Past projects
Surface, coatings and particles engineering - SPERU
- Development of novel methods for surface modification and investigation of cell-particles interaction for superparamagnetic nanoparticles - PAPAMOD
- Nanocrystalline ceramic thin film coating without sintering - NANCER
- Smart functional foams - FOAMS
- Zero order nano optical pigments - ZONOP
Materials for the Life Sciences - MatLife
- 3D-Designed Cell Cultures Consisting of Microstructured Cell-Sheets and Polymer Layer for Tissue Engineering
- Bio-Functionalized, Biodegradable, Nanostructured Magnesium Implant for Biomedical Applications
- Photochemically Functionalizable Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering and Drug Screening
- Platform for High-Density Parallel Screening of Membrane Receptor Function
- Multi-Lectin Arrays: A Combinatorial Approach
- Studying Single Cells in Engineered 3D Microenvironments
- Biopolymer Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) as Surface Materials for Micropatterning Proteins on Microarrays
- Immunofunctional Nanoparticles
Materials for Micro- and Nanosystems - MMNS
- Biochemical nanofactory
- Materials, Devices and Design Technologies for Nanoelectronic Systems Beyond Ultimately Scaled CMOS
- Development and Characterisation of Nanowires for Applications in (Bio-) Electronics
- Lab-on-a-chip for Analysis and Diagnostics
Nano- and Microscale Materials Characterisation – NMMC (Analytical Platform)
- Development of Self-Sensing and -Actuating Probe for Dynamic Mode AFM at Cryogenic Temperature
- Nanoscale resolution optical microscopy for material imaging and spectroscopy
- New Generation Scanning Anode Field Emission Microscope at EMPA Thun
- Efficient double-passage SNOMs
- Correlated Energy Electron Loss and Cathodoluminescene spectrometry in SPTEM
- Scanning Probe Microscopy of Cytoskeletal Proteins in Living Cells
- Swiss SPM User laboratory
- Nanometric level investigations of Aluminum Nitride/Silicon Nitride hard coatings using High Resolution TEM and Energy Dispersive X-Ray analysis
- Subattonewton force sensors with hard magnetic tips for magnetic resonance force microscopy
- Stress voiding and electromigration as reliability indicator in nanoscaled interconnects
- AMORTEM:FIB Preparation of TEM-Specimens with Minimized Defects
Rapid analytical projects (Analytical Platform)
- Protein labelling for ToF-SIMS imaging of hydrophobicity gradients
- FIB investigation of Ge-Si heterojunction photodio