OVERVIEW

Nanotechnology provides us new materials with amazing properties. A fullerene-based solid displays superconductivity at a record temperature, for a molecular material. Carbon Nanotubes ballistically conduct current, and do not dissipate heat. Metallic nanoparticles trap electrons even at room temperature. Nanoscale gold dots on a silicon-on-insulator surface may be used to fabricate a plasmon waveguide, opening the possibility for plasmonic chips developments. All these exceptional properties are due to quantum phenomena as materials at nano-scale reveal quantized nature of electrons, photons, and phonons. For example, nanostructured materials offer a natural solution to improving the performance of a thermoelectric material because phonons have mean free paths of hundreds of nanometres.

The new properties offered by nanomaterials may be applied to develop advanced instrumentations for biomedical diagnostics as well. Nanophotonics is expected in 2009 to have one of the largest applications growth in biomarkers detection. AFM probe may be used as a 'lab-on-a-tip' and enable simultaneously probing the structure and specific biological, chemical and physical parameters of the cell's machinery. Carbon nanotubes may improve metabolic compounds detection by one order of magnitude. The ultimate limit to sense single atoms seems to be achievable. These advancements will lead to the realization of new concepts and applications for nano-bio-sensing systems. Example of such systems includes but it is not limited to new theories and models for the electron transfer as mediated by carbon nanotubes or metallic nano-particles. However, some of these new applications are definitely no state-of-the-art and concepts are still not well defined and developed.

Thus, this year's workshop has the aim to brings together the expertise of researchers from the fields of Nano-electronics and Bio-technology with the aim of offering multidisciplinary approach from nano-structures fabrications to bio-sensing applications for the purposes of sharing and generating ideas that can bring together advances in these fields to improve nano-bio-sensor network research.

Program

Please download the Workshop program from here.

Format

The workshop will consist of invited and solicited papers, which will be presented according to the worshop program, as 30min. presentations. A round-table discussion lunch will be taken together, around noon.

Authors Guidelines

All contributions will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the Nano-Net 2009 conference proceedings, and published in the LNICST by Springer. Authors must comply with Nano-Net 2009 submission format. An author's kit including templates is available.

Submission deadline: June 30, 2009

Please follow the submission guidelines given here.

Workshop Chairs

Sandro Carrara, EPFL

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, IEL-LSI, Station 14, CH-1015 Lausanne, sandro.carrara(at)epfl.ch