Patents Assigned to Ecole Polytechnique Federate de Lausanne EPFL
  • Patent number: 10665800
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a solid solar cells, including the steps of providing a hole collector layer, applying a conductive layer onto the hole collector layer, applying an electron blocking layer onto the conductive layer, applying a sensitizer layer onto the electron blocking layer, applying a hole blocking layer onto the sensitizer layer, and providing a current collector and/or a metal layer or a conductor. The sensitizer layer including an organic-inorganic perovskite is applied by co-deposition of one or more sublimated divalent or trivalent salts and of one or more sublimated organic ammonium salts to obtain the organic-inorganic perovskite. The invention also relates to solid state solar cells, wherein the charge flow is inverted compared to the charge flow in a solar cell of conventional architecture and/or obtained by the above method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignees: Ecole Polytechnique Federate de Lausanne (EPFL), Universitat de Valencia
    Inventors: Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Michael Graetzel, Hendrik Jan Bolink, Olga Malinkiewicz, Alejandra Soriano Portillo
  • Patent number: 9086465
    Abstract: A method for high resolution NMR (=nuclear magnetic resonance) measurements using the application of excitation pulses and the acquisition of data points, whereby a dwell time ?t separates the acquisition of two consecutive data points, which is characterized in that one or more tickling rf (=radio frequency) pulses of duration ?p are applied within each dwell time ?t, and that the average rf field amplitude of each of the tickling rf pulses approximately fulfills the condition ?1=?1?p/?t=?J wherein J is the scalar J-coupling constant and ?1=?B1 with ? being the gyromagnetic ratio and B1 being the strength of the magnetic component of each tickling rf pulse. This method is effective in decoupling homonuclear couplings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignees: Bruker BioSpin AG, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérate de Lausanne EPFL-TTO
    Inventors: Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Diego Carnevale
  • Publication number: 20110121421
    Abstract: In previously known imaging devices as in still and motion cameras, for example, image sensor signal response typically is linear as a function of intensity of incident light. Desirably, however, akin to the response of the human eye, response is sought to be nonlinear and, more particularly, essentially logarithmic. Preferred nonlinearity is realized in image sensor devices of the invention upon severely limiting the number of pixel states, combined with clustering of pixels into what may be termed as super-pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: Ecole Polytechnique Federate de Lausanne EPFL
    Inventors: Edoardo Charbon, Luciano Sbaiz, Martin Vetterli, Sabine Susstrunk