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Impact of interlayer application on band bending for improved electron extraction for efficient flexible perovskite mini-modules

The development of highly efficient lightweight flexible perovskite solar cells (PSCs) opens the way to high-throughput roll-to-roll manufacturing processes and new applications such as building integration and mobile products. Flexible PSCs are generally ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

Micromechanics of Amorphous Metal/Polymer Hybrid Structures with 3D Cellular Architectures: Size Effects, Buckling Behavior, and Energy Absorption Capability

Stefano Mischler, Johann Michler, Cédric Frantz

By designing advantageous cellular geometries and combining the material size effects at the nanometer scale, lightweight hybrid microarchitectured materials with tailored structural properties are achieved. Prior studies reported the mechanical properties ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

Small-scale metal castings, small-scale metal/transparent composite structures and process to produce same

Andreas Mortensen, Yves Bellouard, Raphaël Charvet, Cyril Dénéréaz

The method comprises at least the following steps: - exposing a substrate to focused laser irradiation at a preselected series of locations that trace a subset of the substrate volume that is connected to the surface of the substrate; some subsets of subst ...

2017

Identification of Soft Matter Binding Peptide Ligands Using Phage Display

Harm-Anton Klok

Phage display is a powerful tool for the selection of highly affine, short peptide ligands. While originally primarily used for the identification of ligands to proteins, the scope of this technique has significantly expanded over the past two decades. Pha ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Electrochemical coating stress sensor, apparatus and method for accurately monitoring and controlling electrochemical reactions and material coating

Terunobu Akiyama

The present invention relates to an electrochemical coating stress sensor comprising a stress member for receiving an electrochemical coating layer; a support frame supporting the stress member; at least two bridging portions separating the stress member f ...

2015

Properties of Spinel Protective Coatings Prepared Using Wet Powder Spraying for SOFC Interconnects

Jan Van Herle, Michele Bianco

A wet powder spraying (WPS) method was applied to prepare protective layers of manganese cobalt spinel oxide (MCO) on commercial stainless steels of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) interconnects. Densification of the MCO layer was dependent on the thermal tre ...

2015

Selective Growth of Titanium Dioxide by Low-Temperature Chemical Vapor Deposition

Patrik Willi Hoffmann, Yury Kuzminykh, Michael Oliver Reinke

A key factor in engineering integrated optical devices such as electro-optic switches or waveguides is the patterning of thin films into specific geometries. In particular for functional oxides, etching processes are usually developed to a much lower exten ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Laminated fabric as top electrode for organic photovoltaics

Roland Hany, Thomas Geiger

A simple lamination technique for conductive and semitransparent fabrics on top of organic photovoltaic cells is presented. Conductive fabrics consisted of metal wires woven in a fabric with polymeric fibers. The lamination of this conductive fabric with h ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Coiling of elastic rods on rigid substrates

Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis

We investigate the deployment of a thin elastic rod onto a rigid substrate and study the resulting coiling patterns. In our approach, we combine precision model experiments, scaling analyses, and computer simulations toward developing predictive understand ...

2014

Improved test setup for MEMS mechanical strength investigations and fabrication process qualification

Herbert Shea, Xavier Maeder, Tobias Bandi

ABSTRACT The mechanical stability of silicon MEMS dies is strongly influenced by the microfabrication processes, especially grinding, dicing and etching, which leave characteristic damage (defects, cracks, dislocations...) in the substrate material. Specia ...

2014

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