Tailoring materials properties locally at will, fulfilling an old dream?
Event details
| Date | 07.09.2016 |
| Hour | 17:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Yves Bellouard, Institute of Microengineering, EPFL |
| Location | |
| Category | Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture |
INAUGURAL LECTURE
Abstract:
Since the dawn of humanity, shaping and transforming materials have played a decisive and ever increasing role in our life. Materials are the basic constituents of devices surrounding us, but could they themselves be turned into devices or even systems on their own, becoming not just a constituent of more complex objects? Could we simply imprint in the material a sophisticated behavior?
Transforming materials into ‘intelligent object’ has fed the imagination for centuries and forms the basis of numerous myths such as Pygmalion and Galatea or the Golem. But beyond legends and myths, Science is now providing us tools to tailor materials properties in a way that part of this dream is becoming attainable.
For instance, ultrashort laser pulses – the fastest man-made time events and among the highest generated instant power, allow unprecedented opportunities for locally tailoring material properties in three dimensions, turning them into something more than just a block of matter with a given set of physical properties.
Here, we will discuss how this peculiar laser-matter interaction and generic concept of material-device have the potential to revolutionize manufacturing, and ultimately, how it may define a new paradigm in system design at the smaller scale. Further, we will illustrate the premises and achievements towards this ambitious endeavor, with concrete examples produced in our laboratory.
Program:
- Introduction by Prof. Christian Enz, Director of the Institute of Microengineering
- Inaugural lecture of Prof. Yves Bellouard, "Tailoring materials properties locally at will, fulfilling an old dream?"
Please register here : http://go.epfl.ch/bellouard
Bio:
Dr Yves Bellouard is an Associate Professor in Microengineering at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he heads the Galatea lab and the Richemont Chair in Multiscale Manufacturing Technologies. He received a BS in Theoretical Physics and a MS in Applied Physics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France in 1994-1995 and a PhD in Microengineering from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2000.
Before joining EPFL in 2015, he was an Associate Professor at Eindhoven University of Technologies (TU/e) in the Netherlands, where he stayed ten years, and prior to that, Research Scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York for about four years where he started working on femtosecond laser processing of glass materials.
His current research interests are on new paradigms for system integration at the microscale and in particular, laser-based methods to tailor material properties for achieving higher level of integration in microsystems, like for instance integrating optics, mechanics and fluidics in a single monolith.
Abstract:
Since the dawn of humanity, shaping and transforming materials have played a decisive and ever increasing role in our life. Materials are the basic constituents of devices surrounding us, but could they themselves be turned into devices or even systems on their own, becoming not just a constituent of more complex objects? Could we simply imprint in the material a sophisticated behavior?
Transforming materials into ‘intelligent object’ has fed the imagination for centuries and forms the basis of numerous myths such as Pygmalion and Galatea or the Golem. But beyond legends and myths, Science is now providing us tools to tailor materials properties in a way that part of this dream is becoming attainable.
For instance, ultrashort laser pulses – the fastest man-made time events and among the highest generated instant power, allow unprecedented opportunities for locally tailoring material properties in three dimensions, turning them into something more than just a block of matter with a given set of physical properties.
Here, we will discuss how this peculiar laser-matter interaction and generic concept of material-device have the potential to revolutionize manufacturing, and ultimately, how it may define a new paradigm in system design at the smaller scale. Further, we will illustrate the premises and achievements towards this ambitious endeavor, with concrete examples produced in our laboratory.
Program:
- Introduction by Prof. Christian Enz, Director of the Institute of Microengineering
- Inaugural lecture of Prof. Yves Bellouard, "Tailoring materials properties locally at will, fulfilling an old dream?"
Please register here : http://go.epfl.ch/bellouard
Bio:
Dr Yves Bellouard is an Associate Professor in Microengineering at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he heads the Galatea lab and the Richemont Chair in Multiscale Manufacturing Technologies. He received a BS in Theoretical Physics and a MS in Applied Physics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France in 1994-1995 and a PhD in Microengineering from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2000.
Before joining EPFL in 2015, he was an Associate Professor at Eindhoven University of Technologies (TU/e) in the Netherlands, where he stayed ten years, and prior to that, Research Scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York for about four years where he started working on femtosecond laser processing of glass materials.
His current research interests are on new paradigms for system integration at the microscale and in particular, laser-based methods to tailor material properties for achieving higher level of integration in microsystems, like for instance integrating optics, mechanics and fluidics in a single monolith.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Sylvie Deschamps