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Hollow Mesoporous Plasmonic Nanoshells for Enhanced Solar Vapor Generation

Demetri Psaltis, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Ye Pu, Ye Pu, Jae-Woo Choi, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Marcin Stefan Zielinski, Thomas La Grange

In the past decade, nanomaterials have made their way into a variety of technologies in solar energy, enhancing the performance by taking advantage of the phenomena inherent to the nanoscale. Recent examples exploit plasmonic core/shell nanoparticles to ac ...

American Chemical Society2016

Strain glass transition of cobalt phase in a cemented carbide

Daniele Mari, Thomas La Grange, Samy Adjam

Cemented carbides are hard materials used for the fabrication of cutting tools. They consist of hard micron or sub-micron carbide grains held together in a matrix of a tough metallic binder such as cobalt. The understanding and control of cobalt characteri ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Analytics at the nanometer and nanosecond scales by short electron pulses in an electron microscope

Thomas La Grange

Chemical reactions and phase transformations in nanometer-size objects may happen at very short timescales, so conventional characterization tools are not applicable. A new technique combining high spatial and temporal resolution is ultrafast (or dynamic) ...

SPRINGER2022

Determination of crystal growth rates during rapid solidification of polycrystalline aluminum by nano-scale spatio-temporal resolution in situ transmission electron microscopy

Thomas La Grange

In situ investigations of rapid solidification in polycrystalline Al thin films were conducted using nano-scale spatio-temporal resolution dynamic transmission electron microscopy. Differences in crystal growth rates and asymmetries in melt pool developmen ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Light-Induced Metastable Hidden Skyrmion Phase in the Mott Insulator Cu2OSeO3

Phoebe Marie Tengdin, Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Arnaud Magrez, Fabrizio Carbone, Thomas La Grange, Ivan Madan, Simone Gargiulo, Benoît Guilhem Michel Binh Truc

The discovery of a novel long-lived metastable skyrmion phase in the multiferroic insulator Cu2OSeO3 visualized with Lorentz transmission electron microscopy for magnetic fields below the equilibrium skyrmion pocket is reported. This phase can be accessed ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

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

Irradiation-induced phase transformation in undeformed and deformed NiTi shape memory thin films by high-energy ion beams

Robin Schäublin, Thomas La Grange

Irradiation-induced transformations in sputter-deposited Ti-rich NiTi thin films have been investigated with special attention given to the effects of prior deformation on the response of martensite phase. Irradiation at low fluence was carried out at room ...

2005

Current status and future directions for in situ transmission electron microscopy

Thomas La Grange

This review article discusses the current and future possibilities for the application of in situ transmission electron microscopy to reveal synthesis pathways and functional mechanisms in complex and nanoscale materials. The findings of a group of scienti ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Electron spectrometer calibration method

Tobias Kippenberg, Fabrizio Carbone, Arslan Sajid Raja, Thomas La Grange, Yujia Yang, Alexey Sapozhnik, Bruce Michael Raleigh Weaver, Paolo Cattaneo

The present invention concerns an energy dispersion calibration method for calibrating an electron spectrometer of an electron spectrometer system including at least one electron emission source, electron optics and the electron spectrometer. The method co ...

2023

Tuning Topological Spin Textures in Size-Tailored Chiral Magnet Insulator Particles

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Arnaud Magrez, Ivica Zivkovic, Thomas La Grange, Priya Ranjan Baral

Topological spin textures such as skyrmions hold high potential for use as magnetically active elements in diverse near-future applications. While skyrmions in metallic multilayers attract great attention in this context, unleashing the myriad potential of ...

2022

Abnormal Grain Growth in AlScN Thin Films Induced by Complexion Formation at Crystallite Interfaces

Paul Muralt, Thomas La Grange, Stefan Mertin, Vladimir Pashchenko, Fazel Parsapour, Silviu Cosmin Sandu, Ramin Matloub Aghdam

Sputter deposited Al(1-x)ScxN thin films with a Sc content from x = 0 to 43 at% are investigated by electron microscopy in order to study and explain the formation and growth of abnormally oriented grains (AOG). It is found that the latter did not nucleate ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2019

Unifying Optical Frequency Metrology with Free-Electron Spectroscopy

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Fabrizio Carbone, Arslan Sajid Raja, Thomas La Grange, Yujia Yang, Alexey Sapozhnik, Bruce Michael Raleigh Weaver, Paolo Cattaneo

We establish a frequency link across the microwave, optical, and free-electron domains by a photonic chip-based electron phase modulator driven by a continuous-wave laser locked to a fully stabilized optical frequency comb. ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Nanosecond electron pulses in the analytical electron microscopy of a fast irreversible chemical reaction

Thomas La Grange

We show how the kinetics of a fast and irreversible chemical reaction in a nanocrystalline material at high temperature can be studied using nanosecond electron pulses in an electron microscope. Infrared laser pulses first heat a nanocrystalline oxide laye ...

Springer2019

Passivation Mechanism Exploiting Surface Dipoles Affords High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells

Fatemeh Ansari, Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Thomas La Grange, Kazuteru Nonomura, Erfan Shirzadi

The employment of 2D perovskites is a promising approach to tackling the stability and voltage issues inherent in perovskite solar cells. It remains unclear, however, whether other perovskites with different dimensionalities have the same effect on efficie ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Ultrafast generation of hidden phases via energy-tuned electronic photoexcitation in magnetite

Fabrizio Carbone, Thomas La Grange, Ivan Madan, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Gabriele Berruto, Francesco Pennacchio, Benoît Guilhem Michel Binh Truc, Paolo Usai, Siham Benhabib

Phase transitions occurring in nonequilibrium conditions can evolve through high-energy intermediate states inaccessible via equilibrium adiabatic conditions. Because of the subtle nature of such hidden phases, their direct observation is extremely challen ...

National Academy of Sciences2024

Unraveling the sign reversal of the anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnet/heavy-metal ultrathin films

Thomas La Grange

The sign reversal in the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) that occurs for material offers great prospects for AHE-based spintronic devices design. However, the mechanisms are still controversial in ultrathin ferromagnetic/heavy metal thin film systems due to th ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

High-resolution MHz time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy based on a tunable vacuum ultraviolet source

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Marco Grioni, Fabrizio Carbone, Jan Hugo Dil, Thomas La Grange, Michele Puppin, Fei Guo, Siham Benhabib, Lukas Jürgen Hellbrück

The time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (trARPES) allows for direct mapping of the electronic band structure and its dynamic response on femtosecond timescales. Here, we present a new ARPES system, powered by a new fiber-based femtosecond l ...

Aip Publishing2024

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