Sept. 13, 2022 Best Poster Award
Congratulations to Gökhan for getting another poster award, this time at Swiss ePrint!
Sept. 12, 2022 1st price PhD Video Pitch Contest Dept 040
Congratulations to Lars for getting the first price at Empa Dept 040 PhD Video Pitch Contest !
Sept. 08, 2022 Present at SwissSkills
Thanks to Dominik, Nick & Sofie for helping out at this weeks SwissSkills 2022 booth for the Physics Laboratory Technician
Sept. 06, 2022 Welcome to Frederik
Frederik Van Veen just joined our Quantum Device team to work for his PhD on Prof. Dr. Mickael Perrin's ERC project, developing a particle exchange heat engine. Welcome to the lab!
Jul 14, 2022 René Hornung Price
Congratulations to Arno Römmeler, former PhD-student of our group measurement technology, for getting the René-Hornung-Price 2021 of the Swiss society for nondestructive testing (SGZP) for his project "Air coupled ultrasonic defect detection in thin walled polymer specimens with Lamb waves".
Jul 11, 2022 Congratulations to Claudio
Congratulations to Claudio for successfully finishing his apprenticeship as Physics Laboratory Technician VET and obtaining the Federal Vocational Baccalaureate (Engineering, Architecture, Life Sciences)!
Jul 11, 2022 Poster Award
Congratulations to Gökhan for getting a Poster Award at Gordon Research Conference for Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystal!
Jul 07, 2022 Best Poster Award
Congratulations to Lars for getting Best Poster Award at Swiss Nano Convention 2022!
May 19, 2022 Congratulations to Mickael for being appointed Professor at ETH Zürich
Congratulations to Dr. Mickael Perrin for being appointed as Assistant Professor of Low-dimensional Quantum Electronics in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineeringat ETH Zürich! See also the Empa news.
May 04, 2022 Cover image on ACS Chemical Neuroscience
Congratulations to the biosensing and function surfaces group for their paper and cover image for ACS Chemical Neuroscience
April 25, 2022 Welcome to Christian
Welcome to Christian! With his background in mechanical engineering and experience in MEMS manufacturing, Christian joins our project on Sub-Wavelength Holographic Lithography (SWHL).
April 22, 2022 Congratulations to Talia
Talia received the Prize for Best short talk in Microscopy at the Zurich Life Science Symposium. Congratulations ! =)
March 11, 2022 Cover image on Advanced Electronic Materials
Congratulations to Lars for providing the cover image for Advanced Electronic Materials
Mar 03, 2022 Welcome to Sebastian
Welcome to Sebastian to our Team. He will support us with failure analysis. :-)
Feb 15, 2022 Welcome to Michiel
Welcome to Michiel to our Team and all the best to your masterproject on TOPAS THZ detectors.
Jan 18, 2022 Mickael awarded an ERC Starting Grant
Dr. Mickael L. Perrin wants to build tiny power plants from graphene nanoribbons that generate electricity from heat. His ambitious project won him one of the prestigious ERC Starting Grants from the EU and one of the 32 Eccellenza Professorial Fellowships by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). He will take up an assistant professorship at ETH Zurich – and continue his research at Empa. Press release.
Dec 14, 2021 Diagnosis during flight
Together with teams from England and Germany, Empa researchers around Erwin Hack developed a monitoring system for aircraft components. In the future, minor damage could be detected and monitored during flight without the aircraft having to go into the hangar for maintenance. This will reduce operating costs and increase safety at the same time. More info.
Jan 04, 2022 Jordan received the award for best PhD thesis
Dr. Jordan Bouaziz has received the award for the best PhD thesis in "Societal issue: Information and Digital Society" by INSA Lyon.
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Nov 30, 2021 Congratulation to Olena!
Congratulations to Dr. Synhaivska to your successful Ph.D. defense today, entitled “Sensing metal ions-peptide and protein interfacial interactions”. =)
Nov 19, 2021 Congrats to Dominik, Jian and Ivan for the new IRC projects!
Three IRC projects have been granted today. The titles are: "Gate-Defined Quantum Confinement in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene", "Agile Robots for Tomorrow's Lab" and "Towards Metamaterial Quantum Dot Hybrids for Mechanically Tuneable Infrared Detectors"
Nov 17, 2021 Congratulations Mickael!
Congratulations to Dr. Mickael Perrin for being awarded a SNSF Eccellenza Grant!
Nov 8, 2021 Congratulation Yves!
Congratulations to Dr. Mermoud for your successfull PhD defense!
Oct 01, 2021 Welcome to Alessia
Alessia Romio from Polytecnico di Milano joined our lab for her masterproject "Vertical hetero-structures for organic electronics" with Jacopo Oswald. Welcome to our group and we wish you a joyful and productive winter-time :-)
Sept 29, 2021 Welcome to Samuel
Samuel Singh, master student from RWTH Aachen started his project in the beginning of the month and will stay with us until february. He will work on a project in Machine learning with Mickael Perrin. Welcome to our group!
Sept 27, 2021 Detecting dementia in blood
The recent work by Dr. Peter Nirmalraj in collaboration with Dr. Th. Schneider and Dr. A. Felbecker (Kantonsspital St.Gallen) paves the way towards a blood-based detection of Alzheimer's disease. See the publication and press release.
Sept 16, 2021 Welcome to our new physics laboratory apprentices
Yanis and Silvio joined our lab for their apprenticeship as physics laboratory technician.
Aug 31, 2021 Farewell
After working altogether over a century at Empa; Giovanni, Günther, Pit, Rolf and Silvia will/went already in their well-deserved retirement.
Aug 17, 2021 Welcome Fabien
Fabien starts his master thesis on the topic "Development of microporous graphene membranes for nanoparticle transport studies at biological barriers". He will work with Ivan Shorubalko (in group Nanoelectronics and Nano-Optics) and Tina Bürki (in group Particles@barriers). We wish you a good start and good time! :-)
Aug 05, 2021 Welcome Lucrezia!
Welcome to Lucrezia Maini from ETH, who will spend some labortime with us as our academic guest =),
Aug 03, 2021 Congratulations to Andreas and Dominic
Congratulations to Andreas and Dominic for successfully finishing their apprenticeship as Physics Laboratory Technician VET and obtaining the Federal Vocational Baccalaureate (Engineering, Architecture, Life Sciences)!
July 16, 2021 Congratulations to Oliver !
Congratulations to Oliver Braun for successfully defending his PhD Thesis entitled "Thermoelectric Effects in Nanoscale Devices"!
May 17, 2021 Congratulations to Gökhan!
Gökhan received the best ePoster prize at this years #QDsSCHOOL . Congratulations!
May 17, 2021 Welcome to Erfu! :-)
Erfu Wu joins our lab to start his PhD on advanced perovskite photodetectors.
May 03, 2021 Welcome to Patrik ! =)
Dr. Patrik Rohner joins the lab to establish electrohydrodynamic nanoprinting @EMPA in a collaborative effort of EMPA and ETHZ (Prof. Maksym Kovalenko).
April 26, 2021 Seminar by JC Blancon
Understanding the synthesis, structure, and physics of hybrid 2D perovskites for efficient optoelectronics
March 30, 2021 Rapid preeclampsia test
Read more about MOMM Diagnostics' rapid preeclampsia test and the PEDPOC project supported by Cordis Europa N.V.
March 01, 2021 Congratulations to Gökhan
Congratulations to Gökhan Kara for getting the best poster award at nanoGe Online School!
March 01, 2021 Welcome Ho-Yun Lee
Ho-Yun starts her master thesis on the topic "He-FIB nanostructuring for individual nanocrystal incorporation into devices". She will work with Ivan Shorubalko (in group Nanoelectronics and Nano-Optics) and Prof. Maksym Yarema from ETH Zürich.
Feb 05, 2021 Physiklaborant?
Our apprentices helped in the creation of a new video, which shows the possible workfields of physics laboratory assistants. See it here ... ;-)
Feb 02, 2021 Welcome Jordan!
Dr Jordan Bouaziz will be Postdoc on the Empa project "Mechanical strain-enhanced ionic- conductivity in metal oxide membranes for energy Applications", with Fabio; in collaboration with C. Cancelleri, L. Jürgens, 205