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Controlling DNA nanodevices with light-switchable buffers

Cristian Pezzato, Cesare Berton, Valentin Jean Périllat

Control over synthetic DNA-based nanodevices can be achieved with a variety of physical and chemical stimuli. Actuation with light, however, is as advantageous as difficult to implement without modifying DNA strands with photo-switchable groups. Herein, we ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2023

Nanomechanical Modeling of the Bending Response of Silicon Nanowires

Yusuf Leblebici, Zuhal Tasdemir, Mohammad Nasr Esfahani, Mustafa Yilmaz

Understanding the mechanical behavior of silicon nanowiresis essentialfor the implementation of advanced nanoscale devices. Although bendingtests are predominantly used for this purpose, their findings shouldbe properly interpreted through modeling. Variou ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

A diamond spin qubit scanning probe microscope

Dinesh Kevin Mathais Pinto

The properties of a physical system only exist in relation to its environment. This thesis presents the development of a novel spin qubit scanning probe microscope operating over a wide range of environmental conditions. The qubit, which sits at the heart ...

EPFL2023

Off-axis electron holography for the direct visualization of perpendicular shape anisotropy in nanoscale 3D magnetic random-access-memory devices

Victor Carle Adrien Boureau

Perpendicular shape anisotropy (PSA) and double magnetic tunnel junctions (DMTJs) offer practical solutions to downscale spin-transfer-torque Magnetic Random-Access Memory (STT-MRAM) beyond 20 nm technology nodes, while retaining their thermal stability an ...

AIP Publishing2022

DNA origami nanostructures for controlled therapeutic drug delivery

Maartje Martina Cornelia Bastings, Jorieke Weiden

DNA nanostructures are emerging as a versatile platform for controlled drug delivery as a result of recent progress in production yield and strategies to obtain prolonged stability in biological environments. The construction of nanostructures from this un ...

2021

Ion beam etching redeposition for 3D multimaterial nanostructure manufacturing

Philippe Renaud, Arnaud Bertsch, Benoît Xavier Emmanuel Desbiolles

A novel fabrication method based on the local sputtering of photoresist sidewalls during ion beam etching is presented. This method allows for the manufacture of three-dimensional multimaterial nanostructures at the wafer scale in only four process steps. ...

2019

Open-Shell Nonbenzenoid Nanographenes Containing Two Pairs of Pentagonal and Heptagonal Rings

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Alberto Fabrizio, Daniele Passerone

Nonbenzenoid carbocyclic rings are postulated to serve as important structural elements toward tuning the chemical and electronic properties of extended polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs, or namely nanographenes), necessitating a rational and atomical ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Dynamics of nanoscale systems probed by time-resolved STM-induced luminescence

Anna Maria Roslawska

The efficiency and peculiarities of processes such as surface adsorption or electron-to-photon energy conversion in organic and inorganic structures are determined by the dynamics at the scale of individual molecules, atoms and charges. The timescales of s ...

EPFL2019

Aqueous Nanoscale Systems

Sylvie Roke

In the past five years the Laboratory for fundamental BioPhotonics (LBP) has worked on developing new technology that can access the molecular structure and nanoscale properties of buried aqueous interfaces and aqueous solutions. Using these methods a bett ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2017

Robustness Analysis of Controllable-Polarity Silicon Nanowire Devices and Circuits

Hassan Ghasemzadeh Mohammadi

Substantial downscaling of the feature size in current CMOS technology has confronted digital designers with serious challenges including short channel effect and high amount of leakage power. To address these problems, emerging nano-devices, e.g., Silicon ...

EPFL2016

Bottom-up engineering of InAs at the nanoscale: From V-shaped nanomembranes to nanowires

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Sonia Conesa Boj, Anna Dalmau Mallorquí, Eleonora Russo, Ignasi Canales Mundet

The ability to rationally tune the morphology of nanostructures is a fundamental milestone in nanoscale engineering. In particular, the possibility to switch between different shapes within the same material system represents a further step in the developm ...

Elsevier2015

Sequence-dependent mechanical, photophysical and electrical properties of pi-conjugated peptide hydrogelators

Matteo Togninalli

The ability to modulate intermolecular interactions in such a way as to impact nano-, micro- and even macroscale properties is an attractive aspect of self-assembling systems. We present an investigation of sequence-dependent rheological, photophysical and ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015

QMMMW: A wrapper for QM/MM simulations with QUANTUM ESPRESSO and LAMMPS

Changru Ma

We present QMMMW, a new program aimed at performing Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics (QM/MM) molecular dynamics. The package operates as a wrapper that patches PWscf code included in the QUANTUM ESPRESSO distribution and LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simu ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Electrochemical nanostructured biosensors: carbon nanotubes versus conductive and semi-conductive nanoparticles

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino, Nima Aliakbarinodehi, Gianluca Piccinini

The aim of this work was to demonstrate that various types of nanostructures provide different gains in terms of sensitivity or detection limit albeit providing the same gain in terms of increased area. Commercial screen printed electrodes (SPEs) were func ...

De Gruyter Open Ltd2015

Light absorption in 1D and 2D nanostructured organic semiconductors

Damien Rolland

Organic photovoltaics will be one of the corner stones in solving the increasing world's energy demand issue. For this reason, a better understanding of the detailed mechanisms involved in energy conversion in the employed nanostructured materials is still ...

EPFL2015

Mobile Domain Walls as a Bridge between Nanoscale Conductivity and Macroscopic Electromechanical Response

Dragan Damjanovic

The interfaces in complex oxides present unique properties exploitable in nanoscale devices. Recent studies on ferroelectric BiFeO3, BaTiO3, and Pb(Zr, Ti) O-3 have revealed an unusually high electric conductivity of the domain walls (DWs), adding another ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Three-Dimensional Crystalline and Homogeneous Metallic Nanostructures Using Directed Assembly of Nanoparticles

Hatice Altug, Jun Huang, Arif Engin Cetin

Directed assembly of nano building blocks offers a versatile route to the creation of complex nanostructures with unique properties. Bottom-up directed assembly of nanoparticles have been considered as one of the best approaches to fabricate such functiona ...

2014

turboTDDFT 2.0 Hybrid functionals and new algorithms within time-dependent density-functional perturbation theory

We present a new release of the turboTDDFT code featuring an implementation of hybrid functionals, a recently introduced pseudo-Hermitian variant of the Liouville-Lanczos approach to time-dependent density-functional perturbation theory, and a newly develo ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014

Structural and energetic basis for hybridization limits in high-density DNA monolayers

Alessandro Barducci

High-density monolayers (HDMs) of single-strand (ss) DNA are important nanoscale platforms for the fabrication of sensors and for mechanistic studies of enzymes on surfaces. Such systems can be used, for example, to monitor gene expression, and for the con ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Complex nanostructures in PMMA made by a single process step using e-beam lithography

Nico de Rooij, Sebastian Gautsch, Michel Studer

We present results on the single step fabrication of autocentered nanopillars with surrounding circular rim. This particular 3-dimensional shape is created by the energy density distribution of incident and backscattered electrons and reflects the dual beh ...

2009