Project leader: Ø. Fischer (UniGE)
Participating members:
M. Abplanalp (ABB),
M. Decroux (UniGE),
D. Eckert (Bruker),
Ø. Fischer (UniGE),
R. Flükiger (UniGE),
M. Kenzelmann (PSI),
G. Patzke (UniZH),
Ch. Renner (UniGE),
N. de Rooij (EPFL),
G. Triscone (Hepia Geneva),
J.-M. Triscone (UniGE),
A. Weidenkaff (Empa),
K. Yvon (UniGE).
This project is carried out with six participating industries
Summary
The goal of this project is to develop several applications resulting from research carried out in MaNEP. Although the scientific and technical topics vary from one sub-project to another, each has a clear practical application as its goal, and nearly all correspond to collaborations between a MaNEP group and an industrial company or a collaboration between different groups. The projects for phase III cover: (a) applied superconductivity with research on HTS coated conductors for high field magnets, MgB2 wires, HTS coated conductor fault current limiters; (b) oxides for energy harvesting with research on MEMS based on ferroelectric films on Si, on devices based on oxide nano particles, and a new project on giant piezo resistance silicon cantilevers; (c) applications of artificial superlattices including supermirrors for neutron guides and novel ferroelectric multilayers for tunable filters; (d) hydrogen detectors and other sensors with the idea of using a hydrogen-induced metal insulator transition in an intermetallic compound as one sensing property and the large surface to volume ratio of nanoparticles as another; (e) new surface treatments for microcomponents using an STM-inspired device to write thin layers of different materials into conducting surfaces.
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