Projects
The projects funded through CCMX in this area are divided into three categories :
Development of new Analytical Tools
Projects targeting the development of new analytical tools, methods or instrumentation for the analysis of physical, chemical, or biological properties on the scale below 100 nm.
On-going projects in this thematic research area:
- Label free imaging of molecular adsorption on in-situ surface-functional patterns, Nicholas Spencer, ETHZ
- Nanoscale resolution optical microscopy for material imaging and spectroscopy, Christian Depeursinge, EPFL
- Time-resolved cathodoluminescence (TRCL), Jean-Daniel Ganière, EPFL
- Microtome4SIMS: Chemical Tomography of Biological Material with 100 nm Resolution, Beat Keller, Empa
- Nano-Xas, Iris Schmid, Empa
- Development of a X-ray phase contrast instrument for the characterization of materials with low atomic mass, Claus Urban, CSEM
Providing new components to existing facilities
Projects involving the purchase of analytical instrumentation or components to complete the existing offer of the CCMX affiliated institutions. Matching funds from the home-institution should be provided and further development of the instrumentation should be envisioned after such a project, preferably with an industrial partner.
On-going projects in this thematic research area:
Rapid analytical projects
Rapid analytical proposals may be submitted for short research projects between different institutions of the ETH domain or other non-profit organisations that require the use of already existing instrumentation for nanoscale analysis, to cover operational costs but excluding salaries of research personnel.
Typically a proposal could cover
- single experiments with a well-defined duration
- projects requiring more than a single experiment, possibly on different instruments
- test experiment for feasibility studies.
Rapid analytical proposals may also be submitted for research projects between groups of the ETH domain and industry, but only if the proposed experiments can be clearly distinguished from routine service measurements and the following requirements are fulfilled:
- the analytical method will be used in a new area of application
- the project is "leading-edge" in the sense that the performance of the analytical method can not be firmly predicted
- the industrial partner bears 30% of the overall cost.
The contribution of CCMX funding is limited to a maximum of 10 kCHF per project, for a maximum project duration of 6 months.
There is no deadline for the submission of projects.
On-going projects in this thematic research area:
- Protein labelling for ToF-SIMS imaging of hydrophobicity gradients, Rowena Crockett, Empa
- FIB investigation of Ge-Si heterojunction photodiodes, Rolf Kaufmann, CSEM