Conferences

Oral Presentations:

D. Ziegler (invited), Novel Probes for Reliable Scanning Probe Microscopy in Liquids,

June 15, 2016, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Meeting, Stanford, CA, USA.

D. Ziegler (invited), P. Ashby, Encased cantilevers for Low-Noise Force and Mass Sensing in Liquids, May 26-29, 2015, EIPBN2015, San Diego, CA, USA.

D. Ziegler, A. Nievergelt, D. Chmielewski, J. Tringe, P. Ashby, Encased Cantilevers for Low-Noise Mass and Force Sensing in Liquids, MNE2014, September 25, 2014, Lausanne Switzerland.

D. Ziegler (invited), P. Ashby, Fast and Gentle AFM Imaging in Liquids using Archimedean Spiral Scanning and Encased Cantilevers, April 21-25, 2014, MRS Spring Meeting 2014, CA, USA.

D. Ziegler, A. Klaassen, D. Bahri, D. Chmielewski, A. Nievergelt, F. Mugele, J. Sader, and P.D. Ashby, Encased cantilevers for Low-Noise Force and Mass Sensing in Liquids. IEEE MEMS2014 Conference, San Francisco, USA, January 26th-30th, 2014. Accepted. 56 Oral Presentations accepted out of 908 submissions.

D. Ziegler (invited), P. Ashby, Scuba Diving to the Nanometer Scale, Annual Fall Meeting, IEEE Nanotechnology Council of the SF Bay Area, Nanoengineered Biomedical Devices, Santa Clara CA, USA, November 19, 2013.

D. Ziegler, P. Kulshreshtha, A. Nievergelt, A. Chen, T. Meyer, J.-M. Chang, D. Olynick, A. Bertozzi, P. Ashby, Scuba Probes and Sensor Inpainting of Spiral Scans for High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Atomic Force Microscopy, JSAP-MRS Joint Symposia, Kyoto, Japan, September 18, 2013.

D. Ziegler, PD Ashby, Encased cantilevers for ultra-gentle AFM in liquids, ISPM 2013, International Scanning Probe Microscopy Conference, Dijon, France, June 30, 2013.

D. Ziegler, PD Ashby, High-speed AFM using sensor inpainting and non-raster scan patterns, ISPM 2013, International Scanning Probe Microscopy Conference, Dijon France, June 30, 2013.

D. Ziegler (invited), Encased cantilevers and alternative scan algorithms for ultra-gentle high-speed Atomic Force Microscopy, Mechanical Engineering, Prof. Beth L. Pruitt Group, Stanford University USA, May 9, 2013.

D. Ziegler, A. Nievergelt, D. Chmielewski, and P. D. Ashby, Encased Cantilevers for Low-Noise Atomic Force Microscopy in Liquids, Nanomechanical Sensing Workshop 2013, CA Stanford. USA, May 1-3, 2013.

P. K. Kulshreshtha, K. Maruyama, D. Ziegler, J. Blackwell, D. Olynick, P. Ashby, “Modulus Mapping in High Resolution Patterned Features”, The 57th International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology, and Nanofabrication, 2013.

D. Ziegler, PD Ashby, Encased Cantilevers for Gentle Atomic Force Microscopy and Low-Noise Force Spectroscopy in Liquids, MRS Fall Meeting 2012, Boston USA, November 27, 2012.

D. Ziegler, C. Brune, Y. Lou, T.Meyer, R. Farnham, J-M. Chang, A. Bertozzi, PD Ashby. Breaking the Raster Scan Paradigm: Spiral Scanning and Advanced Image Processing for High Speed Atomic Force Microscopy, MRS Fall Meeting 2012, Boston USA, November 28, 2012.

D. Ziegler (invited), Review of Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy Techniques for Artifact Free Topography and Surface Potential Measurements, 2012 User Meeting of The Molecular Foundry and National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. October 5, 2012.

D. Ziegler, PD Ashby, Fabrication of Encased Cantilevers for Ultra-sensitive Atomic force Microscopy In Liquids, New Frontiers in Plasma Nanopatterning III, Berkeley CA, USA, October 3, 2012.

D. Ziegler, PD Ashby, Encased Cantilevers and Alternative Scan Algorithms for Ultra-Gentle, High-speed Atomic Force Microscopy, Nanomeasure 2012, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA, USA, June 19 – 20, 2012.

D. Ziegler, B. Sanii, A. Frank, S. Frank, A. Chen, T. Meyer, R. Farnham, N. Huynh, J. DeYoreo, I. Rangelow, J.-M. Chang, A. Bertozzi, P. Ashby. Toward Capturing Soft Molecular Material Dynamics, Biomolecular Materials Principal Investigators’ Meeting–2011 October 23–26, 2011.

D. Ziegler (invited), A. Stemmer, Instrumental Developments for more Reliable Topography and Surface Potential Measurements using Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy in Lift-mode. 2nd International Workshop for SPM for Energy Applications, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, June 8-10, 2011.

F.M. Koehler, D. Ziegler, N.A. Luechinger, E.K. Athanassiou, R.N. Grass, C. Hierold, A. Stemmer, A. Jacobsen, C. Stampfer, K. Ensslin, W.J. Stark, Chemical Functionalization of Graphene Using Diazonium Chemistry, Distinguishes Between Single and Bi-layer, MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2010.

D. Ziegler, A. Stemmer, Frequency vs. Amplitude Modulation Detection in Ambient Lift-mode Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy, Advanced Atomic Force Microscopy Techniques, Karlsruhe, Germany, March 2, 2010.

D. Ziegler, A. Stemmer, Force Gradient Sensitive Detection in Lift-mode Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy (How Frequency Modulation Overcomes the Lift-Height Dependence), Seeing at the Nanoscale VIII, Basel, August 30th - September 1st, 2010.

F.M. Koehler, D. Ziegler, N.A. Luechinger, E.K. Athanassiou, R.N. Grass, C. Hierold, A.Stemmer, W.J. Stark, Permanent and pattern-resolved adjustment of the surface potential of graphene-like carbon through chemical functionalization, MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 13-17, 2009.

D. Ziegler, A. Stemmer, Kelvin Probe Methods to Compensate Electrostatic Forces in Ambient AFM, Multifrequency AFM Conference, Madrid Spain, September 15, 2008.

D. Ziegler, C. Stampfer, F. Molitor, D. Graf, A. Stemmer, Scanning Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy on Single- and Few-Layer Graphene, MRS Spring Meeting San Francisco, CA, USA, March 26, 2008.

D. Ziegler, N. Naujoks, A. Stemmer, Compensating Electrostatic Forces in Tapping Mode AFM, Scanning Microscopies and Organic Materials XVI, Hamburg Germany, September 27, 2007.

D. Ziegler, N. Naujoks, A. Stemmer, Compensating Electrostatic Forces in AFM Topography, Simultaneous Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy and Tapping Mode, MNE06 Barcelona Spain, September 18, 2006.

D. Ziegler, A. Stemmer, Apparent Heigth in Dynamic AFM, Electrostatic Force Compensation, Using Single Scan KFM in Ambient ICN+T 2006, Basel, Switzerland, August 04, 2006.

D. Ziegler, Ph. Coquet, A. Tixier, G. Tresset, H. Fujita, S. Takeuchi, Microfluidic device immobilization of bio-vesicles towards controlled on chip electrofusion, 13th Int. Conf. on Solid State Sensors Actuators and Microsystems, Transducers 2005. Seoul Korea, June 5-9, 2005.

D. Ziegler, T. Suzuki, S. Takeuchi, Flexible Parylene Neural Probes with Integrated Microfluidic Channels, UTAS 2004 Malmö, Sweden, September 26-30, 2004.

T. Suzuki, Sh. Takeuchi, D. Ziegler, O. Fukayama, Y. Morishita, D. Frutiger, K. Ishii, K. Mabuchi: Development of flexible neural probes and their application to rat brain interfaces, Society of Instrument and Control Engineers 2004 in Sapporo, 3rd-6th August, 2004.

T. Suzuki, D. Ziegler, K. Mabuchi and S. Takeuchi: Development of flexible neural probe with micro fluidic channel and its application to neural interface, 43td Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering in Kanazawa, 19-21th May, 2004.

D. Ziegler, S. Ferazzutti, D. Bertrand, A.M. Ionescu, Ph. Renaud, ''An Oscillating Active CMOS Pixel for Subretinal Stimulation'', Eurosensors XVI, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2002.

Posters:

D. Ziegler, Scuba Probe Technologies LLC, Presentation, NSF SBIR Phase II awardee conference, Atlanta, GA, USA. June 2016.

D. Ziegler, A. Chen, S. Frank, A. Frank, R. Farnham, N. Huynh, T. Meyer, J-M Chang, I. Rangelow, A. Bertozzi, P. Ashby, Encased Cantilevers and Alternative Scan Algorithms for Ultra-gentle High Speed Atomic Force Microscopy, 2012 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit April 9 - April 13, 2012. Award of Excellent Contribution MRS2012.

D. Ziegler, D. Bahri, A. Klaassen, P.D. Ashby, Encased cantilevers for ultra-low-noise force spectroscopy, Presented at 56th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting 2012, 25 - 29 Feb 2012. Awarded MUST READ on F1000 Posters, DOI:10.3410/f.14213964.15729067, http://f1000.com/posters/browse/summary/1089949

D. Ziegler, P. Gava, F.Molitor, L. Wirtz, F. Mauri, C. Stampfer, A. Stemmer, The Work Function of doped Single and Few-layer Nanotechnology Group Graphene studied by Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy and ab-intio DFT Calculations, MRS Spring Meeting 2010, San Francisco, 2010.

A. Sonnenfeld, S. Desportes, D. Ziegler, Ph. Rudolf von Rohr, Plasma Surfaces Activation for the Attachment of Catalyst Nanoparticles on Bare Steel , 11th International Conference on Microreaction Technology, Kyoto Japan, March 8, 2010.

D. Ziegler, N. Naujoks, R. Stark, A. Stemmer, Influence of Electrostatic Forces on Apparent Height in Dynamic AFM, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Sensors, and Nanostructures, Montpellier France, 2006.

D. Ziegler, T.Suzuki, Sh. Takeuchi, Thin-film Parylene neural probes with microelectrodes and integrated microfluidic channels, Society for Chemistry and Micro-Nano Systems 2004, Kyoto Japan 2004.