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Metal Doping of Strongly Confined Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals under Ambient Conditions

Emad Oveisi, Aurélien Bornet, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Sascha Feldmann, Tejas Deshpande, Zachary Andrew Vanorman

Halide perovskite nanocrystals are promising materials for optoelectronic applications. Metal doping provides an avenue to boost their performance further, e.g., by enhancing light emission, or to provide additional functionalities, such as nanoscale magne ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Spin polarization detection via chirality-induced tunnelling currents in indium selenide

Shun Feng, Andras Kis, Gabriele Pasquale, Eloi Régis L Collette

Chirality, a basic property of symmetry breaking, is crucial for fields such as biology and physics. Recent advances in the study of chiral systems have stimulated interest in the discovery of symmetry-breaking states that enable exotic phenomena such as s ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

C-ald-grown Metal Oxide Shell Enables Distance-independent Triplet Energy Transfer From Quantum Dots to Molecular Dyes

Marco Fabbiano, Raffaella Buonsanti, Sascha Feldmann, Ona Segura Lecina, Tejas Deshpande

Hybrid nanocomposites including quantum dots (QDs) and molecular dyes offer tunability of charge and energy transfer processes, which are attractive for applications spanning from light-emitting devices to photocatalysis and photon upconversion. Core@shell ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2025

Optical Spatial Dispersion Via Wannier Interpolation

Stepan Tsirkin

We present a numerical implementation, based on Wannier interpolation, of a Kubo-Greenwood formalism for computing the spatially dispersive optical conductivity in crystals at first order in the wave vector of light. This approach is more efficient than di ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2025

Decoration of ZnO Nanorod Arrays with Heterojunction of Graphene Quantum Dots and MoS2 Nanoparticles for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

Mohammadreza Golobostanfard

Conversion of sunlight to a chemical fuel through photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting is deemed to be a promising solution to satisfy future energy needs. In this study, a photoanode based on the triple heterojunction of MoS2/graphene quantum dots/Z ...

2025

Modulation of Graphene Oxidation Using Substrate-Induced Electron-Hole Puddles for Advancing Molecular Separation

Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Shiqi Huang, Heng-Yu Chi, Kuang-Jung Hsu, Yueqing Shen, Ranadip Goswami

Tuning the reactivity of graphene enables molecular-level engineering of the lattice, achieving desired chemical and structural properties through functionalization, doping, and etching. Atom-thin graphene film hosting Å-scale pores, with capability to dif ...

2025

Dataset to accompany publication "Quantum-mechanical effects in photoluminescence from thin crystalline gold films"

Giulia Tagliabue, Alan Richard Bowman, Fateme Kiani Shahvandi, Theodoros Tsoulos

This dataset accompanies the publication "Quantum-mechanical effects in photoluminescence from thin crystalline gold films" published in Light: Science & Applications (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-024-01408-2). The data can be used to reproduce plots 1-4 ...

Zenodo2024

Quantum-mechanical effects in photoluminescence from thin crystalline gold films

Giulia Tagliabue, Alan Richard Bowman, Fateme Kiani Shahvandi, Theodoros Tsoulos

Luminescence constitutes a unique source of insight into hot carrier processes in metals, including those in plasmonic nanostructures used for sensing and energy applications. However, being weak in nature, metal luminescence remains poorly understood, its ...

2024

Anomalous and Chern topological waves in hyperbolic networks

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Haoye Qin, Zhe Zhang, Aleksi Antoine Bossart, Zhechen Zhang

Hyperbolic lattices are a new type of synthetic materials based on regular tessellations in non-Euclidean spaces with constant negative curvature. While so far, there has been several theoretical investigations of hyperbolic topological media, experimental ...

Nature Research2024

Towards Scalable Electronics: Synthetic 2D Materials for Large-Area 2D Circuit Integration

Zhenyu Wang

In the past decades, a significant increase of the transistor density on a chip has led to exponential growth in computational power driven by Moore's law. To overcome the bottleneck of traditional von-Neumann architecture in computational efficiency, effo ...

EPFL2024

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

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

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

Electrical and Optical Manifestations of Flat Band Physics in Van der Waals Materials

Gabriele Pasquale

The scientific progress is significantly transforming contemporary society with the introduction and widespread application of technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing. Despite their profound impact, these technologies necessitate en ...

EPFL2024

Anomalous‐Chern Steering of Topological Nonreciprocal Guided Waves

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Haoye Qin, Zhe Zhang, Qiaolu Chen, Zhechen Zhang

Nonreciprocal topological edge states based on external magnetic bias have been regarded as the last resort for genuine unidirectional wave transport, showing superior robustness over topological states with preserved time-reversal symmetry. However, fast ...

Wiley2024

Study of Ionized Particles in a Gyrotron Using a Full Gyrotron Simulation Model

Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémy Genoud

The ionization of the residual gas in gyrotrons causes the generation of positively charged ions and negatively charged electrons. Using the electron optics code Ariadne, it was possible to simulate the behavior of these electrons in the overall gyrotron g ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

In-situ atomic level observation of the strain response of graphene lattice

Klaus Kern, Jz -Yuan Juo

Strain is inevitable in two-dimensional (2D) materials, regardless of whether the film is suspended or supported. However, the direct measurement of strain response at the atomic scale is challenging due to the difficulties of maintaining both flexibility ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Shortwave Infrared-Sensitive, Narrowband Organic Upconversion Devices with a Gain

Wei-Hsu Hu

Sensing and imaging of light in the shortwave infrared (SWIR) range is increasingly used in various fields, including bio-imaging, remote sensing, and semiconductor process control. SWIR-sensitive organic photodetectors (OPDs) are promising because organic ...

EPFL2024

Indentation and stability of woven domes

Célestin Vallat, Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis, Tian Chen, Samuel Jean Bernard Poincloux, Tomohiko Sano

Discrete domes are doubly curved structures comprising a network of beam-like elements. We study the mechanics of discrete domes made of ribbons woven in a pentagonal triaxial pattern. Experiments and finite element simulations are performed to characteriz ...

ELSEVIER2023

Pyroresistive response of percolating conductive polymer composites

Claudio Grimaldi

The pyroresistive response of conductive polymer composites (CPCs) has attracted much interest because of its potential applications in many electronic devices requiring a significant responsiveness to changes in external physical parameters such as temper ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

Giant two-photon absorption of anatase TiO2 in Au/TiO2 core-shell nanoparticles

Majed Chergui, Malte Oppermann, Lijie Wang

We report on deep-to-near-UV transient absorption spectra of core-shell Au/SiO2 and Au/TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) excited at the surface plasmon resonance of the Au core, and of UV-excited bare anatase TiO2 NPs. The bleaching of the first excitonic transitio ...

CHINESE LASER PRESS2023

Interface connection of functionalized carbon nanotubes for efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jianxing Xia

The ionic defects of hetero-junction interfaces always attract and trap carriers via surface electrostatic forces, which are crucial for the efficiency and intrinsic stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Herein, functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNTs) ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2023