Name: Swiss NanoConvention 2025
Start: 2025-06-12T08:15:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-13T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CAMPUSSAAL Brugg-Windisch

Rückblick auf die Swiss NanoConvention 2025

Die Swiss NanoConvention 2025 in Brugg-Windisch war ein inspirierender Treffpunkt für Forschung, Industrie und Innovatoren im Bereich der Nanotechnologie. Drei besondere Highlights möchten wir hervorheben:

1. Auszeichnung exzellenter Nachwuchsforschung
Ein Höhepunkt war die Verleihung des Swiss Nanotechnology PhD Award 2025 an Etsuki Kobiyama von IBM Research – Rüschlikon für seine herausragende Arbeit zu Perovskite Nanocrystal Self-Assemblies in 3D Hollow Templates. Dieser Preis, überreicht im Namen von nano.swiss und der Hightech Zentrum Aargau AG, würdigt exzellente Forschung und zeigt, wie wichtig es ist, junge Talente für die Schweizer Hightech-Branche zu gewinnen. Auch die weiteren Auszeichnungen – darunter der Nano Image Contest und Best Poster Award – unterstrichen die Vielfalt und Qualität der Beiträge.

2. Industriesession und Startup Competition: Schweizer Nanotechnologie in der Praxis
Die Session «Nano in Swiss Industry» zeigte eindrucksvoll, wie Nanotechnologie bereits heute in der industriellen Praxis wirkt. Vertreter der Bühler Gruppe, von IMT und Scrona präsentierten konkrete Anwendungen – von effizienter Nano-Nassvermahlung über mikrofluidische Präzisionsdiagnostik bis hin zu mikroadditiver Fertigung ultradünner Bauteile.

Ebenfalls nur exzellente Kandidaten gab es beim Swiss Nanotechnology Start-Up Prize – nach den Pitches endete das Publikums-Voting mit dem Sieg für Xemperia. Wir gratulieren!

Alles starke Beispiele dafür, wie Forschung, Start-ups und etablierte Unternehmen gemeinsam Innovation vorantreiben.

3. Keynote von ASML: EUV-Lithografie als europäische Schlüsseltechnologie
Der zweite Konferenztag begann mit einer beeindruckenden Keynote von Jos Benschop, Executive VP Technology bei ASML. Seine Einblicke in die Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft der Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography zeigten die enorme technologische Leistung hinter dieser Schlüsseltechnologie für sub-7-nm-Chipproduktion. Der Vortrag war nicht nur inhaltlich brillant, sondern auch inspirierend für das gesamte Publikum.

Das gesamte Nano-Team des HTZ hat viel Freude an diesem Anlass gehabt. Wir danken allen Referent:innen, Teilnehmenden und Partnern für diese gelungene Swiss NanoConvention – und freuen uns auf die nächsten spannenden Entwicklungen im Schweizer Nano-Ökosystem!

Programm/Ablauf

Thursday 12 June 2025

08:15	Registration Opens
09:00	Opening and Welcome Martina Bircher, Executive Council and Head of the Department of Education, Culture and Sport (BKS), Canton of Aargau [welcome in German] SNC 2025 co-Chairs: Hatice Altug, EPFL Yasin Ekinci, PSI & Swiss MNT Board
09:20	Keynote Talk Chair: Hatice Altug, EPFL Prof. Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, Institute of Materials, School of Engineering, EPFL. Institute of Physics, School of Basic Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland => Nanotechnology for new materials and technologies in the green energy and quantum age
10:00	NanoBio Chair: Simone Schürle-Finke, ETHZ Prof. Dr. Guillermo Acuna, Département de Physique - Photonic Nanosystems. Université de Fribourg - Faculté des Sciences et de Médecine; University of Fribourg, Switzerland => DNA nanotechnology for nanophotonics Jose L Garcia-Cordero, PhD, Institute of Human Biology, Roche, Basel, Switzerland => Advanced Microfluidic Platforms for Scalable Organoid Culture Prof. Adrian Ionescu, EPFL, Switzerland => Nanotechnology-driven Real-Time Biosensing: Enabling Digital Twins for Proactive Healthcare at the Edge
11:10	Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit
11:30	Nano in Medtech Chair: Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser, AMI Uni-FR Dr. Christopher Rader, Empa, Laboratory for Biomimetic Membranes and Textiles, St. Gallen, Switzerland => Mobile to pilot scale nanofiber production for biomedical applications Prof. Anne Géraldine Guex, PhD, University Center for Dental Medicine Basel UZB and Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Switzerland => Analysing the nano-scale to understand the micro-scale: Cell-material interactions in oral implantology Dr. Florent Boudoire, CSEM SA, Micro & Nano Systems Business Unit, Additive Manufacturing and Component Reliability Group, Switzerland => Lithography-Based Additive Manufacturing: Micrometric Precision in 3D Printed Biocompatible Polymers and Metals
12:30	Lunch, Poster Session & Exhibition Visit
14:00	Güntherodt Lectures on Imaging at Nanoscale Chairs: Manuel Guizar, PSI and EPFL & Philipp Pelz, Friedrich-Alexander-UniversitätErlangen-Nürnberg Dr. Ulrich Lorenz, Laboratory of Molecular Nanodynamics , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland => Microsecond Time-Resolved Cryo-EM Yifeng Shao, Technical University at Delft, The Netherlands => EUV ptychography for semiconductor metrology and inspection Dr. Alessandro Colombo, Laboratory for Solid State Physics, Physics department, ETH Zurich, Switzerland => The ultrafast dance of superheated plasmonic nanoparticles
15:00	Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit
15:30	Nano in Swiss Industry Chair: Marcus Morstein, Hightech Zentrum Aargau Dr. Bernhard Stalder, Principal Scientist / Senior Project Manager => Potentiation of Effectiveness – industrial applications of nano-scale wet grinding Lukas Greuter, Business Development Manager Life Sciences and Diagnostics, IMT Masken und Teilungen AG => Where Photonics Meet Microfluidics – Consumables For Life Sciences and Diagnostics Applications in Glass Dr. Julien Schneider, Founder & CPO, Scrona AG => Transforming micro-manufacturing: Precision, Performance, and Potential
16:30	Startup Competition Chairs: Lorenz Herrmann, Empa & Marcus Morstein, Hightech Zentrum Aargau Participating companies will each give a 6 minute pitch. BTRY Xemperia Chiral Nano Perovskia Solar YQuantum Unisers Session and prize sponsored by the Swiss MNT Network
17:15	Poster Session with Aperitif Aperitif will be served from 18:00 Dedicated poster session Networking Aperitif Vote for Best Poster Prizes
19:00	Adjourn for the Day

Friday 13 June 2025

08:30	Registration Opens
08:30	Keynote Talk Chairs: Yasin Ekinci, PSI Dr. Jos Benschop, Executive Vice President Technology, ASML, The Netherlands => Extreme UltraViolet Lithography; past, present and future
09:10	Nanomanufacturing Chair: Juergen Brugger, EPFL Dr. Marta Fernandez-Regulez, NanoNEMS research group. Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona, IMB-CNM (CSIC), Bellaterra, Spain => Block Copolymers: A Scalable Path to Advanced Semiconductor Devices Dr. Armin Knoll, IBM Research – Europe, Zurich, Switzerland => Automated Nanofabrication using Thermal Scanning Probe Lithography Michele Perego, National Research Council (CNR) – Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (IMM), Agrate Brianza branch (National Research Council), Italy => Phosphorus Doping of Silicon at the Nanoscale
10:10	Coffee & Exhibition Visit
10:40	Functional Nanomaterials Chair: Esther Amstad, EPFL Dr. Ahmet Faik Demirörs, University of Fribourg, Physics Department, Switzerland => 3D Printing Methods for Isotropic Structural Colored Objects with Self-assembly of Colloids Prof Dr Ir Maartje M.C. Bastings, Programmable Biomaterials Laboratory, Institute of Materials & Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, EPFL, Switzerland => Super-Selective Biomaterials in Action Prof. Tiffany Abitbol, Institute of Materials (IMX), Sustainable Materials Laboratory (SML), EPFL, Switzerland => Cellulose nanocrystal self-assembly in suspension and in films
11:40	Photonics Chair: Kirsten Moselund, PSI & EPFL Dr Jack C. Gartside, Blackett Laboratory, Department of Physics and London Centre for Nanotechnology. Imperial College London, United Kingdom => Retinomorphic Machine Vision in a Nonlinear Photonic Lasing Network Dr. Darius Urbonas,IBM Research Europe-Zurich, Switzerland => All-optical polariton transistors Dr. Harun Solak, CEO, Eulitha AG, Switzerland => Low Cost Optical Lithography for High-Resolution Periodic Patterning
12:40	Lunch & Exhibition Visit
14:10	Nano and Quantum Chair: Martino Poggio, SNI Basel Prof. Andrea Caviglia, Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland => The quantum metric of electrons with spin-momentum locking Dr. Artem Denisov, Ensslin Group, ETH Zurich, Switzerland => Spin-Valley Protected Kramers Pair in Bilayer Graphene Dr. Bruno Schuler, nanotech@surfaces Lab, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland => Probing Atomic Defects in 2D Semiconductors with Lightwave-Driven STM
15:15	Coffee & Exhibition Visit
15:40	Student Talks (PhD Awards) Chair: Michel Despont, CSEM PhD Award Winners short talks. Speakers to be named later.
16:30	Awards Ceremony Chairs: Yasin Ekinci, PSI & Hatice Altug, EPFL Swiss Nanotechnology PhD Awards 2024 Image Contest Award Best Poster Awards Swiss Nanotechnology Start-Up Prize
17:00	Closing Remarks Conference wrap-up and announcement of SNC 2026
17:15	Light Farewell Apero