Transport at Nanoscale Interfaces Laboratory

Our interdisciplinary team gathers physicists, materials scientists, (bio-) chemists, and engineers focusing on bringing novel materials to devices. We are interested in understanding the fundamental electronic, optoelectronic, thermal and ionic transport processes involved in atomically-precise nanostructures and low-dimensional materials. The heterogeneous integration of novel nanomaterials requires custom-made methods for nanoscale patterning and interfaces nanostructuring. Overall, we strive to master the chain of competences leading from designer materials with tailored quantum properties to devices with targeted application in information & quantum technology, energy conversion & storage as well as biochemical sensing & diagnostics.

 

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Sept. 01, 2018

Welcome to Jingming Cao, our PhD student on the Thz-Wood Project

 

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Spin signatures in the electrical response of graphene nanogaps

Víctor M. García-Suarez, Amador García-Fuente, Diego J Carrascal, Enrique Burzuri Linares, Max Koole, Herre S.J. van der Zant, Maria El Abbassi, Michel Calame and Jaime Ferrer Nanoscale (2018) DOI: 10.1039/C8NR06123H
 
 

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Welcome to Jingming Cao, our PhD student on the Thz-Wood Project

 

Publications

 

Víctor M. García-Suarez, Amador García-Fuente, Diego J Carrascal, Enrique Burzuri Linares, Max Koole, Herre S.J. van der Zant, Maria El Abbassi, Michel Calame and Jaime Ferrer Nanoscale (2018)

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Jul 8, 2025 – Congrats Yanis & Silvio!

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Well done to Yanis Strübi and Silvio Müller on completing your Physics Lab Technician apprenticeships and earning the Federal Vocational Baccalaureate! We’re proud of you and wish you all the best for what’s next.

Jun 20, 2025 Congratulations to Erfu!

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Congratulations to Dr. Erfu Wu on successfully defending his PhD thesis on "Arrays of perovskite microphotodetectors for stacked color image sensors"!

Apr 01, 2025 Welcome to Angela!

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We are delighted to welcome Angela Cocca, who is joining us as our new Laboratory Administrative Assistant. Her experience and enthusiasm will be a great asset to our daily work, and we’re excited to have her on board as a member of the team. Welcome, Angela :-)

Mar 01, 2025 Welcome, Michela!

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We are pleased to welcome Michela Weber, an MSc. student from ETH Zurich, who will be joining us from 1. March to 31. August for her master’s project. Michaela will be investigating red blood cells after radioligand therapy using atomic force microscopy, a fascinating and impactful research topic at the intersection of medicine and nanotechnology. We look forward to her contributions!

Mar 01, 2025 Welcome, Benedikt!

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A warm welcome to Benedikt, a BSc. student from ETH Zurich, who will be joining our team until the end of May. He will work on the encapsulation of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) in oxides. We’re excited to have him on board!

 

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Enhanced solid electrolyte interphase layer in Li-Ion batteries with fluoroethylene carbonate additives evidenced by liquid-phase...
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Aging behavior of LiFePO4-based battery cells at stack level: a Second-Life cycling study Aeppli, D., Hack, E.,...
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On tailoring structural and optoelectronic properties of TiO2 thin films synthesized via 'room' temperature high power impulse magnetron...
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Reconfigurable soft actuators constructed via layer-by-layer assembly. Chen, Q., Jamilpanah, L., Künniger, T.,...
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Vertically stacked monolithic perovskite colour photodetectors Tsarev, S., Proniakova, D., Liu, X., Wu, E., Matt, G....
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A comprehensive analysis of recombination at grain boundaries in high-efficiency kesterite-type solar cells ...
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BaZrS3 lights up: the interplay of electrons, photons, and phonons in strongly luminescent single crystals Nielsen,...
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Jul 8, 2025 – Congrats Yanis & Silvio! Well done to Yanis Strübi and Silvio Müller on completing your Physics Lab...
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Jun 20, 2025 Congratulations to Erfu! Congratulations to Dr. Erfu Wu on successfully defending his PhD thesis on...
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Squaraine dyes for organic photomultiplication photodetectors with 220% external quantum efficiency at 1240 nm ...
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Extending resonant inelastic X-ray scattering to extreme ultraviolet Menzi, S., Mattina, F. L., Barbato, F., Pena,...
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Intrinsic point defect tolerance in selenium for indoor and tandem photovoltaics Kavanagh, S. R., Nielsen, R. S.,...
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Human bone ultrastructure in 3D: multimodal correlative study combining nanoscale X-ray computed tomography and quantitative polarized...
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Variable-temperature and carrier-resolved photo-Hall measurements of high-performance selenium thin-film solar cells ...
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On levodopa interactions with brain disease amyloidogenic proteins at the nanoscale Bergaglio, T., Kummer, N.,...
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Apr 01, 2025 Welcome to Angela! We are delighted to welcome Angela Cocca, who is joining us as our new Laboratory...
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Mar 01, 2025 Welcome, Michela! We are pleased to welcome Michela Weber, an MSc. student from ETH Zurich, who will be...
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Mar 01, 2025 Welcome, Benedikt! A warm welcome to Benedikt, a BSc. student from ETH Zurich, who will be joining...
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A CMOS‐compatible fabrication approach for high‐performance perovskite photodetector arrays Wu, E., Tsarev, S.,...
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Living fiber dispersions from mycelium as a new sustainable platform for advanced materials Sinha, A., Greca, L. G.,...
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