Publications associées à Harmonium: An Ultrafast Vacuum Ultraviolet Facility

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Comprehensive benchmarking and user guide for the characterization of CVD-grown transition metal chalcogenides

Since the discovery of graphene in 2004, there has been rapid progress in research on two-dimensional (2D) material’s potential applications with significant impact. Efforts to bring 2D materials closer to industrial production, quality assessment, and sta ...

Academia.edu Journals2025

Multi-octave bandwidth supercontinuum generation in crystalline Aluminum Nitride-on-sapphire waveguides

Jean-François Carlin, Nicolas Grandjean, Raphaël Butté, Camille Sophie Brès, Samuele Brunetta, Samantha Sbarra

Applications such as optical clocks, gas spectroscopy, and optical coherent tomography stand to benefit significantly from the integration of on-chip supercontinuum sources. Materials exhibiting both second- and third-order nonlinearities are particularly ...

International Society for Optical Engineering2025

A Multiscale Bayesian Approach to Quantification and Denoising of Energy-dispersive X-ray Data

Cécile Hébert, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Pau Torruella Besa

Energy dispersive x-ray (EDX) spectrum imaging yields compositional information with a spatial resolution down to the atomic level. However, experimental limitations often produce extremely sparse and noisy EDX spectra. Under such conditions, every detecte ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Optimizing photon capture: advancements in amorphous silicon-based microchannel plates

Christophe Ballif, Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Nicolas Würsch, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Jad Benserhir, Samira Alexandra Frey, Emanuele Ripiccini

Microchannel plates are electron multipliers widely used in applications such as particle detection, imaging, or mass spectrometry and are often paired with a photocathode to enable photon detection. Conventional microchannel plates, made of glass fibers, ...

2025

Controlling crystal cleavage in focused ion beam shaped specimens for surface spectroscopy

Philip Johannes Walter Moll, Matthias Carsten Putzke

Our understanding of quantum materials is commonly based on precise determinations of their electronic spectrum by spectroscopic means, most notably angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and scanning tunneling microscopy. Both require atomicall ...

Aip Publishing2024

Electron spectrometer calibration method

Thomas La Grange, Tobias Kippenberg, Fabrizio Carbone, Bruce Michael Raleigh Weaver, Arslan Sajid Raja, Alexey Sapozhnik, Paolo Cattaneo, Yujia Yang

The present invention concerns an energy dispersion calibration method for calibrating an electron spectrometer of an electron spectrometer system including at least one electron emission source, electron optics and the electron spectrometer. The method co ...

2023

Jahn-Teller effects in initial and final states: high-resolution X-ray absorption, photoelectron and Auger spectroscopy of allene

Majed Chergui, Luca Longetti, Thomas Roland Barillot, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Rebecca Ann Ingle, Daniel Hollas, Ludmila Maria Diniz Leroy

Carbon K-edge resonant Auger spectra of gas-phase allene following excitation of the pre-edge 1s -> pi* transitions are presented and analysed with the support of EOM-CCSD/cc-pVTZ calculations. X-Ray absorption (XAS), X-ray photoelectron (XPS), valence ban ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

Mobility Gaps of Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Related to Hydrogen Concentration and Its Influence on Electrical Performance

Sylvain Dunand, Nicolas Würsch, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet

This paper presents a comprehensive study of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si)-based detectors, utilizing electrical characterization, Raman spectroscopy, photoemission, and inverse photoemission techniques. The unique properties of a-Si have sparked i ...

2024

Competition between Carrier Injection and Structural Distortions in Electron-Doped Perovskite Nickelate Thin Films

Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Bernat Mundet

The discovery of superconductivity in doped infinite-layer nickelate thin films has brought increased attention to the behavior of the doped perovskite phase. Despite this interest, the majority of existing studies pertain to hole-doped perovskite rare-ear ...

WILEY2023

A compact approach to higher-resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering detection using photoelectrons

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow

The detection of inelastically scattered soft x-rays with high energy resolution usually requires large grating spectrometers. Recently, photoelectron spectrometry for analysis of x-rays (PAX) has been rediscovered for modern spectroscopy experiments at sy ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Numerical Study of the Attosecond Free-Electron Laser Pulse Generation in the Soft X-ray Regime at the SwissFEL

Longdi Zhu

Isolated attosecond pulses from an X-ray free-electron laser are in high demand for attosecond science, which enables the probing of electron dynamics by X-ray nonlinear spectroscopy and single-particle imaging. The aim of this thesis is to simulate attos ...

EPFL2024

Experimental demonstration of attosecond pump-probe spectroscopy with an X-ray free-electron laser

Jun Wang, Christoph Bostedt, Zhaoheng Guo

Pump-probe experiments with subfemtosecond resolution are the key to understanding electronic dynamics in quantum systems. Here we demonstrate the generation and control of subfemtosecond pulse pairs from a two-colour X-ray free-electron laser. By measurin ...

Nature Publishing Group2024

NMR Crystallography in the Big Data Era: New Methods and Applications Powered by Machine Learning

Manuel Cordova

Structure determination of materials is key to understanding their physical properties. While single-crystal X-ray diffraction is the gold standard for structures displaying long-range order, many materials of interest are polycrystalline and/or disordered ...

EPFL2023

Towards Quantitative Terahertz Characterisation of Zinc Phosphide Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Léa Buswell, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Rajrupa Paul, Mirjana Dimitrievska

The earth-abundant and non-toxic material Zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) is a promising candidate for solar cell applications. However, growth of defect-free, high-quality thin films on substrates that can integrate with current technology (e.g. silicon) remains c ...

IEEE Computer Society2024

New tools for phase segmentation and denoising of analytical STEM data for enhanced chemical sensitivity, applied to Earth mantle research

Hui Chen, Hui Chen

This thesis is dedicated to developing innovative methodologies that improve elemental quantification in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) using energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDXS). The primary motivation stems from a geochemistry pr ...

EPFL2023

Revealing the Structure of Tryptophan in Microhydrated Complexes by Cold Ion Spectroscopy

Oleg Boyarkine, Natalia Nagornova, Manuel Dömer, Andrei Zviagin, Ruslan Yamaletdinov

The geometry of biomolecules isolated in the gas phaseusuallydiffers substantially from their native structures in aqueous solution,which are the only ones truly relevant to life science. To connectthe high resolution of cold ion spectroscopy that can be a ...

2023

Overview of physics results from MAST upgrade towards core-pedestal-exhaust integration

Olivier Sauter, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Matteo Vallar, Samuele Mazzi

Recent results from MAST Upgrade are presented, emphasising understanding the capabilities of this new device and deepening understanding of key physics issues for the operation of ITER and the design of future fusion power plants. The impact of MHD instab ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Surface Passivation of FAPbI3-Rich Perovskite with Cesium Iodide Outperforms Bulk Incorporation

Michael Graetzel, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Mounir Driss Mensi, Jun Ho Yum, Kevin Sivula, Thomas Paul Baumeler, Essa Awadh R Alharbi, Brian Irving Carlsen, Jing Gao, George Cameron Fish, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Lukas Pfeifer, Georgios Kakavelakis

Metal halide perovskites (MHPs) have shown an incredible increase in efficiency, reaching as high as 25.7%, which now competes with traditional photovoltaic technologies. Herein, we excluded CsX and RbX (X = I–, Br–, Cl–), the most commonly used cations to ...

2023

“Grafting-from” and “Grafting-to” Poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) Functionalization of Glass for DNA Biosensors with Improved Properties

Mounir Driss Mensi, Sandrine Gerber, Pauline Skigin, Perrine Agnes Edith Robin, Alireza Kavand

Surface-based biosensors have proven to be of particular interest in the monitoring of human pathogens by means of their distinct nucleic acid sequences. Genosensors rely on targeted gene/DNA probe hybridization at the surface of a physical transducer and ...

MDPI AG2024

Photogeneration of Hydrogen: Insights from a Pt(II)-Complex Incorporated into a Covalent Organic Framework

Federico De Biasi

Pt(II)-based molecular catalysts stand as a prototypical system in hydrogen evolution reactions (HER) owing to their consistently elevated activity levels. Their integration into heterogeneous systems thus provides an ideal platform to develop catalytic ma ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag2024