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Optimizing Atomic Layer Deposition Processes with Nanowire-Assisted TEM Analysis

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is one of the premier methods to synthesize ultra-thin materials on complex surfaces. The technique allows for precise control of the thickness down to single atomic layers, while at the same time providing uniform coverage ev ...

Wiley2024

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

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

Synthesis of metal oxide-overcoated carbon materials by liquid phase ALD and their applications in catalysis

Farzaneh Talebkeikhah

Coating nano particles and other substrates for efficiency enhancement, protection and obtaining new atomic structures is a widespread research topic in catalysis and material synthesis. Thus far, different approaches of coating, ranging from simplest to s ...

EPFL2023

Control of intermetallics in the interface in directed energy deposition of titanium on stainless steel 316L

Di Cui

Application of a single metal or alloy is often restricted by its properties from optimal combination of performance and cost. Therefore, there is a vast need of joining dissimilar metals for various applications in biomedical, aerospace, automobile and ma ...

EPFL2023

III-V Nitride Semiconductors Deposited At Low Temperature For Photovoltaic Applications

Jonathan Emanuel Thomet

This thesis reports on the study and use of low temperature processes for the deposition of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) thin films in order to alleviate some of the present drawbacks of its monolitic deposition on silicon for photovoltaic applications. ...

EPFL2023

Full Solution Process of a Near-Infrared Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cell Based on Novel Emissive Ruthenium Complexes of 1,10-Phenanthroline-Derived Ligands and a Eutectic Alloy as the Top Electrode

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

Near-infrared luminescent materials have recently received considerable attention for a large number of applications, including in solid-state lighting, as bioimaging agents, as photovoltaic cells, and in the telecommunication industry. By adding diverse e ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Selective Growth of van der Waals Heterostructures Enabled by Electron-Beam Irradiation

Aleksandra Radenovic, Michal Daniel Macha

Van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHSs) enable the fabricationof complex electronic devices based on two-dimensional (2D) materials.Ideally, these vdWHSs should be fabricated in a scalable and repeatableway and only in the specific areas of the substrate t ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

CVD of MoS2 single layer flakes using Na2MoO4 - impact of oxygen and temperature-time-profile

Andreas Stemmer, Christian Wäckerlin

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are of great interest in many fields due to their astonishing properties at an atomic level thickness. Many fundamentally different methods to synthesize 2D materials, such as exfoliation or chemical vapor deposition (CVD), h ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2023

Manufacturing-Enabled Tunability of Linear and Nonlinear Epsilon-Near-Zero Properties in Indium Tin Oxide Nanofilms

Qian Li, Xuanyi Liu, Jiaye Wu

Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materialshave attracted great interestdue to their exotic linear and nonlinear responses, which makes itsignificant to tune ENZ wavelengths for wavelength-dependent applications.However, studies to achieve tunability in a wide spect ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Atomic doping & coating for Electrocatalysis & Li-ion batteries

Albert Claude Jean-Pierre Daubry

Molybdenum atomic-doping on bio-waste derived nitrogen-doped conductive carbon electrocatalyst was synthesized and investigated for the dinitrogen reduction to ammonia in alkaline media. The assessment of the catalytic activity was found to be non-trivial ...

EPFL2022

Structure, Oxygen Content and Electric Properties of Titanium Nitride Electrodes in TiNx/La:HfO2/TiNx Stacks Grown by PEALD on SiO2/Si

Philippe Buffat, Elena Suvorova Buffat

This work reports experimental results of the quantitative determination of oxygen and band gap measurement in the TiNx electrodes in planar TiNx top/La:HfO2/TiNx bottom MIM stacks obtained by plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition on SiO2. Methodological ...

2022

Investigation in Crystal Growth/Morphology and Interface Engineering of Perovskite Solar Cells by Different Deposition Methods

Nadja Isabelle Desiree Klipfel

A new and promising technology has emerged to compete with traditional silicon photovoltaic semiconductors. The low material and processing costs and high-power conversion efficiencies of organic-inorganic metal halide perovskites make these a promising te ...

EPFL2022

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

Wafer-scale MoS2 with water-vapor assisted showerhead MOCVD

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

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

Demonstrating and Unraveling a Controlled Nanometer-Scale Expansion of the Vacancy Defects in Graphene by CO2

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Luis Francisco Villalobos Vazquez de la Parra, Kuang-Jung Hsu

A controlled manipulation of graphene edges and vacancies is desired for molecular separation, sensing and electronics applications. Unfortunately, available etching methods always lead to vacancy nucleation making it challenging to control etching. Herein ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2022

Solar reduction of carbon dioxide on copper-tin electrocatalysts with energy conversion efficiency near 20%

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Yuhang Liu, Dan Ren, Jing Gao, Meng Xia, Jun Li

Solar-driven carbon dioxide reduction has witnessed a renaissance in the past decades, but the system suffers from low reaction rates. Here the authors develop a copper/tin-oxide electrocatalyst, achieving a new benchmark solar-to-CO energy conversion effi ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Ultra low quantum decoherence nano-optomechanical systems

Mohammadjafar Bereyhi

Thermal motion of a room-temperature mechanical resonator typically dominates the quantum backaction of its position measurement. This is a longstanding barrier for exploring cavity optomechanics at room temperature. In order to enter the quantum regime of ...

EPFL2022

From pulsed-DCMS and HiPIMS to microwave plasma-assisted sputtering: Their influence on the properties of diamond-like carbon films

Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Johann Michler, David Brown, Caroline Hain, Thomas Nelis

The fabrication of high-hardness non-hydrogenated diamond-like carbon (DLC) via standard magnetron sputtering (MS) is often hindered by the low sputtering yields and ionisation rates of carbon, therefore investigations into pulsed alternatives of MS, else ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Mass transport of water vapor and ions from Å-scale graphene nanopores

Wan-Chi Lee

Hydrodynamics at the nanoscale involves both fundamental study and application of fluid and mass transport phenomena in nanometer-sized confinements. Nanopores in single-layer graphene can be highly attractive for exploring the molecular transport of gas a ...

EPFL2022