Empa - Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces

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

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 ... ;-)

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