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The EIPBN 2021 Best Journal Paper Award was given to the paper "Hybrid structures by direct writing lithography – tuning the contrast and surface topography of grayscale photoresist with nanoimprint", J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 39 (2021) 052603 (9 pp), with the authors S. Xie, J. Erjawetz, C. Schuster, and H. Schift. It was chosen from papers presented at the 64th International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication and published in JVST B. It was the first paper that presented novel work of the new direct laser writing tool DWL 66+ that was purchased in the framework of ANAXAM. It combined established nanoimprint lithography with grayscale photolithography. Helmut Schift, as corresponding author, received the award together with Sijia Xie, the first author and presenter at EIPBN, who was postdoc in Helmut Schift's group up to May 2021.

23 June 2020
Microlithography: Science and Technology

Microlithography: Science and Technology

The Third Edition of "Microlithography: Science and Technology" from Taylor & Francis covers the science and engineering involved in the latest generations of microlithography. 

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6 June 2017
Marcin Gorzny (second from the left) reveiced one of the three poster prizes at the Swiss Nanoconvention 2017

Poster Prize for Marcin Gorzny at the Swiss Nanoconvention 2017

Dr. Marcin Gorzny, Post-Doc at LMN in the PSI career return program recieved a poster prize at the Swiss Nanoconvention 2017 for his contribution entitled: "Silicon chip as lipid membrane holder for serial crystallography experiments".

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4 April 2017
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Contact-less micro-polishing

A new method of material modification using 172 nm UV photons enables to fabricate ultra-smooth and self-optimized polymer surfaces. The method, published in Advanced Materials Technologies, was used in the production of high quality micro-optics to remove typical process flaws after a 2-photon-lithography process.

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9 March 2017
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Light-switching of enzymatic activity in functionalized polymer brushes

UV- and visible light-induced switching of enzymatic activity has been demonstrated using surface-grafted polymer brushes functionalized with microperoxidase MP-11 and spiropyran mojeties. Integration into an optofluidic device allowed reversible switching of the enzymatic activity under flow.

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18 October 2016
Award winner Sahan Ranamukhaarachchi

Technology award for microneedle-optofluidic sensor System

Sahan Ranamukhaarachchi, PhD student from UBC in Vancouver, won the 2016 "Brian L. Barge Award for Excellence in Microsystems Integration" for his work on a biosensing platform with integrated hollow microneedles carried out at PSI in 2015 in collaboration with Dr. Victor Cadarso and Dr. Celestino Padeste.

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6 July 2016
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Therapeutic drug monitoring in sub-nanoliter volumes

A promising system for painless and minimally-invasive therapeutic drug monitoring has been demonstrated. The proposed device combines biofunctionalized hollow microneedles with an optofluidic system to measure drug concentrations in volumes as small as 0.6 nL.

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11 February 2016

A micrometer-sized model of the Matterhorn

Media Releases Future Technologies Materials Research Micro- and Nanotechnology

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute have produced large numbers of detailed models of the Matterhorn, each one less than a tenth of a millimetre in size. With this, they demonstrated how 3-D objects so delicate could be mass-produced. Materials whose surface is covered with a pattern of such tiny 3-D structures often have special properties, which could for example help to reduce the wear and tear of machine parts.

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