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The thermally activated distortion with amplification effect and related variant selection in red gold alloys

Roland Logé, Cyril Cayron, Margaux Nathalie Dominique Larcher

Variant selection during the A1→L10 transformation in a polycrystalline red gold alloy close to equiatomic Au-Cu composition has been extensively studied by Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) in our previous work. The use of a mathematical description ...

2020

Universal approach toward high-efficiency two-dimensional perovskite solar cells via a vertical-rotation process

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Cristina Roldán Carmona, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Yong Ding, Mo Li

The emerging 2D perovskites exhibit superior stability and similar optoelectronic attributes compared to the 3D analogues, but their strong exciton-binding energy and inferior interlayer charge-transport reduce dramatically the device performance. Herein, ...

2020

Electrons leave the flatland: out-of-plane charge dynamics in layered materials

Edoardo Martino

The goal of this thesis is to explore the "neglected" third dimension of layered materials, by studying the interlayer charge dynamics through dc conductivity, optical spectroscopy and ab-initio calculations. This project was designed to respond to the gro ...

EPFL2020

Neutron Diffraction and Diffraction Contrast Imaging for Mapping the TRIP Effect under Load Path Change

Helena Van Swygenhoven

The transformation induced plasticity (TRIP) effect is investigated during a load path change using a cruciform sample. The transformation properties are followed by in-situ neutron diffraction derived from the central area of the cruciform sample. Additio ...

MDPI2020

Triplet grain growth in a-texture polycrystalline ZnO thin films

Cécile Hébert, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Arthur Brian Aebersold

A growth of grain triplets is identified in vapor deposited, a-texture polycrystalline zinc oxide thin films, using a combination of transmission electron microscopy-based automated crystal orientation mapping and high-resolution imaging. Each triplet cons ...

2020

Impact of negative bias on the piezoelectric properties through the incidence of abnormal oriented grains in Al0.62Sc0.38N thin films

Paul Muralt, Thomas La Grange, Fazel Parsapour, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Lukas Riemer, Robin Nigon, Xiao Di

Sputter deposited A1ScN films with an Sc content of 38 at % were investigated by X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy to study the influence of the radio frequency (RF) bias on the growth of abnormally oriented grains (AOG). Scanning electron microsco ...

2020

Effect of AlN seed layer on crystallographic characterization of piezoelectric AlN

Paul Muralt, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Annalisa De Pastina, Kaitlin Marie Howell, Ramin Matloub Aghdam, Waqas Bashir

Ultrathin aluminum nitride (AlN) films are of great interest for integration into nanoelectromechanical systems for actuation and sensing. Given the direct relationship between crystallographic texture and piezoelectric (PZE) response, x-ray diffraction ha ...

2019

Crystal Orientation and Grain Size: Do They Determine Optoelectronic Properties of MAPbI(3) Perovskite?

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Michael Saliba, Sandy Sanchez Alonso

Growing large, oriented grains of perovskite often leads to efficient devices, but it is unclear if properties of the grains are responsible for the efficiency. Domains observed in SEM are commonly misidentified with crystallographic grains, but SEM images ...

2019

Copper-Catalyzed 1,2-Methoxy Methoxycarbonylation of Alkenes with Methyl Formate

Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Alexandre Julien Florent Leclair, Balázs Budai

Reported here is a copper-catalyzed 1,2-methoxy methoxycarbonylation of alkenes by an unprecedented use of methyl formate as a source of both the methoxy and the methoxycarbonyl groups. This reaction transforms styrene and its derivatives into value-added ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2019

High-quality single crystal diamond diffraction gratings fabricated by crystallographic etching

Olivier Martin, Toralf Scharf, Niels Quack, Christian Santschi, Teodoro Graziosi, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Adrien Marc Toros

We demonstrate a novel method for fabricating single crystal diamond diffraction gratings based on crystallographic etching that yields high-quality diffraction gratings from commercially available diamond plates. Both V-groove and rectangular gratin ...

2019

Electron backscatter diffraction study of variant selection during ordering phase transformation in L1(0)-type red gold alloy

Roland Logé, Cyril Cayron, Margaux Nathalie Dominique Larcher

A shape-memory effect is known to appear in red gold alloys with compositions close to Au-Cu. The aim of this paper is to study by electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) the variant selection in the A1 -> L1(0) transformation occurring under stress, in be ...

INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY2019

Orientation selection in dendritic evolution

Michel Rappaz, Frédéric Claude Denis Dreyer

Computational and experimental demonstration of dendritic crystal growth direction and the morphologic diversity of the resulting dendritic structures are discussed. The primary dendrite growth directions can vary continuously between different crystallogr ...

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