Program 7th Annual Workshop

of the Norwegian PhD Network on Nanotechnology for Microsystems

Clarion Hotel & Congress Trondheim 13 - 15 June 2016

Monday 13 June 10:00

Registration opens

11:30 12:30 Lunch

12:30 12:40 Welcome: Jostein Grepstad, NTNU

Oral session 1: Nanomaterials science I

Chair: Antonius T. J. van Helvoort, NTNU

12:45 13:15 Dan Allwood, University of Sheffield

Magnetic nanowire domain wall systems

13:15 13:30 Fredrik Kjemperud Olsen, NTNU

Exchange bias in magnetic oxide heterostructures

13:30 13:45 Ambjørn Dahle Bang, NTNU

Exploring ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic coupling through magnetic domain imaging

13:45 14:00 Torstein Bolstad, NTNU

Control of magnetism by symmetry and epitaxial stacking

14:00 14:30 Paul Dommersnes, GIAMAG AS

GIAMAG magnets for materials separation

14:30 15:00 Coffee break

Oral session 2: Microfluidics and bioMEMS I

Chair: Bjørn Torger Stokke, NTNU

15:00 15:30 Esther Amstad, EPFL

Using drops to shape materials

15:30 15:45 Jonas Ribe, NTNU

A microfluidic device for continuous isolation of submicron particles via standing surface acoustic waves (SSAW)

15:45 16:00 Armend Gazmeno Håti, NTNU

Simple, universal, cell and chip friendly method to encapsulate cells in polymeric structures using microfluidic devices

16:00 16:30 Poster Slam

Poster session

Chair: Bodil Holst, UoB

16:30 18:30 Poster session with coffee and afternoon snack

19:30 Dinner at the hotel

Tuesday 14 June Oral session 3: Nanomaterials science II

Chair: Martin Greve, UoB

09:00 09:30 Paul Muralt, EPFL

Electro-mechanical thin films

09:30 09:45 Sam Sloetjes, NTNU

Simulating antiferromagnetism using a micromagnetic approach

09:45 10:00 Vårin Renate Andvik Holm, UoB

Finding a nanostructure on a macroscopic surface: A method for how to measure the same nano particle with an AFM and an SEM

10:00 10:15 Aleksander Buseth Mosberg, NTNU

Focused Ion Beam for substrate nanopatterning and characterization of position-controlled nanowires

10:15 10:30 Sigurd Rolland Pettersen, NTNU

Grain growth and conduction mechanisms in conductive composites

10:30 10:45 Magnus Moreau, NTNU

Strain in new directions, a tool to control functional properties in oxides

10:45 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 11:45 Richard Hobbs, MIT

Role of plasmons in single-nanometer-scale lithography

11:45 12:00 Marina Jorge, NTNU

A new generation of abundant and low-toxicity photovoltaic materials

12:00 12:15 Dingding Ren, NTNU

Self-catalyzed GaAsSb nanowires grown on silicon and graphene by molecular beam epitaxy: high-yield with stabilized crystal phase

12:15 12:30 Ida Marie Høiaas, NTNU

Silicon-graphene heterostructure for optoelectronic devices

12:30 12:45 Julie Stene Nilsen, NTNU

Transmission electron microscopy study of Pd/Ge/Au contacts to GaAs nanowires

13:00 14:00 Lunch

Oral Session 4: Integrated circuit and systems design

Chair: Trond Ytterdal, NTNU

14:00 14:30 Erik Færevaag, Disruptive Technologies AS

The true Internet of things

14:30 14:45 Carsten Wulff, NTNU

Compiling analog-to-digital converters in multiple nanoscale technologies

14:45 15:00 Bjørnar Karlsen, HSN

AC voltage traceability using pulse driven Josephson arrays, voltage dividers and buffers

15:00 15:30 Coffee break

Oral session 5: MEMS and packaging

Chair: Knut Aasmundtveit, HSN

15:30 16:00 Lars Hoff, HSN

The Ultrasound Transducer Lab at HSN

16:00 16:15 Cuong Nguyen, HSN Comparison of piezoelectric layered plates based on d31 and d33 coupling for microactuators

16:15 16:30 Andreas Larsson, HSN

Ni-Sn solid liquid interdiffusion bonding

16:30 16:45 Molly Bazilchuk, NTNU

Squashing tiny balls: electromechanical characterization of particles for conductive adhesives

16:45 Afternoon snack (informal, grab and go)

18:00 Meetup at hotel lobby

18:30 Boat leaves for Munkholmen from Ravnkloa

19:00 Dinner at Munkholmen

23:00 Boat returns from Munkholmen

Wednesday 15 June

Oral session 6: Microfluidics and bioMEMS II

Chair: Erik Johannessen, HSN

09:00 09:30 Christian Andresen, RESMAN

Downhole inflow monitoring: From transient to steady-state profiles

09:30 09:45 Eleonora Jonasova, NTNU

Effect of target molecule binding properties on DNA-responsive hydrogel swelling

09:45 10:00 Trinh Bich Hoang, HSN

Immobilisation of bioactive components for glucose biosensor

10:00 10:15 Elvia A. Chavez Panduro, NTNU

In-situ X-ray tomography study of the CO2 induced healing in fractured cement

10:15 10:45 Coffee break

Oral session 7: Photonic and optical MEMS

Chair: Astrid Aksnes, NTNU

10:45 11:15 Olav Solgaard, Stanford University

Dielectric laser driven electron accelerators: Physics, technology and applications

11:15 11:30 Marit Ulset Nordsveen, UoO

Heat transfer modelling of a predictable photodiode cryogenic radiometer using COMSOL multiphysics

11:30 11:45 Laxma Reddy Billa, HSN

Miniaturized slow-wave structures for 0.4-THz vacuum-electron traveling wave tube

11:45 12:00 Hans Olaf Hågenvik, NTNU

Homogenization of metamaterials: comparison and analysis

12:00 12:30 Windup: Jostein Grepstad, NTNU

13:00 14:00 Lunch

14:15 15:55 Tour of NTNU NanoLab

Postersession

Monday 13 June, 16:30 - 18:30

Nanomaterials science

1 Leander Michels, NTNU

SAXS studies of the thermal annealing influence on the active layer morphology of polymer solar cells

2 Ranveig Flatabø, UoB

Absorption ratios in gold nanoparticles arrays

3 Asmat Nawaz, HSN

Photovoltaic performance of planar heterojunction perovskite solar cell having improved morphology

4 Simon Cooil, NTNU

Patterning two-dimensional electron gasses (2DEGs) in silicon

5 Theodor S. Holstad, NTNU

TEM characterization of BTO/LSMO/STO(111)

6 Muhammad Nadeem Akram, HSN

Activities at HSN in the field of laser-based picture projectors and speckle reduction

7 Kang Du, HSN

PbS quantum dot and Au nanoparticle Co-sensitized black TiO2 nanotubes for photocurrent enhancement

MEMS and interconnects

8 Christian Bjørge Thoresen, HSN

Modeling of capacitive touch screen panels for detection of ungrounded tangible objects

9 Giang Nghiem, HSN

Simulation of adhesive flow during ACF bonding process for display interconnect

Microfluidics and bioMEMS

10 Uyen Do, HSN

The selective catalysis of oxygen in abiotical micro glucose fuel cells

11 Rosanne van de Wijdeven, NTNU

Structuring modular neuronal networks in a compartmentalized microenvironment

12 Frank Karlsen, HSN

New possible high-volume production of smart-integrated sensor, bioelectronic sensor and micro/nano system’s within closed and semi-closed aquaculture plants

Optical MEMS/instrumentation/methods

13 Eirik Skjønsfjell, NTNU

Using Ugelstad spheres for testing X-ray imaging techniques at nanoscale resolution

14 Mahmoud Abdelmeguid Farghaly, HSN

Variational design tool for piezoelectrically-actuated MEMS tunable lens with geometric nonlinearity

15 Eivind Bardalen, HSN

Optoelectronic module for Josephson voltage standards