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Immobilized polymer fraction in hyperbranched polymer/silica nanocomposite suspensions

Yves Leterrier, Sara Dalle Vacche, Valérie Geiser, Riccardo Ruggerone

The glass transition behavior of hyperbranched polymer (HBP) molecules with suspensions of silica and glass particles up to the concentrated regime (25 vol %) was analyzed by modulated differential scanning calorimetry (MDSC). The reversing and nonreversin ...

American Chemical Society2010

Influence of pressure and silane depletion on microcrystalline silicon material quality and solar cell performance

Christophe Ballif, Grégory Bugnon, Julien Claude Bailat, Andrea Feltrin

Hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon growth by very high frequency plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition is investigated in an industrial-type parallel plate R&D KAI (TM) reactor to study the influence of pressure and silane depletion on material qual ...

2009

Silane depletion dependent ion bombardment and material quality of microcrystalline silicon deposited by VHF-PECVD

Christophe Ballif, Grégory Bugnon, Julien Claude Bailat, Andrea Feltrin

Microcrystalline silicon is a composite material embedding silicon nanocrystals in an amorphous matrix [1]. It has attracted much research efforts in the photovoltaic domain [2], because of its potential for integration in a tandem cell concept as bottom c ...

2009

Modelling of primary recrystallization using digital microstructures

Roland Logé

Procedures for synthesizing and meshing digital polycrystalline microstructures are demonstrated. The meshing operation relies on a metric field, yielding a nonuniform mesh size and a nonuniform mesh aspect ratio. Isotropic meshing is done in the grains in ...

2008

Influence of ion bombardment on microcrystalline silicon material quality and solar cell performances

Christophe Ballif, Grégory Bugnon, Julien Claude Bailat, Andrea Feltrin, Fanny Sculati-Meillaud

Microcrystalline hydrogenated silicon growth with VHF-PECVD was examined in an industrial type parallel plate KAITM reactor. The influence of pressure on material quality was studied in single junction solar cells. Solar cells with their intrinsic layer pr ...

2008

Microcrystalline silicon deposited at high rate on large areas from pure silane with efficient gas utilization

Christophe Ballif, Christoph Hollenstein, Alan Howling, Laurent Fabien Hubert Sansonnens, Benjamin Strahm

Microcrystalline silicon thin film deposited by RF-PECVD and integrated in a tandem structure is a promising material for low cost photovoltaic solar cells compared to solar cells based on crystalline silicon. However, in order to allow a cost-effective ma ...

2007

Determination of Raman emission cross-section ratio in microcrystalline silicon

Christophe Ballif, Arvind Shah, Julien Claude Bailat

The determination of the crystalline volume fraction from the Raman spectra of microcrystalline silicon involves the knowledge of a material parameter called the Raman emission cross-section ratio y. This value is still debated in the literature. In the pr ...

2006

Phytolith types and type-frequencies in subalpine-alpine plant species of the European Alps

Biogenic silica extracted from 21 species commonly occurring in subalpine and alpine plant communities in the central Swiss Alps were examined using light and SEM microscopes; 19 species being screened here for the first time. An inventory of phytolith typ ...

2004

Simulation of the growth dynamics of amorphous and microcrystalline silicon

Arvind Shah, Julien Claude Bailat

The qualitative description of the major microstructure characteristics of microcrystalline silicon is achieved through a three-dimensional discrete dynamical growth model. The model is based on three fundamental processes that determine surface morphology ...

2004

Cristobalite inclusions in the Tatahouine achondrite: Implications for shock conditions

Philippe Gillet

The mineralogy of the Tatahouine diogenite was investigated by optical microscopy, Raman micro-spectrometry, and scanning and transmission electron microscopies. Inclusions of alpha-cristobalite in orthopyroxenes, locally in symplectic association with chr ...

2002

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