Research activities at CIME
Research is a key function of the Electron Microscopy Centre enabling it to provide a wide range of the latest techniques to researchers at the EPFL.
To stay competent and open-minded to the users questions, CIME leads its own research and development activity in the following fields:
- Precision-Measurement of materials properties.
- Holography, DPC, 4D-STEM, Electromagnetic and strain fields measurements.
- Developing techniques for imaging 2D materials.
- 3D imaging and analysis with focused ion beam microscopy for Materials and Life Sciences.
- Computational electron microscopy with its ability to calculate high resolution images and diffraction patterns for quantitative interpretation of EM images.
- 3D reconstruction: Â Electron tomography and Single Particle Analysis
- Electron Diffraction techniques
- 2D and 3D imaging of crystal defects.
The CIME is also involved in a number of other research projects in which electron microscopy plays a key role.
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CIME publications:
Book:
“Sample preparation guide for Transmission Electron Microscopy, Volume 1 & 2”
The first volume covers theoretical and practical aspects of sample preparation for TEM.
The second volume is dedicated to technical hints. It compiles 36 preparation detailed protocols for TEM analysis.
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis is an important step for studying the structure and chemistry of materials. Therefore, Jeanne Ayache, Luc Beaunier, Jacqueline Boumendil, Gabrielle Ehret and DaniĂšle Laub created the internet website:
Sample preparation guide for Transmission Electron Microscopy
This website is dedicated to TEM sample preparation in the interdisciplinary field of Material Science, Earth Science and Biology. Designed in French and English, this website is accessible free of charge for the whole national and international electron microscopy community. This website contains « an interactive educative guide » composed of a data base including all kinds of materials, allowing automatically, to make the decision on the choice of the best TEM sample preparation technique with regard to the specific material properties and the type of analyses required. This website encompass 36 sample preparation techniques.
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Recent articles:
2025
Journal Articles
Single Photon Emitters in Thin GaAsN Nanowire Tubes Grown on Si
ACS Nano. 2025. DOI : 10.1021/acsnano.5c12139.Unprecedented Selectivity for Arsenic(III) in a Dimercaptosuccinic AcidâBased ZrâMOF: The Role of Dangling Ligands
Angewandte Chemie. 2025. DOI : 10.1002/ange.202516822.A ShipâinâaâBottle Strategy: Crosslinking Amines and Epoxides inside MOF Pores for Enhanced CO2 Capture Performance
Advanced Materials. 2025. DOI : 10.1002/adma.202410138.Polycondensation as a Universal Method for Preparing High-density Single-atom Catalyst Libraries
ADVANCED MATERIALS. 2025. DOI : 10.1002/adma.202507627.Pushing the Limits of Off Axis Electron Holography for the Quantitative Mapping of Electromagnetic Fields
Microscopy and Microanalysis. 2025. Vol. 31, num. Supplement_1. DOI : 10.1093/mam/ozaf048.569.Metal Doping of Strongly Confined Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals under Ambient Conditions
Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2025. DOI : 10.1021/jacs.5c03629.Single-site ruthenium catalyst supported on zeolite for CO2 hydrogenation to methyl formate
Science Advances. 2025. Vol. 11, num. 16, p. eadu2857. DOI : 10.1126/sciadv.adu2857. Suppression of Stacking Faults for Stable Formamidinium-Rich Perovskite Absorbers
ADVANCED MATERIALS. 2025. DOI : 10.1002/adma.202502142.Integration of Cobalt Ferromagnetic Control Gates for Electrical and Magnetic Manipulation of Semiconductor Quantum Dots (Adv. Funct. Mater. 14/2025)
Advanced Functional Materials. 2025. Vol. 35, num. 14. DOI : 10.1002/adfm.202570080.Gate-Tunable Hole Transport in In-Plane Ge Nanowires by V-Groove Confined Selective Epitaxy
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS. 2025. DOI : 10.1002/adfm.202423734.The influence of Cr concentration on the phase composition and properties of a unidirectionally crystallized ternary system Cr-Fe-Si before and after annealing
Crystallography Reports. 2025. Vol. 69, num. 6, p. 826 – 837. DOI : 10.1134/S1063774524602387.Unraveling metal effects on CO2 uptake in pyrene-based metal-organic frameworks
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 2025. Vol. 16, num. 1. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-025-56296-w.Nonuniform Chiralization of Metal-Organic Frameworks Using Imine Chemistry
ACS MATERIALS AU. 2025. DOI : 10.1021/acsmaterialsau.4c00139.Efficient Polycrystalline Single-Cation Perovskite Light-Emitting Diodes by Simultaneous Intracrystal and Interfacial Defect Passivation
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany). 2025. Vol. 21, num. 1. DOI : 10.1002/smll.202405272.Operando Nanoscale Characterization Reveals Fe Doping of Ni Oxide Enhances Oxygen Evolution Reaction via Fragmentation and Formation of Dual Active Sites
Angewandte Chemie – International Edition. 2025. DOI : 10.1002/anie.202419521.Efficient Polycrystalline SingleâCation Perovskite LightâEmitting Diodes by Simultaneous Intracrystal and Interfacial Defect Passivation (Small 1/2025)
Small. 2025. Vol. 21, num. 1. DOI : 10.1002/smll.202570001.Synthesis of a 2D tungsten MXene for electrocatalysis
Nature Synthesis. 2025. p. 0003. DOI : 10.1038/s44160-025-00773-z.Anisotropic node distortions in amorphous MOFs: Low-valent Zr sites as catalytic hotspots
Chem. 2025. DOI : 10.1016/j.chempr.2025.102619.Conference Papers
Integration of Co Nanomagnets for Localized EDSR in Scalable FDSOI Spin Qubit Architectures
2025. 2024 International Electron Devices Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA, 2024-12-07 – 2024-12-11. DOI : 10.1109/IEDM50854.2024.10872990.Working Papers
Flash Lamp Annealing Enables Dislocation Density Reduction and Probing of Defect Dynamics in Epitaxial Germanium for OnâChip Integration
2025
Enhanced MOF performance in chromium (VI) removal from water using tailored MOF-polymer composites
2025
Unprecedented selectivity for As(III) in a dimercaptosuccinic acid based Zr-MOF: the role of defects and disorder
2025
Seawater to Sustainable Fuel: Sunlight-Driven Green Hydro-gen Generation with an Atomically Dispersed Photocatalyst
2025
2024
Journal Articles
RAIN: machine learning-based identification for HIV-1 bNAbs
Nature communications. 2024. Vol. 15, num. 1. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-024-49676-1.Direct and integrating sampling in terahertz receivers from wafer-scalable InAs nanowires
Nature communications. 2024. Vol. 15, num. 1. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-023-44345-1.Enhancing the Efficiency and Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells Using Chemical Bath Deposition of SnO2 Electron Transport Layers and 3D/2D Heterojunctions
Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany). 2024. Vol. 20, num. 47. DOI : 10.1002/smll.202406929. Atom-by-atom design of Cu/ZrOx clusters on MgO for CO2 hydrogenation using liquid-phase atomic layer deposition
Nature Catalysis. 2024. Vol. 7, num. 11, p. 1199 – 1212. DOI : 10.1038/s41929-024-01236-y. Improving the operational stability of perovskite solar cells with cesium-doped graphene oxide interlayer
Journal Of Energy Chemistry. 2024. Vol. 96, p. 483 – 490. DOI : 10.1016/j.jechem.2024.04.037.High Sodium Solubility in MagnesiowĂŒstite in Iron-Rich Deep Lower Mantle
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 2024. Vol. 25, num. 6, p. e2023GC011390. DOI : 10.1029/2023GC011390.Quantitative measurement and comparison of breakthroughs inside the gas diffusion layer using lattice Boltzmann method and computed tomography scan
Scientific Reports. 2024. Vol. 14, num. 1, p. 9621. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-024-60148-w.Ligand-modified nanoparticle surfaces influence CO electroreduction selectivity
Nature Communications. 2024. Vol. 15, num. 1, p. 2995. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-024-47319-z.Tailoring dielectric permittivity of epitaxial Gd-doped CeO2-x films by ionic defects
Journal Of Physics-Energy. 2024. Vol. 6, num. 2, p. 025005. DOI : 10.1088/2515-7655/ad2452.Measuring electrical properties in semiconductor devices by pixelated STEM and off-axis electron holography (or convergent beams vs. plane waves).
Micron. 2024. Vol. 179, p. 103594. DOI : 10.1016/j.micron.2024.103594.All Platinum Group Metal-Free and Durable Catalysts for Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells
Acs Applied Energy Materials. 2024. Vol. 7, num. 2, p. 639 – 648. DOI : 10.1021/acsaem.3c02578.Influence of ionization and cumulative effects on laser-induced crystallization in multilayer dielectrics
Physical Review Materials. 2024. Vol. 8, num. 6. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.8.063402.Catalytic hydrogen combustion over supported metal catalysts; comparison and kinetic study
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 2024. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2024.08.300.Conference Papers
Measurement of Electrostatic Potentials in Semiconductor Devices by Off-axis Electron Holography
2024. 82 Microscopy and Microanalysis (2024), Cleveland, United States, 2024-07-28 – 2024-08-01. p. 154 – 156. DOI : 10.1093/mam/ozae044.073.Scalable Receivers Based on Horizontally-grown InAs Nanowires Promise All-fiber Terahertz Spectrometer Systems
2024. 49 International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, Perth, Australia, 2024-09-01 – 2024-09-06. DOI : 10.1109/IRMMW-THz60956.2024.10697914.2023
Journal Articles
Creation of NV Centers in Diamond under 155 MeV Electron Irradiation
ADVANCED PHYSICS RESEARCH. 2023. num. 2. DOI : 10.1002/apxr.202300071.Reconstruction of Angstrom resolution exit-waves by the application of drift-corrected phase-shifting off-axis electron holography
Ultramicroscopy. 2023. Vol. 256, p. 113880. DOI : 10.1016/j.ultramic.2023.113880.Low-temperature non-equilibrium synthesis of anisotropic multimetallic nanosurface alloys for electrochemical CO2 reduction
Nature Synthesis. 2023. DOI : 10.1038/s44160-023-00387-3.Hemoglobin-stabilized gold nanoclusters displaying oxygen transport ability, self-antioxidation, auto-fluorescence properties and long-term storage potential
Rsc Advances. 2023. Vol. 13, num. 23, p. 15540 – 15553. DOI : 10.1039/d3ra00689a.N-Containing Carbons Derived from Microporous Coordination Polymers for Use in Post-Combustion Flue Gas Capture
Advanced Functional Materials. 2023. DOI : 10.1002/adfm.202212283.2022
Journal Articles
In Situ Nucleation-Decoupled and Site-Specific Incorporation of angstrom-Scale Pores in Graphene Via Epoxidation
Advanced Materials. 2022. p. 2206627. DOI : 10.1002/adma.202206627.Electric field writing and erasing of skyrmions in magnetoelectric Cu2OSeO3 with an ultralow energy barrier
Nanoscale. 2022. DOI : 10.1039/d2nr04399h.Precipitation in lean Mg-Zn-Ca alloys
Acta Materialia. 2022. Vol. 239, p. 118223. DOI : 10.1016/j.actamat.2022.118223.Structure, Oxygen Content and Electric Properties of Titanium Nitride Electrodes in TiNx/La:HfO2/TiNx Stacks Grown by PEALD on SiO2/Si
MDPI Nanomaterials. 2022. Vol. 12, num. 20, p. 3608 (19 pages). DOI : 10.3390/nano12203608.Tailoring Morphology and Elemental Distribution of Cu-In Nanocrystals via Galvanic Replacement
Journal Of The American Chemical Society. 2022. Vol. 144, num. 40, p. 18286 – 18295. DOI : 10.1021/jacs.2c05792.Off-axis electron holography for the direct visualization of perpendicular shape anisotropy in nanoscale 3D magnetic random-access-memory devices
Apl Materials. 2022. Vol. 10, num. 6, p. 061104. DOI : 10.1063/5.0096761.2021
Journal Articles
Prussian Blue Analogue-Sodium-Vanadium Hexacyanoferrate as a Cathode Material for Na-Ion Batteries
Acs Applied Energy Materials. 2021. Vol. 4, num. 9, p. 9758 – 9765. DOI : 10.1021/acsaem.1c01832.Bottom-up synthesis of graphene films hosting atom-thick molecular-sieving apertures
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS). 2021. Vol. 118, num. 37, p. e2022201118. DOI : 10.1073/pnas.2022201118.The effect of expertise, training and neurostimulation on sensory-motor skill in esports
Computers In Human Behavior. 2021. Vol. 121, p. 106782. DOI : 10.1016/j.chb.2021.106782.Lamellar carbon-aluminosilicate nanocomposites with macroscopic orientation
Nanoscale. 2021. Vol. 13, num. 32, p. 13650 – 13657. DOI : 10.1039/d1nr00807b.Electric field control of antiferroelectric domain pattern
Physical Review B. 2021. Vol. 103, num. 21, p. 214108. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.214108.Dissipative optomechanical coupling with a membrane outside of an optical cavity
Physical Review A. 2021. Vol. 103, num. 6, p. 063503. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevA.103.063503.Investigating Magma Ocean Solidification on Earth Through LaserâHeated Diamond Anvil Cell Experiments
Geophysical Research Letters. 2021. Vol. 48, num. 12, p. e2021GL092446. DOI : 10.1029/2021GL092446.Composition and Pressure Effects on Partitioning of Ferrous Iron in Iron-Rich Lower Mantle Heterogeneities
Minerals. 2021. Vol. 11, num. 5, p. 512. DOI : 10.3390/min11050512.Maturation of Complex Synaptic Connections of Layer 5 Cortical Axons in the Posterior Thalamic Nucleus Requires SNAP25
Cerebral Cortex. 2021. Vol. 31, num. 5, p. 2625 – 2638. DOI : 10.1093/cercor/bhaa379.3D Ultrastructure of Synaptic Inputs to Distinct GABAergic Neurons in the Mouse Primary Visual Cortex
Cerebral Cortex. 2021. Vol. 31, num. 5, p. 2610 – 2624. DOI : 10.1093/cercor/bhaa378.Optimization of Resonant PZT MEMS Mirrors by Inverse Design and Electrode Segmentation
Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems. 2021. Vol. 30, num. 2, p. 216 – 223. DOI : 10.1109/JMEMS.2021.3054357.Dynamics and healing behavior of metallosupramolecular polymers
Science Advances. 2021. Vol. 7, num. 18, p. eabe4154. DOI : 10.1126/sciadv.abe4154.High-sensitivity mapping of magnetic induction fields with nanometer-scale resolution: comparison of off-axis electron holography and pixelated differential phase contrast
Journal Of Physics D-Applied Physics. 2021. Vol. 54, num. 8, p. 085001. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6463/abc77d.Catalytic hydrocracking of synthetic polymers into grid-compatible gas streams
Cell Reports Physical Science. 2021. Vol. 2, num. 2, p. 100332. DOI : 10.1016/j.xcrp.2021.100332.Soft-probe-scanning electrochemical microscopy reveals electrochemical surface reactivity of E. coli biofilms
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical. 2021. Vol. 334, p. 129669. DOI : 10.1016/j.snb.2021.129669.Posters
Structure-aware Multi-view 3D Reconstruction of Dislocations in TEM with Message Passing Neural Networks
Joint Meeting of DreilÀndertagung & Multinational Congress on Microscopy (Microscopy Conference 2021), Digital, August 22-26, 2021.2020
Journal Articles
Study of Deactivation in Suzuki Reaction of Polymer-Stabilized Pd Nanocatalysts
Processes. 2020. Vol. 8, num. 12, p. 1653. DOI : 10.3390/pr8121653.Rationally designed Human Cytomegalovirus gB nanoparticle vaccine with improved immunogenicity
Plos Pathogens. 2020. Vol. 16, num. 12, p. e1009169. DOI : 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009169.Determination of the internal piezoelectric potentials and indium concentration in InGaN based quantum wells grown on relaxed InGaN pseudo-substrates by off-axis electron holography
Nanotechnology. 2020. Vol. 31, num. 47, p. 475705. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6528/abad5f.Gas cluster ion beam SEM for imaging of large tissue samples with 10 nm isotropic resolution
Nature Methods. 2020. Vol. 17, num. 1, p. 68 – 71. DOI : 10.1038/s41592-019-0641-2.A metal-organic framework/polymer derived catalyst containing single-atom nickel species for electrocatalysis
Chemical Science. 2020. Vol. 11, num. 40, p. 10991 – 10997. DOI : 10.1039/d0sc04512h.Structure evolution, bandgap, and dielectric function in La-doped hafnium oxide thin layer subjected to swift Xe ion irradiation
Journal Of Applied Physics. 2020. Vol. 128, num. 16, p. 164103. DOI : 10.1063/5.0025536.Interfacial Effect between Aluminum-Based Complex Hydrides and Nickel-Containing Porous Carbon Sheets
Acs Applied Energy Materials. 2020. Vol. 3, num. 10, p. 9685 – 9695. DOI : 10.1021/acsaem.0c01262.Heterotwin Zn3P2 superlattice nanowires: the role of indium insertion in the superlattice formation mechanism and their optical properties
Nanoscale. 2020. Vol. 12, num. 44, p. 22534 – 22540. DOI : 10.1039/d0nr05852a.Highly spatially resolved mapping of the piezoelectric potentials in InGaN quantum well structures by off-axis electron holography
Journal Of Applied Physics. 2020. Vol. 128, num. 15, p. 155704. DOI : 10.1063/5.0020717.Dissipative-coupling-assisted laser cooling: Limitations and perspectives
Physical Review A. 2020. Vol. 102, num. 4, p. 043520. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevA.102.043520.Novel features of centriole polarity and cartwheel stacking revealed by cryo-tomography
Embo Journal. 2020. p. e106249. DOI : 10.15252/embj.2020106249.Nanocrystals as Precursors in Solid-State Reactions for Size- and Shape-Controlled Polyelemental Nanomaterials
Journal Of The American Chemical Society. 2020. Vol. 142, num. 37, p. 15931 – 15940. DOI : 10.1021/jacs.0c06556.N2O Decomposition over Fe-ZSM-5: A Systematic Study in the Generation of Active Sites
Molecules. 2020. Vol. 25, num. 17, p. 3867. DOI : 10.3390/molecules25173867.Laser-induced densification of fused silica using spatially overlapping sub-30fs pulses
Journal Of Applied Physics. 2020. Vol. 128, num. 8, p. 083107. DOI : 10.1063/5.0011317.Triplet grain growth in a-texture polycrystalline ZnO thin films
Acta Materialia. 2020. Vol. 199, p. 523 – 529. DOI : 10.1016/j.actamat.2020.08.068.Nanoscale mechanism of UO2 formation through uranium reduction by magnetite
Nature Communications. 2020. Vol. 11, num. 1, p. 4001. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-020-17795-0.Preparation of Highly Porous Metal-Organic Framework Beads for Metal Extraction from Liquid Streams
Journal Of The American Chemical Society. 2020. Vol. 142, num. 31, p. 13415 – 13425. DOI : 10.1021/jacs.0c02371.The emergence of magnetic ordering at complex oxide interfaces tuned by defects
Nature Communications. 2020. Vol. 11, num. 1, p. 3650. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-020-17377-0.Structure-Property Relationships of Microphase-Separated Metallosupramolecular Polymers
Macromolecules. 2020. Vol. 53, num. 13, p. 5068 – 5084. DOI : 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00876.Nano-imaging trace elements at organelle levels in substantia nigra overexpressing alpha-synuclein to model Parkinson’s disease
Communications Biology. 2020. Vol. 3, num. 1, p. 364. DOI : 10.1038/s42003-020-1084-0.Proton-transfer-induced 3D/2D hybrid perovskites suppress ion migration and reduce luminance overshoot
Nature Communications. 2020. Vol. 11, num. 1, p. 3378. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-020-17072-0.Combined deletion of Glut1 and Glut3 impairs lung adenocarcinoma growth
Elife. 2020. Vol. 9, p. e53618. DOI : 10.7554/eLife.53618.Coupled As and Mn Redox Transformations in an Fe(0) Electrocoagulation System: Competition for Reactive Oxidants and Sorption Sites
Environmental Science & Technology. 2020. Vol. 54, num. 12, p. 7165 – 7174. DOI : 10.1021/acs.est.9b07099.Melting of a skyrmion lattice to a skyrmion liquid via a hexatic phase
Nature Nanotechnology. 2020. Vol. 15, p. 761 – 767. DOI : 10.1038/s41565-020-0716-3.Spontaneous symmetry breaking in an optomechanical cavity
Physical Review A. 2020. Vol. 101, num. 6, p. 063813. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevA.101.063813.Progress in Violet Light-Emitting Diodes Based on ZnO/GaN Heterojunction
Electronics. 2020. Vol. 9, num. 6, p. 991. DOI : 10.3390/electronics9060991.Influence of thermo-mechanical history on the ordering kinetics in 18 carat Au alloys
Acta Materialia. 2020. Vol. 191, p. 186 – 197. DOI : 10.1016/j.actamat.2020.03.032.Improved measurement of electric fields by nanobeam precession electron diffraction
Journal Of Applied Physics. 2020. Vol. 127, num. 20, p. 205703. DOI : 10.1063/5.0006969.Inkjet-Printed TiO2/Fullerene Composite Films for Planar Perovskite Solar Cells
Helvetica Chimica Acta. 2020. Vol. 103, num. 5, p. e2000044. DOI : 10.1002/hlca.202000044.Blocked radiative heat transport in the hot pyrolitic lower mantle
Earth And Planetary Science Letters. 2020. Vol. 537, p. 116176. DOI : 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116176.Dimensioning a full color LED microdisplay for augmented reality headset in a very bright environment
Journal Of The Society For Information Display. 2020. Vol. 29, num. 1, p. 3 – 16. DOI : 10.1002/jsid.884.Somatostatin enhances visual processing and perception by suppressing excitatory inputs to parvalbumin-positive interneurons in V1
Science Advances. 2020. Vol. 6, num. 17, p. eaaz0517. DOI : 10.1126/sciadv.aaz0517.Dysfunction of homeostatic control of dopamine by astrocytes in the developing prefrontal cortex leads to cognitive impairments
Molecular Psychiatry. 2020. Vol. 25, num. 4, p. 732 – 749. DOI : 10.1038/s41380-018-0226-y.Platinum Nanoparticles on Sintered Metal Fibers Are Efficient Structured Catalysts in Partial Methane Oxidation into Synthesis Gas
Acs Omega. 2020. Vol. 5, num. 10, p. 5078 – 5084. DOI : 10.1021/acsomega.9b04020.Impairment of Glycolysis-Derived L-Serine Production in Astrocytes Contributes to Cognitive Deficits in Alzheimer’s Disease
Cell Metabolism. 2020. Vol. 31, num. 3, p. 503 – 517.e8. DOI : 10.1016/j.cmet.2020.02.004.Impact of negative bias on the piezoelectric properties through the incidence of abnormal oriented grains in Al0.62Sc0.38N thin films
Thin Solid Films. 2020. Vol. 697, p. 137819. DOI : 10.1016/j.tsf.2020.137819.Nanosecond pulsed laser-processing of CVD diamond
Optics And Lasers In Engineering. 2020. Vol. 126, p. 105917. DOI : 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2019.105917.Grain morphology reconstruction of crystalline materials from Laue three-dimensional neutron diffraction tomography
Scientific Reports. 2020. Vol. 10, num. 1, p. 3724. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-020-60330-w.Guest Editorial
Ferroelectrics. 2020. Vol. 556, num. 1, p. V – IX. DOI : 10.1080/00150193.2020.1728615.Partial Hydrogenation of 2-Methyl-3-butyn-2-ol over Pd/ZnO: Effect of Reduction Temperature on Alloy Formation and Catalytic Response
Journal Of Physical Chemistry C. 2020. Vol. 124, num. 6, p. 3681 – 3691. DOI : 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b11140.Imaging Catalysis: Operando Investigation of the CO2 Hydrogenation Reaction Dynamics by Means of Infrared Thermography
Acs Catalysis. 2020. Vol. 10, num. 3, p. 1721 – 1730. DOI : 10.1021/acscatal.9b04475.Efficient reductive amination of HMF with well dispersed Pd nanoparticles immobilized in a porous MOF/polymer composite
Green Chemistry. 2020. Vol. 22, num. 2, p. 368 – 378. DOI : 10.1039/c9gc03140e.Spatially Resolved Production of Platinum Nanoparticles in Metallosupramolecular Polymers
Journal Of The American Chemical Society. 2020. Vol. 142, num. 1, p. 342 – 348. DOI : 10.1021/jacs.9b10685.Large-scale synthesis of crystalline g-C3N4 nanosheets and high-temperature H-2 sieving from assembled films
Science Advances. 2020. Vol. 6, num. 4, p. eaay9851. DOI : 10.1126/sciadv.aay9851.Conference Papers
Resonant Pzt Mems Mirror With Segmented Electrodes
2020. 33rd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Vancouver, CANADA, Jan 18-22, 2020. p. 517 – 520. DOI : 10.1109/MEMS46641.2020.9056124.2019
Journal Articles
Sodium chromium hexacyanoferrate as a potential cathode material for aqueous sodium-ion batteries
Chemical Communications (ChemComm). 2019. Vol. 55, num. 97, p. 14633 – 14636. DOI : 10.1039/c9cc06350a.Discovery of a self-healing catalyst for the hydrolytic dehydrogenation of ammonia borane
Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2019. Vol. 7, num. 41, p. 23830 – 23837. DOI : 10.1039/c9ta02123j.Energy dependent structure of Xe ion tracks in YBCO and the effect on the superconductive properties in magnetic fields
Journal of Applied Physics. 2019. Vol. 126, p. 1 – 13, 145106. DOI : 10.1063/1.5120894.Wafer-scale MOCVD growth of monolayer MoS2 on sapphire and SiO2
Nano Research. 2019. Vol. 12, num. 10, p. 2646 – 2652. DOI : 10.1007/s12274-019-2502-9.Characterization of local morphology and availability of triple-phase boundaries in solid oxide cell electrodes
Acta Materialia. 2019. Vol. 178, p. 194 – 206. DOI : 10.1016/j.actamat.2019.07.027.Synaptic proximity enables NMDAR signalling to promote brain metastasis
Nature. 2019. Vol. 573, num. 7775, p. 526 – 531. DOI : 10.1038/s41586-019-1576-6.A Cobalt-Iron Double-Atom Catalyst for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction
Journal of The American Chemical Society. 2019. Vol. 141, num. 36, p. 14190 – 14199. DOI : 10.1021/jacs.9b05268.Structure and Function of the Branched Receptor-Binding Complex of Bacteriophage CBA120
Journal of Molecular Biology. 2019. Vol. 431, num. 19, p. 3718 – 3739. DOI : 10.1016/j.jmb.2019.07.022.Enhanced precipitate growth at reduced temperatures during chemical ordering in deformed red gold alloys
Scripta Materialia. 2019. Vol. 170, p. 129 – 133. DOI : 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2019.05.038.Large impact of strain on the electro-optic effect in (Ba, Sr)TiO3 thin films: Experiment and theoretical comparison
Applied Physics Letters. 2019. Vol. 115, num. 9, p. 092901. DOI : 10.1063/1.5117218.Nanosecond electron pulses in the analytical electron microscopy of a fast irreversible chemical reaction
Nature Communications. 2019. Vol. 10, p. 3648. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-019-11669-w.Diverse roles of TssA-like proteins in the assembly of bacterial type VI secretion systems
Embo Journal. 2019. p. e100825. DOI : 10.15252/embj.2018100825.Preserving Porosity of Mesoporous Metal-Organic Frameworks through the Introduction of Polymer Guests
Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2019. Vol. 141, num. 31, p. 12397 – 12405. DOI : 10.1021/jacs.9b05967.Print-Light-Synthesis of Ni and NiFe-nanoscale catalysts for oxygen evolution
ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2019. Vol. 2, num. 9, p. 6322 – 6331. DOI : 10.1021/acsaem.9b00957.Effect of oxygen defects blocking barriers on gadolinium doped ceria (GDC) electro-chemo-mechanical properties
Acta Materialia. 2019. Vol. 174, p. 53 – 60. DOI : 10.1016/j.actamat.2019.05.009.KAP1 is an antiparallel dimer with a functional asymmetry
Life Science Alliance. 2019. Vol. 2, num. 4, p. e201900349. DOI : 10.26508/lsa.201900349.Lead Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots to Enhance the Power Conversion Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells
Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2019. Vol. 58, num. 36, p. 12696 – 12704. DOI : 10.1002/anie.201906803.Triggered incommensurate transition in PbHfO3
Physical Review B. 2019. Vol. 100, num. 1, p. 014107. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.100.014107.Quantum-Limited Measurements Using an Optical Cavity with Modulated Intrinsic Loss
Physical Review Letters. 2019. Vol. 123, num. 4, p. 043602. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.043602.Switching Kinetics Control of W-Based ReRAM Cells in Transient Operation by Interface Engineering
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Applied Physics Letters. 2019. Vol. 114, num. 22, p. 223103. DOI : 10.1063/1.5088892.Performance improvement of chip-level CMOS-integrated ReRAM cells through material optimization
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Non-destructive piezoelectric characterisation of Sc doped aluminium nitride thin films at wafer level
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2019. 18th IEEE Sensors Conference, Montreal, CANADA, Oct 27-30, 2019. DOI : 10.1109/SENSORS43011.2019.8956622.Transient Negative Capacitance of Silicon-doped HfO2 in MFMIS and MFIS structures: experimental insights for hysteresis-free steep slope NC FETs
2019. 65th IEEE Annual International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), San Francisco, CA, Dec 09-11, 2019. DOI : 10.1109/IEDM19573.2019.8993523.Growth, Properties, and Applications of Al1-xScxN Thin Films
2019. IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Glasgow, UK, October 06-09, 2019. p. 255 – 257. DOI : 10.1109/ULTSYM.2019.8926081.Reviews
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2018. International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN), Lausanne, SWITZERLAND, Jul 29-Aug 02, 2018. p. 234 – 235. DOI : 10.1109/OMN.2018.8454632.2017
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2017. Microscopy Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland,Homeostatic control of dopamine by astrocytes in the postnatal maturation of the prefrontal cortex
2017. ISN-ESN Meeting, Paris, FRANCE, AUG 20-24, 2017. p. 18 – 18.Theses
Investigation of polycrystalline ZnO film growth by quantitative TEM orientation mapping
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017.Posters
Nanoscale topography determines the capillary assembly of nanoparticles
13th Zsigmondy Colloquium of the German Colloidal Society, SaarbrĂŒcken, DE, April 5-7, 2017.– Computational electron microscopy with its ability to calculate high resolution images and diffraction patterns for quantitative interpretation of EM images.
– 3D imaging and analysis with focused ion beam microscopy for Materials and Life Sciences
– Cathodoluminescense in the scanning/transmission microscope with the new Jeol 2200FS currently being installed
– Electron energy loss spectrometry.