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These advantages stem from organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors (OMIECs) that enable simultaneous transport of electronic charges and ionic species, which can be direct processed via electropolymerization. This technique offers precise control over polymer film thickness and morphology, facilitating the formation of nanostructures and enabling selective patterning on individual channels without complex photolithography, simplifying OECT fabrication and integration. In this talk, I will discuss the performance of OECTs using various electropolymerized channel materials, starting with PEDOT for dopamine detection, followed PEDOT:N<sub>3</sub>, a clickable OMIEC variant whose threshold voltage can be finely tuned through control of the electropolymerization parameters, and finally P-tri-DPA for zinc ion detection, achieving low limits of detection and high specificity for Zn²⁺ ions. 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Celebrated around the world, this date was chosen to commemorate the World Health Organization’s (WHO) decision on May 17, 1990, to no longer consider homosexuality as a mental illness. <br>\r\n<br>\r\nTo mark the occasion, the Office for Equality (VPH-WINC) invites you to visit the exhibition “LGBTIQphobic Discrimination Around the World, in Europe, and in Switzerland” on the flat space in front of the library at the Rolex Learning Center, from 13 May 2026. <br>\r\n<br>\r\nThis exhibition highlights the meanings of the letters in the LGBTQIA+ acronym, as well as content documenting the state of LGBTIQphobic discrimination on a global, European, and Swiss scale. The exhibition incorporates scientific data from various research institutions, such as the NGO ILGA and Unisanté. Visitors will have the opportunity to reflect and engage through interactive elements while discovering or deepening their knowledge on the subject.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nPlease feel free to share this message or spread the word!<br>\r\n </p>", "image_description": "IDAHOBIT written on an Rainbow background", "creation_date": "2026-05-12T17:03:22", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-12T17:24:09", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "RLC G1 231", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==RLC%20G1%20231", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "", "organizer": "Bureau de l'égalité (VPH-WINC-DEI)", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">[email protected]</a>", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "IDAHOBIT; Journée internationale contre l'homophobie la biphobie, interphobie et la transphobie;", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120741/", "category": { "id": 5, "code": "EXPO", "fr_label": "Expositions", "en_label": "Exhibitions", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/4/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/5/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/79/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/145/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/21/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/425/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/27/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71877, "title": "Aligning Models Throughout Training", "slug": "aligning-models-throughout-training", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/aligning-models-throughout-training", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33199/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33199/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33199/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-06-18", "end_date": "2026-06-18", "start_time": "13:00:00", "end_time": "15:00:00", "description": "<u>EDIC candidacy exam</u><br>\r\nExam president: Prof. Martin Jaggi<br>\r\nThesis advisor: Prof. Robert West<br>\r\nCo-examiner: Prof. Nicolas Flammarion<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Abstract</u><br>\r\ncoming soon<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Selected papers</u><br>\r\ncoming soon", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-13T12:37:39", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-13T12:37:39", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BC 333", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20333", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "Raghav Singhal", "organizer": "", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "EDIC candidacy exam", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120764/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - 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Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/402/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/7/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71884, "title": "Inverse Rendering: From Surfaces to Continuous Formulations", "slug": "inverse-rendering-from-surfaces-to-continuous-fo-2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/inverse-rendering-from-surfaces-to-continuous-fo-2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33206/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33206/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33206/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-06-10", "end_date": "2026-06-10", "start_time": "17:00:00", "end_time": null, "description": "<p>Thesis Director: Prof. W. A. Jakob,<br>\r\nComputer and Communication Sciences doctoral program<br>\r\nThesis Nr. 11469<br>\r\n<br>\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-13T15:01:14", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-13T15:01:30", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BC 420", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\"><strong>Ziyi ZHANG</strong></a>", "organizer": "", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\"><strong>Ziyi ZHANG</strong></a><br>\r\n ", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "EDIC", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120774/", "category": { "id": 12, "code": "SOUTE", "fr_label": "Soutenances de thèses", "en_label": "Thesis defenses", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/27/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71885, "title": "Eveline Mayner's Public Defense", "slug": "eveline-mayner-s-public-defense", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/eveline-mayner-s-public-defense", "visual_url": null, "visual_large_url": null, "visual_maxsize_url": null, "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-05-29", "end_date": "2026-05-29", "start_time": "04:00:00", "end_time": "22:00:00", "description": "<p>Two-dimensional (2D) materials have emerged as a versatile platform at the intersection of fundamental physics and applied science. Their atomically thin nature gives rise to distinctive electronic and optical properties, while simultaneously enabling them to function as highly sensitive, readily integrable probes of their local environment. Advanced optical techniques, such as super-resolution microscopy, have opened new opportunities to interrogate these materials at the nanoscale, providing optical access to individual defect behaviors, exciton diffusion and recombination dynamics, and charge transport pathways. Such approaches not only deepen our understanding of intrinsic material behavior but also position 2D systems as powerful sensors capable of resolving local dielectric variations, electric and magnetic fields, and other environmental perturbations.<br>\r\nCentral to this work is hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), a transparent, wide bandgap semiconductor that serves as a host for optically active defects. These defects function as reaction centers, single-photon emitters, and spatially resolved nanoscale sensors that can be readily integrated into electronic and photonic architectures. Owing to its optical transparency, chemical stability, and compatibility with diverse material platforms, hBN provides an exceptional foundation for optical sensing. Building upon this foundation, we explore material properties and present new methods for spatially resolved in situ optical imaging with hBN to advance dynamic, wide-field optical sensing.<br>\r\nWe investigate a previously reported class of emitters that arise from interactions between native hBN and organic solvents. These emitters are believed to originate from defect sites that bind transiently to solvent molecules. To study their behavior, we develop a platform for imaging the dynamics of these transient emitters while varying the electrochemical potential and applying electric fields with controlled orientations. By tracking the spectra of individual emitters, we enable multiplexed measurements that allow spatially resolved electrochemical imaging. Through systematic analysis, we rule out modulation mechanisms based on direct electric field effects or charge transfer. Instead, we identify a mechanism driven by changes in H⁺ concentration, which is modulated during the oxidation of trace water present in the solvent. This finding opens the possibility of using this platform for sensitive detection of H⁺ and trace water in methanol fuel cells, where such species critically influence operational efficiency.<br>\r\nIn the final part of the thesis, we focus on a well-characterized spin defect in hBN, the negatively charged boron vacancy, and explore strategies to enhance its photoluminescence (PL) through heterostructure engineering that facilitates energy and exciton transfer. We demonstrate the coupled structure’s improved utility in optical magnetometry compared to the defect by itself and discuss how improvements in PL could advance the development of wide-field optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) imaging using this spin defect. Using a defect in hBN would leverage 2D materials’ exceptional sensing capabilities and planar integrability.<br>\r\nOverall, this thesis aims to highlight the strengths of integrating 2D materials with optical sensing and to develop transferable techniques for introducing controlled stimuli, such as electrochemical potentials, electric fields, or electromagnetic waves, with high fidelity and minimal artifacts. These advances not only demonstrate the potential of hBN as a versatile sensing platform but also establish methodologies applicable to a wide range of low-dimensional material systems.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nFor zoom:<br>\r\n Meeting ID: 611 3428 2068 Passcode: 952027</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-13T16:07:39", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-13T16:07:39", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "ELA 1", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ELA%201", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/61134282068?pwd=zurg0qXVsUx4ln0hxCcrvjDCiHhwSx.1", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Eveline Mayner\r\n\r\nAleksandra Radenovic", "organizer": "Eveline Mayner", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "Public Defense", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120775/", "category": { "id": 4, "code": "DIVERS", "fr_label": "Autres types d’événement", "en_label": "Miscellaneous", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71888, "title": "Optimization of on-demand shared mobility: passenger and freight applications", "slug": "optimization-of-on-demand-shared-mobility-passen-2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/optimization-of-on-demand-shared-mobility-passen-2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33207/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33207/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33207/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-05-28", "end_date": "2026-05-28", "start_time": "10:30:00", "end_time": null, "description": "<p>Thesis Director: Prof. N. 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