Publications associées à Demonstration of Microwave Resonators and Double Quantum Dots on Optimized Reverse-Graded Ge/SiGe Heterostructures

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Electron Spin Qubit Architectures on Fully Depleted Silicon-On-Insulator Substrates for Scalable Quantum Computing

Quantum computing is expected to complement classical von-Neumann architectures in solving problems beyond the reach of conventional digital machines. This new model of computation leverages the rich complexity of many-body quantum systems to perform compu ...

EPFL2025

A dephasing sweet spot with enhanced dipolar coupling

Pasquale Scarlino

Two-level systems (TLSs) are the basic units of quantum computers but face a trade-off between operation speed and coherence due to shared coupling paths. Here, we investigate a TLS given by a singlet-triplet (ST+) transition. We identify a magnetic-field ...

2025

Gate-Tunable Hole Transport in In-Plane Ge Nanowires by V-Groove Confined Selective Epitaxy

Shelly Ben David, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Alok Rudra, Victor Carle Adrien Boureau, Santhanu Panikar Ramanandan

Germanium (Ge) nanowires hold great promise as building blocks for hole spin-based quantum processors. Realizing this potential requires their direct integration onto silicon (Si) wafers. This work introduces V-groove-confined selective epitaxy to enable t ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2025

Spatial quantum-interference landscapes of multi-site-controlled quantum dots coupled to extended photonic cavity modes

Elyahou Kapon, Alok Rudra, Benjamin Dwir, Alessio Massimiliano Davide Miranda

A compact platform to integrate emitters in a cavity-like support is to embed quantum dots (QDs) in a photonic crystal (PhC) structure, making them promising candidates for integrated quantum photonic circuits. The emission properties of QDs can be modifie ...

2025

Enhancing lifetime, forecasting, and economic benefits of photovoltaic technologies undergoing UV-induced degradation with optical filtering

Christophe Ballif, Antonin Faes, Christian Michael Wolff, Marion Solange Madeleine Dussouillez

Ultraviolet-induced degradation (UV-ID) of various PV cell types was analyzed under optical UV filters with different cutoff wavelengths. Cell types studied included interdigitated back contact (IBC), passivated emitter and rear totally diffused (PERT), an ...

2025

Simulating Interacting Quantum Systems with Near-Term Quantum Computers

Stefano Barison

In less than a century, electronic computers have become essential to everyday life and have transformed scientific research. Their use in solving scientific problems has integrated theoretical and experimental approaches, often blurring the lines between ...

EPFL2025

All-perovskite tandem solar cells achieving >29% efficiency with improved (100) orientation in wide-bandgap perovskites

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ursula Röthlisberger, Virginia Carnevali, Nikolaos Lempesis, Mingyang Wei, Vladislav Slama, Lorenzo Agosta

Monolithic all-perovskite tandem solar cells present a promising approach for exceeding the efficiency limit of single-junction solar cells. However, the substantial open-circuit voltage loss in the wide-bandgap perovskite subcell hinders further improveme ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2025

Plasmonic biosensor enabled by resonant quantum tunnelling

Hatice Altug, Ivan Sinev, Mikhail Masharin

Metasurfaces provide an ideal platform for optical sensing because they produce strong light-field confinement and enhancement over extended regions that allow us to identify deep-subwavelength layers of organic and inorganic molecules. However, the requir ...

Nature Publishing Group2025

Hybrid organic/metal-oxide shells on semiconductor nanocrystals via colloidal atomic layer deposition

Ona Segura Lecina

The escalating energy demand and the imperative necessity to reduce the carbon footprint require transformative approaches to energy conversion. Materials chemistry plays a pivotal role in addressing these global challenges by developing novel materials fo ...

EPFL2024

Development and characterization of N2O-plasma oxide layers for high-temperature p-type passivating contacts in silicon solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Sofia Libraro, Audrey Marie Isabelle Morisset, Julien Hurni, Ezgi Genç, David Fernando Reyes Vasquez

Full-area passivating contacts based on SiOx/poly-Si stacks are key for the new generation of industrial silicon solar cells substituting the passivated emitter and rear cell (PERC) technology. Demonstrating a potential efficiency increase of 1 to 2% compa ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2024

Controlling photothermoelectric directional photocurrents in graphene with over 400 GHz bandwidth

Yesim Koyaz

Photodetection in the near- and mid-infrared spectrum requires a suitable absorbing material able to meet the respective targets while ideally being cost-effective. Graphene, with its extraordinary optoelectronic properties, could provide a material basis ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2024

A new double multiplication region method to design high sensitivity and wide spectrum SPADs in standard CMOS technologies

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ekin Kizilkan, Utku Karaca

Designing SPADs with high sensitivity in a wide wavelength range is crucial since the applications utilizing SPAD-based sensors target different parts of the spectrum. Here, we introduce a novel technique to achieve a wider sensitivity spectrum through the ...

Nature Research2024

Ultraviolet to mid-infrared optical properties of sputtered Al(Sc)N-on-SiO2 thin films and experimental demonstration of AlN integrated photonic devices in the telecom C-band

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Hernán Furci

Thin film aluminum nitride (AlN) stands out as a promising material for integrated photonics due to its wide bandgap of 6.1 eV, facilitating efficient operation across diverse spectral ranges. Its inherent electro-optic and nonlinear optical properties mak ...

2024

Photon-Noise-Tolerant Dispersive Readout of a Superconducting Qubit Using a Nonlinear Purcell Filter

Shingo Kono

Residual noise photons in a readout resonator become a major source of dephasing for a superconducting qubit when the resonator is optimized for a fast, high-fidelity dispersive readout. Here, we propose and demonstrate a nonlinear Purcell filter that supp ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

Hole-Selective SiNx and AlOx Tunnel Nanolayers for Improved Polysilicon Passivating Contacts

Franz-Josef Haug, Sofia Libraro, Audrey Marie Isabelle Morisset, Ezgi Genç

A highly efficient hole-selective passivating contact remains the crucial step required to increase the efficiency of polysilicon-based Si solar cells. The future development of solar modules depends on a device structure that can complement the electron-s ...

2024

Dopant-Free Pyrene-Based Hole Transporting Material Enables Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Zhaofu Fei, Bin Ding, Yong Ding, Keith Gregory Brooks

Dopant-free hole transporting materials (HTMs) is significant to the stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Here, we developed a novel star-shape arylamine HTM, termed Py-DB, with a pyrene core and carbon-carbon double bonds as the bridge units. Compa ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2024

Micro-homogeneity of lateral energy landscapes governs the performance in perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Yong Ding

Suppression of energy disorders in the vertical direction of a photovoltaic device, along which charge carriers are forced to travel, has been extensively studied to reduce unproductive charge recombination and thus achieve high-efficiency perovskite solar ...

Nature Portfolio2024