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Gate Driver Power Supply With Low-Capacitance-Coupling and Constant Output Voltage for Medium-Voltage SiC MOSFETs

With the development of wide band-gap devices, Silicon Carbide (SiC) semiconductor devices in 10 kV–15 kV voltage class offer potentials in medium-voltage (MV) systems. To ensure reliable operation of these MV SiC devices, gate driver power supplies must m ...

2025

Investigation of room-temperature single-photon emitters in GaN-based materials and GaN/AlN quantum dots

Johann Nicolaï Stachurski

Over the past decade, quantum photonics platforms aiming at harnessing the fundamental properties of single particles, such as quantum superposition and quantum entanglement, have flourished. In this context, single-photon emitters capable of operating at ...

EPFL2024

Hausdorff dimension of fermions on a random lattice

Mattia Guerino Varrone

Geometric properties of lattice quantum gravity in two dimensions are studied numerically via Monte Carlo on Euclidean Dynamical Triangulations. A new computational method is proposed to simulate gravity coupled with fermions, which allows the study of int ...

Elsevier2024

Synthesis and properties of heterostructures in nanowires and 2-D materials

Akshay Balgarkashi

Modern solid-state devices were made possible by the discovery of semiconductor heterostructures. Heterostructures offer the ability to fabricate low-dimensional nanostructures such as quantum dots which can restrain carriers in all three-directions. Quant ...

EPFL2022

Enhancement-mode Multi-channel AlGaN/GaN Transistors with LiNiO Junction Tri-Gate

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Luca Nela, Taifang Wang

Multi-channel GaN power device, consisting of stacking multiple two-dimensional-electron-gas (2DEG) channels, has been demonstrated to achieve unprecedented on-state performance while maintaining high breakdown voltage (VBR). However, the large carrier den ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Oligothiophene Phosphonic Acids for Self-Assembled Monolayer Field-Effect Transistors

Thomas Schmaltz

Semiconducting self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) represent highly relevant components for the fabrication of organic thin-film electronics because they enable the precise formation of active it-conjugates in terms of orientation and layer thickness. In this ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Toward Bright and Pure Single Photon Emitters at 300 K Based on GaN Quantum Dots on Silicon

Nicolas Grandjean, Raphaël Butté, Gordon Jens Callsen, Sebastian Pascal Tamariz Kaufmann, Johann Nicolaï Stachurski, Kanako Shojiki

Quantum dots (QDs) based on III-nitride semi-conductors are promising for single photon emission at noncryogenic temperatures due to their large exciton binding energies. Here, we demonstrate GaN QD single photon emitters operating at 300 K with g((2)) (0) ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Direct Observation of Shallow Trap States in Thermal Equilibrium with Band‐Edge Excitons in Strongly Confined CsPbBr 3 Perovskite Nanoplatelets

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

Lead halide perovskites exhibit great potential for light-emitting devices. Enhanced photoluminescence (PL) is obtained in perovskite materials of reduced dimensionalities due to the large exciton binding energy. However, as the nanocrystal size is reduced ...

2021

SIMPLE code: Optical properties with optimal basis functions

Nicola Marzari, Paolo Umari, Gianluca Prandini

We present SIMPLE, a code developed to calculate optical properties of metallic and insulating extended systems using the optimal basis method originally proposed by E.L. Shirley in 1996. Two different approaches for the evaluation of the complex dielectri ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Mechanisms shifting the emission energy of self-assembled quantum dots in nanowires

Luca Francaviglia

This thesis is dedicated to the engineering of the emission energy of quantum dots embedded in core-shell GaAs-AlGaAs nanowires. The goal is to redshift the quantum-dot emission energy in resonance with a gas of Rb atoms. Segregation processes on the nanow ...

EPFL2019

Photocatalytic ammonia production enhanced by a plasmonic near-field and hot electrons originating from aluminium nanostructures

Olivier Martin, Christian Santschi, Madasamy Thangamuthu

Ammonia production at room temperature and atmospheric pressure is in high demand to assist in energy saving and the protection of the environment worldwide, as well as to help reduce CO2 emissions. Recently, plasmonic nanomaterials have been frequently us ...

2019

Transport of hot carriers in plasmonic nanostructures

Giulia Tagliabue

Plasmonic hot carrier devices extract excited carriers from metal nanostructures before equilibration and have the potential to surpass semiconductor light absorbers. However their efficiencies have so far remained well below theoretical limits, which nece ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Spin-valley optoelectronics based on two-dimensional materials

Dmitrii Unuchek

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, in particular graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC), have attracted great scientific interest over the last decade, revealing exceptional mechanical, electrical and optical properties. Owing to their layered n ...

EPFL2019

Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Constraints on extended cosmological models from galaxy clustering and weak lensing

Yi Zhang, Eduardo Sanchez, Jonathan Andrew Blazek

We present constraints on extensions of the minimal cosmological models dominated by dark matter and dark energy, Lambda CDM and wCDM, by using a combined analysis of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing from the first-year data of the Dark Ene ...

American Physical Society2019

Exciton Dynamics and Effects of Structural Order in Morphology-Controlled J-Aggregate Assemblies

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Surendra Babu Anantharaman

Narrow-band photoluminescence (PL) together with high quantum efficiency from organic molecules is essential for high-color-purity emitters. Supramolecular assemblies like J-aggregates are promising materials due to their narrow PL signal with full-width a ...

2019

Femtosecond Spectroscopy of Au Hot-Electron Injection into TiO2: Evidence for Au/TiO(2 )Plasmon Photocatalysis by Bactericidal Au Ions and Related Phenomena

Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi

In the present work, we provide evidence for visible light irradiation of the Au/TiO2 nanoparticles' surface plasmon resonance band (SPR) leading to electron injection from the Au nanoparticles to the conduction band of TiO2. The Au/TiO2 SPR band is shown ...

2019

III-Nitride Semiconductor Photonic Nanocavities on Silicon

Ian Michael Rousseau

Optical nanocavities enhance light-matter interaction due to their high quality factors (Q) and small modal volumes (V). The control of light-matter interaction lies at the heart of potential applications for integrated optical circuits, including optical ...

EPFL2018

Dilute-Nitride Low-Dimensional Nanostructures Formed on Non-Planar Substrates

Romain Carron

The properties of semiconductors heterostructures of nanoscopic dimensions change from that of bulk material according to the rules of quantum mechanics. The planar quantum wells (QWs) are widely used in various diode and laser devices thanks to the relati ...

EPFL2013

Iron oxide-mediated semiconductor photocatalysis vs. heterogeneous photo-Fenton treatment of viruses in wastewater. Impact of the oxide particle size

César Pulgarin, Sami Rtimi, Michaël Bensimon, Stefanos Giannakis, Anna Carratala Ripolles, Masoud Talebi Amiri

The photo-Fenton process is recognized as a promising technique towards microorganism disinfection in wastewater, but its efficiency is hampered at near-neutral pH operating values. In this work, we overcome these obstacles by using the heterogeneous photo ...

Elsevier2017

High-performance pure blue phosphorescent OLED using a novel bis-heteroleptic iridium(III) complex with fluorinated bipyridyl ligands

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

A novel pure blue phosphorescent emitter FK306 with fluorinated bipyridyl ligands was developed. The I-p level was determined to be 6.3 eV by photoelectron yield spectroscopy (PYS) in the solid state. The photophysical properties of a FK306/mCP film were e ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013