Shadow evaporation is commonly used to micro-fabricate the key element of superconducting qubits - the Josephson junction. However, in conventional two-angle deposition circuit topology, unwanted stray Josephson junctions are created which contribute to dielectric loss. So far, this could be avoided by shorting the stray junctions with a so-called ...
The leading cause of mortality worldwide is due to undiagnosed treatable diseases. The underlying reason is the cost and complexity of most diagnostic processes, as they are often carried out in medical centers and require expensive and complicated equipment. To tackle this issue, the development of point-of-care technology using miniaturized and l...
The exploration of entangled states with large atom numbers and their application represents one of the most dynamic fields of research of contemporary atomic, molecular, and optical physics. Many different experimental techniques have emerged over the past decades to study entangled system. Cold atoms trapped in vacuum have proven to be a powerful...
Published in MethodsX
Structured metal thin-film electrodes are heavily used in electrochemical assays to detect a range of analytes including toxins, biomarkers, biological contaminants and cell cultures using amperometric, voltammetric and impedance-based (bio)sensing strategies as well as separation techniques such as dielectrophoresis. Over the last decade, thin-fil...
The work presented in this manuscript consists in the conception of an electro-thermo-mechanical optical micro-scanner. In a first time, a design and a model are proposed and the micro-device was fabricated, characterized and a draft of integration onto a Mirau micro-interferometer was carried out in order to build an endoscopic probe for the detec...
Published in Acta biomaterialia
The precise mechanisms that lead to orthopedic implant failure are not well understood; it is believed that the micromechanical environment at the bone-implant interface regulates structural stability of an implant. In this work, we seek to understand how the 3D mechanical environment of an implant affects bone formation during early osteointegrati...
Published in Advanced healthcare materials
Organ in vitro synthesis is one of the last bottlenecks between tissue engineering and transplantation of synthetic organs. Bioprinting has proven its capacity to produce 3D objects composed of living cells but highly organized tissues such as full thickness skin (dermis + epidermis) are rarely attained. The focus of the present study is to demonst...
The organized cell adherent array (OC2A) is an integrated tool useful for real-time and label-free detection of secreted molecules. The OC2A novel cell chip is composed of two substrates, one allowing localized cell culture and the other one constituting the sensitive layer detection. These two units are assembled thanks to a thickness controlled s...
Published in EPJ Applied Metamaterials
Membrane projection lithography is used to create 3-dimensional unit cells in a silicon matrix decorated with metallic inclusions. The structures show pronounced resonances in the 4–16 µm wavelength range and demonstrate direct coupling to the magnetic field of a normally incident transverse electromagnetic (TEM) wave, a behavior only possible for ...
This chapter evaluates the use of a short-aromatic dipeptide, diphenylalanine, as a template in the fabrication of new nanostructures (nanowires, coaxial nanocables, nanochannels) using materials such as silicon, conducting and non-conducting polymers. Diphenylalanine self-organize into nanostructures (nanotubes, nanofibers or nanospheres) under ve...
