Publications de Arthur Brian Aebersold

Pinpointing the thermal history of lunar basaltic meteorites in a nutshell

Philippe Gillet, Cyril Cayron, Arthur Brian Aebersold, Rongrong Cai

Native metals of igneous origin are recognized as one of the distinctive features of basalts from the Moon. Our study demonstrates that the tiny Fe-Ni metal blebs nucleated from lunar magma exhibit unanticipated, nutshell-like, crystallographic microstruct ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Triplet grain growth in a-texture polycrystalline ZnO thin films

Cécile Hébert, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Arthur Brian Aebersold

A growth of grain triplets is identified in vapor deposited, a-texture polycrystalline zinc oxide thin films, using a combination of transmission electron microscopy-based automated crystal orientation mapping and high-resolution imaging. Each triplet cons ...

2020

Quantifying competitive grain overgrowth in polycrystalline ZnO thin films

Christophe Ballif, Cécile Hébert, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Sylvain Nicolay, Lorenzo Fanni, Arthur Brian Aebersold

2019

Direct Imaging of Dopant Distribution in Polycrystalline ZnO Films

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Cécile Hébert, Sylvain Nicolay, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Martin Ledinsky, Stéphane Laurent Escrig, Monica Morales Masis, Arthur Brian Aebersold

Two fundamental requirements of transparent conductive oxides are high conductivity and low optical absorptance, properties strongly dependent on the free-carrier concentration of the film. The free carrier concentration is usually-tuned by the addition of ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Zinc blende-wurtzite polytypism in nanocrystalline ZnO films

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Cécile Hébert, Sylvain Nicolay, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Lorenzo Fanni, Arthur Brian Aebersold

ZnO is commonly observed and assumed to crystallize fully in a wurtzite structure. Indeed, While polytypism between a wurtzite and a zinc blende phase is often seen in some II-VI compounds, it has only rarely been observed in ZnO. Here, by means of automat ...

Elsevier2017

Investigation of polycrystalline ZnO film growth by quantitative TEM orientation mapping

Arthur Brian Aebersold

Polycrystalline chemical vapour deposited ZnO films are commonly used as transparent electrodes for photovoltaic devices. Over the past years much effort has been put into improving their properties. Even though these films are now well optimised for speci ...

EPFL2017

Increasing Polycrystalline Zinc Oxide Grain Size by Control of Film Preferential Orientation

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Cécile Hébert, Sylvain Nicolay, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Lorenzo Fanni, Monica Morales Masis, Arthur Brian Aebersold

We investigate the structural evolution of polycrystalline zinc oxide films grown by low pressure metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. The goal is to achieve larger grains-leading to higher charge carrier mobility from lower grain boundary density-by c ...

American Chemical Society2015

Height-resolved quantification of microstructure and texture in polycrystalline thin films using TEM orientation mapping

Cécile Hébert, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Arthur Brian Aebersold

A method is presented for the quantitative investigation of microstructure and texture evolution in polycrystalline thin films based on in-plane automated crystal orientation mapping in transmission electron microscopy, from the substrate up. To demonstrat ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

c-texture versus a-texture low pressure metalorganic chemical vapor deposition ZnO films: Lower resistivity despite smaller grain size

Christophe Ballif, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Sylvain Nicolay, Monica Morales Masis, Laura Ding, Lorenzo Fanni, Arthur Brian Aebersold

Recently, it has been shown that it is possible to tune the morphology of zinc oxide films deposited by low-pressure metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (LP-MOCVD) while preserving good electrical conductivity. Here a closer look is taken at films depos ...

Elsevier2014