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Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek

Sandeep Unnikrishnan

Dorothee Christine Hermes

Lucas Augustinus Haverkate

Gereon Vogtmeier

Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Jacobs

Antonius Maria Bernardus Van Mol

Thomas Koehler

Herbert Lifka

Edsger Constant Pieter Smits

Philippe Vereecken

Rob Jacob Hendriks

Philippe M Vereecken

Harmannus Franciscus Maria Schoo

Paulus Willibrordus George Poodt

Yulia Galagan

Christiaan Kok

Henri Fledderus

Bo Liu

Hieronymus Antonius Josephus Maria Andriessen

Sami Sabik

Andre Yaroshenko

Sebastien Paul Norbert Moitzheim

Michal Tulodziecki

Translucent photovoltaic product, method of manufacturing the same and manufacturing apparatus. The method comprises: depositing a stack of layers on a carrier substrate, the stack comprising a first electrode layer, a photovoltaic layer and a second electrode layer; cutting through the substrate with the stack of layers to form a first and a second mutually disjoint sections; separating the first and the second section from each other; laminating the first section and the second section with a respective further substrate at a side opposite the carrier substrate to form a respective first and second photovoltaic device; and assembling the photovoltaic product from the first photovoltaic device and the second photovoltaic device, wherein the first and the second sections are mutually complementary comb shaped structures and wherein the second photovoltaic device is arranged in a second plane parallel to and in front of a first plane of said first photovoltaic device.

Translucent photovoltaic device, translucent photovoltaic product and method of manufacturing the same

The present disclosure concerns a solid state electrolyte for providing an ion conductive connection between a negative and positive electrode in a battery, the solid state electrolyte comprising: an ion conductive matrix comprising a polymer, and a metal salt dispersed in the ion conductive matrix, and a first ceramic material, wherein at least one of the faces of the ion conductive matrix for connecting to the negative or positive electrode, is infiltrated with the first ceramic material to form a first, hybrid interface layer.

Hybrid solid state electrolyte

The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a structured grating, a corresponding structured grating component () and an imaging system. The method comprising the steps of: providing () a catalyst () on a substrate (), the catalyst () having a grating pattern; growing () nanostructures () on the catalyst () so as to form walls () and trenches () based on the grating pattern; and filling () the trenches () between the walls () of nanostructures () using an X-ray absorbing material (). The invention provides an improved method for manufacturing a structured grating and such structured grating component (), which is particularly suitable for dark-field X-ray imaging or phase-contrast imaging.

Structured grating component, imaging system and manufacturing method

An electrode for a Lithium battery, comprising: a multi-dyad nanolaminate stack formed of a metal oxide layer of the group TiO2, MnO2 or combinations thereof, ranging between 0.3 and 300 nm; separated by a decoupling layer.

Hybrid nanolaminate electrodes for Li-ion batteries

The present invention relates to a device for aligning an X-ray grating to an X-ray radiation source, the device () comprising at least two flat X-ray grating segments (-); at least one alignment unit (-) for aligning one of the at least two flat X-ray grating segments; wherein the at least two flat X-ray grating segments (-) are arranged in juxtaposition and are forming an X-ray grating (); wherein the at least two flat X-ray grating segments (-) each comprise a grating surface (-) for X-ray radiation, each grating surface (-) comprising a geometrical center; wherein normals (-) to each of the grating surfaces (-) define a common plane (), wherein the normals (-) intersect the geometrical center of the grating surface (-); wherein at least a first of the at least two flat X-ray grating segments (-) is rotatable around an axis (-) that is perpendicular to the common plane (); and wherein the first of the at least two flat X-ray grating segments (-) that is rotatable around the axis (-) is connected to a first of the at least one alignment unit (-). The invention provides a device () and a method () which provide an improved X-ray grating ().

Device and method for aligning an X-ray grating to an X-ray radiation source, and X-ray image acquisition system

A method for manufacturing a electronic device is provided having a current collector capable of a high specific charge collecting area and power, but is also achieved using a simple and fast technique and resulting in a robust design that may be flexed and can be manufactured in large scale processing. To this end the electronic device comprising an electronic circuit equipped with a current collector formed by a metal substrate having a face forming a high-aspect ratio structure of pillars having an interdistance larger than 600 nm. By forming the high-aspect structure in a metal substrate, new structures can be formed that are conformal to curvature of a macroform or that can be coiled or wound and have a robust design.

Device and method of manufacturing high aspect ratio structures

A method of manufacturing a Lithium battery () with a current collector formed of pillars () on a substrate face (), wherein the method comprises: forming elongate and aligned structures forming electrically conductive pillars () on the substrate face () with upstanding pillar walls extending from a pillar base to a pillar top; wherein the pillars are covered with a laminate comprising a first electrode (), a solid state electrolyte layer (); a second electrode layer (), and a topstrate () forming an electrode part; and wherein at least one of the first electrode layer, second electrode layer and topstrate layer is non-conformally coated to prevent Lithium intercalation into the first or second electrode near the pillar base by limiting cracking at the pillar base when volume expansion/contraction of the electrode layers happens during the battery charge/discharge cycles.

A method of manufacturing a Lithium battery with a substrate current collector formed of pillars on a substrate face, wherein the method comprises: forming elongate and aligned structures forming electrically conductive pillars on the substrate face with upstanding pillar walls; wherein the pillars are formed with a first electrode, a solid state electrolyte layer provided on the first electrode; and a second electrode layer, wherein the pillars are dimensioned in such a way that adjacent pillars are merged and a topstrate current collector is formed of complementary interspace structures between the merged pillars.

Lithium battery current collector comprising conductive pillared structures on a substrate

A method of manufacturing a battery with a substrate current collector, wherein the method comprises: forming elongate and aligned electrically conductive structures on the substrate face with upstanding walls; wherein the walls are formed with a first electrode layer covering said walls, and a solid state electrolyte layer provided on the first electrode layer; and wherein a second electrode layer is formed by covering the electrolyte layer with an electrode layer; and forming a top current collector layer in electrical contact with the second electrode layer, wherein the second electrode layer is shielded from the conductive structure by an insulator covering a part of said conductive structure adjacent an end side thereof.

Method of manufacturing a lithium battery

An method for manufacturing a electronic device is provided having a current collector capable of a high specific charge collecting area and power, but is also achieved using a simple and fast technique and resulting in a robust design that may be flexed and can be manufactured in large scale processing. To this end the electronic device comprising an electronic circuit equipped with a current collector formed by a metal substrate having a face forming a high-aspect ratio structure of pillars having an interdistance larger than 600 nm. By forming the high-aspect structure in a metal substrate, new structures can be formed that are conformal to curvature of a macroform or that can be coiled or wound and have a robust design.

Device and method of manufacturing high-aspect ratio structures

A system and method for manufacturing a micropillar array (). A carrier () is provided with a layer of metal ink (). A high energy light source () irradiates the metal ink () via a mask () between the carrier () and the light source. The mask is configured to pass a cross-section illuminated image of the micropillar array onto the metal ink (), thereby causing a patterned sintering of the metal ink () to form a first subsection layer () of the micropillar array () in the layer of metal ink (). A further layer of the metal ink () is applied on top of the first subsection layer () of the micropillar array () and irradiated via the mask () to form a second subsection layer () of the micropillar array on top. The process is repeated to achieve high aspect ratio micropillars

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