Swiss NanoConvention 2019 – Technical Program

Last update: May 31, 2019.
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Thursday – June 6, 2019

   
       
08:00 – 18:00 Registration open - Garden Level STCC
       
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome Session
Room 1

Prof. Olivier Martin, NAM Laboratory, EPFL – SNC 2019 General Chair

Prof. Andreas Mortensen, EPFL Vice President for Research

Prof. Ali H. Sayed, Dean of the EPFL School of Engineering

Prof. Christian Enz, Director of the EPFL Institute of Microengineering

   
09:30 – 10:15 PLENARY SESSION I
Room 1
Chair: Olivier Martin, EPFL Extreme PicoPhotonics: Trapping light to the atomic scale
Prof Jeremy J Baumberg, FRS

NanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge , United Kingdom

   
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break / Exhibition Visit
       
10:45 – 12:15 SESSION 1 – ADVANCED MANUFACTURING AT THE NANOSCALE
Room 1
Chair: Michel Despont, CSEM
  SESSION 2 – METROLOGY & SENSING I
Room 2
Chair: Amir H. Ghadimi, CSEM
  Advanced manufacturing by inkjet
Prof. Fritz Bircher

iPrint Institute - HES-SO Fribourg, Switzerland

  Trends in the miniaturization of atomic clocks
Dr Jacques Haesler

CSEM SA - Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique, Project Office, Systems Division , Switzerland

  Tuning dielectric material properties by controlling femtosecond laser direct-write self-organized nanostructures
Prof Yves Bellouard

Galatea Lab, STI/IMT, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

  Spectroscopic applications of quantum cascade laser frequency combs
Dr Andreas Hugi

irSweep, Switzerland

  Overcoming paradigms with EHD printing
Dr Patrick Galliker

Scrona AG, Switzerland

  Nanoscale characterization of organic and inorganic materials by IR & THz near-field imaging and spectroscopy
Dr. Andreas J. Huber

neaspec GmbH, Germany

       
12:15 – 12:45 POSTER FLASH PRESENTATIONS
       
12:45 – 13:45 LUNCH and Poster Session in Exhibition Area
       
13:45 – 15:45 SESSION 3 – INNOVATION PARTNERS SESSION
Room 1
Chair: Marcus Morstein, Hightech Zentrum Aargau
  SESSION 4 – SURFACE AND INTERFACE SCIENCES
Room 2
Chair: Guillermo Villanueva, EPFL
  Technology Transfer needs Partnerships
Dr Harry Heinzelmann

CSEM, VP, Chief Technology Officer, Switzerland


  Atomic-Scale Analysis of the SiC/Oxide Interface to Improve High-Power MOSFET (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor-Field-Effect-Transistor) Devices
Ms Dipanwita Dutta

Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

  Micromechanical Testing of NEMS, Nanostructures and Materials
Dr. Felix Beyeler

CEO, FemtoTools AG, Switzerland


  Materials processing with Lasers – any limits?
Prof. Dr. Patrik Hoffmann

Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, LAMP & EPFL, LP-MAT , Switzerland

  3D Dilation - composite components for micro to mesoscale applications using only thin film processes
Mr. Jason Lund

TAG Heuer Institute, Switzerland, Switzerland


  Experimenting with molecular compounds in nanoelectronic systems
Prof. Michel Calame

Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces Laboratory,Empa & Dpt of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland

  Recent innovation in the field of in-situ micro and nanoscale mechanical testing
Dr. Nicholas Randall

Vice President Business Development Alemnis AG, Switzerland

  Recent Achievements and Future Perspectives of Nanomagnetism
Prof. Dr. Harald Brune

Institute of Physics (IPHYS), Faculty of Basic Sciences (SFB), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) , Switzerland

  Reinventing filtration by using 3D nanofiber architectures
Prof. Dr. Christian Adlhart

Institute of Chemistry and Biotechnology Zurich University of Applied Sciences, ZHAW, Switzerland


   
  Innovation projects : How can Innosuisse help you realize a new idea
Mr Matthias Furler

Innosuisse, Switzerland

   
       
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break / Exhibition Visit
       
16:15 – 17:00 ROUNDTABLE: INNOVATION AND MANUFACTURING AT THE NANOSCALE
Room 1
Moderator: Fabrice Delaye, Bilan

Invited Panellists:

       
17:00 – 18:00 Poster Session and Apéro – Poster / Exhibition Area
       
 
       

Friday – June 7, 2019

       
8:30 – 18:00 Registration open - Garden Level STCC
       
09:00 – 09:45 PLENARY SESSION II – Room 1Chair: Prof. Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser Nanoscale bio(medical)sensors
Prof. Janos Vörös

Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich, Switzerland

       
09:45 – 10:15 Coffee Break / Exhibition Visit
       
10:15– 12:15 SESSION 5 - NANOMECHANIC DYNAMICS TO DIRECT BIOLOGY
Room 1
Chair: Beat Fierz, EPFL
  SESSION 6 – METROLOGY & SENSING II
Room 2
Chair: Yargo C. Bonetti, ETHZ
  Cell response to different (nano)particle stiffness
Prof. Alke FINK & Prof. Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser

Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg , Switzerland

  Traceability of nano-scale measurements to the international system of units SI
Dr Rudolf Thalmann

Federal Institute of Metrology METAS, Switzerland

  Drops: A tool to introduce micrometer sized structures into hydrogels
Prof. Esther Amstad

EPFL, Switzerland

  NANOPHOTONICS for BIOSENSING and BIOIMAGING
Prof. Hatice Altug

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

  Mechanical control of intestinal organoid formation
Prof Matthias Lutolf

Laboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering,Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences and School of Engineering, EPFL , Switzerland

  High performance and miniature vapor cell atomic clocks
Prof Gaetano Mileti

Laboratoire Temps – Fréquence (LTF), Institut de Physique, Université de Neuchâtel , Switzerland

  Biophysical and biochemical control of integrin-mediated adhesion initiation
Dr Nico Strohmeyer

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, Switzerland

  High speed atomic force microscopy – A microengineering approach to improving nanocharacterization
Prof. Dr. Georg Fantner

École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne, IBI/IMT-Laboratory for Bio- and Nano-Instrumentation , Switzerland

       
12:15 – 12:45 POSTER FLASH PRESENTATIONS
       
12:45 – 13:45 LUNCH and Poster Session in Exhibition Area
       
13:45 – 15:45 SESSION 7 - SAFE-BY-DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE NANO-INNOVATIONS
Room 1
Chair: Peter Wick, Empa
  SESSION 8 – NANOPHOTONICS
Room 2
Chair: Olivier Martin, EPFL
  Degradation-by-design: the case of flat carbon and 2D materials
Dr Alberto Bianco

University of Strasbourg, CNRS, Immunology, Immunopathology and Therapeutic Chemistry, France

  Plasmonic Communications
Prof Juerg Leuthold

ETH-Zurich(ETH); Inst. of Electromagnetic Fields (IEF), Switzerland

  Synthesis of metal doped nanoplastic particles and microplastic fibers and their utility for investigating plastic fluxes in complex matrices
Dr. Denise M. Mitrano

Process Engineering Department, Eawag, Switzerland

  Harnessing Light-Matter Interactions at the Nanoscale for Energy Conversion and Optoelectronic Devices
Prof Giulia Tagliabue

Laboratory of Nanoscience for Energy Technologies (LNET), EPFL, Switzerland

  Role of the placenta in direct and indirect fetotoxicity of nanomaterials
Dr Tina Buerki-Thurnherr

Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland

  The Next Generation of Quantum Emitters for Nanophotonics?
Prof. David J. Norris

Optical Materials Engineering Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  Safe-by-design: A fast and sensitive method for nanoparticle screening
Dr Christoph Geers

Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

  Let's find the nano-defects: Photomask inspection with lensless EUV imaging
Dr. Yasin Ekinci

Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

  The national contactpointnano.ch for safe handling, regulation and transfer of nanomaterials?
Dr Ana Milosevic

contactpointnano.ch, Empa, Switzerland

   
       
15:45 – 16:30 HANS-JOACHIM GÜNTHERODT LECTURE ON NANOSCIENCE
Room 1
Chair: Christian Schönenberger, SNI Nanoscale Materials and Devices for Future Computing
Dr Heike Riel

IBM Fellow, Director IoT Technology and Solutions, IBM Research, Switzerland

       
16:30 – 17:00 AWARD CEREMONY
Room 1
Chair: Christian Schönenberger, SNIThe five awardees who were selected for their excellent research publication will be announced. Their work will first be shortly presented. The prizes will be handed over by a representative of the company sponsoring the prize: BASF, Bühler, IBM, Sensirion and Zeiss/Gloor.
 

 

       
17:00 – 17:15 FINAL REMARKS / CLOSING
Room 1
Chair: Prof. Olivier Martin, NAM Laboratory, EPFL

SNC 2020...

   
17:15 – 18:30 FAREWELL APERO