The 7th European Symposium on nano-mechanical Testing
5. - 7. September 2006
in Hückelhoven / Germany
organized in collaboration with 
Symposium Programme
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
| 2:00 p.m. | SURFACE Customer Meeting |
| 6:00 p.m. | Welcome Reception |
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
| 9:00 a.m. | O P E N I N G |
***** Nanomechanics in Medicine *****
| 9:10 a.m. |
Nano-indentation of biological materials: Emphasis on teeth |
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Michael Swain /
University of Sydney, Australia
(invited lecture, video) |
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| 10:10 a.m. | Abrasion tests on human enamel under wet and dry condition |
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Griselda Guidoni /
University of Leoben, Austria
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| 10:30 a.m. | A comparison of the nanomechanical properties of hyaline and repair cartilage |
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Oliver Franke /
University of Erlangen, Germany
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10:50 a.m. – 11:20 a.m. coffee break
***** MEMS, micro- and nanomaterials *****
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11:20 a.m. |
Comparative study of the rheological properties of UV-LIGA-Nickel as determined by indentation combined with inverse methods, microtensile and micro-compression tests |
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Patrick Schwaller
/ EMPA, Thun, Switzerland
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| 11:40 a.m. | Micromechanical testing of elastomers and MEMS structures |
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Warren Oliver / MTS
Nanoinstruments, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch
***** Experiments and related Modeling in nanomechanical testing *****
| 1:00 p.m. | Model of a superlattice indentation |
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Zygmunt Rymuza /
Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
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1:20 p.m. |
Yield strength of pliant and porous coating materials under complete analytical consideration of the substrate effect |
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Matthias Herrmann
/ TU Chemnitz, Germany
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| 1:40 p.m. | Extraction of viscoelastic material properties taking the real tip geometry into account |
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Andreas Jäger
/ TU Wien, Austria
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| 2:00 p.m. | Assessing gradient theory at the Micron and Nano Scales |
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Elias Aifantis /
University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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2:20 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. coffee break
| 2:50 p.m. |
Image correlation and tracking techniques for strain measurements on the micron-scale |
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Christoph Eberl /
JHU Baltimore, MD, USA
(short invited lecture, video) |
3:20 p.m. – 4:20 p.m Poster Session & Coffee break
***** Viscoelastic Materials *****
| 4:20 p.m. | Nanoindentation behavior and mechanical properties measurements of polymeric materials |
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Robert F. Cook / NIST,
USA
(invited lecture, video) |
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| 5:20 p.m. | Soft polymer mechanics investigated by nanoindentation and in-situ testing |
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Julia Deuschle / MPI for
Metals Research, Stuttgart, Germany
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| 5:40 p.m. | Screening of EPDM curing states using nano-indentation |
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Hans Kranenburg /
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
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6:00 p.m. – 6:20 p.m. coffee break
***** Nanomechanical Tools for Exploring Biology *****
| 6:20 p.m. |
Detection of functional states of molecularly imprinted thin films with multi-cycling nanoindentation |
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Joseph J. Belbruno / Dartmouth College, Hanover,
NH, USA
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| 6:40 p.m. | Mechanical properties of biotools and their dependence on wet or dry state |
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Thomas Schöberl
/ Erich Schmid Institute, Leoben, Austria
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| 7:30 p.m. | Shuttle to Conference Dinner |
Thursday, September 7th, 2006
***** Applied Materials *****
| 8:40 a.m | Round Robin on Polycarbonate |
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Alexander Karbach /
Bayer, Krefeld, Germany
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| 9:00 a.m.
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Investigation of the viscoelastic properties of SU8 photo resist at different stages of processing by nanoindentation creep and stress relaxation tests |
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Kirsten Ingolf
Schiffmann / IST, Braunschweig, Germany
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| 9:20 a.m. | Nanomechanical investigation of SiNO coatings on Si and on steel substrates |
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Peter M. Nagy /
CRC, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary
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| 9:40 a.m. |
Getting accurate nanoindentation data from zinc: Time dependent and microstructural effects |
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Reza Rastegar Tohid
/ University Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K
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| 10:00 a.m. | Indentation-induced densification of soda-lime silicate glass |
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Satoshi Yoshida /
The University of Shiga Prefecture, Hikone, Shiga,
Japan
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10:20 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. coffee break
***** Novel Applications and measuring techniques *****
| 10:50 a.m. | Nanothermal analysis (nano-TA) at sub-100 nm spatial resolution |
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Michael Reading /
University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.
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| 11:10 a.m. | Bulge testing of thin films in an atomic force microscope |
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Elmar Schweitzer /
University of Erlangen, Germany
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| 11:30 a.m. |
In situ electrochemical nanoindentation: A novel method for study of chemomechanical effects |
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Afrooz Barnoush /
University Saarbrücken, Germany
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| 11:50 a.m. |
High sensitivity nano scale mapping of elastic moduli |
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Yaniv Ganor / Technion,
Haifa, Israel
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| 12:10 p.m. | The impact of ion implantation on mechanical properties of MgO studied by nanoindentation |
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Bodo Wolf / FH
Lausitz, Senftenberg, Germany
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12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Lunch
***** Nanotribology *****
| 2:00 p.m. | Friction and plasticity at the atomic scale |
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Roland Bennewitz / McGill
University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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(invited lecture, video)
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| 3:00 p.m. | Nano-wear test on polymer-CNT composite |
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Dora Aranyi / CRC,
Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary
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| 3:20 p.m. | Closing and Farewell |
Poster Session: September 6th, 2006, 3:20 p.m.
Poster Format; A0 Portrait (841 x 1189 mm)
| 1) Gradient Plasticity and Nanoindentation Near Grain Boundaries |
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Katerina Aifantis /
University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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2) Application of different
evaluation methods in hardness of a-C:H films on polymer |
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Ruben Bartali /
ITC-IRST, Povo-Trent, Italy
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| 3) Characterization of the deformation and disruption behavior of single microorganisms |
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Judith Hölzer / TU
Braunschweig, Germany
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| 4) Mechanical properties of nanostructured polymer particles for anisotropicconductive adhesive |
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He Jianying /
Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Trondheim, Norway
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| 5) Nanomechanical studies of ultrathin polymeric resist films |
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Adam Koszewski / University
of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
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| 6) Deviations from the Nix-Gao model |
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Rester Martin /
Erich Schmid Institute, Leoben, Austria
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| 7) Investigations of the mechanical properties of
semiconductors by the method of nanoindentation with complementary simulations |
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Ferenc Molnar / TU
Chemnitz, Germany
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| 8) Nanomechanical studies of MEMS structures |
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Marius Pustan /
University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
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