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Modulating the Reactivity of Liquid Ga Nanoparticle Inks by Modifying Their Surface Chemistry

Raffaella Buonsanti, Laia Castilla Amorós, James Richard Pankhurst, Tzu-Chin Chang Chien

Micro- and nanosized particles of liquid metals, particularly Ga-based alloys, are attracting increasing attention for applications in several fields. The surface functionalization of Ga-based nanoparticles (NPs) with organic ligands renders easily process ...

2022

Nanoscale Growth Initiation as a Pathway to Improve the Earth-Abundant Absorber Zinc Phosphide

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

Growth approaches that limit the interface area between layers to nanoscale regions are emerging as a promising pathway to limit the interface defect formation due to mismatching lattice parameters or thermal expansion coefficient. Interfacial defect mitig ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Optical spectroscopy of earth-abundant zinc pnictides for photovoltaics

Elias Zsolt Stutz

Zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) is an earth-abundant semiconductor with promising properties for applications as an absorber in photovoltaics. To beat the 40 years old record power conversion efficiency of solar cells made with this material, a deep understanding o ...

EPFL2022

Development of stencil lithography for stretchable interconnects

Yi-Chiang Sun

The growing needs for human healthcare have driven the development of wearable devices for monitoring the health status of an individual. Polymers represent a promising platform for such devices due to their ability to form an intimate contact between soft ...

EPFL2022

Tuning paradigm of external stimuli driven electronic, optical and magnetic properties in hybrid perovskites and metalorganic complexes br

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

We have witnessed a wide range of theoretical as well as experimental investigations to envisage external stimuli induced changes in electronic, optical and magnetic properties in the metal organiccomplexes, while hybrid perovskites have recently joined th ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Tuning Napththalenediimide Cations for Incorporation into Ruddlesden–Popper-Type Hybrid Perovskites

Jacques-Edouard Moser, Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Liang Yao, Etienne Christophe Socie, Simon Nussbaum

Layered hybrid organic−inorganic perovskite (LHOIP) materials constructed with low-band-gap chromophore-based organic spacer cations are anemerging class of materials that promise unique tunability of their optoelectronic properties. However, the large siz ...

2022

Intrinsic Polarization Super Junctions: Design of Single and Multichannel GaN Structures

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Luca Nela, Catherine Erine, Amirmohammad Miran Zadeh

Super junctions (SJs) have enabled unprecedented performance in Silicon power devices, which could be further improved by applying this concept to wide bandgap semiconductors like gallium nitride (GaN). Currently, polarization super junctions (PSJs) are th ...

2022

Reactivity of Multimetallic Thorium Nitrides Generated by Reduction of Thorium Azides

Rosario Scopelliti, Marinella Mazzanti, Luciano Barluzzi, Fang-Che Hsueh

Thorium nitrides are likely intermediates in the reported cleavage and functionalization of dinitrogen by molecular thorium complexes and are attractive compounds for the study of multiple bond formation in f-element chemistry, but only one example of thor ...

2022

Strengthening mechanisms in dilute and random solid solution high-entropy BCC alloys

Alireza Ghafarollahi

Tuning the mechanical properties of metals, including strength, through adjusting the type and/or concentration of added solute elements, has been recognized as an effective way to design and produce materials with desired or optimized mechanical propertie ...

EPFL2022

A Generalized Phase-Shift PWM Extension for Improved Natural and Active Balancing of Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverters

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Georgios Kampitsis

The emergence of wide bandgap power devices has brought the attention back to the flying capacitor (FC) multilevel inverters with a large number of stages, in an effort to increase the power density by minimizing the passive components. The main challenge ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022