Publications

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Sub-THz characterisation of multi-walled carbon nanotube thin films using vector network analyser

S. Puthukodan, E. Dadrasnia, V.K.T. Vinod, H.K. Nguendon, H. Lamela, Guillaume Ducournau, Jean-Francois Lampin, F. Garet, J.L. Coutaz, D.M. Lee, S. Baik

A vector network analyser is used to study the electrical properties of multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) thin films deposited on a fused quartz substrate in the sub-terahertz (THz) frequency ranges of 220-325 GHz (WR3.4) and 325-500 GHz (WR2.2). The experiment is performed in free space. The…

Electronics Letters, 2014, 50, pp.297-299. ⟨10.1049/el.2013.4136⟩. ⟨hal-00954474⟩

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Scale effects induced by imperfect interfaces in nanomaterials transport properties

Fabio Pavanello, F. Manca, Pier Luca Palla, Evelyne Lampin, Fabrizio Cleri, Stefano Giordano

One of the crucial factors governing the physical properties of nanomaterials is the complex behavior of the interfaces[1]. While at the macroscopic level their specific role is usually neglected, in nanostructured systems the properties of the contact between phases have to be carefully defined.…

European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, E-MRS Spring 2014, Symposium E - Defect-induced effects in nanomaterials, 2014, Lille, France. ⟨hal-00964099⟩

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Electro-optic and converse-piezoelectric properties of epitaxial GaN grown on silicon by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition

Mireille Cuniot-Ponsard, Irma Saraswati, S.M. Ko, Mathieu Halbwax, Y.H. Cho, El Hadj Dogheche

We report the measurement of the (r13, r33) Pockels electro-optic coefficients in a GaN thin film grown on a Si(111) substrate. The converse piezoelectric (d33) and electro-absorptive coefficients are simultaneously determined. Single crystalline GaN epitaxial layers were grown with a AlGaN buffer…

Applied Physics Letters, 2014, 104, 101908, 4 p. ⟨10.1063/1.4868427⟩. ⟨hal-00964286⟩

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Enhanced efficiency by the effect of strain on the structure of a solar cell

Abdelkader Aissat, Rachid Bestam, M. El Bey, Jean-Pierre Vilcot

This paper is expected at the study of Ga1-xInxP/GaAs based solar cell. The effects of indium concentration, lattice parameter mismatch and thickness of the SiO2 insulating layer on the characteristics and efficiency of the Ga1-xInxP/GaAs structure were investigated. We noticed that for higher…

International Conference on Technologies and Materials for Renewable Energy, Environment and Sustainability, TMREES14, 2014, Beirut, Lebanon. pp.817-823, ⟨10.1016/j.egypro.2014.06.100⟩. ⟨hal-01055040⟩

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Hypersonic band gap in an AlN-TiN bilayer phononic crystal slab

S. Hemon, Abdellatif Akjouj, A. Soltani, Yan Pennec, Y. El Hassouani, Abdelkrim Talbi, V. Mortet, Bahram Djafari-Rouhani

We show both theoretically and experimentally the existence of a complete band gap in a phononic crystal (PnC) constituted by periodical air holes drilled in a solid bi-layer slab. The composite slab is formed with an aluminum nitride (AlN) layer deposited on a titanium nitride (TiN) thin metallic…

Applied Physics Letters, 2014, 104, 063101, 5 p. ⟨10.1063/1.4864310⟩. ⟨hal-00947576⟩

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Optimization of the optical properties of nanostructured silicon surfaces for solar cell applications

Di Zhou, Yan Pennec, Bahram Djafari-Rouhani, Odile Cristini-Robbe, Tao Xu, Yannick Lambert, Yves Deblock, Marc Faucher, Didier Stiévenard

Surface nanostructuration is an important challenge for the optimization of light trapping in solar cell. We present simulations on both the optical properties and the efficiency of micro pillars--MPs--or nanocones--NCs--silicon based solar cells together with measurements on their associated…

Journal of Applied Physics, 2014, 115, pp.134304. ⟨10.1063/1.4870236⟩. ⟨hal-00974457⟩

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Dielectric relaxation analysis of Pb(Zr_0.54,Ti_0.46)O₃ thin films: electric field dependence

Freddy Ponchel, N. Sama, Denis Remiens, T. Lasri

350 nm-thick Perovskite PbZr0.54Ti0.46O3 (PZT) thin films were deposited on Al2O3 substrates by sputtering with and without an additional 10-nm-thick TiOx buffer layer. X-ray diffraction patterns showed that in presence of TiOx buffer layer, PZT film was highly oriented along the (111) direction…

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Cross-talk artefacts in Kelvin probe force microscopy imaging : a comprehensive study

Sophie Barbet, Michka Popoff, Heinrich Diesinger, D. Deresmes, Didier Theron, Thierry Melin

We provide in this article a comprehensive study of the role of ac cross-talk effects in Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy (KPFM), and their consequences onto KPFM imaging. The dependence of KPFM signals upon internal parameters such as the cantilever excitation frequency and the projection angle of…

Journal of Applied Physics, 2014, 115 (14), pp.144313. ⟨10.1063/1.4870710⟩. ⟨hal-00981142⟩

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Negative effective mass density of acoustic metamaterial plate decorated with low frequency resonant pillars

Mourad Oudich, Bahram Djafari-Rouhani, Yan Pennec, M. Badreddine Assouar, Bernard Bonello

We investigate the elastic wave dispersion by a phononic metamaterial plate containing low frequency resonator stubs arranged periodically over the plate. We show that this system not only provides stop bands for wavelengths much larger than the periodicity but also displays negative behavior of…

Journal of Applied Physics, 2014, 116 (18), ⟨10.1063/1.4901462⟩. ⟨hal-01233805⟩

• Communication dans un congrès

Modeling and evaluation of power transmission of flapping wing nano air vehicle

Alexandre Bontemps, Sébastien Grondel, Thomas Vanneste, Samuel Dupont, Eric Cattan

In the last decade researchers pursued the development of tiny flying robots inspired by natural flyers. Within this context our main objective is to devise a flying robot-mimicking insect in terms of kinematics and scale using MEMS technologies. For this purpose, an original design has been…

IEEE/ASME 10th International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA), Sep 2014, Senigallia, Italy. pp.1-6, ⟨10.1109/MESA.2014.6935524⟩. ⟨hal-03280242⟩