12th ASCENT+ Newsletter – October 2024
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Last Call for Transnational Access in September
Last September, the final Call for Transnational Access was published on social media, marking the conclusion of four years of work to provide access to state-of-the-art technologies and equipment to researchers around the world.
Throughout the project’s duration, monthly calls were issued, inviting PhD students, SMEs, and researchers to submit inquiries and gain a no cost (EU funded) access to one of the many ASCENT+ facilities featuring over 70 cutting-edge technologies and equipment from our European Nanoelectronics Research Infrastructure.
As we now close this chapter, we extend our thanks to all the partners who made their expertise readily accessible and enhanced frontier research in nanoelectronics.
“Cheatsheet” to reflect all the ASCENT+ impact
Review this insightful infographic to quickly grasp the added value ASCENT+ has brought over the years!
New success story: Electrical Characterisation of Advanced SOI MOSFETs
Discover the testimonial of Michelly de Souza from Centro Universitario FEI, Sao Bernardo do Compo, Brazil who conducted electrical characterisation of advanced SOI CMOS transistors to evaluate the effects of temperature change over the mobility.
The ASCENT+ program strengthened the long-term collaboration between researchers from CEA-Leti and FEI University. Visiting the CEA-Leti laboratories and having in-person interactions with the involved researchers were truly unique experiences. The resulting data is enabling the analysis of carrier transport in cutting-edge transistors, meant to enhance integration density in integrated circuits. Apart from advancing our understanding of the underlying physics of these devices, the obtained experimental data will aid the refinement of numerical simulations and analytical models to represent temperature-dependent effects accurately. I would like to express my gratitude to all the researchers and staff in CEA-Leti’s Silicon Components Department for their welcoming reception, excellent support, and fruitful discussions.
It’s always a pleasure to see that beyond helping researchers, ASCENT+ helps connecting labs worldwide!
ASCENT+ researcher receives Young Student Award at the last EMRS Fall Meeting
The last 2024 EMRS Fall Meeting took place in Warsaw between the 16th and 19th of September and was the occasion to nominate the recipient of the Young Student Award. This year, Alessandro Tonon from the University of Padova was recompensed for his work!
Performing a presentation entitled “Improved pulsed laser crystallisation of sputtered MoS2 by controlling deposited film thickness”, he showed to the jury significant and timely research results in the ASCENT+ Joint Research Activities (JRA) project he worked on in collaboration with Tyndall National Institute and CEA-Leti
We warmly congratulate him for his brilliant work and wish him success in the continuation of his researches.
ASCENT+ Transnational Access contributes to research: New scientific publication
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G. Paulo,
L. Bartolomé,
O. Bondarchuk,
S. Meloni,
Y. Grosu, and
A. Giacomello,
“Partial Water Intrusion and Extrusion in Hydrophobic Nanopores for Thermomechanical Energy Dissipation”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, vol. 128, iss. 29, pp. 12036-45 (July 2024) DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c02900 (Open Access) ASCENT+ Transnational Access Project 333 Access to INL: X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) |
The research team at CIC energiGUNE (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain) benefited from the access provided by ASCENT+.
Abstract: Forced wetting (intrusion) and spontaneous de-wetting (extrusion) of hydrophobic/lyophobic nanoporous materials by water/nonwetting liquid are of great importance for a broad span of technological and natural systems such as shock-absorbers, molecular springs, separation, chromatography, ion channels, nanofluidics, and many more. In most of these cases, the process of intrusion-extrusion is not complete due to the stochastic nature of external stimuli under realistic operational conditions. However, understanding of these partial processes is limited, as most of the works are focused on an idealized complete intrusion-extrusion cycle. In this work, we show an experimental system operating under partial intrusion/extrusion conditions and present a simple model that captures its main features. We rationalize these operational conditions in terms of the pore entrance and cavity size distributions of the material, which control the range of intrusion/extrusion pressures.Previous Issues:
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