Publications related to Indium

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Quantitative study of the thickness-dependent stress in indium tin oxide thin films

Blaise François Cuénod, Rémy David Désiré Juttin

A quantitative analysis of stress in indium tin oxide (ITO) films with varying thicknesses was conducted using high-precision stylus profilometry. The experimental results revealed a transition of the stress type from tensile to compressive as the ITO film ...

Elsevier Science Sa2023

Voltage-driven Reactivity of Liquid Ga and CuGa Nanoparticles for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction and Synthesis

Valery Okatenko

The rising atmospheric level of carbon dioxide, CO2, contributes to climate change and poses urgent need to find scalable solutions both to decrease its emissions and to be able to recycle it, if the goals of Paris Agreement to limit the temperature rise a ...

EPFL2023

Silica aerogel as rear reflector in silicon heterojunction solar cells for improved infrared response

Deniz Türkay

Silicon (Si), with its indirect bandgap, is a non-ideal absorber. Thus, various strategies to boost silicon solar cells' efficiency, including advanced texturing, multilayer anti-reflecting coating, and rear reflectors are utilized. Dielectrics, deposited ...

ELSEVIER2023

Nanoscale Growth Initiation as a Pathway to Improve the Earth-Abundant Absorber Zinc Phosphide

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Mahdi Zamani, Rajrupa Paul, Mirjana Dimitrievska, Elias Zsolt Stutz

Growth approaches that limit the interface area between layers to nanoscale regions are emerging as a promising pathway to limit the interface defect formation due to mismatching lattice parameters or thermal expansion coefficient. Interfacial defect mitig ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Highly Ordered and Thermally Stable FeRh Cluster Superlattice on Graphene for Low-Temperature Catalytic CO Oxidation

Harald Brune, Jean-Guillaume De Groot, Hao Yin

We report on bimetallic FeRh clusters with a narrow size-distribution grown on graphene on Ir(111) as a carbon-supported model catalyst to promote low-temperature catalytic CO oxidation. By combining scanning tunneling microscopy with catalytic performance ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Reactivity of Multimetallic Thorium Nitrides Generated by Reduction of Thorium Azides

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Luciano Barluzzi, Fang-Che Hsueh

Thorium nitrides are likely intermediates in the reported cleavage and functionalization of dinitrogen by molecular thorium complexes and are attractive compounds for the study of multiple bond formation in f-element chemistry, but only one example of thor ...

2022

Near ambient-pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy study of CO2 activation and hydrogenation on indium/copper surface

Andreas Züttel, Wen Luo, Mo Li

Indium-based catalysts exhibit excellent performance for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol, yet their nature and chemical evolution under reaction conditions are still elusive, thus hindering an understanding of their reaction mechanism. In this work, near amb ...

2021

Development of a Heavy Metal Sensing Boat for Automatic Analysis in Natural Waters Utilizing Anodic Stripping Voltammetry

Bhawna Nagar

Determination of the levels of heavy metal ions would support assessment of sources and pathways of water pollution. However, traditional spatial assessment by manual sampling and off-site detection in the laboratory is expensive and time-consuming and req ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Fabrication of Single-Crystalline InSb-on-Insulator by Rapid Melt Growth

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Nicholas Paul Morgan

InSb has the smallest bandgap and highest electron mobility among III-V semiconductors and is widely used for photodetectors and high-frequency electronic applications. Integration of InSb directly on Si would drastically reduce the fabrication cost and en ...

Wiley2021

Defect incorporation in In-containing layers and quantum wells: experimental analysis via deep level profiling and optical spectroscopy

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Camille Haller

Recent studies demonstrated that the performance of InGaN/GaN quantum well (QW) light emitting diodes (LEDs) can be significantly improved through the insertion of an InGaN underlayer (UL). The current working hypothesis is that the presence of the UL redu ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Revealing Exciton and Metal–Ligand Conduction Band Charge Transfer Absorption Spectra in Cu-Zn-In-S Nanocrystals

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Etienne Christophe Socie, Brener Rodrigo De Carvalho Vale

Copper indium sulfide quantum dots (QDs) have attracted substantial attention in recent years due to environmental issues and diverse applications. We report the synthesis and characterization of copper-zinc-indium-sulfide (CZIS) QDs and CZIS treated with ...

2020

Determination of the internal piezoelectric potentials and indium concentration in InGaN based quantum wells grown on relaxed InGaN pseudo-substrates by off-axis electron holography

Victor Carle Adrien Boureau

Micro light emitting diodes have been grown by metal organic vapor phase epitaxy on standard GaN and partly relaxed InGaNOS substrates with the purpose of incorporating higher concentrations of indium for identical growth conditions. Green emission has bee ...

2020

Growth and characterisation of earth-abundant semiconductor nanostructures for solar energy harvesting

Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall

Zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) is a compound semiconductor based on earth-abundant elements with functional properties ideal for solar cell applications. Cheap, abundant, and renewable energy sources are increasingly imperative due to the imminent threat posed by ...

EPFL2020

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

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

Construction of MOF/Polymer Composites for Metal Ion Capture

Daniel Teav Sun

Metal ion capture is of environmental and economic significance. The industrial revolutions have discharged increasing amounts of heavy and precious metals into complex water sources. The key is that these types of metal ions tend to be at trace amounts in ...

EPFL2020

Band alignment at beta-Ga2O3/III-N (III = Al, Ga) interfaces through hybrid functional calculations

Alfredo Pasquarello, Sai Lyu

The band alignment and the chemical bonding at the beta -Ga2O3/AlN and beta -Ga2O3/GaN interfaces are studied through hybrid functional calculations. We construct realistic slab models with III-O (III = Al, Ga) bonds dominating the chemical bonding at both ...

2020

Colloidal-ALD-Grown Core/Shell CdSe/CdS Nanoplatelets as Seen by DNP Enhanced PASS-PIETA NMR Spectroscopy

David Lyndon Emsley, Brennan James Walder, Laura Piveteau

Ligand exchange and CdS shell growth onto colloidal CdSe nanoplatelets (NPLs) using colloidal atomic layer deposition (c-ALD) were investigated by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments, in particular, dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) e ...

2020

Multiple morphologies and functionality of nanowires made from earth-abundant zinc phosphide

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Thomas La Grange, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Nicolas Tappy, Mahdi Zamani, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Rajrupa Paul, Reza Zamani

The raw data used in the publication of MBE grown Zinc Phosphide nanowires. ...

2019

Multiple morphologies and functionality of nanowires made from earth-abundant zinc phosphide

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Thomas La Grange, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Nicolas Tappy, Mahdi Zamani, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Rajrupa Paul, Reza Zamani

Semiconductors made of earth-abundant elements, such as zinc phosphide, have the potential to substitute less abundant, highly functional compound semiconductors such as InAs or InP. Compound semiconductors in the form of nanowires could revolutionise appl ...

2020

Probing Alloy Formation Using Different Excitonic Species: The Particular Case of InGaN

Nicolas Grandjean, Raphaël Butté, Gordon Jens Callsen

Since the early 1960s, alloys are commonly grouped into two classes that feature either bound states in the band gap (I) or additional, nondiscrete band states (II). Consequently, one can observe either excitons bound to isoelectronic impurities or the typ ...

American Physical Society2019