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Engineering Chirality in Halide Perovskites
Juan Delgado-Alvarez, Javier Castillo-Seoane, Jorge Budagosky +8
The ability to control chirality in halide perovskites offers new opportunities for circularly polarized photonics, spin-selective electronics, and quantum information technologies…
Ferroelastic exciton splitting in hybrid perovskite nanowalls
Afreen, J. Delgado-Alvarez, H. Krishna Mishra +9
Hybrid metal-halide perovskites are soft semiconductors in which electronic excitations are strongly influenced by lattice distortions and structural phase transitions. An importan…
Tunable Conformal Graphene Growth on Oxide Nanotube scaffolds: Towards Superwettable Hierarchical 2D-3D Architectures
Fernando Nunez Galvez, Muhammad Hamza, Johannes Berndt +7
Hierarchical hybrid nanoarchitectures that integrate vertically oriented graphene nanowalls, GNWs, with metal oxide, MeOx, nanotube scaffolds offer versatile platform for smart sur…
Polycrystalline ferroelectric croconic acid for multisource environmental energy harvesting
Gloria P. Moreno-Martínez, Hari K. Mishra, Xabier García-Casas +5
The development of organic ferroelectric materials through scalable and simplified fabrication routes remains a major challenge for next-generation energy-harvesting technologies.…
Unlocking the hybrid piezo and pyroelectric nanogenerators performance by SiO2 nanowires confinement in poly(vinylidene fluoride)
Juan Delgado-Alvarez, Hari Krishna Mishra, Francisco J. Aparicio +5
We report on the development of a novel flexible piezo/pyro-electric nanogenerator (PPNG) that combines a uniform film of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) infiltrated over vertical…
Enhanced Luminous Transmission and Solar Modulation in Thermochromic VO2 Aerogel-Like Films via Remote Plasma Deposition
Jose M. Obrero-Perez, Gloria Moreno-Martinez, Teresa C. Rojas +9
Vanadium dioxide (VO2) is a thermochromic material that undergoes a phase transition from a monoclinic semiconducting state to a rutile metallic state at 68 degrees C, a temperatur…
Low-Temperature Remote Plasma Synthesis of Highly Porous TiO as Electron Transport Layers in Perovskite Solar Cells
Jose M. Obrero-Perez, Fernando Nunez-Galvez, Lidia Contreras-Bernal +9
Halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) offer high efficiency and low costs, making them key for future photovoltaics. Optimizing charge transport layers is crucial, with porous TiO$_…
Mechanisms of de-icing by surface Rayleigh and plate Lamb acoustic waves
Shilpi Pandey, Jaime del Moral, Stefan Jacob +13
Acoustic waves (AW) have recently emerged as an energy-efficient ice removal procedure compatible with functional and industrial-relevant substrates. However, critical aspects at f…
Water-resistant hybrid perovskite solar cell -- drop triboelectric energy harvester
Fernando Nunez-Galvez, Xabier Garcia-Casas, Lidia Contreras Bernal +11
Hybrid energy-harvesting systems combining perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with drop-driven triboelectric nanogenerators (D-TENGs) provide continuous power under various weather cond…
Triboelectric Pixels as building blocks for microscale and large area integration of drop energy harvesters
Ali Ghaffarinejad, Xabier Garcia-Casas, Fernando Nunez-Galvez +6
The ultimate step towards the exploitation of water as a clean and renewable energy source addresses the energies stored in the low frequencies of liquid flows, which demands flexi…
Highly stable photoluminescence in vacuum-processed halide perovskite core-shell 1D nanostructures
Javier Castillo-Seoane, Lidia Contreras-Bernal, T. Cristina Rojas +6
Hybrid organometal halide perovskites (HP) present exceptional optoelectronic properties, but their poor long-term stability is a major bottleneck for their commercialization. Here…
Tailoring the Nucleation and Growth of Silver Nanoparticles by Sputtering Deposition under Acoustic Wave Activation. Assessment of Plasma Conditions and 2D Patterning Phenomena
Helene Reichel, Aurelio Garcia-Valenzuela, Jose Andres Espino-Roman +8
Early results on the plasma deposition of dielectric thin films on acoustic wave (AW) activated substrates revealed a densification pattern arisen from the focusing of plasma ions…
Multidimensional nanoarchitectures for improved indoor light harvesting in dye-sensitized solar cells
Javier Castillo-Seoane, Lidia Contreras-Bernal, Antonio J. Riquelme +8
Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs) have recently regained attention for indoor light harvesting and powering wireless devices. Advantages such as cost-effectiveness, flexibility, w…
Conformal TiO aerogel-like films by plasma deposition: from omniphobic antireflective coatings to perovskite solar cells photoelectrodes
Jose M. Obrero, Lidia Contreras-Bernal, Francisco J. Aparicio +12
The ability to control porosity in oxide thin films is one of the key factors that determine their properties. Despite the abundance of dry processes for the synthesis of oxide por…
Harnessing a Vibroacoustic Mode for Enabling Smart Functions on Surface Acoustic Wave Devices -- Application to Icing Monitoring and Deicing
Atefeh Karimzadeh, Uhland Weissker, Jaime del Moral +4
Microacoustic wave devices are essential components in the RF electronics and MEMS industry with increasing impact in various sensing and actuation applications. Reliable and smart…
Paper-based ZnO self-powered sensors and nanogenerators by plasma technology
Xabier Garcia-Casas, Francisco J. Aparicio, Jorge Budagosky +7
Nanogenerators and self-powered nanosensors have shown the potential to power low-consumption electronics and human-machine interfaces, but their practical implementation requires…
A holistic solution to icing by acoustic waves: de-icing, active anti-icing, sensing with piezoelectric crystals, and synergy with thin film passive anti-icing solutions
Jaime del Moral, Laura Montes, Victor J. Rico +14
Icing has become a hot topic both in academia and in the industry given its implications in strategic sectors such as transport, robotics, wind turbines, photovoltaics, and electri…
Ultrathin plasma polymer passivation of perovskite solar cells for improved stability and reproducibility
Jose M. Obrero-Perez, Lidia Contreras-Bernal+, Fernando Nunez-Galvez +7
Despite the youthfulness of hybrid halide perovskite solar cells, their efficiencies are currently comparable to commercial silicon and have surpassed quantum-dots solar cells. Yet…
Highly anisotropic organometal halide perovskite nanowalls grown by Glancing Angle Deposition
Javier Castillo-Seoane, Lidia Contreras-Bernal, Jose M. Obrero-Perez +9
Polarizers are ubiquitous components in optoelectronic devices of daily use as displays, optical sensors or photographic cameras, among others. Yet the control over light polarizat…
Coarse-grained approach to amorphous and anisotropic materials in Kinetic Monte Carlo thin-films growth simulations: a case study of TiO2 and ZnO by Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition
Jorge Budagosky, Xabier Garcia-Casas, Juan R. Sanchez-Valencia +2
The growth of amorphous TiO2 and anisotropic-polycrystalline ZnO thin-films is studied by means of coarse-grained three-dimensional kinetic Montecarlo simulations under conditions…
One-reactor vacuum and plasma synthesis of transparent conducting oxide nanotubes and nanotrees: from single wire conductivity to ultra-broadband perfect absorbers in the NIR
Javier Castillo-Seoane, Jorge Gil-Rostra, Victor Lopez-Flores +9
The eventual exploitation of one-dimensional nanomaterials yet needs the development of scalable, high yield, homogeneous, and environmentally friendly methods able to meet the req…
3D core@multishell piezoelectric nanogenerators
Alejandro-Nicolas Filippin, Juan-Ramon Sanchez-Valencia, Xabier Garcia-Casas +5
The thin film configuration presents obvious practical advantages over the 1D implementation in energy harvesting systems such as easily manufacturing and processing and long lasti…