Publications de Jürgen Brugger

Additive manufacturing of flexible, biodegradable drug implants for sustained multi-drug release into the cochlea

Sensorineural hearing loss is a profound form of deafness, arising from damage to cochlear hair cells, which can be treated by limited clinical options such as cochlear implants. However, the implantation procedure carries the inherent risk of electrode in ...

2025

Additive manufacturing of water-soluble 3D micro molds for complex-shaped lipid microparticles

Jürgen Brugger, Arnaud Bertsch, Jongeon Park

Micro and nanoparticles made from polymers, metals, ceramics, and lipids are crucial for biomedical devices, energy storage, and electronics. Traditional fabrication methods like grinding, milling, and emulsification result in monolithic shapes and heterog ...

2025

Combination of Thermal Scanning Probe Lithography and Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers

Jürgen Brugger, Arnaud Bertsch, Berke Erbas

The fabrication of semiconductor quantum devices necessitates sub-20 nm features and high-density patterning, often exceeding the capabilities of current state-of-the-art lithographic techniques. To address this challenge, in this work, the combination of ...

SPIE2025

Superconducting microwave oscillators as detectors for ESR spectroscopy

Jürgen Brugger, Giovanni Boero, Yu Rao, Reza Farsi

Microwave superconducting resonators are extensively studied in fields such as quantum computing and electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy. However, the integration of superconducting resonators with feedback mechanisms to create ultra-low noise oscil ...

2025

Beyond the Mask: Advancing Fabrication and Immersive Learning

Jürgen Brugger, Arnaud Bertsch, Jongeon Park, Berke Erbas, Chenxiang Zhang

This paper presents advances in micro and nanofabrication techniques beyond conventional lithographic masks with examples of inkj et printing, nanostencil lithography, molecular-level doping methods, and thermal scanning probe lithography. These methods en ...

IEEE2025

3D Lipid Microrobots for Simultaneous Delivery of Lipophilic and Hydrophilic Drugs

Jürgen Brugger, Arnaud Bertsch, Jongeon Park

This study presents the development of a 3D lipid microhelix capable of simultaneously delivering drugs with different characteristics, including water-soluble and poorly water-soluble drugs. Lipid microhelix encapsulating magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) and ...

IEEE2025

Near-Room-Temperature Detection of Aromatic Compounds with Inkjet-Printed Plasticized Polymer Composites

Jürgen Brugger, Thomas Maeder, Mohammadmahdi Kiaee

Chemiresistive gas sensors composed of a thermoplastic polymer matrix and conductive fillers offer various advantages for detecting volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including low power consumption due to near-room-temperature operation, high sensitivity, ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Performance Comparison of Shape Memory Polymer Structures Printed by Fused Deposition Modeling and Melt Electrowriting

Jürgen Brugger, Arnaud Bertsch, Biranche Tandon, Taavet Kangur, Reza Farsi

Fused deposition modeling (FDM) and melt electrowriting (MEW) are techniques that use polymer fibers as building blocks for printing complex 3D structures, with fibers at the macroscopic and micrometer scale. Here, FDM and MEW are used to produce fibers of ...

Wiley2024

Multi- and Gray-Scale Thermal Lithography of Silk Fibroin as Water-Developable Resist for Micro and Nanofabrication

Jürgen Brugger, Ya Wang, Mohammadreza Rostami

Silk fibroin (SF) is a natural material with polymorphic structures that determine its water solubility and biodegradability, which can be altered by exposing it to heat. Here, a hybrid thermal lithography method combining scalable microscale laser-based p ...

Wiley2024

Deterministic grayscale nanotopography to engineer mobilities in strained MoS2 FETs

Jürgen Brugger, Nicola Marzari, Andras Kis, Giovanni Boero, Georg Fantner, Xia Liu, Marcos Penedo Garcia, Norma Rivano, Jin Jiang, Berke Erbas

Field-effect transistors (FETs) based on two-dimensional materials (2DMs) with atomically thin channels have emerged as a promising platform for beyond-silicon electronics. However, low carrier mobility in 2DM transistors driven by phonon scattering remain ...

Nature Research2024