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In-situ Microstructural Control and Process Monitoring in Laser Powder Bed Fusion of Ti-6Al-4V Alloy

Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) is a leading Additive Manufacturing (AM) technique for creating metallic alloys. However, its rapid heating and cooling rates can lead to residual stresses, defects, and undesirable microstructures. The main goal in LPBF is t ...

EPFL2025

Control of Buckling of Colloidal Supraparticles

Esther Amstad, Gaia De Angelis

The properties of clusters of colloidal particles, often termed supraparticles, are determined by the arrangement of the primary particles. Therefore, controlling the structure formation process is of key importance. While buckled morphologies can result f ...

Wiley2025

Co-annealing of PECVD boron emitters and poly-Si passivating contacts for leaner TOPCon solar cell fabrication

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Sofia Libraro, Julien Hurni, Ezgi Genç

This study investigates the feasibility of a single-step annealing process for tunnel oxide passivating contact (TOPCon) solar cell fabrication to replace the conventional two-step approach. We present a novel method using a single thermal treatment to sim ...

2025

Innovating Carbon-based Perovskite Solar Cells: the Role of a Cn-anchoring Self-assembled Molecular Layer in Efficiency and Stability

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

The discovery of self-assembled molecular layers (SAMLs) containing anchoring groups such as COOH and PO3H as efficient hole-selective materials (HSMs) in p-i-n perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is pivotal to enhancing the interaction between HSMs and perovski ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2025

Nucleation-Limited Kinetics of GaAs Nanostructures Grown by Selective Area Epitaxy: Implications for Shape Engineering in Optoelectronics Devices

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Alok Rudra, Didem Dede, Valerio Piazza, Michele Zendrini

The growth kinetics of vertical III−V nanowires (NWs) were clarified long ago. The increasing aspect ratio of NWs results in an increase in the surface area, which, in turn, enhances the material collection. The group III adatom diffusion from the NW sidew ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2024

Enhanced CO2 Photoconversion at Elevated Pressures Using Conductive Polymer Modified Metal–Organic Framework

Wendy Lee Queen

Artificial photosynthesis is considered to be a promising approach for energy storage and global warming mitigation. However, the suboptimal selectivity of products and the low conversion efficiency of CO2 persist as challenges, driving continuous interest ...

2024

Investigating laser beam shadowing and powder particle dynamics in directed energy deposition through high-fidelity modelling and high-speed imaging

Christian Leinenbach

Laser beam shadowing in directed energy deposition process occurs when in-flight powder particles partially block the laser beam, preventing it from fully reaching the melt pool. This blockage alters the beam's profile, introducing spatio-temporal randomne ...

ELSEVIER2024

Optical Monitoring of Water Side Permeation in Thin Film Encapsulation

Yves Leterrier, Stéphanie Lacour, Massimo Mariello, Kangling Wu

The stability of long-term microfabricated implants is hindered by the presence of multiple water diffusion paths within artificially patterned thin-film encapsulations. Side permeation, defined as infiltration of molecules through the lateral surface of t ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024

Direct synthesis of nanocrystalline single-layer porous graphene for hydrogen sieving

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mojtaba Chevalier, Luc Sébastien Bondaz, Jian Hao, Ceren Kocaman

Porous single -layer graphene is promising as the selective layer for membrane-based gas separation thanks to the atomic thickness of the pore which can yield high permselective flux. Direct synthesis of porous graphene by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) i ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Assessing the Charge Carrier Dynamics at Hybrid Interfaces of Organic Photoanodes for Solar Fuels

Kevin Sivula, Yongpeng Liu, Han-Hee Cho

Organic semiconductors (OSCs) have emerged as promising active layers for photoanodes to drive photoelectrochemical (PEC) oxidation reactions. Interfacing an OSC with an inorganic electron transport layer (ETL) is key to enabling both high performance and ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Atomic-scale Characterization of Strain and Gate effects on Two-dimensional Materials by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Jz -Yuan Juo

Strain is an inevitable phenomenon in two-dimensional (2D) material, regardless of whether the film is suspended or supported. Moreover, strain is known to alter the physical and chemical properties, such as the band gap, charge carrier effective masses, d ...

EPFL2023

Transparent Liquid Crystal Hole-Transporting Material for Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Hiroyuki Kanda, Kasparas Rakstys, Jianxing Xia

Hexakis(hexyloxy)triphenylene (HAT6) discotic liquid crystal is employed as a transparent hole-transporting material (HTM) for perovskite solar cells (PSCs) and a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 15.7% is obtained, which is the highest using HAT6 type ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Edge-Sharing Octahedrally Coordinated Ni-Fe Dual Active Sites on ZnFe2O4 for Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation

Kevin Sivula

The structural properties of octahedral sites (B-Oh) in spinel oxides (AB(2)O(4)) play vital roles in the electrochemical performance of oxygen-related reactions. However, the precise manipulation of AB(2)O(4) remains challenging due to the complexity of t ...

WILEY2023

High durability and stability of 2D nanofluidic devices for long-term single-molecule sensing

Aleksandra Radenovic, Andras Kis, Martina Lihter, Michal Daniel Macha, Yanfei Zhao, Andrey Chernev, Mukesh Kumar Tripathi, Mukeshchand Thakur, Miao Zhang, Yunfei Teng, Nianduo Cai

Nanopores in two-dimensional (2D) membranes hold immense potential in single-molecule sensing, osmotic power generation, and information storage. Recent advances in 2D nanopores, especially on single-layer MoS2, focus on the scalable growth and manufacturi ...

2023

Stability of untransformed ferrite in 10Cr ODS steel

Roland Logé

The development of generation IV nuclear reactor requires improvements in structural and cladding materials. Oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) steels are promising candidates because of improved creep properties. Two main families of ODS steels are known ...

ELSEVIER2023

Simultaneous Electrophysiology and Imaging Reveal Changes in Lipid Membrane Thickness and Tension upon Uptake of Amphiphilic Gold Nanoparticles

Francesco Stellacci, Paulo Henrique Jacob Silva, Xufeng Xu

Amphiphilic gold core nanoparticles (AmNPs) striped with hydrophilic 11-mercapto-1-undecanesulfonate (MUS) and hydrophobic 1-octanethiol (OT) ligands are promising candidates for drug carriers that passively and nondisruptively enter cells. Yet, how they i ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023