Latest Publications

  • Y. Bleiji, R. Müller, M. Micali, B. Bläsi, O. Höhn and E. Alarcón-Lladó, Enhanced near infrared light trapping in Si solar cells with metal nanowire grid front electrodes, Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 281, 113289: 1-6 (2024)

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  • K. Jäger, S. Burger, U. Aeberhard, E. Alarcón-Lladó, B. Bläsi, B. Ehrler, W. Favre, A. Fejfar, T. Gageot, I. Gordon, H. Helmers, O. Höhn, O. Isabella, M. Jošt, M. Ledinský, J. Mandal, P. Manley, D. Munoz, J.C. Ortiz Lizcano, U.W. Paetzold, A.P. Raman, H. Sai, R. Saive, M. Schmid, E. Yablonovitch and C. Becker: A Roadmap on Optics for Terawatt Scale Photovoltaics In: Advanced Photonics Congress 2024, Technical Digest Series, paper STu2G.5, OPG, 2024.

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  • S.A. Mann and E. Alarcón-Lladó: Nanoscale Photovoltaics In: Photovoltaic Solar Energy: From Fundamentals to Applications, , 2024. - pp. 193-215

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  • M. Micali, A. Lo Mastro, F. Tringali, M. Leonardi, S. Lombardo, G. Bengasi, C. Colletti, M. Foti, E. Alarcón-Lladó, M. Miritello, G. Franzò and A. Terrasi, Zirconium doped indium oxide thin films as transparent electrodes for photovoltaic applications, Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 271, 112875: 1-11 (2024)

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  • L. S. D. Antony, L. Monin, M. Aarts and E. Alarcón-Lladó, Unveiling Nanoscale Heterogeneities at the Bias-Dependent Gold-Electrolyte Interface, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 146, (19), 12933-12940 (2024)

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  • Y. Bleiji, C.E.A. Cordaro, S.W. Tabernig and E. Alarcón-Lladó, High Aspect Ratio Silver Nanogrids by Bottom-Up Electrochemical Growth as Transparent Electrode, ACS Appl. Opt. Mater. 2, (3), 508-516 (2024)

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  • L. McGovern, E. Alarcón-Lladó, E.C. Garnett, B. Ehrler and B. van der Zwaan, Perovskite Solar Modules for the Residential Sector, ACS Energy Lett. 8, (11), 4862-4866 (2023)

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  • R. Paul, S.W. Tabernig, J. Reñé Sapera, J. Hurni, A. Tiede, X. Liu, D.A. Damry, V. Conti, M. Zamani, S. Escobar Steinvall, M. Dimitrievska, E. Alarcón-Lladó, V. Piazza, J. Boland, F.-J. Haug, A. Polman and A. Fontcuberta i Morral, Carrier generation and collection in Zn3P2/InP heterojunction solar cells, Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 256, 112349: 1-9 (2023)

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  • M. Valenti, M. Wobben, Y. Bleiji, C.E.A. Cordaro, S.W. Tabernig, M. Aarts, R.D. Buijs, S.R.K. Rodriguez, A. Polman and E. Alarcón-Lladó, Optical Characterization of Plasmonic Indium Lattices Fabricated via Electrochemical Deposition, ACS Appl. Opt. Mater. 1, (3), 753-758 (2023)

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  • L. S. D. Antony, S.W. van Dongen, G. Grimaldi, S. Mathew, L. Helmbrecht, A. van der Weijden, J. Borchert, I. Schuringa, B. Ehrler, W.L. Noorduin and E. Alarcón-Lladó, The role of Pb oxidation state of the precursor in the formation of 2D perovskite microplates, Nanoscale 15, (13), 6285-6294 (2023)

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Photonics and Solar Energy

N. Tavakoli, R. Spalding, A. Lambertz, P. Koppejan, G. Gkantzounis, C. Wan, R. Röhrich, E. Kontoleta, A.F. Koenderink, R. Sapienza, M. Florescu and E. Alarcón-Lladó, Over 65% Sunlight Absorption in a 1 μm Si Slab with Hyperuniform Texture, ACS Photonics 9, (4), 1206-1217 (2022)

E.C. Garnett, B. Ehrler, A. Polman and E. Alarcón-Lladó, Photonics for Photovoltaics – advances and opportunities, ACS Photonics 8, (1), 61-70 (2021)
B. Ehrler, E. Alarcón-Lladó, S.W. Tabernig, T. Veeken, E.C. Garnett and A. Polman, Photovoltaics Reaching for the Shockley–Queisser Limit, ACS Energy Lett. 5, (9), 3029-3033 (2020)

N. Tavakoli and E. Alarcón-Lladó, Combining 1D and 2D waveguiding in an ultrathin GaAs NW/Si tandem solar cell, Opt. Express 27, 12: A909-A923 (2019)

D. Mikulik, M. Ricci, G. Tütüncüoglu, F. Matteini, J. Vukajlovic, N. Vulic, E. Alarcón-Lladó and A. Fontcuberta i MorralConductive-probe atomic force microscopy as a characterization tool for nanowire-based solar cells, Nano Energy 41, 566-572 (2017)

R.S. Frederiksen, G. Tütüncüoglu, F. Matteini, K.L. Martinez, A. Fontcuberta i Morral and E. Alarcón-Lladó, Visual Understanding of Light Absorption and Waveguiding in Standing Nanowires with 3D Fluorescence Confocal Microscopy, ACS Photonics 4, 9: 2235-2241 (2017)

R. S. Frederiksen, E. Alarcon-Llado, P. Krogstrup, L. Bojarskaite, J. Bolinsson, J. Nygard, A. Fontcuberta-Morral, K. L. Martinez, Nanowire-Aperture Probe – Local Enhanced Fluorescence Detection for Nanoscaled Investigation in Live Cells, ACS Phot. (2016)

A. Dorodnyy, E. Alarcon-Lladó, V. Shklover, C. Hafner, A. Fontcuberta i Morral and J. Leuthold, Efficient multi-terminal spectrum splitting via a nanowire array solar cell, ACS Photonics 2, 1284 (2015)

R. S. Frederiksen, E. Alarcon-Llado, M. H. Madsen, K. R. Rostgaard, P. Krogstrup, T. Vosch, J. Nygard, A. Fontcuberta-Morral, K. L. Martinez, Modulation of fluorescence signals from biomolecules along nanowires due to interaction of light with oriented nanostructures, NanoLetters 15, 176 (2015)

A. Dalmau-Mallorqui, E. Alarcon-Llado, I. Canales-Mundet, A. Kiani, B. Deamurez, S. De Wolf, A. Mezel, M. Zacharias, A. Fontcuberta-Morral, Field-effect passivation on silicon nanowire solar cells, Nano Research 8, 673 (2015)

O. Lopez-Sanchez, E. Alarcon-Llado, V. Koman, A. Fontcuberta-i-Morral, A. Radenovic and A. Kis, Light generation and harvesting in a van der Waals heterostructure, ACS Nano 8, 3042 (2014)

E. Alarcon-Llado, L. Chen, M. Hettick, N. Mashouf, Y. Lin, A. Javey and J. W. Ager, BiVO4 thin film photoanodes grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 16, 1651 (2014)

A. Dalmau-Mallorqui, E. Alarcon-Llado, E. Russo-Averchi, G. Tutuncuoglu, F. Matteini, D. Rueffer, A. Fontcuberta-Morral, Characterization and analysis of InAs/p–Si heterojunction nanowire-based solar cell, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 47, 394017 (2014)

L. Chen, E. Alarcon-Llado, M. Hettick, I.D. Sharp, Y. Lin, A. Javey, J. W. Ager, Reactive Sputtering of Bismuth Vanadate Photoanodes for Solar Water Splitting, J. Phys. Chem. C 117, 21635 (2013)

J. Seidel, D. Fu, S. Y. Yang, E. Alarcón-Lladó, J. Wu, R. Ramesh, and J. W. Ager, III, Efficient Photovoltaic Current Generation at Ferroelectric Domain Walls, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 126805 (2011)

S. Lang Teo, V. Kaixin Lin, R. Marty, N. Large, E. Alarcon Llado, A. Arbouet, C. Girard, J. Aizpurua, S. Tripathy, and A. Mlayah, Gold nanoring trimers: a versatile structure for infrared sensing, Optics Express 18, 22271 (2010)

(nano)Electrochemistry and iontronics

Y. Bleiji, M. Dieperink, I. Schuringa, H. Sun and E. Alarcón-Lladó, Influence of the crystallographic texture of ITO on the electrodeposition of silver nanoparticles, RSC Adv. 13, (10), 6490-6497 (2023)

M. Aarts, W.Q. Boon, B. Cuénod, M. Dijkstra, R. van Roij and E. Alarcón-Lladó, Ion Current Rectification and Long-Range Interference in Conical Silicon Micropores, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 14, (50), 56226-56236 (2022)

M. Aarts, A. Reiser, R. Spolenak and E. Alarcón-Lladó, Confined pulsed diffuse layer charging for nanoscale electrodeposition with an STM, Nanoscale Adv. 4, (4), 1182-1190 (2022)

M. Aarts, S. van Vliet, R. Bliem and E. Alarcón-Lladó, Investigation of copper nanoscale electro-crystallization under directed and non-directed electrodeposition from dilute electrolytes, CrystEngComm 23, (20), 3648-3653 (2021)

M. Aarts and E. Alarcón-Lladó, Directed nanoscale metal deposition by the local perturbation of charge screening at the solid–liquid interface†, Nanoscale 11, (40), 18619-18627 (2019)

S. Ardo et al., Pathways to electrochemical solar-hydrogen technologies, Energy Environ. Sci. 11, 10: 2768-2783 (2018)

E. Alarcón-Lladó, L. Chen, M. Hettick, N. Mashouf, Y. Lin, A.Javey, J. W Ager, BiVO 4 thin film photoanodes grown by chemical vapor deposition, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 16, 1651 (2014)

 

Raman Spectroscopy

E. Alarcon-Llado, T. Brazzini and Joel W. Ager, Surface origin and control of resonance Raman scattering and surface band gap in indium nitride, J. Phys. D 49, 255102 (2016)

F. Amaduzzi, E. Alarcón-Lladó, H. Hautmann, R. Tanta, F. Matteini, G. Tütüncüoǧlu, T. Vosch, J. Nygård, T. Jespersen, E. Uccelli and A. Fontcuberta i Morral, Tuning the response of non-allowed Raman modes in GaAs nanowires, J. Phys D 49, 095103 (2016)

F. Amaduzzi, E. Alarcon-Llado, E. Russo-Averchi, F. Matteini, M. Heiß, G. Tutuncuoglu, S. Conesa-Boj, M. de la Mata, J. Arbiol, and A. Fontcuberta i Morral, Probing inhomogeneous composition in core/shell nanowires by Raman spectroscopy, J. Appl. Phys. 116, 184303 (2014)

R. Cuscó, E. Alarcón-Lladó, J. Ibáñez, L. Artús, J. Jiménez, B. Wang, M. Callahan, Temperature dependence of Raman scattering in ZnO, Physical Review B 75 165202 (2007)

R. Cuscó, J. Ibáñez, E. Alarcón-Lladó, L. Artús, T. Yamaguchi, and Y. Nanishi, Raman scattering study of the long-wavelength longitudinal-optical-phonon-plasmon coupled modes in high-mobility InN layers, Physical Review B 79 1 (2009)

J. Ibáñez, E. Alarcón-Lladó, R. Cuscó, L. Artús, D. Fowler, A. Patane, K. Uesugi, I. Seumune, LO phonon-plasmon coupled modes and carrier mobilities in heavily Se-doped Ga(As,N) thin films, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics 20, S425 (2009)

Others

E. Alarcón-Lladó, M. A. Mayer, B. W. Boudouris, R. A. Segalman, N. Miller, T. Yamaguchi, K. Wang, Y. Nanishi, E. E. Haller, and J. W. Ager, PN junction rectification in electrolyte gated Mg-doped InN, Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 102106 (2011)

K. Wang, T. Araki, K. M. Yu, T. Katsuki, M. A. Mayer, E. Alarcon-Llado, J. W. Ager, W. Walukiewicz Y. Nanishi, P-type InGaN across the entire alloy composition range, Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 102111 (2013)

E. Alarcón-Lladó, S. B. Dolmanan, V. K. X. Lin, S. L. Teo, A. Dadgar, A. Krost, and S. Tripathy, Temperature rise in InGaN/GaN vertical light emitting diode on copper transferred from silicon probed by Raman scattering, J. Appl. Phys. 108, 114501 (2010)

Semiconductor Nanowires

H. Potts, M. Friedl, F. Amaduzzi, K. C. Tang, G. Tutuncuoglu, F. Matteini, E. Alarcon-Llado, P. C. McIntyre, A. Fontcuberta I Morral, From Twinning to Pure Zincblende Catalyst-Free InAs(Sb) Nanowires, NanoLetters 16, 637 (2016)

A. Casadei, E. Alarcon-Llado, F. Amaduzzi, E. Russo-Averchi, D. Ruffer, M. Heiss, L. Dal Negro, A. Fontcuberta i Morral, Polarization response of nanowires a la carte, Sci. Reports 5, 7651 (2014)

E. Alarcon-Llado, S. Conesa-Boj, X. Wallart, P. Caroff, A. Fontcuberta-i-Morral, Raman spectroscopy of self-catalyzed GaAs1-xSbx nanowires grown on silicon, Nanotechnology 24, 405707 (2013)

M. Heiss, E. Russo-Averchi, A. Dalmau-Mallorqui, G. Tutuncuoglu, F. Matteini, D. Ruffer, S. Conesa-Boj, O. Demichel, E. Alarcon-Llado, A. Fontcuberta-i-Morral, III-V nanowire arrays: growth and light interaction, 25th Volume Special Issue on Nanotechnology 25, 014015 (2013)

A. Casadei, J. Schwender, E. Russo-Averchi, D. Ruffer, M. Heiss, E. Alarcon-Llado, F. Jabeen, M. Ramezani, K. Nielsch, A. Fontcuberta-i-Morral, Electrical transport in C-doped GaAs nanowires: surface effects, Phys. Stat. Sol. RRL 10, 890 (2013)