2022

21st Euro-MBE Workshop is now open!. The workshop will be held April 16-19th 2023. ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.

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EuroMBE 2023 will be organized by the Institute for Optoelectronic Systems and Microtechnology (ISOM) of the Polytechnical University of Madrid (UPM). EuroMBE 2023 will be held 16-19 April 2023, in assembly hall building C, López Araújo, of the ETSI de Telecomunicación (Telecommunication Engineering School). Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid (Spain).

The abstract submission period for the 21st Euro-MBE Workshop is now open. The deadline for the submission is December 12th, 2022.

To submit your abstract, access to the webpage: http://www.eurombe2023.com and follow the link “Registration”. Register and upload your abstract. The instructions, format and template are available at the webpage.

The workshop will take place in the campus of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, in the district of Ciudad Universitaria. The location is within easy reach of Madrid Barajas (Adolfo Suárez) Airport and at short distance from the historical centre of Madrid. In addition to the technical program, the workshop will offer delegates the opportunity to sample the cultural, historical and culinary delights of one of Europe’s most vibrant capital cities

This workshop gathers senior and young scientists from Europe and beyond in an informal and friendly atmosphere. It provides an unique opportunity for the presentation and open discussion of latest results on epitaxy of novel materials, nanostructures, new trends on MBE growth and modeling, devices and innovative technologies.

The workshop will also offer exhibition space for companies to present new products and applications to the MBE community.

EuroMBE 2023 follows the latest successful workshops held in L’Alpe d’Huez, France (2011), Levi, Finland (2013), Canazei, Italy (2015), Korobytsino, Russia (2017), and Lenggries, Germany (2019).

The Polytechnic University of Madrid and ISOM join AESEMI.

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22.12.2022.

The UPM and ISOM will join forces with AESEMI, contributing their experience in areas as relevant for the sector as training and research. This is a key agreement for the future development of the association.

The Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) and the Institute of Optoelectronic Systems and Microtechnology (ISOM) will collaborate with AESEMI to boost relations between academia and business and thus strengthen the Spanish semiconductor ecosystem.

Monitoring liquid dynamics on the chip-scale.

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Speaker: Prof. Borislav Hinkov from TU Wien. Institute of Solid State Electronics & Center for Micro- and Nanostructures.
Date: 16/12/2022.
Time: 10:00am.
Lugar: Room B-223. Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación UPM.
Abstract:
 
Monitoring gases and liquids in the mid-IR spectral range is a very sensitive and selective technique for molecule analysis. However, probing dynamical processes in liquids like chemical reactions or conformational changes is often still limited to bulky sensor systems, requiring time consuming offline analytics. This work will present a photonic integration concept, enabling miniaturized liquid sensors with specifically tailored characteristics for dynamical measurements. The combination of samewavelength mid-IR quantum cascade laser and detector (QCLD) devices with novel surface-sensitive mid-IR plasmonic waveguides, unlocks the realization of monolithic lab-on-a-chip sensors for the chemical analysis of liquids. They are further optimized by enhancing the plasmonic sensing section and e.g. increasing its spectral bandwidth or implementing functionalization to address specific molecules. In the final part, new pathways for plasmonic beam guiding along the chip surface are presented. They enable much more complex chip-scale mid-IR photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and networks for applications in advanced liquid spectroscopy and mid-IR free space telecommunication.
 
 

mm-wave Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces based on Liquid Crystals.

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Speaker:  D. Robert Guirado.
Organization: Grupo de Electromagnetismo Aplicado (GEA). ETSIT-UPM.

Data: December 2nd 2022, 10:00h
Hours: 10.00 hours.
Place: Room B-223 of the ETSI of Telecommunications of the UPM [Cómo llegar]

ABSTRACT

Liquid Crystal (LC) technologies are starting to be studied at mm-wave bands in order to develop tunable devices that work properly at those frequency ranges. Because of its birefringence, by applying a low-frequency electric field to a cavity containing nematic LC, its electromagnetic properties can be varied and therefore the device response changes. This varying behavior is related to a continuous change on the electric permittivity, which can be leveraged to vary the resonant frequency or beam of an antenna, or to tune the different elements in a reflectarray antenna, to name a few. Recently, the use of nematic LC as the key phase-shifting element of the upcoming Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS), planar devices able to manipulate electromagnetic propagation, has been proposed, as it is one of the few tunable technologies with moderate cost capable of keeping the pace of the high frequencies (>100GHz) expected in future network generations beyond 5G. Nevertheless, the relatively slow switching times between states, in the order of seconds, is the main weakness of such LC-based devices. However, to be fully implantable in future ultra-reliable low-latency communication networks, improving these times is of utmost importance due to the stringent dynamic requirements of upcoming communication protocols. In this talk, different solutions to overcome this challenge will be discussed.

Solid-state quantum light sources: from semiconductor QDots to 2D crystal QDots.

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Speaker: Dr. Carlos Antón Solanas (Dept. Physics of Materials, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) will give a talk on single photon emitters and related research, which he mainly performed during his postdocs at C2N-CNRS (2015-2019), University of Würzburg (2019-2020) and University of Oldenburg (2020-2022).

Date: November 24, 2022.

Time: 12.00h.

Place: Room B-223, ETSIT-UPM.

Now available all the videos and presentations of UPM-MAS Annual Conference!!, 2022 October 4-5, in Madrid at Escuela Técnica Superior en Ingeniería en Diseño Industrial (ETSIDI) and Escuela Técnica Superior en Ingeniería de Telecomunicación de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ETSIT).

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An event that brought together professionals, teachers, researchers and students of the Materials sector.

This year the conference has brought new features such as visits to research laboratories, lectures and a workshop for laboratory technicians.

All videos are now available at this link of the Annual Materials, October 4 and 5, 2022. 

Vídeos de la Jornada Anual de la Comunidad UPM-MAS

In the attached files and link you will find the Preliminary Agenda, the lecture by Dr. Manuel Abuín Herráez of “Manufacturing Processes in Clean Room” (ISOM-ICTS of the UPM).

https://drive.upm.es/s/5dFcOxDFLo59HG6?path=%2FPonencias%20Jornada%20de%20Materiales

Agenda UPM-MAS 4-5 oct 22 Preliminar

ISOM-ICTS_Jornada Anual de Materiales UPM-MAS, 5.10.2022

Electroacoustic sensors and their functionalization for air quality monitoring in harsh environments.

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Speaker: D. José Manuel Carmona Cejas.
Organization: CEMDATIC.

Data: November 18th, 2022.
Hours: 10.00 hours.
Place: Room B-223 of the ETSI of Telecommunications of the UPM [Cómo llegar]

ABSTRACT

Our society needs to face huge problems such as climate change and pollution that represent big threats to public health and to our environment, hence the need of designing and fabricating devices that could be able to detect and quantify some of the most representative chemical species related to these issues. In this talk, we are going to talk about how piezoelectric devices, and more specifically Film Bulk Acoustic Resonators (FBARs), could be an interesting technology to fabricate gas sensors intended to detect a wide variety of chemical species under harsh conditions and a brief approach on their design and fabrication techniques.
 

The Institute of Optoelectronic Systems and Microtechnology (ISOM) offers in the XXII Science and Innovation Week several activities during the month of November 2022.

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The following activities are offered:

https://www.upm.es/Investigacion/innovacion/OTRI/UnidadCulturaCientifica/SemanaCiencia/Articulos?fmt=detail&prefmt=articulo&id=cd1f9af684e52810VgnVCM10000009c7648a____

1. How does a technology lab work?

General lecture on how the labs and clean room work with a visit afterwards. Limited to those over 15 years of age.

The talk will be given on November 7, 11, and 18 from 10:30 to 12:30 and from 17:30 to 19:30. 

Researchers Alejandro Gallego Carro, Malte Daniel Schwarz, Rodrigo Guedas García and Alejandro Rivelles García have organized this activity as well as the following two activities.

2. Discovering the secrets of a technology laboratory

General lecture on the operation of the laboratories and the clean room with practical demonstrations and subsequent visit.

The talk will be held on November 8, 10, 14 and 16 from 10:30 to 12:30 and from 17:00 to 19:00.

3. Solar Cells: Present and Future of Energy

Informative talk on how a solar cell works at a microscopic level and how it is possible to generate electrical energy from light.  

This talk will be held on November 15 and 17 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Reservations are required for these activities, by phone (from 9:00-17:00) or email:

Alejandro Gallego Carro
910672595
alejandro.gallego@upm.es
Malte Daniel Schwarz
910672595
malte.schwarz@upm.es

 

Resumen Semana de la Ciencia 2022

Ateneo de Madrid, 2.11.2022 at 7:30 pm. Cycle Nanotechnology for society. An atypical place called Sala Blanca: cradle of the technological vanguard.

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Speakers: Dr. Manuel Abuín and Dr. Yu Kyoung Ryu both belonging to ISOM-UPM. Cycle Nanotechnology for society. An atypical place called Sala Blanca: cradle of the technological vanguard.  Presented by: Eduardo Sánchez Alcaraz. Moderated by Eduardo Ríos. Pérez Galdós Hall. 19.30 h.

Synopsis: Electrical devices, sensors, chips, and the lack of supply of these devices are of special relevance nowadays; understanding the peculiarity of the laboratories where these innovative devices are manufactured helps to better understand the challenges and the framework we are facing. Emphasis will be placed on the requirements to be met and the possibilities that this laboratory offers in the field of nanotechnology. For this purpose, different processing stages of the devices and the most innovative techniques that are housed in it will be described.

https://www.ateneodemadrid.com/evento/ciclo-nanotecnologia-para-la-sociedad-un-atipico-lugar-llamado-sala-blanca-cuna-de-la-vanguardia-tecnologica/