Swiss NanoConvention 2018 – Final Technical Program

Last update: June 3, 2018.
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Wednesday – June 6, 2018

   
       
08:00 – 18:00 Registration open - Main Foyer HPH
       
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome Session
Room HPH/G1

Dr. Yargo Bonetti, ETHZ/FIRST-Lab – SNC 2018 General Chair

Prof. Dr. Sarah M. Springman, Rector of ETH Zurich

Prof. Dr. Gian-Luca Bona, CEO Empa

   
09:30 – 10:15 PLENARY SESSION
Room HPH/G1
Chair: Dr. Yargo Bonetti, ETHZ Optical nanoscopy using 30 keV electrons
Prof. Albert Polman

Center for Nanophotonics, AMOLF, The Netherlands

   
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break / Exhibition Visit
       
10:45 – 12:45 SESSION 1 – DESIGN OF NEW MATERIAL
Room HPH/G1
Chair: Dr. Andreas Hafner, BASFTwo-dimensional materials from high-throughput computational exfoliation of experimentally known compounds
Dr. Giovanni Pizzi

Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS) and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

  SESSION 2 – NANO OPTICS
Room HPH/G2
Chair: Dr. Martin Frimmer, ETHZPhonon engineering and manipulation with nanowires
Prof. Ilaria Zardo

Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland

  Exploring the Electronic Properties of Atomically Thin Crystals
Prof. Alberto Morpurgo

University of Geneva, Switzerland

  Optical antennas: nanoscience meets quantum optics
Prof. Stephan Götzinger

University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany

  Electronic structure engineering in graphene nanoribbons using on-surface synthesis
Dr. Oliver Gröning

Empa Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland

  Dielectric antennas for single-emitter control
Dr. Riccardo Sapienza

The Blackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

  TUBALL™ nanotubes - Health safety & environmental status
Gunther Van Kerckhove

OCSiAl Europe S.A.R.L., Grand Duchy de Luxembourg

  The DNA origami route for active nanoplasmonics
Prof. Laura Na Liu

Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

       
12:45 – 14:15 LUNCH and Poster Session in Exhibition Area
       
14:15 – 15:00 PLENARY SESSION
Room HPH/G1
Chair: Prof. Rudolf Buser, NTB
Materials innovation and integration for new computing paradigms (and beyond)
Dr. Kirsten Moselund

IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland

       
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break / Exhibition Visit
       
15:30 – 17:30 SESSION 3 – NANO-FABRICATION & NANO-DEVICES
Room HPH/G1
Chair: Prof. Michel Calame, Empa Near-quantum-limited microwave amplification and nonreciprocal transmission using engineered mechanical dissipation
Dr. Alexey Feofanov

Institute of Physics, EPFL, Switzerland

  SESSION 4 – BIOINSPIRED MATERIALS / NANOMATERIALS
& TECHNIQUES FOR BIOIMAGING
Room HPH/G2
Chair: Prof. Rachel Grange, ETHZDielectric Harmonic Nanoparticles for Cell Detection and Tracking in the Second Infrared Optical Window of Tissues (NIR-II)
Dr. Luigi Bonacina

Department of Applied Physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland

 
  Pushing the resolution limit of photolithography for more Moore
Dr. Yasin Ekinci

Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland

  Bio-inspired Photonics: from nature to applications
Prof. Silvia Vignolini

University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry, United Kingdom

  Carbon Nanotube Sensors
Prof. Christofer Hierold

ETH Zurich, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, Micro and Nanosystems, Switzerland

  Imaging ultrastructure in nanomaterials and biomaterials by polarized microscopy
Dr. Sophie Brasselet

Institut Fresnel, CNRS, Aix Marseille Université, France

  Automated in-line Metrology for Nanomechanical Properties
Prof. Urs Staufer

Delft University of Technology, PME - Micro and Nano Engineering Delft, The Netherlands

  Microfluidic device to model microvascular obstructions in heart attack patients
Prof. Dr. André Bernard

NTB Interstaatliche Hochschule für Technik Buchs, Switzerland

       
17:30 – 18:30 Poster Session and Apéro – Poster / Exhibition Area
       
 
       

Thursday – June 7, 2018

       
8:30 – 18:00 Registration open - Main Foyer HPH
       
09:00 – 09:45 PLENARY SESSION – Room HPH/G1Chair: Prof. Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, AMI Chemical engineering and self-assembly of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals
Dr. Maryna Bodnarchuk

Laboratory of Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland

       
09:45 – 10:15 Coffee Break / Exhibition Visit
       
10:15– 12:15 SESSION 5 - ADVANCED ANALYTICS
Room HPH/G1
Chair: Dr. Pascal Ruffieux, Empa Advanced Analytics by Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
Dr. Rolf Erni

Electron Microscopy Center, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Empa, Dübendorf, Switzerland

  SESSION 6 – START-UPS
Room HPH/G2
Chair: Prof. Christian Schönenberger, Uni Basel

Presentation from Innosuisse:

Set up and grow your own company with Innosuisse’s Start-up support
Mr. Antonio Gambardella

Director of Fongit and Innosuisse start-up expert, Switzerland

  Nanoscale sensors made from diamond
Prof. Christian Degen

Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

 

COMPANY PRESENTATIONS:

  • InterAx Biotech AG, Dr. Martin Ostermaier
  • IRsweep, Dr. Markus Geiser
  • INOFEA AG, Dr. Yves Dudal
  • NanoLockin, Dr. Christoph Geers
  • Nanogence, Dr. Abhishek Kumar
  • Resistell AG, Dr. Danuta Cichocka
  • MBX, Prof. Dr. Simone Schürle
  • LSPR AG, Dr. Benedikt Oswald

Closing Remarks – Christian Schönenberger

  Nanoscale magnetometry using single spin quantum sensors
Prof. Dr. Patrick Maletinsky

Department of Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland

 
  Graphene Topological Effects on Molecular Resonance States
Dr. Peter Nirmalraj

Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

 
       
12:15 – 13:30 LUNCH and Poster Session in Exhibition Area
       
13:30 – 14:15 HANS-JOACHIM GÜNTHERODT LECTURE ON NANOSCIENCE
Room HPH/G1
Chair: Dr. Pierangelo Gröning, Empa Molecular nanosystems at interfaces
Prof. Johannes Barth

Physics Department, TU Munich, Germany

       
14:15 – 15:45 SESSION 7 - NANOMATERIALS IN PLANTS
Room HPH/G1
Chair: Dr. Fabienne Schwab, AMI Bio-inspired Wood Nanotechnology
Prof. Dr. Ingo Burgert

ETH Zürich, Wood Materials Science, Institute for Building Materials, Zürich and Empa, Applied Wood Materials, Dübendorf, Switzerland

  SESSION 8 – INNOSUISSE: From Science to Market
Room HPH/G2
Chair: Marco Peter, Innosuisse Moving forward with Innosuisse
Dr. Marc Pauchard

Head of Transversal Funding division, Innosuisse, Bern, Switzerland

  Application of nanotechnology in agriculture: a critical evaluation of nanopesticides and nanofertilisers against their conventional analogues
Dr. Thomas D. Bucheli

Environmental Analytics, Agroscope, Zurich, Switzerland

  From a EU project to an innovative industrial 3D micromachining platform
Ms. Nicoletta Casanova

CEO, FEMTOprint SA, Switzerland

  Nanoparticles and their interaction with wood
Prof. Alke Fink

BioNanomaterials, Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

  The role of innovation in Optotune’s aim for world class optics
Mr. David Leuenberger

Business Development Manager, Optotune Switzerland AG, Switzerland

       
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break / Exhibition Visit    
       
16:15 – 17:00 PLENARY SESSION
Room HPH/G1

Chair: Prof. Christian Schönenberger, Uni Basel Valving and sorting of biological nano-oblects with single entity resolution: From viruses to single macromolecules.
Prof. Dr. Dimos Poulikakos

Director, Lab of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies, Mechanical and Process Engineering Department, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

       
17:00 – 17:30 AWARD CEREMONY
Room HPH/G1
Chair: Prof. Christian Schönenberger, Uni Basel

Swiss Nanotechnology PhD Award

 

 

       
17:30 – 17:45 FINAL REMARKS / CLOSING
Room HPH/G1
Chair: Dr. Yargo Bonetti, ETHZ – SNC 2018 General Chair National Contact Point Nano.ch: a strategic initiative to transfer the nanosafety knowledge to SMEs
Dr. Peter Wick

Head of Particles-Biology Interactions Lab, Empa / National Contact Point Nano.ch, Switzerland

SNC 2019...

   
17:45 – 19:00 FAREWELL APERO