PhD Projects

The main objective of the project is to develop a robust manufacturing method to enable the fast fabrication of nano-gratings with high level of uniformity (< 2 % variation across a wafer and wafer-to-wafer) for a wide range of dimensions. The developed method must be compatible with standard cleanroom tools and ready to scale up for mass production.

This project is concerned with nanofabrication of plasmonic metasurafces employing deep UV lithography or electron beam lithography, deep reactive ion etching, and metal deposition. The subsequent mapping of high field strength spots on the surfaces will comprise a holographic method using transmission electron microscopy (TEM).

This project aims to develop the existing microchip technology with robust surface coating technology, a chip with higher pressure differential tolerance, microfluidic liquid passages, and a gas microcapillary that doesn't discriminate between gas species to tackle industrial-grade electrochemical studies and rich industrial monitoring applications.

The project concerns the fabrication of adaptive phase plates for electron optics and is part of the “Adaptive optics for electron beams” project (ADELE) funded by DFF. The objective of ADELE is the implementation of adaptive optics ideas for electron beams in the form of voltage-controlled phase plates.

The main objectives of the PhD project are to fabricate a microrobot with a hard polymer scaffold and a soft responsive polymer using 2PP, and to apply the fabricated microrobots for sensing changes in pH or other analytes in liquid samples.

The PhD project aims to create mobile microrobots with responsive gripping components for cargotransport, fabricated using the 2PP technique. The microrobots’ goal is precise drug delivery within a
cell culture.

This project will focus on marine bacteria from the Roseobacter group, which, especially when growing in a biofilm, can inhibit other microorganisms by the antibacterial compound, tropodithietic acid, TDA. The hypothesis of the project is that an optimal surface structure and chemistry can be identified that promote roseobacters to form robust biofilms with associated enhanced release of TDA.