Publications by Christian Monachon

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TEM characterization of textured silicon heterojunction solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Christian Monachon

Increasing the efficiency of crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells requires the reduction of both bulk and interface recombination. Even if bulk recombination is almost suppressed, the symmetry of the crystal lattice is disturbed at the surface and hence, ...

Springer2008

Thermal Boundary Conductance between metals and dielectrics

Christian Monachon

This work consists in an experimental study of the main parameters governing the transport of heat across an interface between two solids, when it is dominated by phonons. The main experimental tool used is Time-Domain ThermoReflectance (TDTR), which is an ...

EPFL2013

Properties of interfaces in amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunctions

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Stefaan De Wolf, Christian Monachon, Luc Fesquet

To study recombination at the amorphous/crystalline Si (a- Si:H/c-Si) heterointerface, the amphoteric nature of silicon (Si) dangling bonds is taken into account. Modeling interface recombination measured on various test structures provides insight into th ...

Wiley2010

Influence of diamond surface termination on thermal boundary conductance between Al and diamond

Ludger Weber, Christian Monachon

The effect of diamond surface treatment on the Thermal Boundary Conductance (TBC) between Al and diamond is investigated. The treatments consist in either of the following: exposition to a plasma of pure Ar, Ar:H and Ar:O, and HNO3:H2SO4 acid dip for vario ...

American Institute of Physics2013

Thermal conductivity and interfacial conductance of AlN particle reinforced metal matrix composites

Andreas Mortensen, Ludger Weber, Christian Monachon, Masahiro Kida

Aluminum nitride (AlN) particle reinforced metal-matrix-composites produced by pressure infiltration are characterized in terms of their thermal conductivity. The composites are designed to cover a wide range of phase contrast between the dispersed particl ...

American Institute of Physics2011

Thermal boundary conductance between refractory metal carbides and diamond

Ludger Weber, Christian Monachon

The thermal boundary conductance (TBC) between thin films of Cr, Mo, Nb and W and diamond substrates has been measured using time domain thermoreflectance before and after a high-vacuum heat treatment at 800 degrees C for 2 h. While no signs of carbide for ...

Elsevier2014

Hyperspectral fitting using hyperspy

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Nicolas Tappy, Christian Monachon

This version includes updates to use weighted PCA in heteroscedastic noise estimation. This set of Jupyter notebooks are used in the analysis of hyperspectral datasets with the hyperspy library. The file "clmap_type-IIB_HPHT_diamond-spikes_removed.hspy" ...

Zenodo2021

Influence of sample processing parameters on thermal boundary conductance value in an Al/AlN system

Ludger Weber, Mohamad Hojeij, Christian Monachon

The influence of sample processing parameters on the thermal boundary conductance (TBC) between aluminum and aluminum nitride has been investigated by transient thermoreflectance. An evaporated Al layer on the polished substrate yielded a TBC at ambient of ...

American Institute of Physics2011

Thermal boundary conductance of transition metals on diamond

Ludger Weber, Christian Monachon

An experimental process that was used to obtain a direct measurement of Thermal Boundary Conductance (TBC) between a diamond substrate and several transition metals, deposited by sputtering, is described. Using Time-Domain ThermoReflectance (TDTR), the cri ...

2012

Influence of a Nanometric Al2O3 Interlayer on the Thermal Conductance of an Al/(Si, Diamond) Interface

Ludger Weber, Christian Monachon

The effect of an Al2O3 interlayer on the thermal conductance of metal (Al)/non-metal (diamond and silicon) interfaces is investigated using Time Domain ThermoReflectance (TDTR). Interlayers between 1.7 and 20nm are deposited on oxygen-terminated diamond an ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Textured silicon heterojunction solar cells with over 700mV open-circuit voltage studied by transmission electron microscopy

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Stefaan De Wolf, Christian Monachon, Luc Fesquet

In this article, we report on the use of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) for the fabrication of high-performance textured amorphous/crystalline silicon (a-Si:H/c-Si) heterojunction (HJ) solar cells. Whereas classical thin-film characterization techn ...

2008

Qualitative link between work of adhesion and thermal conductance of metal/diamond interfaces

Ludger Weber, Christian Monachon, Efthimios Kaxiras

We report Time-Domain ThermoReflectance experiments measuring the Thermal Boundary Conductance (TBC) of interfaces between diamond and metal surfaces, based on samples consisting of [111] diamond substrates with hydrogen or with sp2 carbon surface terminat ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Rapid preparation and SEM microstructural characterization of nickel-yttria- stabilized zirconia cermets

Jan Van Herle, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Antonin Faes, Christian Monachon

Sample preparation and scanning electron microscopy imaging methods were developed to characterize solid-oxide fuel cell anodes made out of a nickel- yttria-stabilized zirconia porous cermet. The sample preparation uses only tripod polishing and does not r ...

2008