Lecture Series: Plenary and Exhibitor Keynote

Plenary Lecture

Professor Magnus Berggren, Laboratory of Organic Electronics, ITN, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden

“Organic Bioelectronics – Nature Connected”
Monday, April 26, 2021, 10:15 a.m.

Biological systems are mechanically soft, with complex, time-dependent 3D curvilinear shapes; modern electronic and microfluidic technologies are rigid, with simple, static 2D layouts. Eliminating this profound mismatch in physical properties will create vast opportunities in man-made systems that can intimately integrate with the human body, for diagnostic, therapeutic or surgical function with important, unique capabilities in biomedical research and clinical healthcare. Over the last decade, a convergence of new concepts in thin film materials science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and advanced manufacturing has led to the emergence of diverse, novel classes of ‘biocompatible’ electronic and microfluidic systems with ultrathin, skin-like physical properties. This talk describes the key ideas and enabling materials, and it presents some of the most recent device examples, including wireless electronic ‘tattoos’, with applications in continuous monitoring of vital signs in neonatal intensive care; and microfluidic/electronic platforms that can capture, store and perform biomarker analysis on sweat, with applications in sports and fitness. CLICK TO REVIEW ABSTRACT

Biography

Magnus Berggren received his MSc in Physics in 1991 and graduated as PhD in Applied Physics in 1996, both degrees from Linköping University (LiU). He then joined Bell Laboratories as a postdoc in Murray Hill, USA. Since 2002, he is the professor in Organic Electronics at Linköping University and the founding director of the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, today including more than 90 scientists. Magnus Berggren is one of the pioneers of Printed Organic Electronics and Organic Bioelectronics. In 2012, Magnus Berggren was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in 2014 he received the Marcus Wallenberg Price, in 2016 he was awarded the IVA gold medal and in 2018 he was elected member of Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He is the co-founder of 8 companies.

Exhibitors Keynote Lecture

Dr. Jörg Vetter, Oerlikon Balzers Coating Germany GmbH, Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany

“Carbon based Coatings in Industrial Scale for Sustainable Surface Solutions”
Thursday, April 29, 2021, 10:15 a.m.

The attractive properties of carbon based hard coatings include high hardness, chemical inertness, tuneable electrical resistivity and optical properties, biocompatibility, excellent tribological behaviour in many engineering applications, show a high potential for use in anti-corrosion and electrochemical applications, and have a potential for sensory applications and for fuel cell applications. The main coatings in use are amorphous carbon coatings consisting of a disordered network of carbon atoms with sp² and sp³ coordinated C-C bonds. The family of amorphous carbon films is called “diamond like carbon”: DLC. However also diamond coatings with nearly 100% sp³ carbon bond hybridization are in application. Oerlikon Balzers develops and applies industrial solutions to deposit amorphous carbon  coatings based on PACVD processes, vacuum arc evaporation (direct and filtered), magnetron sputtering including  newer developments of HiPIMS (e.g. S3p®). The diamond coatings are deposited by a special PACVD process or by a  hot filament process. Tailored batch coating systems with different sizes are used both for large scale and small lot applications. Selected industrial coating systems will be briefly described (a-C:H:Me, a-C:H, a-C:H:X, a-C, ta-C, diamond). Typical dedicated applications of the carbon based coatings and diamond coatings  including surface solutions for green car developments (e.g. ICEV, HEV, FCEV) and green manufacturing are presented.

Biography

Dr. Jörg Vetter is a member of the Solution & Innovation team of Oerlikon Balzers since June, 2014.

He started his scientific activities in surface technology and tribology as a scientific assistant at the Technical University Chemnitz (Technische Hochschule Karl-Marx-Stadt), Germany. He began his professional industrial R&D carrier in Multi Arc GmbH (Interatom Siemens) in 1990. He holds several patents in components of coatings systems, deposition methods and coating systems. He wrote dedicated scientific and technical papers, is author and co-author of scientific books, and is a renown reviewer for several scientific journals (e.g. Surface Science and Coating Technologies).

Dr. Vetter is a member of the board of the EFDS (Europäische Forschungsgesellschaft für Dünne Schichten, European Society of Thinfilm Coating) and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the FVA (Forschungsvereinigung Antriebstechnik, RADT Research Association for Drive Technology).

Dr. Jörg Vetter was born 1954 in Meissen, Germany. He holds a PhD in experimental physics from TU Chemnitz (TH Karl-Marx-Stadt) in Germany.