Empa - Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces

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

Abstract

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

Feb 01, 2021 Welcome Wenhao

Wenhao Huang just joined our group as new PhD on the SNF project Hydronics. Welcome! & Hope you enjoy your time with us :-)

Dec. 07, 2020 Congratulation to Matthias

Congratulations to Matthias Grotevent for your SNF Postdoc.Mobility grant and we wish you a successful continuation of your career!

Dec. 07, 2020 Best Poster Award(s)!

Congratulations to Lars and Gökhan for getting the best and 3rd-best poster award at Empa's PhD symposium =) !

Dec. 07, 2020 Lab 405 image contest

Our laboratory had this fall 2020 for the first time an internal image contest with multiple contributions.

...and the winners are...

Nov 09, 2020 Welcome to Tathagata

Dr. Tathagata Paul just joined the Hybrid Nanoscale Interfaces team to work on his Post-Doc in the field of hydro-dynamic heat or charge transport in two-dimensional materials.. Welcome to the lab!

Oct. 29, 2020 EmpAIR available

We developed a mobile CO2 station, which can be read-out by your mobile device and gives you an indication about air-quality. It could help to limit the spreading of the corona virus.

Oct. 13, 2020 Success story for MOMM Diagnostics

Euresearch highlights Empa spin-off MOMM Diagnostics and the successful FET Open Launchpad PEDPOC project together with our lab on new devices to protect mother and child (pdf).

Sept. 30, 2020 Congratulations Matthias!

Congratulations Matthias to your successful PhD-defense.

Sept. 25, 2020 Welcome Martina Grether

Martina will support us for 1/2 year during her master project "Classification of Biopsies with Uncertain Malignancy by AI-assisted Spectral Pathology".

Sept 23, 2020 Best Poster Award

Congratulations Talia for the best poster prize award at the EXCITE, biomedical imaging summer school at ETH. The award is for Talia`s work on machine learning augmented red blood cell imaging and analytics.

Sept 22, 2020 TOFI wins Swiss Science Slam at Swiss Med Tech Day

Our Innosusisse project "Tongue Fitness Trainer" won the Science Slam at the Swiss Medtech Day 2020 in Bern for the performance given by Tino Töpper. Congratulations to the people involved!

Sept 09, 2020 Welcome Elias & Ronny

Our two new Physics Laboratory Technician apprentices, Elias and Ronny just started. We are happy to welcome them in our team and wish them an interesting and educative time with us! :-)

Sept. 01, 2020 Welcome Elena Quiriconi

Elena will help to set-up and run our power-cycling experiments.

A warm welcome from our side ! =)

July 06, 2020 Congratulations to Dylan, Janic and Jil!

Congratulations to Dylan, Janic and Jil to your successfully passing of the final apprenticeship exams!

July 06, 2020 Welcome to Daniel Sacre

Welcome Daniel to our group as new PhD in the field of THz imaging of wood. Hope you enjoy your time with us :-)

Jul 01, 2020 Welcome Alexandra Walser

Welcome Alexandra!

Hope your short masterproject-summerbreak time with us will be joyful & productive ;-)

June 19, 2020 Congratulations Jil, Dylan and Janic!

Congratulations Jil, Dylan and Janic for your success at the Berufsmatura!

June 19, 2020 Herzliche Gratulation Günter!

Congratulations and a big thank you Günter for 30 years of loyalty and commitment to Empa!

June 01, 2020 Welcome Jonas!

We are happy to welcome Jonas Gartmann in our electronic developement-team.

May 29, 2020 New Masterprojects available

We are looking for students interested to perform a master thesis. New topics are available!

May 13, 2020

Congratulations to Dominik for successfully defending his master thesis "Low Frequency Noise Measurement in Graphene Devices" !

Mar. 02, 2020 Seminar at 15:00, VE102

Prof. Dr. Damien Thompson: Predictive Materials Modelling from Atoms to Devices

Feb. 19, 2020 Seminar at 14:00, VE102

Dr. Mohammad Zahedinejad: Spin Hall nano-oscillators: Gigahertz neurons

Feb. 18, 2020 Congratulation to Omar, Swiss juniorchampion in bob run

Congratulation to Omar Vögele for getting gold in junior and reaching top 10 in adult bobsled swiss championship 2020!

Jan. 23, 2020 Seminar at 17:30, VE 102

Joachim JONUSCHEIT, Fraunhofer ITWM, Kaiserslautern: "Einsatz der Terahertz-Messtechnik zur zerstörungsfreien Prüfung"

Dec. 17, 2019 Seminar at 14:30, VE 102

Prof. Dr. Sergei Popov: Transparent wood and photonics – peculiar finding or future technology?

Dec. 6, 2019 Programmed obsolescence on SRF.

Listen to Prof. Peter Jacob about programmed obsolence in electronic devices on SRF!

Dec. 1, 2019 Podcast MOMM Diagnostics

Listen to Dr Mathias Wipf, founder & CEO of MOMM diagnostics. Mathias tells us more about his company and the adventure of founding a startup.

Nov. 29, 2019 Congratulations Olivier

Congratulations to Oliver Braun for getting the 1st place oral presentation award at this years PhD-Seminar in St. Gallen!

Nov. 28, 2019 DIMES: a wing-section under test

The EU Horizon 2020 Clean Sky 2 Project DIMES is on track with the successful installation of a wing-section in the test-bench

Nov. 27, 2019 Terahertz in Medicine

Today in Focus of Empa-News: the work of Lorenzo Valzania in Terhertz-imaging

Nov. 25, 2019 Congratulation Tornike!

Congratulations to ~~Tornike~~ Dr. Gagnidze for successfully defending your PhD thesis!

Nov. 22, 2019 Congratulations Arno!

Congratulations to Arno for successfully defending your PhD thesis!

Nov 14, 2019 Zukunftstag

Zukunftstag at EMPA, Workshop Thermography&Microscopy

Nov 7, 2019 Congratulations Peter!

Prof. Peter Jacob received at the ESD Forum in Dresden (21-23.10.2019) the Outstanding Paper Award for his contribution "Leitfähig – Ableitfähig – Isolierend: Was zur Vermeidung harter Entladungen von Bedeutung ist". Congratulations!

Nov 4, 2019 Welcome Talia!

Talia Bergaglio just joined the Biosensing & Functional surfaces team to on her PhD. Welcome to the lab!

Oct. 31, 2019 Congrats Jan!

Congratulations to Jan for successfully defending his PhD thesis!

Jan. 11, 2019 Seminar at 10h30, VE102

Extending silicon technology for high-bandwidth optical communications and neuromorphic computing - Dr. Bert Jan Offrein, IBM Zürich

Oct. 25, 2019 Seminar at 13:30, LA 161

Nano-optics and nanofluidics for single molecule detection - Speaker Dr. Irene Fernandez-Cuesta

Oct. 23, 2019 Seminar at 13:30, LA 161

Nonmagnetic spin filter based on single molecular junction - Speaker Dr. Atindra Nath Pal

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