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A downsized laser powder bed fusion device for operando neutron studies: design and experiments

This work reports on the development of a downsized laser powder bed fusion device for operando neutron characterization. The design considerations, device configurations, and detailed setup are described. The device is optimized for installations at neutr ...

2025

Radio-frequency capacitively coupled plasma parameters evolution as a function of magnetic field strength

Ivo Furno, Alessandro Geraldini

The use of magnetic fields in low-temperature plasma physics is promising in numerous applications. The magnetic field acts on the kinetic of the plasma charged particles, drastically modifying the ion and electron trajectories in the plasma. The influence ...

2025

Modelling of nonneutral plasmas trapped by electric and magnetic fields relevant to gyrotron electron guns

Guillaume Michel Le Bars

Gyrotrons are a class of high-power vacuum-electronics microwave sources, which are envisioned to play an important role in the domain of magnetically confined fusion plasmas. Indeed, only gyrotrons are capable of producing continuous electromagnetic waves ...

EPFL2023

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Enables NMR of Surface Passivating Agents on Hybrid Perovskite Thin Films

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, David Lyndon Emsley, Lukas Pfeifer, Aditya Mishra, Michael Allan Hope, Masaud Hassan S Almalki

Surface and bulk molecular modulators are the key to improving the efficiency and stability of hybrid perovskite solar cells. However, due to their low concentration, heterogeneous environments, and low sample mass, it remains challenging to characterize t ...

2022

3D reconstruction of curvilinear structures with stereo matching deep convolutional neural networks

Pascal Fua, Cécile Hébert, Emad Oveisi, Anastasiia Mishchuk, Okan Altingövde, Gulnaz Ganeeva

Curvilinear structures frequently appear in microscopy imaging as the object of interest. Crystallographic defects, i.e dislocations, are one of the curvilinear structures that have been repeatedly investigated under transmission electron microscopy (TEM) ...

ELSEVIER2022

An enhanced-performance Al-air battery optimizing the alkaline electrolyte with a strong Lewis acid ZnCl2

Liping Zhong

Al-air batteries are regarded as the potential energy conversion systems due to the ultra-high theoretical specific ca-pacity of 2980 mAh/g and specific energy of 8100 mWh/g for Al anodes. However, the anodic self-corrosion has severely limited the energy ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

The Role of Organic Promoters in the Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide

Paul Joseph Dyson, Dmitry Vasilyev

The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2RR) currently attracts considerable attention as a way to make fuels and value-added products from CO2 using renewable energy. Much effort has been devoted to developing efficient electrode materials for ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Nanoscale interfacial engineering enables highly stable and efficient perovskite photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Mounir Driss Mensi, Hong Zhang, Anurag Krishna, Sandy Sanchez Alonso, Mathias Dankl, Olivier Ouellette

We present a facile molecular-level interface engineering strategy to augment the long-term operational and thermal stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) by tailoring the interface between the perovskite and hole transporting layer (HTL) with a multif ...

2021

When photoluminescence, electroluminescence, and open-circuit voltage diverge - light soaking and halide segregation in perovskite solar cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Bowen Yang, Yeonju Kim

Perovskite solar cells suffer from various instabilities on all time scales. Some of them are driven by light, in particular when employing compounds with mixed halides. Such light soaking effects have been observed to result in performance changes of sola ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Identifying Reactive Sites and Surface Traps in Chalcopyrite Photocathodes

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Liang Yao, Mounir Driss Mensi, Nestor Guijarro Carratala, Yongpeng Liu, Meng Xia

Gathering information on the atomic nature of reactive sites and trap states is key to fine tuning catalysis and suppressing deleterious surface voltage losses in photoelectrochemical technologies. Here, spectroelectrochemical and computational methods wer ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2021

Infrared and 2-Dimensional Correlation Spectroscopy Study of the Effect of CH3NH3PbI3 and CH3NH3SnI3 Photovoltaic Perovskites on Eukaryotic Cells

László Forró, Endre Horvath, Ryma Iness Benmessaoud

We studied the effect of the exposure of human A549 and SH-SY5Y cell lines to aqueous solutions of organic/inorganic halide perovskites CH3NH3PbI3 (MAPbI3) and CH3NH3SnI3 (MASnI3) at the molecular level by using Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy ...

2020

Precision Positioning of Microrobots for Multi-Object Spectrographs

Luzius Gregor Kronig

How does one study the evolution of the Milky Way, or the expansion of the Universe, or explore the mysteries of Dark energy? To investigate these complex topics, astronomers require data, and a great deal of it, in the form of the spectra of stars, galaxi ...

EPFL2020

Electrochemical systems for hydrogen fuel cell and battery electric vehicle infrastructure

Yorick Ligen

Thermodynamics and heat engines are the core disciplines which enabled the development of the thermo-industrial society during the 20th century. Liquid hydrocarbon fuels are one of the easiest and most convenient solutions offered by the thermophysical con ...

EPFL2020

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

Boosting contact sliding and wear protection via atomic intermixing and tailoring of nanoscale interfaces

Reuben Yeo Jueyuan

Friction and wear cause energy wastage and system failure. Usually, thicker overcoats serve to combat such tribological concerns, but in many contact sliding systems, their large thickness hinders active components of the systems, degrades functionality, a ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)2019