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Triplet grain growth in a-texture polycrystalline ZnO thin films

Arthur Brian Aebersold, Cécile Hébert, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander

A growth of grain triplets is identified in vapor deposited, a-texture polycrystalline zinc oxide thin films, using a combination of transmission electron microscopy-based automated crystal orientation mapping and high-resolution imaging. Each triplet cons ...

2020

Structure evolution, bandgap, and dielectric function in La-doped hafnium oxide thin layer subjected to swift Xe ion irradiation

Philippe Buffat, Elena Suvorova Buffat

High-resolution transmission electron microscopy, electron diffraction, and electron energy-loss spectroscopy provide information on the structural evolution, dielectric function, and bandgap values of nanocrystalline 10nm thick lanthanum doped hafnia (La: ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2020

The thermally activated distortion with amplification effect and related variant selection in red gold alloys

Cyril Cayron, Roland Logé, Margaux Nathalie Dominique Larcher

Variant selection during the A1→L10 transformation in a polycrystalline red gold alloy close to equiatomic Au-Cu composition has been extensively studied by Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) in our previous work. The use of a mathematical description ...

2020

Electrons leave the flatland: out-of-plane charge dynamics in layered materials

Edoardo Martino

The goal of this thesis is to explore the "neglected" third dimension of layered materials, by studying the interlayer charge dynamics through dc conductivity, optical spectroscopy and ab-initio calculations. This project was designed to respond to the gro ...

EPFL2020

Grain morphology reconstruction of crystalline materials from Laue three-dimensional neutron diffraction tomography

Stavros Samothrakitis, Marina Garcia Gonzalez, Markus Strobl

The macroscopic properties of advanced engineering and functional materials are highly dependent on their overall grain orientation distribution, size, and morphology. Here we present Laue 3D neutron diffraction tomography providing reconstructions of the ...

Nature Research2020

Invariant states in inclined layer convection. Part 1. Temporal transitions along dynamical connections between invariant states

Tobias Schneider, Florian Reetz

Thermal convection in an inclined layer between two parallel walls kept at different fixed temperatures is studied for fixed Prandtl number . Depending on the angle of inclination and the imposed temperature difference, the flow exhibits a large variety of ...

Cambridge University Press2020

Effect of AlN seed layer on crystallographic characterization of piezoelectric AlN

Paul Muralt, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Ramin Matloub Aghdam, Waqas Bashir, Annalisa De Pastina, Kaitlin Marie Howell

Ultrathin aluminum nitride (AlN) films are of great interest for integration into nanoelectromechanical systems for actuation and sensing. Given the direct relationship between crystallographic texture and piezoelectric (PZE) response, x-ray diffraction ha ...

2019

Crystal Orientation and Grain Size: Do They Determine Optoelectronic Properties of MAPbI(3) Perovskite?

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Sandy Sanchez Alonso, Michael Saliba

Growing large, oriented grains of perovskite often leads to efficient devices, but it is unclear if properties of the grains are responsible for the efficiency. Domains observed in SEM are commonly misidentified with crystallographic grains, but SEM images ...

2019

Deformation-induced martensitic transformation under multiaxial loading

Wei-Neng Hsu

The deformation-induced martensitic transformation observed in specific materials can enhance their mechanical properties or result in functional properties. For example, the transformation induced plasticity (TRIP) effect results in a good combination of ...

EPFL2019

The influence of the incommensurately modulated structure on the physical properties of Fe1.35Ge

Helmuth Berger, László Forró, Alla Arakcheeva, Philip Pattison, Krunoslav Prsa, Jacim Jacimovic, Sergiy Katrych, Andrea Pisoni

Single crystal growth by chemical vapour transport has resulted samples with Fe1.35Ge stoichiometry. Structural study has shown that the large number of vacancies introduces an incommensuately modulated structure. The electrical resistivity is in the 200 m ...

2019