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Structural and magnetic properties of β-Li2IrO3 after grazing-angle focused ion beam thinning

Manipulating the size and orientation of quantum materials is often used to tune emergent phenomena, but precise control of these parameters is also necessary from an experimental point of view. Various synthesis techniques already exist, such as epitaxial ...

2025

An in-situ/operando laser powder bed fusion system for advanced neutron characterization

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The landscape of production technologies for three-dimensional structures is experiencing a significant transformation, driven by advancements in computer-controlled layer-wise material deposition techniques, commonly known as additive manufacturing (AM) o ...

EPFL2025

A dephasing sweet spot with enhanced dipolar coupling

Pasquale Scarlino

Two-level systems (TLSs) are the basic units of quantum computers but face a trade-off between operation speed and coherence due to shared coupling paths. Here, we investigate a TLS given by a singlet-triplet (ST+) transition. We identify a magnetic-field ...

2025

Fluorene-Terminated π-Conjugated Spiro-Type Hole Transport Materials for Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Guixiang Li

Spiro-OMeTAD is a widely used hole transport material (HTM) in perovskite solar cells (PSCs), but its inherent low hole mobility and poor thermal stability affect the overall performance of PSCs. To overcome these limitations, we develop a series of fluore ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2025

Lack of embryonic skeletal muscle in mice leads to abnormal mineral deposition and growth

Marianne Liebi

Developing bones can be severely impaired by a range of disorders where muscular loading is abnormal. Recent work has indicated that the effects of absent skeletal muscle on bones are more severe early in development, with rudiment length and mineralizatio ...

Elsevier2025

An upper pressure limit for low-Z benign termination of runaway electron beams in TCV

Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Umar Sheikh, Joan Decker, Claudia Colandrea, Luke Simons, Benjamin Alexandre Vincent, Martim Zurita, Marta Mariarmanda Pedrini

We present a model for the particle balance in the post-disruption runaway electron plateau phase of a tokamak discharge. The model is constructed with the help of, and applied to, experimental data from TCV discharges investigating the so-called 'low-Z be ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Mixed ionic-electronic conduction in Ruddlesden-Popper and Dion-Jacobson layered hybrid perovskites with aromatic organic spacers

Michael Graetzel, Jovana Milic, Joachim Maier, Algirdas Ducinskas

The understanding of mixed ionic-electronic conductivity in hybrid perovskites has enabled major advances in the development of optoelectronic devices based on this class of materials. While recent investigations revealed the potential of using dimensional ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2024

Collimation simulations for the FCC-ee

Milica Rakic, Tatiana Pieloni, Guillaume Clément Broggi, Giovanni Iadarola, Félix Simon Carlier

The collimation system of the Future Circular Collider, operating with leptons (FCC-ee), must protect not only the experiments against backgrounds, but also the machine itself from beam losses. With a 17.8 MJ stored energy of the electron and positron beam ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Controlling On-Surface Photoactivity: The Impact of π-Conjugation in Anhydride-Functionalized Molecules on a Semiconductor Surface

Christian Wäckerlin

On-surface synthesis has become a prominent method for growing low-dimensional carbon-based nanomaterials on metal surfaces. However, the necessity of decoupling organic nanostructures from metal substrates to exploit their properties requires either trans ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2024

Computational Studies on the Stability of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Halide Lead Perovskites

Mathias Dankl

Perovskite-based solar cells are currently the most rapidly advancing photovoltaic technology but concerns about their long-term stability are still impeding full-scale commercialization. This thesis provides computational insights into some of the stabili ...

EPFL2024

Thermoelectric power of overdoped Tl2201 crystals: charge density waves and T1 and T2 resistivities

Matthias Carsten Putzke

We report measurements of the in-plane thermoelectric power (TEP) for an overdoped (OD) crystal of the single layer cuprate superconductor Tl2Ba2CuO6+x (Tl2201) at several hole concentrations (p), from 300 or 400 K to below the superconducting transition t ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Molecular intercalation in the van der Waals antiferromagnets FePS3 and NiPS3

Bruce Normand

We have performed electrochemical treatment of the van der Waals antiferromagnetic materials FePS3 and NiPS3 with the ionic liquid EMIM-BF4, achieving significant molecular intercalation. Mass analysis of the intercalated compounds, EMIMx-FePS3 and EMIMx-N ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

On-site and intersite Hubbard corrections in magnetic monolayers: The case of FePS3 and CrI3

Nicola Marzari, Iurii Timrov, Edward Baxter Linscott, Seyedeh Fatemeh Haddadi Givi

Hubbard-corrected density-functional theory has proven to be successful in addressing self-interaction errors in 3D magnetic materials. However, the effectiveness of this approach for 2D magnetic materials has not been extensively explored. Here, we use PB ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

Electronic transport in graphene with out-of-plane disorder

Oleg Yazyev, Yifei Guan

Real-world samples of graphene often exhibit various types of out-of-plane disorder-ripples, wrinkles and folds-introduced at the stage of growth and transfer processes. These complex out-of-plane defects resulting from the interplay between self-adhesion ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Encoding quantum-chemical knowledge into machine-learning models of complex molecular properties

Ksenia Briling

Statistical (machine-learning, ML) models are more and more often used in computational chemistry as a substitute to more expensive ab initio and parametrizable methods. While the ML algorithms are capable of learning physical laws implicitly from data, ad ...

EPFL2024

Frustrated magnets in the limit of infinite dimensions: Dynamics and disorder-free glass transition

Achille Mauri

We study the statistical mechanics and the equilibrium dynamics of a system of classical Heisenberg spins with frustrated interactions on a d -dimensional simple hypercubic lattice, in the limit of infinite dimensionality d -> infinity . In the analysis we ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

Measuring electrical properties in semiconductor devices by pixelated STEM and off-axis electron holography (or convergent beams vs. plane waves)

Victor Carle Adrien Boureau

We demonstrate the use of both pixelated differential phase contrast (DPC) scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and off-axis electron holography (EH) for the measurement of electric fields and assess the advantages and limitations of each techn ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Orbital-Resolved DFT plus U for Molecules and Solids

Nicola Marzari, Iurii Timrov

We present an orbital-resolved extension of the Hubbard U correction to density-functional theory (DFT). Compared to the conventional shell-averaged approach, the prediction of energetic, electronic and structural properties is strongly improved, particula ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Pyroresistive response of percolating conductive polymer composites

Claudio Grimaldi

The pyroresistive response of conductive polymer composites (CPCs) has attracted much interest because of its potential applications in many electronic devices requiring a significant responsiveness to changes in external physical parameters such as temper ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy for Molecules: Effects of Electron Propagation into Vacuum

Klaus Kern, Abhishek Grewal

Using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), we experimentally and theoretically investigate isolated platinum phthalocyanine (PtPc) molecules adsorbed on an atomically thin NaCl(100) film vapor deposited on Au(111). We obtain good agreement between theory a ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024