Publications de Nicolas Blondiaux

Damping of flexure blades based on bi-material additive manufacturing

Simon Nessim Henein, Florent Cosandier, Loïc Benoît Tissot-Daguette, Elias Sebastian Klauser, Florent Alexandre Boudoire, Nikola Kalentics, Nicolas Blondiaux, Lisa Salamin

Flexure-based mechanisms have become state-of-the-art solutions for the design of high-precision mechanisms, free from friction wear, backlash, and lubrication. These properties which are necessary for applications in ultraclean or harsh environments, neve ...

2023

Self-Patterned Nanoparticle Layers for Vertical Interconnects: Application in Tandem Solar Cells

Christophe Ballif, Franz-Josef Haug, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Björn Niesen, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Fanny Sculati-Meillaud, Nicolas Blondiaux, Raphaël Pugin, Emmanuel Scolan

We demonstrate self-patterned insulating nanoparticle layers to define local electrical interconnects in thin-film electronic devices. We show this with thin-film silicon tandem solar cells, where we introduce between the two component cells a solution-pro ...

American Chemical Society2014

Smoothening intermediate reflecting layer for tandem thin-film silicon solar cells

Christophe Ballif, Matthieu Despeisse, Corsin Battaglia, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Nicolas Blondiaux

We introduce the concept of smoothening intermediate reflecting layers (IRLs) in Micromorph thin-film silicon tandem solar cells in the superstrate configuration. The aim of such structures is not only to provide a selective reflection of light for optimal ...

Elsevier2013

SiN membranes with submicrometer hole arrays patterned by wafer-scale nanosphere lithography

Jürgen Brugger, Andreea Veronica Savu, Oscar Vazquez Mena, Harry Heinzelmann, Mona Julia Katharina Klein, Nicolas Blondiaux, Raphaël Pugin, Franck Montagne

In this work, nanosphere lithography was integrated with standard microfabrication for the wafer-scale fabrication of silicon nitride (SiN) membranes with arrays of submicrometer holes. A monolayer of polystyrene (PS) beads with a mean diameter of 428 or 5 ...

2011

Solid-state nanopore array membranes patterned by electron beam lithography, nanosphere lithography and aluminum anodization

Jürgen Brugger, Andreea Veronica Savu, Songmei Wu, Oscar Vazquez Mena, Harry Heinzelmann, Vaida Auzelyte, Mona Julia Katharina Klein, Nicolas Blondiaux, Raphaël Pugin, Franck Montagne

We present the fabrication of thin membranes with dense arrays of nanometer and submicrometer pore arrays by the integration of standard micromachining with three pore patterning techniques: electron beam lithography (EBL), nanosphere lithography (NSL) and ...

2011

Solid-state Nanopore Array Membranes Patterned by Electron Beam Lithography, Nanosphere Lithography and Aluminum Anodization

Jürgen Brugger, Andreea Veronica Savu, Oscar Vazquez Mena, Songmei Wu, Mona Julia Katharina Klein, Vaida Auzelyte, Nicolas Blondiaux, Franck Montagne

We present the fabrication of thin membranes with dense arrays of nanometer and submicrometer pore arrays by the integration of standard micromachining with three pore patterning techniques: electron beam lithography (EBL), nanosphere lithography (NSL) and ...

Research Publishing Services2011

Surface Nanopatterning by Polymer Self-Assembly: from Applied Research to Industrial Applications

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Nicolas Blondiaux, Raphaël Pugin, Martha Liley, Ana Maria Popa

Complementary methods have been developed for surface nanostructuring using molecular self-assembly, reactive ion etching and replication techniques. First, controlled surface nanostructures with tunable lateral dimensions from tens of nanometer to tens of ...

2009