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Time	Programme	Speaker
8.30 am	Registration
9.00 am	Opening and Welcome Address	Prof Armin AberleCEO Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore
MORNING SESSION : SATELLITES and SOLAR
9:15am	Overview of space solar power	Dr. Lin FenSolar Energy Research Institute of Singapore
09:45am	Past, recent, and future R&D of solar power satellite andwireless power transfer in Japan	Prof Naoki ShinoharaKyoto University
10:15	Formation flying of low earth orbit satellites for space based solar power application	Prof Low Kay SoonNational University of Singapore (NUS)
10:45am	Tea Break
11:15am	Renewable energy sources for Singapore – beyond roof-top solar	Dr Narasimalu SrikanthEnergy Research Institute @ NTU
11:45am	Space: the final frontier for 2D materials	Prof Antonio Castro Neto, Centre for Advance 2D Materials
12:15noon	TBC	Faculty of ScienceNUS
12:45pm	Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSION : SPACE SOLAR
02:00pm	RF and antenna technologies for space based solar power application	A/Prof Guo Yong XinNational University of Singapore
02:30pm	Overview of energy storage system for Space Solar Power (SSP)	A/Prof Sanjib PandaNational University of Singapore
03:00pm	High efficiency light weight solar cells for space applications	Dr. Noren PanCEO Microlink Devices
03:30pm	Panel DiscussionModerator: Lum Chune Yang	Prof Armin Aberle, SERISProf Naoki Shinohara, Kyoto University Dr. Noren Pan, Microlink Devices Prof Low Kay Soon, NUS Prof Narasimalu Srikanth, ERI@N
04:15pm	Closing remarks	National Research Foundation
04:30pm	Ends

Please register your attendance online before 12 May. For enquiries, please contact Chee Shin Yee at dprchee@nus.edu.sg (*) Refreshments will be provided.
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Speaker: Prof Stephen Pennycook
Abstract Details: The aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) provides much more than enhanced resolution. Using accelerating voltages below the damage threshold allows direct, real space atomic imaging and spectroscopy with minimal damage [1]. Point defect configurations and electronic structure can be directly determined [2,3], including localized plasmon resonances [4]. Furthermore, energy transfer from the beam can excite atomic migration or metastable configurations that can be quantified through density functional theory [5], and can even be used for nanofabrication [6,7]. Future possibilities include adding a monochromator for nanoscale band gap mapping, and imaging at different temperatures and under applied bias. References [1] O. L. Krivanek, M. F. Chisholm, V. Nicolosi, T. J. Pennycook, G. J. Corbin, N. Dellby, M. F. Murfitt, C. S. Own, Z. S. Szilagyi, M. P. Oxley, S. T. Pantelides, and S. J. Pennycook, "Atom-by-atom structural and chemical analysis by annular dark-field electron microscopy," Nature, 464, 571–574 (2010). [2] W. Zhou, M. Kapetanakis, M. Prange, S. T. Pantelides, S. J. Pennycook, and J.-C. Idrobo, "Direct Determination of the Chemical Bonding of Individual Impurities in Graphene," Phys Rev Lett 109 (2012) 206803. [3] Y. Gong, Z. Liu, A. R. Lupini, G. Shi, J. Lin, S. Najmaei, Z. Lin, A. L. Eli?as, A. Berkdemir, G. You, H. Terrones, M. Terrones, R. Vajtai, S. T. Pantelides, S. J. Pennycook, J. Lou, W. Zhou, and P. M. Ajayan, "Band Gap Engineering and Layer-by-Layer Mapping of Selenium-Doped Molybdenum Disulfide," Nano Lett, 14, 442–449 (2014). [4] W. Zhou, J. Lee, J. Nanda, S. T. Pantelides, S. J. Pennycook, and J.-C. Idrobo, "Atomically localized plasmon enhancement in monolayer graphene," Nature nanotechnology, 7, 161–165 (2012). [5] S. J. Pennycook, W. Zhou, S. T. Pantelides, Watching Atoms Work: Nanocluster Structure and Dynamics, ACS Nano. 9 (2015) 9437–9440. [6] J. Lin, O. Cretu, W. Zhou, K. Suenaga, D. Prasai, K. I. Bolotin, N. T. Cuong, M. Otani, S. Okada, A. R. Lupini, J.-C. Idrobo, D. Caudel, A. Burger, N. J. Ghimire, J. Yan, D. G. Mandrus, S. J. Pennycook, and S. T. Pantelides, Nat. Nano., 9, (2014) 436. [7] S. Jesse, Q. He, A. R. Lupini, D. N. Leonard, M. P. Oxley, O. Ovchinnikov, R. R. Unocic, A. Tselev, M. Fuentes-Cabrera, B. G. Sumpter, S. J. Pennycook, S. V. Kalinin, and A. Y. Borisevich, "Atomic-Level Sculpting of Crystalline Oxides: Toward Bulk Nanofabrication with Single Atomic Plane Precision," Small, 11, 5895–5900 (2015).
About the Speaker: Stephen J. Pennycook is a new member at our Centre. He is a Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Dept., National University of Singapore, an Adjunct Professor in the University of Tennessee and Adjoint Professor in Vanderbilt University, USA. Previously, he was Corporate Fellow in the Materials Science and Technology Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and leader of the Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Group. He completed his PhD in physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge in 1978. Since then he has been actively pursuing the development and materials applications of atomic resolution Z-contrast microscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy. Pennycook is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Microscopy Society of America, the Institute of Physics and the Materials Research Society. He has received the Microbeam Analysis Society Heinrich Award, the Materials Research Society Medal, the Institute of Physics Thomas J. Young Medal and Award and the Materials Research Society Innovation in Characterization Award. He has 38 books and book chapters, over 400 publications in refereed journals and has given over 200 invited presentations. His latest book is “Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy.”
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Speaker: Prof Slaven Garaj
Affiliation: NUS
Abstract Details: The curious behavior of water and ions in constrictions with dimensions comparable to the size of ions is of particular interest for many applications, including filtration membranes, single-biomolecule analysis, supercapacitors, etc. The nanofluidic behavior of such structures depends on their dimensionality: ranging from the edge-enhanced ionic current in 0D graphene nanopores [1,2], anomalous ionic flow in 1D nanotubes, to frictionless water transport in 2D graphene [3] and graphene-oxide nanochannels [4, 5].  We set to investigate ionic flow in graphene-based nanostructures, including scalable GO membranes, and model systems consisting of individual graphene channels only about 1 nm in height. By measuring mobility of a wide selection of aqueous salts ions in channels of GO membranes [5], we demonstrated that the dominant mechanisms for the ion rejection are (a) size exclusion due to compression of the ionic hydration shell in narrow channels; and (b) electrostatic repulsion due to the membrane surface charge.  Armed with the insight into the physical mechanism governing the ionic flow, we are able to engineer new membranes with decreased the ionic cut-off size and increased charge selectivity. At the end, I will present some new results leading to promising applications in desalination and electrodialysis. [1] Garaj, S. et al. Graphene as a subnanometre trans-electrode membrane. Nature 467, 190 (2010). [2] Garaj, S. et al. Molecule-hugging graphene nanopores. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 110, 12192 (2013). [3] Radha, B. et al. Molecular transport through capillaries made with atomic-scale precision. Nature 538, 222 (2016). [4] Nair, R. R. et al. Unimpeded Permeation of Water Through Helium-Leak–Tight Graphene-Based Membranes. Science 335, 442 (2012). [5] Hong, S. et al. Scalable Graphene-Based Membranes for Ionic Sieving with Ultrahigh Charge Selectivity. Nano Lett. 17, 728 (2017).
About the Speaker: Slaven Garaj is Assistant Professor at the Departments of Physics and of Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore, as well as a member of the NUS Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and NUSNNI-Nano Core. He is also a Singapore NRF Fellow (2012). Slaven explores nanoscale phenomena emerging at the interface of solid-state devices and soft-matter systems. He is interested in behaviour of water molecules and ions in atomic-scale confinements; control and analysis of individual biomolecules using physical methods; and electrical and structural properties of 2D materials. The research is often guided by the desire to address a real technological challenges and includes: ultra-fast, inexpensive DNA sequencing using physical methods; nanopore devices for detection, fingerprinting and sequencing of individual proteins; electrical sensors based on 2D materials; 2D materials as next-generation membranes for filtration and water desalination. Slaven received his PhD from Swiss Federal institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in the field of solid-state physics. He continued his research career at Harvard University, working at the intersection of nano-electronics and biophysics, particularly by developing novel methods for electrical (4th generation) DNA sequencing based on nanopores. Throughout his career, his different research projects attracted general public attention and were featured in international media and professional magazines (such as BBC News, New Scientist, Technology Review, MRS Bulletin, etc).
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Speaker: Dr. Aleksandr Rodin
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Spin-orbit coupling in 2D materials can be either extrinsic or intrinsic. An example of the former is Rashba effect, where an external electric fields results in a formation of Dirac cones. Intrinsic SOC, on the other hand, typically leads to a gap opening, as seen in Xene’s and some transition metal dichalcogenides. It turns out that for certain lattice geometries, atomic spin-orbit interaction can give rise Rashba-like dispersion without an external field. We study a lattice which manifests this behaviour using tight-binding formalism and DFT calculations.

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Speaker: Dr Valerio Olevano (Institut Néel, Grenoble, France) & Dr Paolo. E. Trevisanutto (NUS)
Abstract Details: Session 1 30 Mar (10:00 – 11:30) Session 2 31 Mar (10:00 – 11:30) Session 3 03 Apr (14:00 – 15:30) Session 4 04 Apr (10:00 – 11:30) Synopsis The workshop consists of a cycle of 4 seminars on methods beyond density-functional theory (DFT) ab initio theories to calculate excitations and spectroscopy. DFT [1] is to be considered today as the standard model of condensed matter theory, and in the last 50 years revealed a very successful approach [2] to calculate ab initio ground-state properties (atomic structures, elastic constants, etc.). In the first seminar, a critical review of DFT will be presented, showing the successes but insisting in particular to its limits, namely the possibility for DFT to access excitations, excited state properties and spectroscopy. In the second seminar, we will introduce time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) [3], an extension of DFT able to address excited-state properties and spectroscopy like optical absorption, energy-loss spectra (EELS), etc. TDDFT is an in principle exact theory to calculate neutral excitations. However, like in DFT, the exchange-correlation functional, a fundamental ingredient of the theory, is unknown. One must resort to approximations and, unlike DFT, the local-density approximation (LDA) has limited validity, in particular on optical absorption spectra. We will introduce the fundamentals of TDDFT and discuss the limits of standard approximations with the help of examples on prototypical systems (bulk silicon, graphite, graphene, etc.), also presenting recent developments [4]. In the third seminar, we will introduce the ab initio many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) relying on the Green function (instead than the density like in DFT) as fundamental degree of freedom. MBPT is an in principle exact framework to calculate both ground and excited states, both neutral (like TDDFT) but also charged excitations. We will focus in particular on the GW approximation of the self-energy, showing its performances in the calculation of band gaps, band plots, ARPES spectral functions, also in prototypical systems. Also within the framework of MBPT, in the 4th seminar we will talk on the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) approach to calculate optical spectra and neutral excitations, in particular excitons. The BSE is an equation that allows to directly calculate the two-particle Green function, whose poles are the neutral excitations of a system. With respect to TDDFT, BSE provides access also to, e.g., exciton wavefunctions. We will show examples of calculations of excitations and spectra on bulk solids (silicon, etc.) and isoltated systems (helium atom, etc.) and discuss the limits of the approximations usually done on the kernel of the BSE. References [1] P. Hohenberg, W. Kohn, Phys. Rev. 136, B864 (1964); W. Kohn, L. J. Sham, ibid 140, A1133 (1965). [2] S. Redner, Physics Today 58, 49 (June 2005). [3] W. E. Runge and E. K. U. Gross, Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 997 (1984); E. K. U. Gross and W. Kohn, Phys. Rev. Lett. 55, 2850 (1985). [4] V. Olevano, M. Palummo, G. Onida and R. Del Sole, Phys. Rev. B 60, 14224 (1999); L. Reining, V. Olevano, A. Rubio, and G. Onida, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 066404 (2002); F. Sottile, M. Marsili, V. Olevano, and L. Reining, Phys. Rev. B 76, 161103(R) (2007); P. E. Trevisanutto, L. A. Constantin, A. Terentjevs, V. Olevano and F. Della Sala, Phys. Rev. B 87, 205143 (2013).
About the Speaker: Valerio Olevano is research director since 2012 at the CNRS (French national research council) where he also obtained a permanent position in 2000. He earned in 1993 his Laurea in physics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (computational subnuclear physics, lattice QCD) and his PhD in 1999 at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" (computational ab initio condensed matter theory, DFT and beyond). He also got an European grant for acquiring expertise in XPS/UPS photoemission and research staff working in developments of the ab initio Bethe-Salpeter equation to calculate optical spectra in solids. His present research lines insist on developments and applications of ab initio many-body theory within the GW approximation and beyond, as well as methods based on the Bethe-Salpeter equation. Valerio Olevano is a developer of the ABINIT first-principles code framework, and the main developer of DP (a linear response time-dependent DFT code, www.dp-code.org) and EXC (an exciton code for the dielectric and optical properties based on the solution of the Bethe-Salpeter equation, www.bethe-salpeter.org). Paolo E. Trevisanutto is a senior research fellow in the Centre for Advanced 2D materials & Graphene research at NUS, which he joined in 2014. His current research interests are concerned with the development and applications of ab initio Many Body Perturbation Theory (MBPT) and Time Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT) methods in two dimension materials. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics at University College London in 2008 under the supervision of Prof. A.L. Shluger. From 2007 to 2014, he was a postdoctoral researcher in several European Institutes connected to the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility network (ETSF) such as CNRS (France), Max Planck Institut (Germany) and, CNR (Italy).
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Speaker: Mr Jax Lee (???)
Affiliation: Acting COO, Cima NanoTech
Abstract Details: To discuss the opportunities and current landscape of transparent conductors (ITO, CNT, Graphene, Silver nano-wires, conductive polymers and metal meshes). Jax would be sharing his experiences on the phases, challenges and ingredients of bringing novel materials to commercialization, from lab to production to market. He would be offering his views on potential opportunities for new materials and expertise in the business development path to achieve the first minimum viable product and prototype.
About the Speaker: Jax Lee is the acting COO of Cima NanoTech, a nanomaterial company with more than 100 patents on unique nanoparticles manufacturing methods, dispersion technology and self-assembling technology for highly conductive transparent conductors. Jax plays a driving role in bringing Cima NanoTech unique SANTE® Technology from lab to pilot to mass production and industry applications. Currently, Cima’s Technology is used in EMI shielding, transparent heating and large format projective capacitive touch modules. During 5 years with Cima, he established a joint venture partnership with Foxconn using SANTE® Technology to manufacture large format touch modules and kick-started many joint development programs with many notable materials suppliers. Previous at Cima, he was leading the efforts in setting up a greenfield manufacturing efforts of CdTe, thin-film photovoltaic in Singapore and China. He was involved heavily in designing, sourcing of localized process mass production equipment and selection of new compatible auxiliary materials for the assembly of solar modules. An alumus, he graduated at NUS Chemical Engineering, in his free time he is a keen scuba diver and hiker.
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Speaker: Prof. Barbaros Oezyilmaz (OII); Mr Sean P. Flanigan (ILO)
Abstract Details: Getting to know the new OII The Office of Industry and Innovation (OII) is embedded in the new Centre of Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research Centre (CA2DM-GRC). Our role is to facilitate the ongoing flow of conversation in the area of 2D materials among academics, and between them and industry. Many recent scientific discoveries related to 2D materials have the potential to have important uses in a wide range of industries. However, how to translate such discoveries into viable products for companies is a formidable challenge. Beyond the obvious questions such as identifying key advantages over existing solutions for a particular industry there are also a number of challenges which go beyond fundamental research. Unlike academic research, companies for example require beyond the demonstration of a proof of principle under laboratory conditions thorough benchmarking and extensive reliability tests. Other topics which need careful consideration when embarking on research collaborations are related to potential IP issues. The OII has been founded to assist member of CA2DM in this effort. In collaboration with ILO its goal is to provide in key research area a path towards a fruitful industry engagement. It is meant to facilitate the ongoing flow of conversation in the area of 2D materials among academics, and between them and industry. In this seminar to the Deputy Director for translation at CA2DM, Barbaros Oezyilmaz, and the Director of ILO, Sean Patrick Flanigan, will share their respective strategy and how they will coordinate their efforts in helping PIs in their effort. The role is to facilitate the ongoing flow of conversation in the area of 2D materials among academics, and between them and industry. We aim to surface ideas that carry the seeds of possible future development down the innovation value chain. Getting to know the new ILO Starting in 2015 ILO has been changing the approach to the protection and commercialization of NUS intellectual property.  Some of you may have already had a chance to engage with our commercialization officers under this new approach while others may have only heard rumours of a different approach. This discussions, from the Director of ILO responsible for commercialization will provide an interactive forum to discuss our plans, our methodology and how we can work together to develop and realize upon your commercialization expectations.
About the Speaker: Barbaros Oezyilmaz is a Professor in the Department of Physics and the Department for Materials Science and Engineering, NUS. He is also the Head of Graphene Research at CA2DM and was recently appointed Deputy Director (Translation). He obtained his Ph.D. from New York University and did his postdoctoral research at Columbia University, joining NUS in 2007. He received the NRF Fellowship Award in 2008 and was awarded the NUS Young Scientist Award in 2013. Sean P. Flanigan, BA, JD, RTTP (Director, Industry Liaison Office (ILO), National University of Singapore); Chair, Alliance of Technology Transfer Professionals. Sean Flanigan is a lawyer, technology transfer practitioner and Past-President of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), the largest professional organization of technology transfer professionals in the World. Mr. Flanigan studied law at the University of Ottawa and has been a member of the Ontario Bar since 1993. Since joining the National University of Singapore in 2015 Mr. Flanigan has lead the Innovation Management team responsible for intellectual property (IP) commercialization and industrially supported research. Prior to joining NUS Mr. Flanigan lead the team responsible for industrial liaison, technology development and transfer, new company creation and student entrepreneurship at the University of Ottawa for thirteen years. He has created student incubator programs, applied research programs for small and medium sized enterprises and personally attended to the negotiation of dozens of early stage technology licenses. Mr. Flanigan has served as a Board member of several early stage technology based companies. In 2008 Mr. Flanigan became Vice President of AUTM for Canada and in 2012 was elected by his peers as President-Elect of AUTM. During his Presidency of AUTM in 2013-2014 Mr. Flanigan championed a wholesale strategic shift in the organization's structure including development of an entirely new governance structure and strategic plan while overseeing one of the most financially successful years and annual meetings in AUTM history. From 2010 through 2014 he served as the Chair of the Governance committee of the Alliance of Technology Transfer Professionals (ATTP), the Global certification body for Academic Technology Transfer Professionals and between 2015 and 2017 he was Global Chair of ATTP. Mr. Flanigan has lectured extensively on technology transfer around the World and has published studies of the profession and the practice.
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Speaker: Junyong Wang
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The distorted octahedral T’ phase MoTe2 has received tremendous interests recently due to its novel electronic structures and anisotropic charge transport properties. Taking advantage of its reduced in-plane symmetry, we find an easy and non-destructive method for determining the crystal orientation for thin layer T’-MoTe2 flakes by Raman spectroscopy. The Bg and Ag modes show blue-shift and red-shift with increasing thickness, respectively, due to the anisotropic surface effect. By exploring the anisotropic Raman response of thin layer T’-MoTe2 based on angle-resolved polarized Raman spectroscopy, we found four types of angular dependent behaviors, which are further analyzed from the group theory. The intensity of Ag mode at around 162 cm-1 reaches its maximum when the polarized excitation laser is parallel to the metal-metal bonds direction in the parallel configuration. This study paves the way for investigation about correlation between physical and structural properties of thin film T’-MoTe2.

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Speaker: Dr. Patrick Jones
Abstract Details: Academic Knowledge Transfer (KT) occurs in many ways, from training graduate students to engaging in the translation of research into technologies that can be licensed to commercial companies. As one moves from the traditional dissemination of research through people, publications and presentations to that of prototypes and intellectual property, how one approaches the relations between teacher and learner changes. This includes changes in how one structures and positions research for adoption by commercial learners. In this presentation, Dr. Jones will share on the changing patterns around research and its commercialization. While there is no one solution to engaging with partners, there are patterns and approaches available. There are also patterns and approaches to avoid.  Examples from a variety of universities will be referenced to demonstrate how some of the approaches can be adopted in the roles of researchers and their tech transfer office in moving knowledge into use.
About the Speaker: Dr. Patrick Jones is the principal of Sahale Consulting, a practice specializing in strategic planning and execution with an emphasis on intellectual property licensing, innovation management and strategic business development. Pat has extensive national and international private sector and public higher ed work experience. In the private sector, Pat has directed product strategy and new business development for venture-backed companies, managed international sales and marketing for a manufacturer of solid-state laser and optical systems, and conducted research and product development for an aerospace contract research firm. In the public sector, Pat has managed research operations and external engagement as Associate Vice President for Research and Innovation at the University of Oregon, held regular and affiliate faculty appointments in Chemistry at The Ohio State University and the University of Washington, directed Technology Transfer at the University of Arizona, and worked as a technology transfer specialist and Assistant Dean of Engineering at the University of Washington. Pat holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Colorado Boulder and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Washington's Foster School of Business."
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Speaker: Dr. Jean-Pierre Leburton
Affiliation: University of Illinois, USA
Abstract Details: This talk is part of a monthly workshop with clinicians organized jointly with Prof. C. N. Lee , Chairman, University Surgical Cluster, National University Health System (NUHS), to explore how 2D materials can address urgent needs in biomedical research. Exciting development of new materials has opened up novel possibilities in bio-medical applications. The clinical needs are varied. Major areas need better materials: e.g. Non clotting surfaces which are bio-compatible, able to withstand shear stress forces of blood flows, able to tolerate binding if needed; materials which can be implanted into 2mm diameter coronary arteries without causing scarring reaction, with no tissue ingrowth; materials that can prevent bacteria from fouling or colonising implanted devices or catheters. Stents used in the airways, intestines bile ducts, brain cavities that remains open for longer periods. Similarly new materials are needed to achieve novel bio sensing capabilities . Through regular interactions between clinicians and material engineers, it would be possible to come to closer understanding of the needs and the options available. This series of talks aim to set up structures in collaboration, development, testing, refinement, animal and clinical trials, product development, and reaching the patients by commercialization. Q&A (2pm - 3:30 pm) Prof Lee and the speaker will stay after the talk to answer and discuss with interested students, postdocs and PI potential areas of collaborations between the various groups at NUS.”Abstract Dr. Jean-Pierre Leburton will review some basic properties of cell biology, and present a scenario that integrates biology with MOS nano-electronics for genomics and bio-medical applications. This scenario involves probing the electrical activity of biomolecules passing through a nanopore, in a semiconductor membrane. Among solid-state porous membranes the use of the single-atom thickness of graphene or novel 2D materials like MoS2 are ideally suited for DNA, RNA or proteins sensing as they can scan molecules passing through a nanopore at high resolution.  Additionally, unlike most biological membranes, these new materials are electrically active, which can be exploited to manipulate in addition to sense biomolecules. We will describe a membrane designed as a quantum point contact FET as a viable device for electronically and optically sensing bio-molecules for applications in genomics and cancer detection.
About the Speaker: Dr. Leburton joined the University of Illinois in 1981 from Germany, where he worked as a research scientist with the Siemens A.G. Research Laboratory in Munich. In 1992, he held the Hitachi LTD Chair on Quantum Materials at the University of Tokyo, and was a Visiting Professor in the Federal Polytechnic Institute in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2000. He is involved with research in nanostructures modeling and in quantum device simulation. His present research interest encompasses non-linear transport in quantum wires and carbon nanotubes, and molecular and bio-nanoelectronics Professor Leburton is author and co-author of more than 300 technical papers in international journals and books, and served in numerous conferences committees. In 1993 he was awarded the title of “Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques “ by the French Government. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the American Physical Society (APS), the Optical Society of America (OSA), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Electrochemical Society (ECS) and the Institute of Physics (IOP). He is also a member of the New York Academy of Science. In 2004 he was the recipient of the ISCS Quantum Device Award, and of the Gold medal for scientific achievement by the Alumnus association of the University of Liege, Belgium. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Nanotechnology Council. In 2011 he was elected to Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium.
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