Publications de Nicolas Blondiaux

Damping of flexure blades based on bi-material additive manufacturing

Simon Nessim Henein, Florent Cosandier, Nicolas Blondiaux, Elias Sebastian Klauser, Loïc Benoît Tissot-Daguette, Nikola Kalentics, Lisa Salamin, Florent Alexandre Boudoire

Flexure-based mechanisms have become state-of-the-art solutions for the design of high-precision mechanisms, free from friction wear, backlash, and lubrication. These properties which are necessary for applications in ultraclean or harsh environments, neve ...

2023

Self-Patterned Nanoparticle Layers for Vertical Interconnects: Application in Tandem Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Fanny Sculati-Meillaud, Nicolas Blondiaux, Raphaël Pugin, Franz-Josef Haug, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Emmanuel Scolan, Björn Niesen

We demonstrate self-patterned insulating nanoparticle layers to define local electrical interconnects in thin-film electronic devices. We show this with thin-film silicon tandem solar cells, where we introduce between the two component cells a solution-pro ...

American Chemical Society2014

Smoothening intermediate reflecting layer for tandem thin-film silicon solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Blondiaux, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Matthieu Despeisse, Corsin Battaglia

We introduce the concept of smoothening intermediate reflecting layers (IRLs) in Micromorph thin-film silicon tandem solar cells in the superstrate configuration. The aim of such structures is not only to provide a selective reflection of light for optimal ...

Elsevier2013

SiN membranes with submicrometer hole arrays patterned by wafer-scale nanosphere lithography

Jürgen Brugger, Nicolas Blondiaux, Harry Heinzelmann, Oscar Vazquez Mena, Andreea Veronica Savu, Mona Julia Katharina Klein, Raphaël Pugin, Franck Montagne

In this work, nanosphere lithography was integrated with standard microfabrication for the wafer-scale fabrication of silicon nitride (SiN) membranes with arrays of submicrometer holes. A monolayer of polystyrene (PS) beads with a mean diameter of 428 or 5 ...

2011

Solid-state nanopore array membranes patterned by electron beam lithography, nanosphere lithography and aluminum anodization

Jürgen Brugger, Nicolas Blondiaux, Harry Heinzelmann, Oscar Vazquez Mena, Andreea Veronica Savu, Mona Julia Katharina Klein, Raphaël Pugin, Franck Montagne, Vaida Auzelyte, Songmei Wu

We present the fabrication of thin membranes with dense arrays of nanometer and submicrometer pore arrays by the integration of standard micromachining with three pore patterning techniques: electron beam lithography (EBL), nanosphere lithography (NSL) and ...

2011

Solid-state Nanopore Array Membranes Patterned by Electron Beam Lithography, Nanosphere Lithography and Aluminum Anodization

Jürgen Brugger, Nicolas Blondiaux, Oscar Vazquez Mena, Andreea Veronica Savu, Mona Julia Katharina Klein, Franck Montagne, Vaida Auzelyte, Songmei Wu

We present the fabrication of thin membranes with dense arrays of nanometer and submicrometer pore arrays by the integration of standard micromachining with three pore patterning techniques: electron beam lithography (EBL), nanosphere lithography (NSL) and ...

Research Publishing Services2011

Surface Nanopatterning by Polymer Self-Assembly: from Applied Research to Industrial Applications

Martha Liley, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Nicolas Blondiaux, Ana Maria Popa, Raphaël Pugin

Complementary methods have been developed for surface nanostructuring using molecular self-assembly, reactive ion etching and replication techniques. First, controlled surface nanostructures with tunable lateral dimensions from tens of nanometer to tens of ...

2009