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Study of single molecule phenomena in plasmonic nanocavitites

The central aim of this thesis is to investigate single molecule phenomena in self-assembled plasmonic nanocavities, focusing on achieving single molecule sensitivity within these highly confined electromagnetic environments. While self-assembled nanocavit ...

EPFL2025

Advancing high-resolution microscopes to enable time-lapse nano-characterization of pathogenic micro-organisms in-vitro

Esther Braun

Investigating pathogenic microorganisms is essential due to their significant impact on global health. However, working with them presents significant challenges to researchers. Their virulence requires strict biosafety measures, often necessitating to stu ...

EPFL2025

Massively multiplexed wide-field photon correlation sensing

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Michael Alan Wayne

Temporal photon correlations have been a crucial resource for quantum and quantum-enabled optical science for over half a century. However, attaining non-classical information through these correlations has typically been limited to a single point (or, at ...

2025

Phase formation and texture evolution in 316L-CuCrZr multi-material structures fabricated by laser powder bed fusion

Christian Leinenbach, Johann Michler, Antonios Nikolaos Baganis

Steel-copper multi-material structures produced via Additive Manufacturing pose challenges in laser co-processing and microstructural control. This work employs neutron imaging, Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD), and Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (E ...

2025

Synthesis and characterization of low-dimensional organic-inorganic perovskites for detection and photovoltaic applications

Colin Jeanguenat

Low-dimensional perovskite such as layered halide perovskite and perovskite nanocrystals have attracted attention in the past decade. These materials have impressive optoelectronic properties such as high photoluminescence and improved stability relative t ...

EPFL2025

Self-Aligned Silica Nanoparticle Rear Reflectors for Single-Junction Si and Perovskite-Si Tandem Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Christian Michael Wolff, Kerem Artuk, Deniz Türkay

Infrared light management is crucial to maximize the optical performance of crystalline Si-based single junction and tandem solar cells. For this end, a low refractive index dielectric is typically inserted under the rear metal and an electrical contact is ...

2025

Versatile self-assembled monolayers for perovskite-based optoelectronic devices

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Yong Ding, Shun Tian, Li Tao

The emergence of metal halide perovskite materials has triggered a revolutionary change in optoelectronic devices. Due to their outstanding optoelectronic properties and defect tolerance, metal halide perovskites can be used for a wide range of application ...

2025

Residual stress chevron preloading amplifier for large-stroke stiffness reduction of silicon flexure mechanisms

Simon Nessim Henein, Florent Cosandier, Loïc Benoît Tissot-Daguette, Quentin Gubler

Residual stresses can be advantageously used to permanently preload flexure micro-mechanisms in order to modify their deflection and stiffness. This paper presents a new preloading chevron mechanism (PCM) used to amplify the preloading effect of thin film ...

IOP Publishing2025

Real-and reciprocal space characterization of the three-dimensional charge density wave in quasi-one-dimensional CuTe

Arnaud Magrez, Jan Hugo Dil, Michele Puppin, Eduardo Bonini Guedes, Fei Guo, Lukas Jürgen Hellbrück

Low-dimensional materials are susceptible to electronic instabilities such as charge density waves (CDWs), originating from a divergence in the Lindhard electron response function, combined with a finite electron-phonon coupling strength. In this paper, we ...

American Physical Society (APS)2024

Quantifying Recombination and Charge Carrier Extraction in Halide Perovskites Via Hyperspectral Time-resolved Photoluminescence Imaging

Anurag Krishna

Identifying sources of nonradiative recombination and quantifying charge carrier extraction in halide perovskite solar cells are important in further developing this thin-film technology. Steady-state and time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL), in combinat ...

AIP Publishing2024

Highly dispersed nanomaterials in polymer matrix via aerosol-jet-based multi-material 3D printing

Michael James Henry Smith

Polymer-based nanocomposites emerged in the 1960s as a groundbreaking approach to advanced materials. By incorporating robust, durable, and multifunctional nanomaterials into a polymer matrix, the performance of nanocomposites has significantly surpassed t ...

Elsevier2024

Superconductivity in nickelate and cuprate superconductors with strong bilayer coupling

Bruce Normand

The discovery of superconductivity at 80 K under high pressure in La3Ni2O7 3 Ni 2 O 7 presents the groundbreaking confirmation that high-Tc T c superconductivity is a property of strongly correlated materials beyond cuprates. We use density functional theo ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2024

Assembling a Photoactive 2D Puzzle: From Bulk Powder to Large- Area Films of Semiconducting Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Nanosheets

Kevin Sivula, Rebekah Anne Wells

CONSPECTUS: Two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting materials are poised to revolutionize ultrathin, high-performance optoelectronic devices. In particular, transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are well-suited for applications requiring robust and stable ma ...

2023

Observation of a Plastic Crystal in Water-Ammonia Mixtures under High Pressure and Temperature

Livia Eleonora Bove Kado

Solid mixtures of ammonia and water, the so-called ammonia hydrates, are thought to be major components of solar and extra-solar icy planets. We present here a thorough characterization of the recently reported high pressure (P)-temperature (T) phase VII o ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Frequency and time domains interactions in nanophotonics

Andrei Kiselev

In this thesis, we discuss the problems of scattering and optical manipulation related to nanosystems of different complexities. The multipolar decomposition method is used to represent scattering processes in nanosystems as a series of elementary excitati ...

EPFL2023

Family of Gaussian wavepacket dynamics methods from the perspective of a nonlinear Schrodinger equation

Jiri Vanicek

Many approximate solutions of the time-dependent Schrodinger equation can be formulated as exact solutions of a nonlinear Schrodinger equation with an effective Hamiltonian operator depending on the state of the system. We show that Heller's thawed Gaussia ...

2023

Three-dimensional nonlinear dynamics of a thin liquid film on a spinning ellipsoid

Edouard Boujo

The present work investigates the three-dimensional flow of a thin liquid film distributed on the outer surface of an ellipsoid, rotating around the vertical axis at constant angular velocity. The lubrication approximation expressing the evolution of the f ...

2023