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I would like to kindly invite you to the next Micro and Nanosystems seminar of this semester.
Two presentations will be given by Florin Püntener.

Date: 22.03.2024
Time: 13.30 
Location: CLA G 2

 

Speaker: Florin Püntener 

Hyperelastic material models and parameter determination for describing the mechanical behavior or soft materials

The TACTFUL project at ETH Zürich aims to enhance robotic manipulation by integrating tactile sensors into grippers. This interdisciplinary initiative focuses on improving hardware and software to overcome challenges such as reliance on visual feedback. The project involves developing and validating an electromechanical model for an artificial finger with integrated sensors. This model is used to train robotic manipulation algorithms via reinforcement learning in a virtual environment. Finite element method (FEM) simulation helps extract field variables characterizing mechanical interactions of this artificial finger with its environment. A significant challenge is accurately modeling silicone's mechanical behavior. Standardized material tests were conducted, revealing the need for more sophisticated methodologies to capture the mechanical behavior accurately. In this presentation, the concept of this advanced method to address silicone material modeling challenges is presented. Furthermore, an outlook on future tasks involve refining this method to enhance robotic manipulation capabilities through tactile sensing is given.


Seminar information:

- The talks take roughly 25 minutes followed by a Q&A session.
- Please enrol in the Seminar through myStudies, as well.
- If you want to be deregistered from the invitations, please send me an email.

We look forward to your participation!


Talks Spring Semester 2024


(05.04.2024)
12.04.2024 Ines Kraiem Investigation of the CNT-metal contact in CNFETs
19.04.2024 Matthias Dupuch Pressure Sensor Encapsulation for Ventricular Assist devices
                     Qinglan Shan, EPFL Learning in Mixed Reality for Microfabrication: taking photolithography                                     as an example
26.04.2024 Cristina Gentili CNT-FET NO2 sensor: analysis of humidity cross-sensitivity
                     Seoho Jung Fabrication and Operation of Fast, Ultra-low-power Gas Sensors with Carbon                                         Nanotubes
(10.05.2024
(17.05.2024)
24.05.2024 Morten Vollmann Focused ion beam deposition for strong mechanical clamping of CNT resonators.
31.05.2024 Lucrezia Maini Acoustic metamaterials for biomedical implants applications

 

 

 


MNS News

                 

01.11.2023 Welcome Hichem Ben Lakdhar, who will support the DigiPredict team in fabricating strain sensors with a focus on wire bonding processes. We wish him an excellent start.

24.10.2023 Katrina Klösel successfully defended her PhD thesis titled: "Multifunctional materials: exploiting the versatility of Bi2Se3 for multimodal sensing and zero power sensor systems". Congratulations! 

01.09.2023 🚀Congratulation to the winner of the 🏆 𝟮𝗻𝗱 prize 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗼𝗵𝗼 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗮𝗻𝗼 of the 3Pi pitch competition 2023! Details view on external page3Pi ETH linkedincall_made

26.06.2023 Welcome to Robert John who starts as a process engineer working on DigiPredict H2020 project, supporting device fabrication and characterization. Please join me welcoming Robert and wish him an excellent start.

30.05.2023 Johannes Weichart successfully defended his PhD thesis titled: "Artificial Fingertip with Embedded High Resolution Tactile Sensing". Congratulations!  

01.05.2023 Sira Bielefeldt started as process engineer and will work with Florin Püntener, Johannes Weichart and Dr. Cosmin Roman on the project on dynamic tactile sensors in our group. Please join me welcoming Sira and wish her an excellent start.

01.12.2022 Florin Püntener started as a PhD candidate and will work with Johannes Weichart on the project on dynamic tactile sensors in our group. Please join me welcoming Florin and wish him an excellent start.

01.11.2022                                                                                                                                                                                               Please join us in a warm welcome to Ms Ines Kraiem, who starts her PhD Project today on the field of CNT gas sensors. Ms Kraiem graduated from RWTH Aachen and performed research on graphene.

01.10.2022                                                                                                                                                                                         Welcome to Dr. Natanael Lanz, who starts his Pioneer Fellowship in our group today. Together with Seoho Jung and André Butzerin, PhD student at IWF, he will work towards the commercialization of CNT dry transfer processes and devices.

23.08.2022
Stefan Nedelcu
successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations! Title of the doctoral thesis: Energy Efficient Analog Mixed-Signal Front Ends for CNT-FET NO2 Air-Quality Nanosensors Number of the doctoral thesis: 28646

01.07.2022
Please join me to welcome Dr. Mainak Basu who will work on the H2020 Digipredict project for the exploration of CNT strain sensor for monitoring respiratory activities. We wish Mainak an excellent start and all the best for his new challenges.  

26.04.2022
Ian A. Mihailovic successfully defended his PhD thesis.Congratulations!
 

19.04.2022 Congrats to the nomination of the top 5 inventions! To Johannes Weichart, Dr.Cosmin Roman and Prof. Christofer Hierold on the project of: "Structure for sensor integration in complex surfaces" viewSpark Award 2022

01.05.2021
Wecome to Cristina Gentili who will start her PhD project in the Micro-Nanosystems Group and wish both, her and Max an excellent start. 

01.05.2021
We welcome Maximilian Aue as a Doctoral Student in the Micro-Nanosystems Group.

01.04.2021

Please join us to welcome Dr. Mathis Trant, Francesco Scipione and Samuele Demicheli to the MNS group. It is a great pleasure to have our new group members on board to pursue the Innosuisse Project with microGauge. We wish you an excellent start and a lot of success for your new challenge.

01.05.2020
Kishan Thodkar started as a post doc in our group. Please join me welcoming Kishan and wish him a good start!

01.02.2020
Lucrezia Maini started her PhD project in our group. Please join me welcoming Lucrezia and wish her a great start!

28.10.2019
Prof. Christofer Hierold is keynote speaker at external pageIEEE Sensors 2019 in Montreal, Canada titled external page"Concepts for Ultra Low Power Sensors"

23.-27.06.2019
Transducers & Eurosensors 2019 - external pageThe 20th International Conference on Solid-State Senors, Actuators and Microsystems
takes place in Berlin - General Chair: Christofer Hierold - ETH Zürich, Switzerland Program Chair: Jürgen Brugger - EPFL, Switzerland    

03.06.2019
Please welcome Morten Vollmann as new PhD student in the group. He will continue working on strainable CNT resonators.

27.05.2019
Laura Jenni successfully defended her PhD thesis titled "Optimization of Dry-Transferred CNTFET Contacts by Post-Transfer Processing". Congratulations!
                     

13.05.2019
Sebastian Eberle successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Ultra-clean suspended carbon nanotube gas sensors - concept for large scale fabrication and sensor characterization". Congratulations!

29.04.2019
Lalit Kumar successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Energy Dissipation, Clamping and Motional Currents in Suspended Room Temperature Carbon Nanotube Resonators". Congratulations!

01.04.2019
Signe Lin
Vehusheia started her PhD project in our group on implantable sensors. Please join me welcoming Signe Lin and wish her a good start!

04.03.2019
Please welcome Prof. Wang Xiaohong, Tsinghua University Beijing in our group. Prof. Wang is on sabbatical leave for six months at ETH Zürich. A warm welcome from all of us!

01.03.2019                                                                                                                                                                                            Johannes Weichart will start a PhD project on dynamic tactile sensors in our group. Please join me welcoming Johannes and wish him an excellent start.


07.01.2019                                                                                                                                                                                            Kanata Tanaka, a visiting student from Prof. Sawada’s group at Toyohashi University of Technology, started working with Stefan Nedelcu. Please join me welcoming Kanata and wish him a good start!

01.01.2019
Matthias Dupuch has decided to start his PhD with his project in our group. Please welcome Matthias and wish a good start!

01.01.2019                                                                                                                                                                                              Katrina Klösel started her PhD project in our group on new TEG materials. Please join me welcoming Katrina and wish her a good start!

16.10.2018
Silvan Marc Staufert
successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Conformal Papylene-C Media Separating Membranes for Pressure Sensing Applications in Verticular Assist Devices". Congratulations!

23.05.2018                                                                                                                                                                                             Michelle Müller successfully defended her PhD thesis titled "Micromechanical broadband vibration amplitude-amplifier for microseismic and acoustic emission detection". Congratulations!

02.05.2018                                                                                                                                                                                             Verena Maiwald successfully defended her PhD thesis titled "A Microelectromechanical Switch for Bandpass Vibration Detection". Congratulations!

18.04.2018                                                                                                                                                                                         
Moritz Thielen successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Thermal and Electrical Energy Converters and Interfaces for the Internet of Humans". Congratulations! 

08.03.2018                                                                                                                                                                                                 Seoho Jung will start a new PhD thesis towards automated assembly of carbon nanotubes at MNS. Please join me welcoming Seoho and wish him a good start.  

01.03.2018
We welcome Dr. Ali Özhan Altun as a post doc and pioneer fellow in our team. Please join in welcoming Ali and wish him all the best!

15.01.2018                                                                                                                                                                                           "Learning from grasshoppers" Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a new type of health-monitoring electrode that exhibits optimum adhesion to skin and can record high quality signals. Read more here!

14.01.2018
ETH has developed new electrodes (watch: external pageSRF Tagesschau)

13.01.2018                                                                                                                                                                                                        The paper "Skin Conformal Polymer Electrodes for Clinical ECG and EEG Recordings" by M. Thielen, C. Peters, C Hierold et al. is online on external pageWiley Online Library!

27.11.2017
The paper "Degradable Magnetic Composites for Minimally Invasive Interventions: Device Fabrication, Targeted Drug Delivery and Cytotoxicity Tests" by Christian Peters, Salvador Pané et al. is featured on external pageNanoScribe’s website. Congratulations!

23.10.2017
"An inspiring partnership" ETH Zurich and IBM Research opened the Binning and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center some six years ago. Check it out here!

01.10.2017
We welcome Cancan Blaser as a post doc in our team and wish her an excellent start at MNS.

Peters

07.07.2017
Dr. Christian Peters receives the Prix Omega 2017 for his PhD Thesis “Biodegradable Superparamagnetic Polymer Composites: From Material Identification to Device Application.” The annual prize is awarded for the outstanding PhD work in Switzerland, considering applications from the fields of microengineering, micro- and nanotechnology, solid-state physics and electronics, as well as chronometry throughout all universities in Switzerland.

”Congratulations!

18.09.2016
"The microdoctors in our bodies" is featured in the ETH Globe magazine! Check it out here!

02.05.2016
Ian Mihailovic will start a new PhD thesis towards nanostructured materials for TEGs and fabrication technology. Please join in welcoming Ian!

01.04.2016
We welcome Ms. Manuela Kägi as a Team Assistant and thank her in advance for future support!  

28.01.2016
Prof. Henry Baltes receives the 2016 IEEE Robert Bosch Micro and Nano Electro Mechanical Systems Award "for contributions to the exploration and development of CMOS-MEMS, to production using IC foundries and MEMS post-processing, and for inspirational leadership in the worldwide MEMS community" ! 


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