An ever growing variety of microscale and nanoscale building blocks with unique functionality, such as semiconductor nanowires, metal nanorods, carbon nanotubes, and semiconductor quantum dots, is becoming available. They promise new and disruptive applications in nanoelectronic, optical, and sensing devices. As existing top-down methods cannot cope with the complexity and heterogeneity of the nanoscale building blocks, new and massively parallel heterogeneous integration techniques need to be developed to exploit those materials in large scale. We investigate combinations of nanopatterning and directed self-assembly to achieve high-yield heterogeneous integration with single particle control.

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Bio

Heiko Wolf is a Research Staff Member in the ‘Physics of Nanoscale Systems’ group of the Science & Technology department at IBM Research - Zurich. His research focuses on self-assembly and transfer methods for nanopatterning applications. Heiko Wolf studied chemistry at the University of Mainz, Germany, and at Kyoto University, Japan. He received a diploma degree in chemistry from the University of Mainz in 1992. In 1995, he received a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the University of Mainz for work done in collaboration with IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory on self-assembled monolayers. After three years as a Research Scientist in the polymer division at Degussa AG, he joined the microcontact processing group of IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory as a Research Staff Member in 1999.