Publications associées à Cu(In1-xGax)S-2 nanocrystals and films: low-temperature synthesis with size and composition control

Font Side Solutions for c-Si Solar Cells with High-Temperature Passivating Contacts

In this work, we studied the potential of using thin films deposited by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) for two main purposes: introducing an n-type passivating contact at the front of a TOPCon solar cell, or simplifying the fabrication o ...

EPFL2024

Colloidal Atomic Layer Deposition on Nanocrystals Using Ligand-Modified Precursors

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Petru Pasquale Albertini, Ona Segura Lecina, Coline Marie Agathe Boulanger, Philippe Benjamin Green, Mark Adrian Newton, Krishna Kumar, Jari Leemans

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a method to grow thin metal oxide layers on a variety of materials for applications spanning from electronics to catalysis. Extending ALD to colloidally stable nanocrystals promises to combine the benefits of thin metal oxi ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

On-Demand Cross-Linkable Bottlebrush Polymers for Voltage- Driven Artificial Muscles

Frank Nüesch, Francis Owusu, Yeerlan Adeli

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) generate motion resembling natural muscles in reliability, adaptability, elongation, and frequency of operation. They are highly attractive in implantable soft robots or artificial organs. However, many applications of ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Vapor Deposition of Perovskite Solar Cells

Quentin Jean-Marie Armand Guesnay

Thanks to the continuous improvement of crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells, largely dominating the market, photovoltaic electricity is nowadays the cheapest source of energy on the market. Yet, solar energy is far from being completely harvested, as t ...

EPFL2023

Aperture-Controlled Fabrication of All-Dielectric Structural Color Pixels

Philippe Renaud, Arnaud Bertsch, Olivier Martin, Daniel Migliozzi, Clémentine Sophie Sarah Lipp, Evgenii Glushkov, Hsiang-Chu Wang, Audrey Zoé Marie Jacquillat

While interference colors have been known for a longtime, conventionalcolor filters have large spatial dimensions and cannot be used tocreate compact pixelized color pictures. Here we report a simple yetelegant interference-based method of creating microsc ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Plasma-Assisted Hybrid Vapour Deposition Technology for Thin Film Fabrication

Caroline Hain

Continuous development of thin film deposition technologies is essential for the fabrication of films that meet the specific requirements of their target applications and working conditions. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the number of accessible a ...

EPFL2023

Unit-cell-thick zeolitic imidazolate framework films for membrane application

Yu Han, Deepu Joseph Babu, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Heng-Yu Chi, Shaoxian Li, Qi Liu, Jian Hao, Shuqing Song

Zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) are a subset of metal-organic frameworks with more than 200 characterized crystalline and amorphous networks made of divalent transition metal centres (for example, Zn2+ and Co2+) linked by imidazolate linkers. ZIF th ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Semiconductor-based device architectures in multimaterial fibers

William Nicolas Duncan Esposito

Semiconductor materials have given rise to today's digital technology and consumer electronics. Widespread adoption is closely linked to the ability to process and integrate them in devices at scale. Where flexibility and large surfaces are required, such ...

EPFL2023

Structural and photophysical investigation of single-source evaporation of CsFAPbI(3) and FAPbI(3) perovskite thin films

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Hiroyuki Kanda, Nadja Isabelle Desiree Klipfel, Albertus Adrian Sutanto, Maria Cristina Momblona Rincón

Thermal vacuum deposition is a stimulating technique for upscaling perovskite solar cells. However, the operational complexity of multisource vapor deposition (MSVD) and achieving stoichiometric perovskite layers may impede its implementation. The single-s ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2022

In Situ Reflectometry and Diffraction Investigation of the Multiscale Structure of p-Type Polysilicon Passivating Contacts for c-Si Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Andrea Ingenito, Audrey Marie Isabelle Morisset

The integration of passivating contacts based on a highly doped polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) layer on top of a thin silicon oxide (SiOx) layer has been identified as the next step to further increase the conversion efficiency of current mainstream cry ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Semiconducting two dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides via solution-processable routes

Rebekah Anne Wells

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) possess remarkable optoelectronic properties which are unique and tunable based on composition and thickness. These materials are posed to revolutionize ultrathin devices across many fields inclu ...

EPFL2022

Composition and Interface Engineering of High Performing Perovskite Solar Cells

Mousa Abdulla M E Abuhelaiqa

Perovskite solar cells have been established as a disruptive technology in the domain of photo-voltaics. Their facile, low-temperature processing and high-power conversion efficiency make them stand-out among other mature solar technologies. The performanc ...

EPFL2022

Self-Exciting Point Processes: Identification and Control

Michael Mark

This thesis addresses theoretical and practical aspects of identification and subsequent control of self-exciting point processes. The main contributions correspond to four separate scientific papers. In the first paper, we address the challenge of robust ...

EPFL2022

Synthesis, structural and magnetic characterization of thin films of the chiral magnets CoZnMn and FeGe

Anna Kúkol'ová

Skyrmions are topologically protected nanometer-sized magnetic vortices that have sparked interest for future spintronics applications aiming at high-density, high-speed and low-power consuming magnetic memory devices. One type of skyrmions appears in non- ...

EPFL2021

Ligand Locking on Quantum Dot Surfaces via a Mild Reactive Surface Treatment

Aurélien Bornet, Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Ona Segura Lecina

At the outermost surface of colloidal QDs are organic surface ligands which dynamically bind and release in solution to control the growth kinetics, control the size/shape of the crystals, passivate surface states, and provide colloidal stability through f ...

2021

Pseudo-halide anion engineering for α-FAPbI3 perovskite solar cells

Jiyoun Seo, Haizhou Lu, Jaeki Jeong

Metal halide perovskites of the general formula ABX3—where A is a monovalent cation such as caesium, methylammonium or formamidinium; B is divalent lead, tin or germanium; and X is a halide anion—have shown great potential as light harvesters for thin-film ...

2021

Controlling PbI2 Stoichiometry during Synthesis to Improve the Performance of Perovskite Photovoltaics

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Vikas Kumar

Over the past decade, remarkable progress has advanced the field of perovskite solar cells to the forefront of thin film solar technologies. The stoichiometry of the perovskite material is of paramount importance as it determines the optoelectronic propert ...

2021

Crystalline Order in Compound Semiconductors in Nanoscale Structures and Thin Films

Mahdi Zamani

Semiconductors materials and devices are essential building blocks for many of the technologies deeply embedded in modern life. Improving the performance of semiconductor devices requires a deeper understanding of the fundamental mechanisms controlling the ...

EPFL2021

Towards defect-free thin films of the earth-abundant absorber zinc phosphide by nanopatterning

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Reza Zamani, Martin George Friedl, Mahdi Zamani, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Rajrupa Paul, Valerio Piazza

Large-scale deployment of thin-film photovoltaics will be facilitatedthrough earth-abundant components. Herein, selective area epitaxyand lateral overgrowth epitaxy are explored for the growth of zincphosphide (Zn3P2), a promising earth-abundant absorber. ...

2021

Crystallization and Organic Field-Effect Transistor Performance of a Hydrogen-Bonded Quaterthiophene

Philippe Bugnon, Rosario Scopelliti, Stéphane Suarez, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Holger Frauenrath, Jan Gebers, Riccardo Petraglia, Piotr De Silva, Bilal Özen

Crystalline thin films of pi-conjugated molecules are relevant as the active layers in organic electronic devices. Therefore, materials with enhanced control over the supramolecular arrangement, crystallinity, and thin-film morphology are desirable. Herein ...

2020