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Overview

Ute Drechsler is affiliated with IBM Research - Zurich in Switzerland. Their research output spans engineering and physics and astronomy, with a focus on electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

Drechsler's recent published work includes the following papers:

  • Ultrafast tunable lasers using lithium niobate integrated photonics, 2023, Nature
  • A heterogeneously integrated lithium niobate-on-silicon nitride photonic platform, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Full thermoelectric characterization of a single molecule, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Filamentary TaOx/HfO2 ReRAM Devices for Neural Networks Training with Analog In-Memory Computing, 2022, Advanced Electronic Materials
  • Monitoring Solid-Phase Reactions in Self-Assembled Monolayers by Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

The scientist's research topics cover a wide range of areas including photonic and optical devices, advanced fiber laser technologies, photorefractive and nonlinear optics, electrowetting and microfluidic technologies, gold and silver nanoparticles synthesis and applications, advanced memory and neural computing, and ferroelectric and negative capacitance devices.

Drechsler frequently publishes in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), arXiv (Cornell University), Nature Communications, Nature, and Advanced Electronic Materials.

Collaborative research has been conducted regularly with several coauthors, who include:

  • Youri Popoff
  • Annina Riedhauser
  • Daniele Caimi
  • Paul Seidler
  • Emanuel Lörtscher

Best Publications

  • The "millipede" - nanotechnology entering data storage

    P. Vettiger;G. Cross;M. Despont;U. Drechsler

  • The Millipede: more than one thousand tips for future AFM data storage

    P. Vettiger;M. Despont;U. Drechsler;U. Dürig

  • A cantilever array-based artificial nose

    M.K Baller;M.K Baller;H.P Lang;H.P Lang;J Fritz;J Fritz;Ch Gerber

  • Autonomous microfluidic capillary system.

    David Juncker;Heinz Schmid;Ute Drechsler;Heiko Wolf

  • Ultrahigh-density atomic force microscopy data storage with erase capability

    G. Binnig;M. Despont;U. Drechsler;W. Häberle

  • Ultralow nanoscale wear through atom-by-atom attrition in silicon-containing diamond-like carbon

    Harish Bhaskaran;Bernd Gotsmann;Abu Sebastian;Ute Drechsler

  • Ultrafast tunable lasers using lithium niobate integrated photonics

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  • Thermal and electrical signatures of a hydrodynamic electron fluid in tungsten diphosphide.

    J Gooth;J Gooth;F Menges;F Menges;N Kumar;V Süβ

  • Ultrahigh density, high-data-rate NEMS-based AFM data storage system

    P. Vettiger;J. Brugger;M. Despont;U. Drechsler

  • VLSI-NEMS chip for parallel AFM data storage

    M. Despont;J. Brugger;U. Drechsler;U. Dürig

  • Effect of low numerical-aperture femtosecond two-photon absorption on (SU-8) resist for ultrahigh-aspect-ratio microstereolithography

    W. H. Teh;U. Dürig;U. Drechsler;C. G. Smith

  • 5×5 2D AFM cantilever arrays a first step towards a Terabit storage device

    M. Lutwyche;C. Andreoli;G. Binnig;J. Brugger

  • Electrical and Thermal Transport at the Planckian Bound of Dissipation in the Hydrodynamic Electron Fluid of WP2

    J. Gooth;F. Menges;C. Shekhar;V. Süß

  • Higher modes of vibration increase mass sensitivity in nanomechanical microcantilevers

    Murali Krishna Ghatkesar;Viola Barwich;Thomas Braun;Jean-Pierre Ramseyer

  • Soft, entirely photoplastic probes for scanning force microscopy

    G. Genolet;J. Brugger;M. Despont;U. Drechsler

  • Selective Transfer Technology for Microdevice Distribution

    R. Guerre;U. Drechsler;D. Jubin;M. Despont

  • A heterogeneously integrated lithium niobate-on-silicon nitride photonic platform

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  • Probe-based ultrahigh-density storage technology

    A. Pantazi;A. Sebastian;T. A. Antonakopoulos;P. Bächtold

  • SU-8 for real three-dimensional subdiffraction-limit two-photon microfabrication

    W. H. Teh;U. Dürig;G. Salis;R. Harbers

  • Highly parallel data storage system based on scanning probe arrays

    M. I. Lutwyche;M. Despont;U. Drechsler;U. Dürig

  • Wafer-scale microdevice transfer/interconnect: its application in an AFM-based data-storage system

    M. Despont;U. Drechsler;R. Yu;H.B. Pogge

  • A vertical microfluidic probe.

    G. V. Kaigala;R. D. Lovchik;U. Drechsler;E. Delamarche

Frequent Co-Authors

Michel Despont
Michel Despont Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (Switzerland)
Hugo E. Rothuizen
Hugo E. Rothuizen IBM Research - Zurich
Peter Vettiger
Peter Vettiger École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Bernd Gotsmann
Bernd Gotsmann IBM Research - Zurich
Mark A. Lantz
Mark A. Lantz IBM Research - Zurich
Christoph Hagleitner
Christoph Hagleitner IBM (United States)
Abu Sebastian
Abu Sebastian IBM Research - Zurich
Emmanuel Delamarche
Emmanuel Delamarche IBM Research - Zurich
Heike Riel
Heike Riel IBM (United States)
Hans Peter Lang
Hans Peter Lang University of Basel

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