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Ultrathin liquid sheets: water gets in shape for VUV absorption

We present absorption spectra of thin, free-flowing liquid sheets in the vacuum ultraviolet energy range using a gas-squeezed liquid jet. Compared to liquid flow cells, operation without transmission windows eliminates restrictions on the energy range. The ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2025

Using mechanical spectroscopy in order to study the thermodynamics of a strain glass in a WC–Co ceramic metal composite

Daniele Mari, Lucas Eric Jacques Degeneve

WC–Co cemented carbides are one of the most widely used materials for the production of cutting tools, for their exceptional mechanical properties. Due to the extreme mechanical and thermal conditions of the cutting operations, understanding and controllin ...

2025

Solar reduction of carbon dioxide on copper-tin electrocatalysts with energy conversion efficiency near 20%

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Yuhang Liu, Dan Ren, Jing Gao, Jun Li, Meng Xia

Solar-driven carbon dioxide reduction has witnessed a renaissance in the past decades, but the system suffers from low reaction rates. Here the authors develop a copper/tin-oxide electrocatalyst, achieving a new benchmark solar-to-CO energy conversion effi ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Broadband visible two-dimensional spectroscopy of molecular dyes

Majed Chergui, Andre Al Haddad, Rebecca Ann Ingle, Lars-Hendrik Mewes

Two-dimensional Fourier transform spectroscopy is a promising technique to study ultrafast molecular dynamics. Similar to transient absorption spectroscopy, a more complete picture of the dynamics requires broadband laser pulses to observe transient change ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2021

Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering Studies of Low-Dimensional and Frustrated 3d Transition-Metal Oxides

Yi Tseng

3d transition-metal oxide materials with strong electron correlations and low dimensionality give rise to emerging exotic phases. Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) has developed as a powerful spectroscopic tool for probing the collective excitatio ...

EPFL2021

Probing unconventional performance of fiber resonators: light storage, generation and manipulation

Ivan Cardea

This thesis aims at investigating the performance of figure-9 (figure-of-nine) optical fiber resonators as a practical solution for light storage, light generation and manipulation. The first part of the thesis focuses on a theoretical and experimental stu ...

EPFL2021

Avoiding transduction-induced heating in suspended microchannel resonators using piezoelectricity

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Annalisa De Pastina, Damien Maillard, Amir Musa Abazari

Calorimetry of single biological entities remains elusive. Suspended microchannel resonators (SMRs) offer excellent performance for real-time detection of various analytes and could hold the key to unlocking pico-calorimetry experiments. However, the typic ...

SPRINGERNATURE2021

Resonant Band-Edge Emissive States in Strongly Confined CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanoplatelets

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Etienne Christophe Socie, Brener Rodrigo De Carvalho Vale, Aaron Tomas Terpstra

Strongly confined, fully inorganic cesium lead halide perovskite nanocrystals are of great promise for light-emitting devices in the blue spectral range owing to their high photoluminescence quantum yields. A combination of broadband fluorescence up-conver ...

2021

Dynamics of nanoscale systems probed by time-resolved STM-induced luminescence

Anna Maria Roslawska

The efficiency and peculiarities of processes such as surface adsorption or electron-to-photon energy conversion in organic and inorganic structures are determined by the dynamics at the scale of individual molecules, atoms and charges. The timescales of s ...

EPFL2019

Dual effect of humidity on cesium lead bromide: enhancement and degradation of perovskite films

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Simone Meloni

CsPbBr3 perovskite is highly desired to fabricate many optoelectronic devices: high photovoltage solar cells, tandem solar cells, light-emitting diodes, lasers, photodetectors, field effect transistors etc. However, to realize these applications, resistanc ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Assessing the Potential Deployment of Biosensors for Point-of-Care Diagnostics in Developing Countries: Technological, Economic and Regulatory Aspects

Daniel Migliozzi

Infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance are major burdens in developing countries, where very specific conditions impede the deployment of established medical infrastructures. Since biosensing devices are nowadays very common in developed countrie ...

MDPI2018

Infrared absorption spectroscopy

Hatice Altug

The present invention relates to an infrared absorption spectroscopy apparatus including an infrared transparent substrate comprising a first and second surface, an array of plasmonic nano-antennas arranged on the first surface of the infrared transparent ...

2016

State-Resolved Methane Dissociation on Pt(111) Studied by Reflection Absorption Infrared Spectroscopy

Rainer Beck, Li Chen, Hirokazu Ueta, Li Chen

The dissociation of methane on Pt(111) was studied using quantum state-resolved methods and reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS), at a surface temperature of 150 K where the nascent reaction products methyl(ads) and H(ads) are stable and acc ...

2015

Evaluation and analysis of vibrationally resolved electronic spectra with ab initio semiclassical dynamics

Marius Wehrle

Linear and nonlinear spectroscopy techniques are widely used to study numerous important chemical and physical processes. However, the interpretation of these experimental spectra often becomes very complicated because a particular spectrum constitutes a m ...

EPFL2015

Acquisition of multiple phase derivatives from a single frame in digital holographic interferometry

Pramod Rastogi, Rishikesh Dilip Kulkarni

This paper proposes a technique to extract two-dimensional multiple phase derivatives (strains, slopes, and shearing strains) from a single frame of the interference fringe pattern recorded in an optical setup with multiple illumination beams. In the propo ...

Spie-Soc Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers2015

Core-shell InGaN/GaN nanowire light emitting diodes analyzed by electron beam induced current microscopy and cathodoluminescence mapping

Gwénolé Jean Jacopin, Hua Zhang

We report on the electron beam induced current (EBIC) microscopy and cathodoluminescence (CL) characterization correlated with compositional analysis of light emitting diodes based on core/shell InGaN/GaN nanowire arrays. The EBIC mapping of cleaved fully ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015