Swiss NanoConvention 2015 – Detailed Program

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Wednesday May 27, 2015

   
       
8:00 – 18:00 Registration open
       
9:15 – 10:15 Welcome Session – Plenary Room
  Dr. Michel Despont, CSEM, SNC 2015 General Chairman
Dr. Mario El-Khoury, CEO, CSEM
Prof. Christian Enz, Director, EPFL-IMT, Neuchâtel
Mr. Olivier Arni, Conseiller communal – Urbanisme, Economie, Environnement, Ville de Neuchâtel
       
10:15 – 11:00 PLENARY 1 – Plenary Room     Hans-Joachim Güntherodt Lecture on Nanoscience
Chair: Prof. Christian Schönenberger, University of Basel
  The quantum way of imaging
Prof. Jörg Wrachtrup

3rd Institute of Physics, Stuttgart University, GERMANY

       
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break / Exhibition Visit
       
11:30 – 13:00 Nanopositioning – Plenary Room
Chair: Dr. Rudolf Buser, NTB
  Nanofabrication – Room 2
Chair: Dr. Sebastian Gautsch, EPFL
  Micro- and Nanoscale Mechanical Testing
Dr. Felix Beyeler

FemtoTools AG, SWITZERLAND

  Integration Of Heterogeneous Micro- And Nano-objects Using Nanopatterning And Directed Self-assembly
Dr. Heiko Wolf

IBM Research – Zurich/Rüschlikon, SWITZERLAND

  The four pillars of nanopositioning for scanning probe microscopy
Dr. Abu Sebastian

IBM Research Zurich , SWITZERLAND

  High-precision polymer derived ceramics (PDC) parts for MEMS and bioMEMS
Prof. Juergen Brugger

EPFL, SWITZERLAND

  High Precision Motion Systems @ ETEL
Dr. Samir Bouabdallah

ETEL S.A., SWITZERLAND

  Nanostructured devices for energy efficiency applications
Prof. Elison Matioli

EPFL, SWITZERLAND

  Nanorobotic Platform for Multi-domain Characterization and Diagnostic at Sub-micron Scale
Dr. Benoît Dagon

Imina Technologies, SWITZERLAND

  BIOPRINT- 3D Printing, new routes towards biofunctional materials
Prof. Uwe Pieles

FHNW (University of applied sciences North West Switzerland), School of life Sciences in Muttenz, SWITZERLAND

       
13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH in Exhibition and Poster area
       
14:00 – 15:20 Nanoelectronics – Plenary Room
Chair: Prof. Guillermo Villanueva, EPFL
  Nano-optical Systems – Room 2
Prof. Hans Peter Herzig, EPFL
  The abrupt end of CMOS roadmap: quest for a more energy efficient switch
Prof. Adrian Ionescu

EPFL, SWITZERLAND

  Nanofabrication techniques for plasmonics
Prof. Olivier J.F. Martin

Nanophotonics & Metrology Laboratory, EPFL, SWITZERLAND

  From synthesis to application of photovoltaic perovskite nanowires
Dr. László Forró

Laboratory of Physics of Complex Matter, EPFL, SWITZERLAND

  Micro-Optics is key enabling technology for photolithography
Dr. Reinhard Voelkel

CEO SUSS MicroOptics SA, SWITZERLAND

  Development of High-Power Semiconductors
Dr. Holger Bartolf

Corporate Research Center, ABB, SWITZERLAND

  MEMS meets Nanophotonics
Dr. Ross Stanley

CSEM, SWITZERLAND

  Conductivity and Superconductivity between Insulating Oxides
Prof. Jean-Marc Triscone

University of Geneva, SWITZERLAND

  Non-scanning optical 3D profilometry by Digital Holography Microscopy (DHM®)
Dr. Yves Emery

Lyncée Tec, SWITZERLAND

       
15:20 – 16:00 PLENARY 2 – Plenary Room
Chair: Dr. Harry Heinzelmann, CSEM
  Dancing Hair Cells - Nanomechanics in the Ear
Stefan Launer

Phonak, SWITZERLAND

       
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break / Exhibition Visit
       
16:30 – 18:00 Poster Session – Poster / Exhibition Area
       
18:00 – 20:00 APERO
       
20:00 ADJOURN FOR THE DAY    
       
 
       

Thursday May 28, 2015

       
8:00 – 17:00 Registration open
       
9:00 – 9:15 Michel Despont, CSEM, SNC 2015 General Chairman
Jean-Nathanaël Karakash
, State Minister (NE), Department of Economy and Social Affairs
       
9:15 – 10:00 PLENARY 3 – Plenary Room
Chair: Dr. Michel Despont, CSEM
  Amorphous Metals on the Nano Scale: How and Why?
Prof. Jan Schroers

Yale University, USA

       
10:00 – 10:45 PLENARY 4 – Plenary Room
Chair: Prof. Jens Gobrecht, PSI
  Active Nanophotonics for Sensing, Imaging and Energy Conversion
Prof. Harry Atwater

Caltech, USA

       
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break / Exhibition Visit
       
11:15 – 13:00 Nano for Life – Plenary Room
Chair: Prof. Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, University of Fribourg; AMI
  CTI – Room 2
  Nanomechanical sensors for single microbial cell growth monitoring
Prof. Martin Hegner

University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, School of Physics, IRELAND

  Welcome
Prof Martina Hirayama und Dr Raymond Zehringer,
Heads of the Micro- and Nanotechnologies funding area
  The attinebility of nanoparticles
Prof. János Vörös

Institute for Biomedical Engineering of the University and ETH Zurich & Head of Laboratory for Biosensors and Bioelectronics, SWITZERLAND

  CTI-News
Andreas Reuter, director a.i. CTI
  Bio-Inspired materials based on cellulose nanocrystals
Prof. Christoph Weder

Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, SWITZERLAND

  Sefar's approach to serve the solar industry based on CTI-projects
Rico Thueler,
Sefar
  Nanopores in 2D materials – opportunities and challenges
Prof. Aleksandra Radenovic

EPFL, SWITZERLAND

  Poster presentations
  The nanomechanical signature of cancer progression
Dr. Marija Plodinec

Department of Pathology, University Hospital Basel & Biozentrum and The Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel, SWITZERLAND

 
     
       
13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH in Exhibition and Poster area   CTI Lunch and Poster session
       
14:00 – 16:00 Nanomaterials – Plenary Room
Chair: Dr. Oliver Gröning, EPMA
  CTI – Room 2
  Towards defect-free mismatched heterostructures
Dr. Hans von Känel

Laboratorium für Festkörperphysik, ETH Zürich, SWITZERLAND

  New generation of High Performance MEMS accelerometers
Dr Stephan Gonseth,
Colibrys
  Artificial Spin Ice: novel collective phenomena in arrays of coupled nanomagnets
Prof. Laura Heyderman

Laboratory for Mesoscopic Systems, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich & Paul Scherrer Institute, SWITZERLAND

  Micro-FAS: integrated fiber optics acceleration sensor
Dr Laurent Aebi,
MC-monitoring
  Solar cells with higher efficiencies and lower production costs : the role micro and nanotechnologies
Prof. Christophe Ballif

PV-Lab, IMT, EPFL, and CSEM PV-center, SWITZERLAND

  ARTIDIS – nano-mechanical cancer diagnostics
Dr Robert Sum
, Nuomedis
  Fabrication of submicro-/nano- structured surfaces with enhanced performances or unique physical, chemical or biological properties
Dr. Raphael Pugin

CSEM, SWITZERLAND

  Affordable High-Performance Biomarker Analysis Platform
Dr Luc Gervais,
1Drop Diagnostics
  Novel Strategies for Combining Molecules, Clusters, and Nanocrystals into Functional Inorganic Solids
Prof. Maksym V. Kovalenko

ETH Zürich, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences & Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, SWITZERLAND

   
  Benefits from nanostructured films for Swiss industry
Dr. Oksana Banakh

Haute Ecole Arc Ingénierie, SWITZERLAND

   
       
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break / Exhibition Visit
       
16:30 – 17:15 PLENARY 5 – Plenary Room
Chair: Prof. Herbert Keppner, HE-Arc
  CTI – Room 2
  Technologies and trends for particle detectors at CERN
Dr. Mar Capeáns

CERN, SWITZERLAND

  Keynote: Growing a High-Tech Company
Dr Felix Mayer,
co-founder and CEO of Sensirion
     
17:15 – 17:30 Farewell address   Discussion
       
17:30 – 20:00 FAREWELL APERO
       
20:00 CONFERENCE ADJOURNS