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Hiralal, Anwar (author), Geelhoed, Jeanine S. (author), Hidalgo-Martinez, Silvia (author), Smets, Bent (author), van Dijk, Jesper R. (author), Meysman, F.J.R. (author)Many environmentally relevant micro-organisms cannot be cultured, and even with the latest metagenomic approaches, achieving complete genomes for specific target organisms of interest remains a challenge. Cable bacteria provide a prominent example of a microbial ecosystem engineer that is currently unculturable. They occur in low abundance in...journal article 2024
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Smets, Bent (author), Boschker, H.T.S. (author), Wetherington, Maxwell T. (author), Lelong, Gérald (author), Hidalgo-Martinez, Silvia (author), Polerecky, Lubos (author), Nuyts, Gert (author), De Wael, Karolien (author), Meysman, F.J.R. (author)Cable bacteria embed a network of conductive protein fibers in their cell envelope that efficiently guides electron transport over distances spanning up to several centimeters. This form of long-distance electron transport is unique in biology and is mediated by a metalloprotein with a sulfur-coordinated nickel (Ni) cofactor. However, the...journal article 2024
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Güneş, Mehmet (author), Melskens, Jimmy (author), Smets, A.H.M. (author)In this study, undoped hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) thin films deposited under moderate dilution ratios of silane by radio frequency plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (RF-PECVD) have been investigated using steady-state photoconductivity and improved dual beam photoconductivity (DBP) methods to identify changes in multiple...journal article 2023
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Martínez, Ana M. (author), Thiel, Christian (author), Szabo, Sandor (author), Gherboudj, Imen (author), van Swaaij, R.A.C.M.M. (author), Tanasa, Andreea (author), Jäger-Waldau, Arnulf (author), Taylor, Nigel (author), Smets, A.H.M. (author)Accelerating the deployment of Photovoltaic (PV) systems is a key contributing factor in achieving climate neutrality. Even though solar power is one of the cheapest energy sources and its deployment is growing rapidly around the world, an even faster growth is required to achieve existing climate goals. Besides the role that finance and...journal article 2023
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Zhao, Y. (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Han, C. (author), Cao, L. (author), Yang, G. (author), Özkol, E. (author), Alcañiz, Alba (author), Kovačević, K. (author), Limodio, G. (author), Santbergen, R. (author), Smets, A.H.M. (author), Weeber, A.W. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells have achieved a record efficiency of 26.81% in a front/back-contacted (FBC) configuration. Moreover, thanks to their advantageous high V<sub>OC</sub> and good infrared response, SHJ solar cells can be further combined with wide bandgap perovskite cells forming tandem devices to enable efficiencies well...journal article 2023
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van den Brom, P.I. (author), Smets, S.J. (author), Itard, L.C.M. (author)Many researchers have indicated the energy performance gap (difference between actual and predicted energy used in buildings), not only on an individual building level, but also on a building stock level. For policy makers it is important that predictions are correct on an building stock level to make them a useful tool to predict the effect of...conference paper 2022
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de Vrijer, T. (author), van Nijen, D.A. (author), Parasramka, Harsh (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Isabella, O. (author), Smets, A.H.M. (author)Two terminal multi-junction (MJ) photovoltaic (PV) devices are well established concepts to increase the solar-to-electrical power conversion in reference to single PV junctions. In multi-junction PV devices two consecutive sub-cells are interconnected using a tunnel recombination junction (TRJ) in which the light excited holes of one sub...journal article 2022
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Smets, P.S.M. (author), Weemstra, C. (author), Evers, L.G. (author)We report on the extraction of deep ocean travel time variations from time-lapse cross-correlations between a hydrophone station and a three-component broadband seismometer. The signals we cross-correlate in this study result from repeated activity by the Monowai seamount, one of the most active submarine volcanoes of the Tonga-Kermadec ridge...journal article 2022
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de Vrijer, T. (author), Bouazzata, Bilal (author), Smets, A.H.M. (author)Semiconductors based on group IV elements are widely used in the fields of micro-electronics, optics and photonics. The group IV alloys are processed using plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition and its opto-electrical properties are a result of the material composition and structure. Infrared and Raman spectroscopy are complementary and...journal article 2022
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de Vrijer, T. (author), Miedema, Sander (author), Blackstone, Thijs (author), van Nijen, D.A. (author), Han, C. (author), Smets, A.H.M. (author)A logical next step for achieving a cost price reduction per Watt peak of photovoltaics (PV) is multijunction PV devices. In two-terminal multijunction PV devices, the photo-current generated in each subcell should be matched. Intermediate reflective layers (IRLs) are widely employed in multijunction devices to increase reflection at the...journal article 2022
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de Vrijer, T. (author), Smets, A.H.M. (author)In this abstract an overview is presented of research performed in the DISCO project, on the development of a silicon-based high voltage multijunction device for autonomous solar to fuel applications.'conference paper 2022
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de Vrijer, T. (author), van Dingen, Julian E.C. (author), Roelandschap, Paul J. (author), Roodenburg, Koos (author), Smets, A.H.M. (author)Amorphous and nano-crystalline germanium is of potential interest for a wide range of electronic, optical, opto-electronic and photovoltaic applications. In this work the influence of deposition temperature on hydrogenated germanium (Ge:H) films was characterized, using over 200 Ge:H and over 70 SiGe:H films. The demonstrated temperature...journal article 2022
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de Vrijer, T. (author), Wiering, M. (author), van Nijen, D.A. (author), Padmakumar, G. (author), Sambamurthy, S. (author), Limodio, G. (author), Smets, A.H.M. (author)Surface textures that result in high optical yields are crucial for high efficiency photovoltaic (PV) devices. In this work three different texturing approaches are presented that result in smooth concave structures devoid of sharp features. Such features can sustain the crack-free growth of device quality nano- to poly-crystalline materials...journal article 2022
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de Vrijer, T. (author), Roodenburg, Koos (author), Saitta, F.S. (author), Blackstone, Thijs (author), Limodio, G. (author), Smets, A.H.M. (author)An alloy based on the group IV elements germanium and tin has the potential of yielding an earth-abundant low bandgap energy semiconductor material with applications in the fields of micro-electronics, optics, photonics and photovoltaics. In this work, the first steps towards the plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) processing of a...journal article 2022
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den Ouden, O.F.C. (author), Assink, Jelle D. (author), Smets, P.S.M. (author), Evers, L.G. (author)The ambient infrasonic noise field is complex due to the interference of spatially distributed infrasound sources. Microbaroms are one of the most dominant omnipresent infrasonic sources within this wavefield. These microbaroms are generated by nonlinear ocean surface wave interactions, and have a characteristic and continuous signature...journal article 2022
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Evers, L.G. (author), Smets, P.S.M. (author), Assink, J. D. (author), Shani-Kadmiel, Shahar (author), Kondo, K. (author), Sugiyama, S. (author)A period of 18 years of infrasonic recordings was analyzed from a microbarometer array (I18DK) in northwestern Greenland, near Qaanaaq. A huge number of infrasonic detections, over 700,000, have been made in I18DKs soundscape during the Arctic summers. Simultaneously identified were both calving events from marine-terminating glaciers and...journal article 2022
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Zhao, Y. (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Smets, A.H.M. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Han, C. (author), Yang, G. (author), Cao, L. (author), Yao, Z. (author), Weeber, A.W. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Excellent surface passivation induced by (i)a-Si:H is critical to achieve high-efficiency silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells. This is key for conventional single-junction cell applications but also for bottom cell application in tandem devices. In this study, we investigated the effects of (i)a-Si:H deposition temperature on passivation...journal article 2022
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de Vrijer, T. (author), Bouazzata, Bilal (author), Ravichandran, Ashwath (author), van Dingen, Julian E.C. (author), Roelandschap, Paul J. (author), Roodenburg, Koos (author), Roerink, Steven J. (author), Saitta, F.S. (author), Blackstone, Thijs (author), Smets, A.H.M. (author)In this paper the opto-electrical nature of hydrogenated group IV alloys with optical bandgap energies ranging from 1.0 eV up to 2.3 eV are studied. The fundamental physical principles that determine the relation between the bandgap and the structural characteristics such as material density, elemental composition, void fraction and...journal article 2022
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de Vrijer, T. (author), Smets, A.H.M. (author)The oxidation and carbisation kinetics of porous amorphous and nano-crystalline hydrogenated germanium (a-Ge:H and nc-Ge:H) films exposed to ambient air and deionized water have been studied using vibration modes observed by infrared spectroscopy. Based on infrared analysis, a two-step process of first oxidation by water and secondly carbisation...journal article 2022
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de Vrijer, T. (author), Smets, A.H.M. (author)Doped layers are a determining factor for the performance of photovoltaic devices such as silicon heterojunction and thin film silicon solar cells. The material properties of doped hydrogenated amorphous/nanocrystalline silicon-oxide (a/nc-SiO X≥0 :H) films processed by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition generally exhibit a tradeoff...journal article 2021