Scientific Events

GDRI CNRS Mecano General Meeting on the Mechanics of Nano-objects

Start: Jul 18, 2013 08:45 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: Jul 19, 2013 03:00 PM
Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
Room: Seminar Room 1

The next MECANO General Meeting will take place on July 18th and 19th, 2013 at the Max-Planck- Institut für Eisenforschung in Duesseldorf. This internationally funded CNRS research network is focused on the subject of “Mechanics of Nano-objects”. The MECANO network is multidisciplinary and one ... [more]

Interface Design in Solar Cells

Date: Jul 2, 2013
Time: 08:40 AM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
Room: Seminar Room 1

The Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf is organizing a workshop on interface design in solar cells on July, 2nd 2013. A broad variety of topics concerning the interfaces in solar cells will be presented: covering topics from CIGS/CZTS thin-film solar cells and Si multicrystalline ... [more]

Connecting electrochemical and water simulations

Start: Apr 21, 2013 12:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: Apr 24, 2013 12:00 AM
Location: Ringberg Castle
Host: Department Computational Materials Design
Contact: todorova@mpie.de

The department “Computational Materials Design” is organizing a workshop about electrochemical and water simulations from April 21-24 at Ringberg Castle (Tegernsee, Germany). The aim is to bring together experts from the area of water simulations, simulations of liquids, coupling of different ... [more]

Unconventional Tools for Constructing Tunneling Junctions from Self-Assembled Monolayers

Start: Mar 13, 2012 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
End: Mar 13, 2013 06:00 PM
Speaker: Prof. R.C. Chiechi
Stratingh Institute for Chemistry and Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
Room: Seminar Room 1
Host: Dr. Michael Rohwerder
Contact: stein@mpie.de

Despite remarkable advancements in the theory and spectroscopy, and the myriad tools for measuring tunneling currents through molecules, a central problem in the field of Molecular Electronics is the lack of robust, generalizable, scalable methods for leveraging self-assembly to construct devices ... [more]