: bioactivity evaluated by in vitro methods

Weitian Zhao

The prediction of implant behaviors in vivo by the use of easy-to-perform in vitro methods is of great interest in biomaterials research. In the field of bone implants, it is commonly accepted that a spontaneous formation of a hydroxyapatite (HA) layer on ...

EPFL2018

Effect of the relative shift between the electron density and temperature pedestal position on the pedestal stability in JET-ILW and comparison with JET-C

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Martinus Gijs, Jonathan Graves, Yves Martin, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Alessandro Pau, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Cristian Sommariva, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Sun Hee Kim, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Marco Wischmeier, Mikhail Maslov, Nicola Vianello, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Federico Nespoli, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Liang Yao, Yao Zhou, David Pfefferlé, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Robin Humphry-Baker, Davide Galassi, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Daniel Scott Alessi, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers, Julio Rodriguez, Hamish William Patten, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, , , , , , , , ,

Parametric Experimental Study and Design of Experiment Modelling of Sapphire Grinding

Daniel Sage

This study investigates and models the grinding process of single crystal sapphire. Five parameters: the wheel speed, the feed speed, the vertical feed, the ultrasonic assistance and the crystallographic direction were considered via a design of experiment ...

Elsevier2017

Suppressing Nucleation in Metal–Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition of MoS2

Andras Kis, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Dmitrii Unuchek, Hokwon Kim, Davide Deiana

Toward the large-area deposition of MoS2 layers, we employ metal–organic precursors of Mo and S for a facile and reproducible van der Waals epitaxy on c-plane sapphire. Exposing c-sapphire substrates to alkali metal halide salts such as KI or NaCl together ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2017

Hybrid BAW/SAW AlN and AlScN Thin Film Resonator First Experimental data

Paul Muralt, Ramin Matloub Aghdam, Vladimir Pashchenko, Sylvain Ballandras

A novel type of hybrid resonator based on BAW transformation into SAW in a ridged layered structure was fabricated and characterized. Bulk waves are excited by micromachined piezoelectric AlScN pillars located on the non-piezoelectric Si and sapphire subst ...

Ieee2016

Multi-mJ infrared femtosecond hydrogen Raman laser

Christoph Peter Hauri, Mostafa Shalaby

High-energy pulses at 1.28 mu m are demonstrated by stimulated Raman scattering in hydrogen using two chirped pulses of a Ti: Sapphire laser. The Stokes pulse carrying record-high energy of 4.4 mJ is recompressed to 80 fs. ...

Ieee2016

High-energy femtosecond hydrogen Raman laser

Christoph Peter Hauri, Mostafa Shalaby

High-energy pulses at 1.28 mu m are demonstrated by stimulated Raman scattering using two chirped pulses of a Ti:Sapphire laser in hydrogen. The Stokes pulse carrying record-high energy of 4.4 mJ is recompressed to 80 fs. ...

Ieee2016

High-quality Synthetic 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Semiconductors

Andras Kis, Dumitru Dumcenco, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Kolyo Marinov

We give here an overview on our results on the large-area growth of 2D transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors MoS2, MoSe2, WSe2 using chemical vapor deposition. The growth of MoS2 on sapphire occurs epitaxially with the crystalline orientation of t ...

Ieee2016