Rachel Grange (D-PHYS) Nonlinear optics is present in our daily life with many applications, e.g. light sources for microsurgery or green laser pointer. All of them use bulk materials such as glass fibres or crystals. Generating nonlinear effects from materials…
Dear members of SAM, We are happy to invite you to the yearly SAM General Assembly to vote a new board, discuss association matters and bring in ideas for the coming year. Join us, tell us what you liked so far and…
The Scientific Staff Association at the Department of Materials (SAM) invites all female doctoral students and Postdocs of the D-MATL and of the associated groups to the Material Girls Night. Especially welcome are group members of the Professors Bona, Burgert,…
Silke Schön (FIRST Lab) Today, micro- and nanofabrication is not only dedicated to semiconductor devices anymore. Besides laser diodes and transistors, microfluidic devices are used as microarrays for DNA studies or to investigate microorganisms in waste water. Micropatterned structures allow…
Celestino Padeste (PSI) Photon sources such as synchrotrons and X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) offer great opportunities for the material sciences. I will present some examples from the field of polymer technology including our work on lithographic polymer grafting, which…
Henning Galinski (Laboratory for Nanometallurgy, D-MATL) Today, optical metamaterials and metasurfaces are produced using lithography techniques and typically cannot be scaled above the gram level. In addition, the optical response of metamaterials is often designed for a specific polarization, which…
Francesco Stellacci (EPFL) The vast majority of biological molecules (proteins, lipids, etc.) are amphiphilic, indeed often their water interface presents hydrophobic and hydrophilic patches coexisting at a molecular scale. In light of this observation, in my talk, I will show…
First Joint SAM – Materials Alumni Event: Tour of the Underground of ETH Hönggerberg and Feuerzangenbowle Dear colleague, Together with Materials Alumni, the association representing the alumni of D-MATL, we get to experience the underground tunnels that connect the different buildings…
Dr. Thomas Weber (D-MATL X-Ray Service Platform) The D-MATL X-ray platform supports D-MATL members (and also external users) with problems that can be solved with X-ray diffraction methods or, more generally, with any problems that are related to crystallography. For…
Prof. Dr. Sotiris Pratsinis (D-MAVT) Flame synthesis of ceramic oxide films as highly selective gas sensors for breath analysis of acetone (e.g. tracer for lipolysis) and NH3 (e.g. tracer for the treatment of end stage renal disease) will be presented.…