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Erwin Kessels

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Eindhoven, the Netherlands
I’m a professor in Applied Physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. I’m leading the Plasma & Materials Processing group, which is a large research group working in the plasma science, materials science and surface science domain. A large part of the current research focuses on the preparation of nanolayers and nanostructures by atomic layer deposition and related processes. And I’m responsible for this blog!
Personal perspective
November 25, 2017

Surface science aspects of (plasma) ALD reactions
– Extending the legacy of Harold Winters

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The fact that Dr. Harold Winters passed away last year – at the age of 83 – has led to initiatives in tribute of Harold and his profound contributions to plasma science. One of these initiatives is a Special Issue

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Personal perspective
August 25, 2017

In situ spectroscopic ellipsometry and ALD
– How ellipsometry became a popular technique to monitor ALD film growth

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Serendipity is often cited as a key factor in scientific innovations. I can fully confirm this as will also be obvious from the subtitle of this blog site: “Blog about strategy, serendipity and vision in nanoscience”. From my point of

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Future perspective
July 3, 2017

The dawn of atomic-scale processing
– The growing importance of atomic layer deposition and etching

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A few weeks ago, the big news was that the research alliance of IBM, Global Foundries and Samsung unveiled the world’s first 5 nm chip as we could all read everywhere over the internet [1]. Most notable was however the

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Conferences
May 6, 2017

2nd Area-selective deposition workshop (ASD 2017)
– Flashback

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On April 20-21, the 2nd Area Selective Deposition workshop (ASD 2017) took place in Eindhoven.  Here we give a brief flashback of the workshop and include several photographs of the meeting, including a group photo of the participants. The workshop

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Personal perspective
April 10, 2017

ALD-enabled nanopatterning: area-selective ALD by area-activation
– Reflecting on ASD 2016 with the ASD 2017 workshop approaching

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The 2nd Area Selective Deposition workshop (ASD 2017, link) is approaching quickly now. The workshop will take place in Eindhoven on April 21 and my colleague Adrie Mackus is the main organizer. With the upcoming workshop in mind, I thought

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Personal perspective
March 13, 2017

ALD for Self-Aligned Multiple Patterning (SAxP)
– How litho has become patterning and requires ALD

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Two weeks ago I attended the SPIE Advanced Lithography conference in San Jose (February 26 – March 2) and I got so much inspired that I wanted to write a blog about it. It was my second time at this

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Personal perspective
January 1, 2017

PECVD of amorphous silicon for lithium ion batteries
– How my PhD might be applied in industry

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Recently I did an interesting discovery: the work that I did during my PhD (1996 – 2000) might be at the basis of a radical new technology to produce anodes of Li-ion batteries, anodes based on silicon nanowires instead of

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