Page last updated: September 5, 2024

We are pleased to propose the following program for Swiss ePrint 2024. 

Titles, abstracts and speaker bios are being added as we receive them from speakers.

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Wednesday, September 25
08:30Registration Desk Opens

Coffee and croissants will be served for participants arriving early.

09:00Welcome Session

Lorenz Herrmann, Head of Department "Advanced Materials and Surfaces" at Empa

Michel Despont, VP Program MEMS at CSEM; Swiss MNT Network President


09:20Keynote
Chair: Vivek Subramanian, EPFL
Luisa Torsi, Dipartimento di Chimica – Università degli Studi di Bari (Italy)
Transforming antigenic portable technologies into highly dependable screening devices
10:00Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit
10:30 - 12:00Materials
Chair: Yaroslav Romanyuk, Empa
10:30
Keynote

Brian Derby, Department of Materials, University of Manchester, UK
Ink Drops are Falling on my Thread: The Interaction of Functional Inks with Textile Substrates.
11:00Guillaume Fleury, LCPO – University of Bordeaux (France)
Block Copolymer and Fluorinated Electroactive Polymer Resins for Surface Patterning and Printed Electroactive Devices
11:20Jakob Heier, Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Switzerland)
MXetronics and MXenes in printed electronics
11:40Quentin Jeangros, CSEM SA (Switzerland)
Solution-based metal halide perovskite deposition methods for photovoltaics and other applications
12:00Exhibitor Pitches (2 minutes each)

12:20Lunch & Exhibition Visit
13:50 - 15:20Processing Tools and Technologies
Chair: Fritz Bircher, INSPIRE
13:50Keynote

Stefan Mende, NETZSCH-Feinmahltechnik GmbH (Germany)
Grinding Systems for ultrafine Grinding of very small Quantities and Scale-up to the Production Scale
14:20Kurt Schroder, Pulseforge (USA)
Advanced Photonic Curing
14:40Barbara Horvath, Inveel GmbH (Switzerland)
Inveel sub-micron resolution printing on large areas
15:00Frederic Raynal, Hummink (France)
Capillary Printing of Advanced Transistors and Watch Parts
15:20Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit
15:40 - 16:40Sustainability
Chair: Felix Kurth, CSEM
15:40Giorgio Mutinati, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology (Austria)
The challenge of combining sustainability and regulatory requirements in printed (bio-)sensors for medical diagnostics
16:00Danick Briand, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), School of Engineering. Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Soft Transducers Laboratory (LMTS) (Switzerland)
A holistic approach for the circular production of disposable smart electronics
16:20Lina Kadura, CEA-Liten, Grenoble (France)
Printed hybrid electronics: enhancing sustainability in electronic device
16:40Information for poster session and Day 2
16:45Move from conference room to NEST
17:00Poster Session at NEST
18:00 - 21:00Apéro Riche and Networking at NEST
Thursday, September 26
09:00 - 10:30Devices and Systems
Chair: Vivek Subramanian, EPFL
09:00Keynote

Marja Välimäki, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (Finland)
Fabrication of green and transient electronics for energy autonomous sensing applications
09:30Gabriel Marques, Institute of Nanotechnology (INT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Germany)
Pass Logic Gates Based on Electrolyte-Gated Field-Effect Transistors
09:50 Olivia Ashton, Avantama (Switzerland)
Printing of Perovskite Quantum Dots for Next Generation Displays
10:10Paul Baade, 8inks AG (Switzerland)
Multi-layer curtain coating for lithium ion batteries
10:30Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit
11:00 - 12:30Functional 3-D Printing
Chair: Katrin Albrecht, OST
11:00Keynote

Daryl Yee, Institute of Electrical and Micro Engineering, EPFL (Switzerland)
Hydrogel Infusion Additive Manufacturing: Simple chemistries for advanced materials
11:30Ramon Borrel, Quantica (Germany)
11:50Jessica Daniel, Franz Binder GmbH & Co. Elektrische Bauelemente KG Innovations- und Technologie Zentrum (Germany)
Printed electronics using pad printing on 3D surfaces
12:10Saleem Khan, CSEM SA (Switzerland)
Compliant Compliant Integration of Sensors on 3D Additive Manufactured Parts Via Aerosol Jet Print Technology
12:30Lunch & Exhibition Visit
14:00 - 15:00Emerging and Enabling
Chair: Ioana Preda, iPrint Center
14:00Pedro Magalhães, Tintex Textiles S.A. (Portugal)
Printed electronics on the Textile Industry: Industrial point of view
14:30Craig Sturgess, Added Scientific Ltd. (United Kingdom)
Developing an open architecture inkjet platform for industrial and academic research
15:00Keynote

Shery Huang, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Fibre biofabrication for biointerfaced electronics and sensors
15:40Closing Session
Chair: Yaroslav Romanyuk, Empa

  • Announcement of Poster Prize Winners
  • Closing Remarks