Prof. Dr. David Leigh
Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
www.catenane.net

Making the Tiniest Machines

Perhaps the best way to appreciate the potential of controlled molecular motion is to recognise that nanomachines lie at the heart of every biological process. When we learn how to build molecules that can interface the effects of motion with other molecules, it will impact on every aspect of functional molecule and materials design.
“We are at the dawn of a new industrial revolution of the twenty-first century, and the future will show how molecular machinery can become an integral part of our lives. The advances made have also led to the first steps towards creating truly programmable machines, and it can be envisaged that molecular robotics will be one of the next major scientific areas.” Chemistry Nobel Prize Committee, Oct 2016.

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Prof. Dr. David Leigh is a Royal Society Research Professor and the Sir Samuel Hall Chair of Chemistry at the University of Manchester. Prof. Leigh obtained his PhD in supramolecular chemistry at the University of Sheffield. He is one of the pioneers of synthetic molecular machinery and the recipient of many national and international prizes and awards, including 3 successive ERC Advanced Grants. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (London). He is a Guinness World Record holder (for making the world’s tightest knot – only 2.5 nm per crossing) and has been known to demonstrate that ‘sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic’!

Prof. Dr. Andreas Heinrich
Center for Quantum Nanoscience, Institute for Basic Science hosted at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Spins on Surfaces: The Scanning Probe Approach

The scanning tunneling microscope is an amazing tool because of its atomic-scale spatial resolution. This can be combined with the use of low temperatures, culminating in precise atom manipulation and spectroscopy with microvolt energy resolution. In this talk we will apply these techniques to the investigation of the quantum spin properties of magnetic atoms sitting on thin insulating films (Science 2014, PRL 2015).
Our focus will be on the combination of STM with single-atom electron spin resonance (STM-ESR) which improves the energy resolution for spin measurements more than one-thousand fold (Science 2015). This enables precision measurements such as long-range dipolar interactions between spins as well as electron-nuclear spin interactions (Nature Nano 2017, Science 2018). Combined with atom manipulation this opens a high-precision toolbox for spins on surfaces.

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Prof. Dr. Andreas Heinrich is a world-leading researcher in the field of nanoscience, quantum technology and quantum measurements. He received his PhD from the University of Göttingen and continued his academic career at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San José, California. After staying in IBM Research for 18 years, he moved to South Korea to become a professor at the Ewha Womans University and director of the Institute for Basic Science Center for Quantum Nanoscience. Prof. Heinrich is also renowned for the creation of «A Boy and his Atom», the world’s smallest stop motion film as recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records.

Prof. Dr. Jos Benschop
ASML, Veldhoven, Netherlands University of Twente, Netherlands

Optical Lithography, the key enabler for Moore’s Law.

For more than 50 years the electronics industry has enabled a revolution in our daily life due to ever decreased feature sizes on our chips enabling faster, cheaper and more energy efficient computing and data storage. This trend is commonly referred to as Moore’s Law.
To this day optical lithography has been the key enabler for Moore’s Law. As pointed out by Gordon Moore in his 1995 SPIE presentation, the “contribution from increased density from finer line widths has been constant over the last 25 years”, a trend which continues to this day.
For decades this has been made possible through a combination of wavelength reduction, increased numerical aperture (NA) and pushing imaging closer to the physical limit.
The latest transition of wavelength has been the largest step in wavelength ever: from 193 nm ArF to 13.5nm EUV light. A transition which took decades of research and development leading to the first commercial phones, with ICs patterned using EUV, on the market in 2019.
In the presentation it will be summarized how a ASML grow from small spin-off to a multinational leading in technology and market share. Solutions to technical challenges that had to be overcome for EUV lithography will be shared, e.g. the atomic flat aspheric optics and the high power EUV source. State-of-art performance as well as next steps in the optical lithography roadmap will be shared.

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Prof.dr. Jos Benschop received his MSc (cum laude) and PhD from physics faculty in Twente University. From 1984 until 1997 he worked at Philips on optical metrology and optical recording. He joined ASML in 1997.
As Senior Vice President Technology he is responsible for research and system engineering within ASML.
He has published 30+ papers and generated 20+ patents. He is an SPIE fellow and part-time professor “NNV leerstoel Industriële Natuurkunde” at the University of Twente.
He is a member of the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation (https://www.acti-nl.org/nl) . He has been appointed by the Dutch king as advisor to the Dutch government on science, technology and innovation (https://www.awti.nl/).

Prof. Dr. ir. Lieven Vandersypen
QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
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Quantum Computation — Spins Inside

Quantum computation has captivated the minds of many for almost two decades. For much of that time, it was seen mostly as an extremely interesting scientific problem. In the last few years, we have entered a new phase as the belief has grown that a large-scale quantum computer can actually be built. Quantum bits encoded in the spin state of individual electrons in silicon quantum dot arrays, have emerged as a highly promising platform for ultimate scalability. In this talk, I will present our vision of a large-scale spin-based quantum processor, and ongoing work to realize this vision

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Prof. Dr. Ir Lieven Vandersypen is an Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professor for Quantum Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology, co-director of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience and co-founder of QuTech, the advanced research centre for Quantum Computing and Quantum Internet in the Netherlands. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University for the first experiments in quantum computing. Prof. Vandersypen carried out most of his PhD research at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. He is a pioneer in single-spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots, for applications in quantum computing and quantum simulation. Among many other awards he won IUPAP Young Scientist Prize for Semiconductor Physics and the Nicholas Kurti European Science Prize.

Prof. Dr. Vivian W.W. Yam
Institute of Molecular Functional Materials and Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, PR China
www.scifac.hku.hk/people/yam-vivian-wing-wah
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From Simple Discrete Metal-Ligand Motifs to Supramolecular Assembly, Nanostructures and Functions

Various strategies for the design and synthesis of new classes of chromophoric and luminescent metal complexes will be described. These simple discrete metal complexes can undergo supramolecular assembly to give a variety of nanostructures and morphologies with different colors and emission properties. Explorations into the underlying factors that govern their structures, properties and morphologies and their assembly mechanisms have provided new insights into the interplay of the various intermolecular forces for the directed assembly of metal-containing soft materials and hybrids. The exploration into the potential applications and functions of these discrete metal complexes, supramolecular assemblies and polymers will also be described.

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Prof. Dr. Vivian W.W. Yam is the Chair Professor of Chemistry and Philip Wong Wilson Wong Professor in Chemistry and Energy at The University of Hong Kong. She received both her BSc(Hons) and PhD from The University of Hong Kong. She was elected to Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Foreign Associate of US National Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member of Academia Europaea, Fellow of TWAS and Founding Member of Hong Kong Academy of Sciences. She was Laureate of the 2011 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award. Her research interests include inorganic/organometallic chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, photophysics and photochemistry, and metal-based molecular functional materials for sensing, organic optoelectronics and energy research.

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