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Disentangling spin polarization from driven circular ionic motion in EuTiO
Clifford J. Allington, Matthew J. Lutz, Enoch +31
Coherently driven circular ionic motion has been reported to produce large helicity-dependent optical responses attributed to transient magnetization. However, the microscopic natu…
In situ impedance spectroscopy tests of LiGePO as potential solid state electrolyte for Micro Li ion Batteries
Mohammadhossein Montazerian, Kyle J. Stephens, Vladimir Roddatis +6
Lithium-ion batteries employing solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) are emerging as a safer and more compact alternative to conventional batteries using liquid electrolytes, especially…
Anionic disorder and its impact on the surface electronic structure of oxynitride photoactive semiconductors
Anna Hartl, Ján Minár, Procopios Constantinou +8
The conversion of solar energy into chemical energy, stored in the form of hydrogen, bears enormous potential as a sustainable fuel for powering emerging technologies. Photoactive…
Li4-xGe1-xPxO4 a potential solid-state electrolyte for all-oxide microbatteries
E. Gilardi, G. Materzanini, L. Kahle +7
Solid-state electrolytes for Li-ion batteries are attracting growing interest as they allow building safer batteries, also using lithium metal anodes. Here we studied a compound in…
Energy conversion processes with perovskite-type materials
Davide Ferri, Daniele Pergolesi, Emiliana Fabbri
Mixed oxides derived from the perovskite structure by combination of A- and B-site elements and by partial substitution of oxygen provide an immense playground of physico-chemical…
Yttrium Tantalum Oxynitride Multiphases as Photoanodes for Water Oxidation
Wenping Si, Zahra Pourmand Tehrani, Fatima Haydous +4
Perovskite yttrium tantalum oxynitride is theoretically proposed as a promising semiconductor for solar water splitting because of the predicted bandgap and energy positions of ban…
Suppressed charge recombination in hematite photoanode via protonation and annealing
Wenping Si, Fatima Haydous, Ugljesa Babic +2
Hematite as promising photoanode for solar water splitting suffers from severe bulk and surface charge recombination. This work describes that a protonation-annealing treatment can…
The solid-state Li-ion conductor LiTaO: A combined computational and experimental study
Leonid Kahle, Xi Cheng, Tobias Binninger +8
We study the oxo-hexametallate LiTaO with first-principles and classical molecular dynamics simulations, obtaining a low activation barrier for diffusion of 0.29 eV a…
Real-time monitoring of stress evolution during thin film growth by in situ substrate curvature measurement
Elisa Gilardi, Aline Fluri, Thomas Lippert +1
Strain engineering is the art of inducing controlled lattice distortions in a material to modify specific physicochemical properties. Strain engineering is applied for basic fundam…
Interface Effects on the Ionic Conductivity of Doped Ceria / Yttria-stabilized Zirconia Heterostructures
Daniele Pergolesi, Elisa Gilardi, Emiliana Fabbri +5
Multilayered heterostructures of Ce0.85Sm0.15O2-delta and Y0.16Zr0.92O2-delta of a high crystallographic quality were fabricated on (001) - oriented MgO single crystal substrates.…
Anisotropic Proton and Oxygen Ion Conductivity in Epitaxial Ba2In2O5 Thin Films
Aline Fluri, Maths Karlsson, Marco Bettinelli +3
Solid oxide oxygen ion and proton conductors are a highly important class of materials for renewable energy conversion devices like solid oxide fuel cells. Ba2In2O5 (BIO) exhibits…
X-ray Absorption Linear Dichroism at the Ti K-edge of TiO2 anatase single crystals
T. C. Rossi, D. Grolimund, M. Nachtegaal +9
Anatase TiO2 (a-TiO2) exhibits a strong X-ray absorption linear dichroism with the X-ray incidence angle in the pre-edge, the XANES and the EXAFS at the titanium K-edge. In the pre…
Oxynitride Thin Films versus Particle-Based Photoanodes: a Comparative Study for Photoelectrochemical Solar Water Splitting
Fatima Haydous, Max Döbeli, Wenping Si +7
The solar water splitting process assisted by semiconductor photocatalysts attracts growing research interests worldwide for the production of hydrogen as a clean and sustainable e…
Improved Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting of CaNbO2N Photoanodes by Co-Pi Photodeposition and Surface Passivation
Fatima Haydous, Wenping Si, Vitaliy A. Guzenko +7
Photoelectrochemical solar water splitting is a promising approach to convert solar energy into sustainable hydrogen fuel using semiconductor electrodes. Due to their visible light…
Determination of conduction and valence band electronic structure of LaTiOxNy thin film
Markus Pichler, Jakub Szlachetko, Ivano E. Castelli +5
The nitrogen substitution into the oxygen sites of several oxide materials leads to a reduction of the band gap to the visible light energy range, which makes these oxynitride semi…
LaTiOxNy thin film model systems for photocatalytic water splitting: physicochemical evolution of the solid-liquid interface and the role of the crystallographic orientation
Markus Pichler, Wenping Si, Fatima Haydous +10
The size of the band gap and the energy position of the band edges make several oxynitride semiconductors promising candidates for efficient hydrogen and oxygen production under so…
The Microcalorimeter Arrays for a Rhenium Experiment (MARE): a next-generation calorimetric neutrino mass experiment
A. Monfardini, C. Arnaboldi, C. Brofferio +29
Neutrino oscillation experiments have proved that neutrinos are massive particles, but can't determine their absolute mass scale. Therefore the neutrino mass is still an open quest…