Publications related to Molecular relaxation effects in hydrogen chloride photoacoustic detection

The influence of the gas on the dynamics of cavitation bubbles

Cavitation bubbles, extensively investigated in fluid mechanics, present enduring challenges in hydraulic machinery, while holding considerable potential for practical applications in biomedicine and sonochemistry. Despite more than a century of research, ...

EPFL2023

Molecular dynamics simulations of the evaporation of hydrated ions from aqueous solution

Philip Robin Loche

Although important for atmospheric processes and gas-phase catalysis, very little is known about the hydration state of ions in the vapor phase. Here we study the evaporation energetics and kinetics of a chloride ion from liquid water by molecular dynamics ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

In situ work function measurements of W, WO3 nanostructured surfaces

Francisco Sanchez

Surface nanostructuring enables the fabrication of materials with highly desirable properties. Nanostructured tungsten surfaces have potential applications in solar water splitting. Exposing a polished tungsten surface to helium plasma induces various surf ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Effects of surface rigidity and metallicity on dielectric properties and ion interactions at aqueous hydrophobic interfaces

Philip Robin Loche

Using classical molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate the dielectric properties at interfaces of water with graphene, graphite, hexane, and water vapor. For graphite, we compare metallic and nonmetallic versions. At the vapor-liquid water and hexa ...

AIP Publishing2022

Mass transport of water vapor and ions from Å-scale graphene nanopores

Wan-Chi Lee

Hydrodynamics at the nanoscale involves both fundamental study and application of fluid and mass transport phenomena in nanometer-sized confinements. Nanopores in single-layer graphene can be highly attractive for exploring the molecular transport of gas a ...

EPFL2022

Vapor Transport Deposition of Methylammonium Iodide for Perovskite Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Cédric Bucher, Florent Sahli, Léo Duchêne, Björn Niesen, Aymeric Michel Schafflützel, Nathanaël Miaz, Quentin Jean-Marie Armand Guesnay, Niccolo Salsi

Vapor-based processes are promising options to deposit metal halide perovskite solar cells in an industrial environment due to their ability to deposit uniform layers over large areas in a controlled environment without resorting to the use of (possibly to ...

2021

In situ control of the helical and skyrmion phases in Cu2OSeO3 using high-pressure helium gas up to 5 kbar

Arnaud Magrez, Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Ivica Zivkovic, Jonathan White

We report a small-angle neutron scattering study of the helical and skyrmion lattice order in single-crystal Cu2OSeO3 under quasihydrostatic helium gas pressures up to 5 kbar. By using helium gas as the pressure-transmitting medium (PTM) we ensure pressure ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Dependence of the L-Mode scrape-off layer power fall-off length on the upper triangularity in TCV

Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Roberto Maurizio, Bernhard Sieglin

This paper reports on experimental observations on TCV with a scan in upper triangularity

{\delta }_{\mathrm{up}}

, including negative triangularity, focusing on the power fall-off length

{\lambda }_{{\rm{q}}}

in L-Mode. The upper triangularity is scann ...

2018

Properties of helium bubbles in covalent systems at the nanoscale: A combined numerical and experimental study

Cécile Hébert, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander

The properties of nanometric-sized helium bubbles in silicon have been investigated using both spatially resolved electron-energy-loss spectroscopy combined with a recently developed method, and molecular-dynamics simulations. The experiments allowed for a ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

Hardening induced by radiation damage and helium in structural materials

Irradiation is known to lead to degradation of mechanical properties of materials. Structural materials for nuclear applications can be affected by helium produced by transmutations. The objectives of this work were: (a) to investigate the effects of He on ...

EPFL2015

Gentle quantitative measurement of helium density in nanobubbles in silicon by spectrum imaging

Guillaume Lucas, Cécile Hébert, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander

We propose an original method for the determination of the physical properties of nanometer sized helium bubbles using spectrum imaging in an energy-filtered transmission electron microscope. Helium bubbles synthesized by high fluence implantation and ther ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

Embrittlement induced by the synergistic effects of radiation damage and helium in structural steels

Kun Wang

Ferritic/martensitic steels are candidate materials for fusion reactor structural components, liquid metal containers of spallation neutron sources, and accelerator driven systems, with good radiation resistance and thermo-mechanical properties. However, e ...

EPFL2015

Elementary Excitations of Superfluid Helium Droplets Probed by Ion Spectroscopy

Marcel Drabbels, Xiaohang Zhang

Electronic spectra of molecules in helium droplets reveal spectral features that are related to the elementary excitations of the superfluid helium environment. In order to determine to what extend the interaction strength of the molecule with the helium a ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Dynamics of Excited Sodium Atoms Attached to Helium Nanodroplets

Marcel Drabbels, Evgeniy Loginov

The dynamics of laser-excited sodium atoms at the surface of helium nanodroplets has been investigated as a function of quantum state. For all cases excitation of the system leads to desorption of the sodium atom from the droplet surface. The mean kinetic ...

American Chemical Society2014

Water adsorption on etched hydrophobic surfaces of L-, D- and DL-valine crystals

Juan José Segura Sugranes

The adsorption of water on etched (001) surfaces of L-, D- and DL-valine crystals has been characterized by atomic force microscopy (AFM) using different operational modes (contact, non-contact and electrostatic) above and below the dew point, the temperat ...

Elsevier2014

Results of the Test of Industrially Manufactured HTS Current Leads With Novel Design Features

Rainer Wesche, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Martin Vogel, Stephen Alfred March

In the framework of a collaboration, CRPP (Centre de Recherches en Physique des Plasmas) and WEKA AG have developed high-temperature superconductor (HTS) current leads for currents in the range of 3 to 30 kA, which are suitable for industrial fabrication. ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Barium Ions and Helium Nanodroplets: Solvation and Desolvation

Marcel Drabbels, Xiaohang Zhang

The solvation of Ba+ ions created by the photoionization of barium atoms located on the surface of helium nanodroplets has been investigated. The excitation spectra corresponding to the 6p 2P1/2

American Institute of Physics2012

Design and manufacture of 20 kA HTS current leads for a hybrid magnet system

Rainer Wesche, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Martin Vogel, Stephen Alfred March

A new series connected 25 T hybrid magnet system is being developed by the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB) for neutron scattering experiments. In collaboration with CRPP, high temperature superconducting (HTS) current leads have been developed for the power ...

Elsevier Science Bv2012

Sodium dodecyl sulfate at water-hydrophobic interfaces: A simulation study

Sylvie Roke

Using molecular dynamics simulations, we have studied the water-vapor and water-oil (decane) interfaces of aqueous solutions of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS). The water-vapor interface is often used as a model for water-oil (hydrophobic) interfaces, yet we ...

Amer Chemical Soc2012

Formation of dislocation loops during He clustering in bcc Fe

Helena Van Swygenhoven

The clustering of helium in bcc (body centered cubic) iron and the growth of a helium bubble are simulated at the atomistic level for the helium-rich vacancy-poor condition. It is shown that a 1/2 < 111 > dislocation loop is formed as a sequential collecti ...

2011