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Photoinduced Second-Order Nonlinearities in Centrosymmetric Media

The interaction of light and matter enables nonlinear frequency conversion and the creation of coherent currents. The optical control of electric currents is of fundamental relevance and prominent research focus in the last decades. These photocurrents ena ...

EPFL2024

Modeling and optimization of PCB coils for inductive power transfer systems

Xiaotong Du

The auxiliary power supply for medium voltage converters requires high insulation capability between the source and the load. Inductive power transfer technology, with an air gap between the primary and secondary coil, offers such high insulation capabilit ...

EPFL2024

Ion-Dipole Interaction Enabling Highly Efficient CsPbI3 Perovskite Indoor Photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Di Zhang, Meng Li, Xiaoyan Wang, Haizhou Lu, Xingyu Gao, Ziyun Wang, Jie Chen

Metal halide perovskites are ideal candidates for indoor photovoltaics (IPVs) because of their easy-to-adjust bandgaps, which can be designed to cover the spectrum of any artificial light source. However, the serious non-radiative carrier recombination und ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Universal machine learning for the response of atomistic systems to external fields

Yaolong Zhang

Machine learned interatomic interaction potentials have enabled efficient and accurate molecular simulations of closed systems. However, external fields, which can greatly change the chemical structure and/or reactivity, have been seldom included in curren ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Electrically tunable dipolar interactions between layer-hybridized excitons

Andras Kis, Fedele Tagarelli, Edoardo Lopriore

Transition-metal dichalcogenide bilayers exhibit a rich exciton landscape including layer-hybridized excitons, i.e. excitons which are of partly intra- and interlayer nature. In this work, we study hybrid exciton-exciton interactions in naturally stacked W ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

Impact of dipole-dipole interactions on motility-induced phase separation

Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora, Elena Sesé Sansa

We present a hydrodynamic theory for systems of dipolar active Brownian particles which, in the regime of weak dipolar coupling, predicts the onset of motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), consistent with Brownian dynamics (BD) simulations. The hydrody ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Effects of surface rigidity and metallicity on dielectric properties and ion interactions at aqueous hydrophobic interfaces

Philip Robin Loche

Using classical molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate the dielectric properties at interfaces of water with graphene, graphite, hexane, and water vapor. For graphite, we compare metallic and nonmetallic versions. At the vapor-liquid water and hexa ...

AIP Publishing2022

Structures of the (Imidazole)(n)H+ ... Ar (n=1,2,3) complexes determined from IR spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations

Valeriu Scutelnic

Here, we present new cryogenic infrared spectra of the (Imidazole) H-n(+) (n=1,2,3) ions. The data was obtained using helium tagging infrared predissociation spectroscopy. The new results were compared with the data obtained by Gerardi et al. (Chem. Phys. ...

SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS2023

Pivotal Role of Intersite Hubbard Interactions in Fe-Doped alpha-MnO2

Iurii Timrov

We present a first-principles investigation of the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of the pristine and Fe-doped alpha-MnO2 using density-functional theory with extended Hubbard functionals. The onsite U and intersite V Hubbard parameters ar ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Structure-property relationships and mixed conductivity in layered hybrid perovskites based on phenyl-derived spacers

Algirdas Ducinskas

Hybrid halide perovskites are currently one of the most studied semiconductors. However, due to poor intrinsic and extrinsic stability, further developments to commercialize devices based on hybrid halide perovskites are limited. Many different strategies ...

EPFL2022

Precise determination of the low-energy electronuclear Hamiltonian of LiY1-xHoxF4

Michael Müller, Sandrine Gerber, Gabriel Aeppli

The insulating rare-earth magnet LiY1-xHoxF4 has received great attention because a laboratory field applied perpendicular to its crystallographic c axis converts the low-energy electronic spin Hamiltonian into the (dilute) transverse field Ising model. Th ...

2022

Dipolar-stabilized first and second-order antiskyrmions in ferrimagnetic multilayers

Dirk Grundler, Ping Che

Skyrmions and antiskyrmions are topologically protected spin structures with opposite vorticities. Particularly in coexisting phases, these two types of magnetic quasi-particles may show fascinating physics and potential for spintronic devices. While skyrm ...

Nature Research2021

Studies of cold chemistry in crossed and merged neutral beams

Silvia Tanteri

In this thesis we present the design of two setups to study low-energy collisions between neutral species: an electron velocity map imaging for chemi-ionisation reactions and a merged electrostatic guide for polar molecules scattering. In the past few yea ...

EPFL2021

Structural and analytical identifications of biomolecules by cold ion spectroscopy of non-covalent complexes

Erik Saparbayev

Non-covalent interactions are ubiquitous in nature. The diversity and functionality of these interactions are employed by nature as a universal tool for building the molecular mechanism of life. Although weak, these interactions play a key role in both for ...

EPFL2021

Universal Quantum Computing Using Electronuclear Wavefunctions of Rare-Earth Ions

Gabriel Aeppli

We propose a scheme for universal quantum computing based on Kramers rare-earth ions. Their nuclear spins in the presence of a Zeeman-split electronic crystal field ground state act as "passive" qubits that store quantum information. The "active" qubits ar ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Ligand Locking on Quantum Dot Surfaces via a Mild Reactive Surface Treatment

Aurélien Bornet, Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Ona Segura Lecina

At the outermost surface of colloidal QDs are organic surface ligands which dynamically bind and release in solution to control the growth kinetics, control the size/shape of the crystals, passivate surface states, and provide colloidal stability through f ...

2021

van der Waals Epitaxy of Co10–xZn10–yMnx+y Thin Films: Chemical Composition Engineering and Magnetic Properties

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Dirk Grundler, Ping Che, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Andrea Mucchietto, Rajrupa Paul, Mohammad Hamdi

Topologically protected magnetic skyrmions have raised interest for future spintronics applications. One of the main challenges is the synthesis of room temperature skyrmion-hosting materials that are compatible with thin-film technology. We present an app ...

2021

Predicting molecular dipole moments by combining atomic partial charges and atomic dipoles

Michele Ceriotti, David Mark Wilkins, Max David Veit, Yang Yang

The molecular dipole moment (mu) is a central quantity in chemistry. It is essential in predicting infrared and sum-frequency generation spectra as well as induction and long-range electrostatic interactions. Furthermore, it can be extracted directly-via t ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2020

Modelling long-range interactions in multiscale simulations of ferromagnetic materials

Doghonay Arjmand

Atomistic-continuum multiscale modelling is becoming an increasingly popular tool for simulating the behaviour of materials due to its computational efficiency and reliable accuracy. In the case of ferromagnetic materials, the atomistic approach handles th ...

SPRINGER2020

Electronic, excitonic and magnetic properties of two-dimensional heterostructures

Alberto Ciarrocchi

Two-dimensional (2D) crystals such as graphene or transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are a fascinating class of quantum materials. These compounds are obtained isolating the single atomic sheets that normally form bulk layered crystals, and the reduc ...

EPFL2020