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Jobin Marc

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Haute école du paysage, d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Genève
Rue de la Prairie 4, 1202 Genève, CH

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Technique et IT

Hauptstudiengang
Microtechniques

BSc HES-SO en Microtechniques - Haute école du paysage, d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Genève

Matériaux
Nanotechnologies
Traitement statistique des données

MSc HES-SO en Engineering - HES-SO Master

Photovoltaïque

2019

Dielectric properties of SiO2:PMMA nanocomposites for energy storage

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel ArODES

Marc Jobin

Techconnect Briefs 2019, 2019, pp. 154-158

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Zusammenfassung:

We have made a SiO2:PMMA hybrid nanocomposite based on 150nm spherical silica nanoparticles synthetized by sol-gel method. A molecule containing a methacrylate group (TPM), was chemically grafted to the silica surface to improve the electrical performance. The filling factor of the nanonanocomposite was up to 20%vol. The ~1um thick nanocomposite films were deposited on polished steel by spin coating. Compared to similarly prepared PMMA films, the dielectric constant, as measured by BDS (proadband dielectric spectroscopy) was enhanced by a factor of two for the nanocomposite, and the disruptive electric field by a factor of 2.5. This eventually yields an overall improvement of the energy density by a factor of 12.5.

An electrosimulation cell device with patterned TiO2:Nb thin films as bio-electrodes

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Marc Jobin, Cédric Pellodi, Antonin Sandoz, Luc Stoppini, Cosmin Sandu, Giacomo Benvenuti

Techconnect Briefs 2019, 2019, pp. 419-422

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Zusammenfassung:

We present a cellular test device based on Nb:TiO2 (niobium dooped titania) transparent conductive oxide (TCO) as bio-electrodes. The device is intended to easily provide electrical stimuli to a given cell tissue and to monitor its response. The Nb:TiO2 thin film deposition were performed with combinatorial chemical beam epitaxy (C-CBE) which allows for linear and well controlled gradients of both Nb concentration (ranging from 3% to10%) and oxide thickness in predefined directions (usually orthogonal). We have systematically characterized the Nb:TiO2 films with Atomic Force Microscopy, Scanning White-light Reflectometry, and sheet resistance Finally, we show the device, i.e the electrodes design and patterning in order to perform to electrical stimuli to the various ways to measure the cell’s response.

2016

A combinatorial chemical beam vapour deposition approach to tune the electrical conductivity of Nb:TiO2 films via Si co-doping

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C. S. Sandu, E. Wagner, S. Harada, G. Benvenuti, W. Maudez, Marc Jobin, Cédric Pellodi, Paul Muralt

Thin Solid Films, 2016, vol. 615, pp. 265-270

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Zusammenfassung:

Chemical beam vapour deposition (CBVD) is a thin film deposition technique operated under high vacuum conditions in which film growth occurs through the thermally activated chemical decomposition of precursor molecules at the substrate surface. This technique was used in a combinatorial mode to investigate the influence of Si doping on the properties of Nb-doped TiO2 films, a well-known transparent conductive oxide material. The ternary oxide system (Si, Nb, Ti, O) displays good intermiscibility between the elements. By adding a Si precursor flow gradient to homogeneous Ti and Nb precursor flows, it was demonstrated that the resistivity of deposited films increased by over 5 orders of magnitude (from 1 to 100,000 Ω·cm) with Si doping levels between 2 and 21at.%. Meanwhile, only a slight variation of the refractive index of about 10% was observed. A fundamental film morphology study showed that the conductivity variation was due to Si segregation at the grain boundaries of the conductive Nb:TiO2 structure.

2009

Local dynamic mechanical analysis

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Raphael Foschia, Marc Jobin, Stefan Hengsberger

Micron, 2009,vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 51-55

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Zusammenfassung:

While new materials with tailored properties appear every day, the need of appropriate characterization tools is still an important concern. Analyses of thin films on thick substrate are often highly influenced by the substrate properties. A dynamical nanoindentation system has been designed and built through the integration of a nanoindenter head equipped with capacitive displacement sensing, scanning probe microscope with related XYZ scanning electronics and an additional transducer for sample actuation. Our Local-Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (L-DMA) setup allows for both, tip and sample modulation mode what somehow contrasts with commercially available systems. This issue allows for direct comparison between both techniques and therefore for consistent quantitative mechanical measurements. The system offers two distinctive measurement techniques, local mechanical spectroscopy and mechanical imaging modes. Bulk materials as well as thin films of ceramics and polymers have been used for testing and validating the setup. The instrument has been modeled in sample modulation mode and experimental results obtained for different materials were compared with simulation data.

2008

Improving the resolution of interference microscopes

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Marc Jobin, Raphael Foschia

Measurement, 2008, vol.41, no. 8, pp. 896-903

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We have made an interference optical microscope (IOM) capable of improved resolutions, both vertically and laterally. Atomic steps of graphite have been imaged in phase shift mode (PSM) at large field of view through a proper averaging time during acquisition. We discuss the influence of the illumination and the CCD resolution on the ultimate achievable vertical resolution. To improve the lateral resolution, we report on the integration of the IOM to an atomic force microscope (AFM) in order to take advantage of the 2 nm resolution provided by AFM.

2007

Force modulation and dynamic nanoIndentation microscopy

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Raphael Foschia, Marc Jobin

Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2007, vol. 61, pp.307-311

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Zusammenfassung:

We have made a Dynamic Nanoindentation Microscope (DNM) setup based on sample modulation, in order to allow a direct comparison between various dynamical mechanical measurement techniques such as Force Modulation Microscopy (FMM) and Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA). The microscope is integrated to a standard Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and uses a commercial nanoindentation system. Instead of the standard bimorph and force modulation configuration, we used a stacked ceramic sample actuator in displacement modulation. Both DMA measurements and DNM imaging were performed on each sample for the determination of the reduced, storage and loss modules, and a good agreement between the techniques have been found. Compared to FMM, we show that DNM has the advantage of always keeping the same contrast in the viscoelastic images as a function of the frequency.

2006

Absolute thickness imaging of PMMA layer on corrugated transparent substrate by scanning white light interference microscope

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Marc Jobin, Raphael Foschia

Microscopy and Microanalysis, 2006, no.12, supp. no. 2, pp. 1774-1775

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2018

Thick films of HITCI:PMMA as luminescent solar concentrator for photovoltaics windows

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Marc Jobin, Cesar Ruiz Diaz

Proceedings of the 35th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC), 24-28 September 2018, Brussels, Belgium

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Zusammenfassung:

We have investigated the potential use of HITCI molecules in PMMA for use as a luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) in a photovoltaic (PV) window, where the LSC layer is used to direct the infrared solar radiation towards silicon solar cells located inside the window’s frame. On small sample with various HITCI concentrations, Stokes shift in the range of 70nm to 80nm have been measured. The LSC layer as an IR waveguide shows a decay length of 12.9mm-1. Implementation on a real size window (20cm x 20cm) shows only marginal improvement compared to a similar window without any LSC layer.

2017

Energy performance of a building with split tandem photovoltaic windows

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Marc Jobin, Basile Grandjean

Proceedings of EU PVSEC 2017, 33rd European PV Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 25-29 September 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Zusammenfassung:

We have made a 20cm x 20cm tandem photovoltaic (PV) window and developed a numerical model to investigate the energy performance of a building that would be equipped with such PV windows. The inside of the double-glazed window incorporates a tilted dichroic filter which is transparent for visible solar light and reflecting for near infra-red light. As a result, the transmitted visible photons are partially absorbed by a transparent organic solar cell while the reflected NIR photons are sent to silicon solar cells located in the frame of the window. To investigate the potential benefit of the technology, the net energy balance (NEB) simulation includes the choice of the location, the use of the building (residential or office), the percent coverage of the façade by the PV windows, etc. Several case studies are presented to emphasize the key points which influence the net global benefit of the window.

2015

Concept of a split tandem photovoltaic window

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Marc Jobin, Cédric Pellodi

Proceedings of 2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 14-19 June 2015, New Orleans, LA, USA

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We present a concept of a split tandem photovoltaic window, where the larger wavelengths solar radiations are sent towards horizontal silicon solar cells while short wavelength solar radiations are directed on transparent large band gap solar cells, either dye-sensitized or organic solar cells (DSSC and OSC respectively). We first evaluate the expected enhancement in them of conversion efficiency and then describe the construction of a mini module of this window.

2014

Organic solar cells improvement with quantum dots, up-converters and MoO3 hole transport layers

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Marc Jobin, Cédric Pellodi

Photonics for Solar Energy Systems ; Proceedings of SPIE Photonics Europe, 14-17 April 2014, Brussels, Belgium

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We report on the power conversion efficiency (PCE) enhancement for organic solar cells (OSCs) based on several approaches. A standard cell composed of an indium tin oxide (ITO) anode, P3HT/ PCBM active layer, PEDOT:PSS hole transport layer and an aluminum cathode is used as a reference. We investigate the effects of the following three modifications. We first incorporate CdSe quantum dots (QDs) in the photo-optically active P3HT/PCBM blend in order to enhance the optical absorption. In opposite to other studies, QDs are not used here to replace the donor material (PCBM), and we always measured an enhanced PCE compared to the standard cell with a QDs:P3HTPCBM volume ratio up to 1:5. As a second modification, NaYF4:Yb,Er up conversion (UC) microcrystals are incorporated into a TiO2-x sol-gel to form an additional layer used to convert IR photons to blue and green photons. Again, OSCs with UC layer showed an improved PCE compared to the reference cell. The PCE enhancement is both attributed to the IR light absorption and to a better electron transport between the active layer and the cathode due to the electron transport layer capabilities of TiO2-x. Finally, MoO3 layer is used to replace the PEDOT:PSS layer as hole transport layer (HTL). This layer is deposed either by thermal evaporation or by spin coating from a sol-gel solution. We found evaporation better in terms of thickness control and reproducibility. It has been demonstrated that the PEDOT:PSS HTL can be replaced by MoO3, and the thickness of this MoO3 layer strongly affects the PCE of the cell. The maximum PCE was obtained with a thickness of 40nm, and again is better that the reference cell.

2011

Characterization of P3HT:PCBM:CdSe hybrid solar cells

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Stéphane A. Jotterand, Marc Jobin

Proceedings of E-MRS Spring Meeting 2011, Symposium S: Organic Photovoltaics: Science and Technology, 25-29 April 2011, San Francisco, USA ; Energy Procedia

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Zusammenfassung:

We have investigated the effect of adding CdSe quantum dots (QDs) with their hexadecylamine (HDA) ligands coating in ITO/SPT/P3HT:PCBM/Al bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic photovoltaic cells (OPV). At first, we found that the optimal thermal treatment was a post cathode deposition annealing, due to an effective surface area 10.8% larger compared to a pre-cathode thermal treatment. Absorbance spectra for hybrid cells with incorporated QDs diameters ranging from 2.2 nm to 6.3 nm show the largest absorbance for 3.3 nm QD diameter. The 3.3 nm QD also gives the lowest power performance. We explained the general degraded performance as an effect of the HDA ligands coating around QDs. Finally, in order to track the lateral inhomogeneity of the final device, we have mapped the I-V over the entire surface cell (2 cm x 2 cm) with a definition of 200 pts x 200 pts.

2010

Real time interferometric microscopy in liquids

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Marc Jobin, Raphael Foschia

Proceedings of Biomedical Optics 2010, 11-14 April 2010, Miami, Florida, United States

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Zusammenfassung:

We have made a Phase Shift Mode Interferometric Optical Microscope (PSM-IOM) operating in liquid and in real time (video rate). We thus implemented for IOM two of the widely accepted basic advantages of Digital Holography Microscopy. Using a modified Tolansky objective to compensate the phase shift from the liquid cell window, we can measure without immersing any part of the microscope objective. The fringe visibility was reduced by 14% in water compared to air. In order to follow surface nano-topography at video rate, we have implemented a Fourier Transform based algorithm which computes the phase map from a single interferogram. A comparison to the Hariharan algorithm is given. As a proof of concept, the nano-evolution of a surface profile of Cu in sulphuric acid is shown.

2009

Surface and mechanical properties of laser melted maraging steel

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Marc Jobin, Raphael Foschia, François de Mestral, Eric Vittecoq, Denis Boisseleau, Alexis Saitta, Pierre Escourou, Guillaume Vansteenkiste, Cyril Gouverd, Laurent Cataldo, Carmen Sanz, Oscar Gonzalo

Proceedings of EuroPM 2009, 12-14 October 2009, Coppenhagen, Denmark

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Zusammenfassung:

In order to drastically reduce the cycle and cost production of engine parts in the transport industry, we have developed laser powder melting processes to produce several key engine parts in maraging steel, Co-Cr and Inconel 718. Results presented here concerns maraging steel only. Laser melted samples were polished with three different treatments: Abrasive Flow Machining (from Extrudehone), Vibratory finishing (from Rosler) and MMP (Micro Machining Process from BESTinCLASS). The dimensional tolerance after polishing was 5µm. The resulting surface topographies were measured with Stylus Profilometry and Atomic Force Microscopy. The MMP process allows reducing the rms roughness (Rq) to 12 nm only for a 20µm x 20µm field of view. In order to investigate the surface treatments in terms of what characteristic length (i.e spatial frequency) have been filtered, we present the results with the help of power spectral density. Concerning the mechanical properties, the anisotropy of fatigue and tensile strength is not significant as a consequence of the direct melting process compared to sintering.

2008

High resolution in interferometric microscopy

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Marc Jobin, Raphael Foschia

Proceedings of EMC 14th European Microscopy Congress 1–5 September 2008, Aachen, Germany

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Zusammenfassung:

Interferometric optical microscopes (IOM) are very powerful 3D metrology tools which use integrated interferometers inside optical objectives. In Phase Shift Mode (PSM) [1], they can reach subnanometer vertical resolution but the lateral resolution, as any far-field optical system, is limited by diffraction to typically 0.5 um. They have a widespread use in microfabrication industries (microelectronics and MEMS).

Measurement of nanometric deformation of thin membranes under controlled mechanical loads

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Marc Jobin, Vladimir Sidorenko, Raphael Foschia

TechConnect Briefs ; Nanotechnology 2008: Materials, Fabrication, Particles, and Characterization – Technical Proceedings of the 2008 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show, 1-5 June 2008, Boston, MA, USA

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The accurate mechanical characterisation of thin membranes is recognized of prime importance for the development of membrane-based MEMS. To address this issue, we have built a measurement system which uses a nanoindentor to apply a well controlled force on one side of the membrane, while the deformation is recorded simultaneously on the other side with a home-made interferometric microscope. The use of a nanoindentor ensures a highly localised load on the membrane and the interferometric microscope allows us to measure deformations down to nanometric scale. The available forces enable deformations ranging from a few nanometers to membrane rupture. We have used optically transparent silicon nitride membrane up to 500nm thick The deformation is totally reversible without any measurable residual stress for loads up to 1000 uN. We measured rupture for loads ranging from 1600uN to 1700uN. The measured membrane spring constant at the center of the membrane is 169 N/m, close to the expected 140N/m given by the theory. The measured spring constant increases up to 301 N/m when the tip is brought close to a corner. Clear nanometric deformation of the membrane can be obtained under successive loads.

2007

Use of light-emitting diode (LED) in interference microscopy

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Marc Jobin, Raphael Foschia

Advanced Characterization Techniques for Optics, Semiconductors, and Nanotechnologies III ; Optical Engineering + Applications, 20 September 2007, San Diego, California, USA

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Zusammenfassung:

We present a systematic investigation of the use of LED as light sources for interference microscopy, in comparison with more standard halogen illumination. For translation height mode (also known as vertical scanning or low coherence microscopy), five white LED-based illuminations setup have been tested, including the use of filters to remove the shoulder in the blue region often encountered in such LED. For the six white light illuminations (five LED plus halogen), we have measured the irradiance spectra and calculated and measured the corresponding correlograms. The influence of the combined effect of the illumination spectra and a dispersive phase shift on the calculated height reconstruction is shown for a center-of-mass algorithm. In phase shift mode, both monochromatic LED and white LED with inteference filters have been used. Blue LED illumination improves the lateral resolution compared to red illumination, a task which can be done with halogen lamp only with very reflecting sample due to its low power in the blue wavelengths. All measurements have been performed with our home-made interference microscope, which is described in Proc. SPIE 6188,61880T (2006).

2006

Nanometrology for MEMS :

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combination of optical interference, atomic force microscopy, and nanoindentor-based actuator

Marc Jobin, Philippe Passeraub, Raphael Foschia

Optical Micro- and Nanometrology in Microsystems Technology

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Zusammenfassung:

We show the integration of a home-made interference optical microscope (IOM) with an Atomic force microscope, as well as the combination of IOM with a nanoindentor. Such combined instruments have many applications in the characterisation of MEMS/NEMS. As an illustrative example, we have used a MEMS accelerometer with capacitive read-out. Surface topography and defects have been measured with an IOM/AFM setup, as well as the bending and the torsion of the inertial mass while a calibrated force is applied with the nanoindentor probe on an off-axis location of the inertial mass.

2005

Inegrated optical profiler and AFM :

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a 3D metrology system for nanotechnology

A. Du, Marc Jobin, Raphaël Foschia

Proceedings of NSTI Nanotech, the Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show, 8-12 May 2005, Anaheim, CA, USA

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Zusammenfassung:

A white light interference optical profiler (WL-IOP) operating in the vertical scanning interferometry (VSI) mode has been home-made developed and integrated into a commercial Atomic Force Microscope (AFM). The result is a 3D metrological tool operating with sub-nanometer resolution vertically over a wide range laterally: from 1mm down to 10nm. This is a faster and in many case a higher performance alternative to the more standard stylus profiler / AFM combination.

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