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Embassy of Switzerland in Japan

State Secretariat for Education and Research

Swiss Science Corner and Guardian Angels Seminar , nano tech 201 2, February 15-17, 2012 • S&T Office Tokyo of 3

Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft

Confédération suisse

Confederazione Svizzera

Confederaziun svizra

Swiss Science Corner and Guardian Angels Seminar du ring nano tech 2012 Why Swiss nanotechnology in Japan?

nano tech 2012, the International Nanotechnology Exhibition & Conferenc e in Tokyo is the world’s largest of its kind and Japan in general is considered a forerunner in the field of nanotech. Therefore, nano tech 2012 is an outstanding opportunity to present Switzerland as a leading country in nanotechnology to an international and di-verse audience with representatives from academia and the private sector. The huge scale of the exhibition poses a challenge for individual research institutes and companies to present themselves effectively. The official pres-ence of Switzerland at nano tech 2012 greatly supports Swiss research institutes and companies in presenting their newest innovations and research in an effective manner. This in turn helps Switzerland to strengthen its image as an innovative country on a global scale and leads to further important collaboration opportunities, such as for the EU "Future and Emerging Technologies" (FET) Flagship Initiative "Guardian Angels" . The EU FET Flagship Initiative "Guardian Angels" is planning to boost the development of disruptive nanoelectronic technologies to improve the energy efficiency of future integrated circuits and reduce their power consumption by orders of magnitude. In this context, research on spin-related phenomena in condensed matter, novel concepts and the implementation of ultra low-power spintronics devices are of high interest. The GA Consortium is willing to prospect for setting a world-wide cooperation in spintronics research.

Goals

Promote Switzerland’s excellence in the field of nanotechnology by supporting Swiss research institutes and their presence at nano tech 2012: • Support EPFL in presenting the EU FET Flagship Initiative "Guardian Angels". • Support Swiss MNT network in presenting their latest innovations, activities and services. • Establish collaboration contacts with international representatives from research institutes, academia & industry.

Results

Swiss Science Corner International cooperation and knowledge-transfer between countries remain to be seen as an important aspect of progressing R&D of new technologies in the world of nanotech and the significance is likely to increase. With this motivation, the Swiss Science Corner offered space to the EU FET Flagship Initiative "Guardian Angels" and the Swiss MNT network. A total of 189 contacts were successfully established with visitors interested in Swiss nanotechnology. These valuable contacts are now being served with regular information and science news from Switzerland. In addition, visitors have been given the “Na-no- / Micro-Technology Digest of Switzerland” , which is in the attachment of this report. In total over 45’024 visitors passed by the Swiss Pavilion.

The EU FET Flagship Initiative "Guardian Angels" pr esented at the Swiss Embassy Ambassador Urs Bucher kindly hosted a high-level seminar on the EU FET Flagship Initiative "Guardian Angels". After Dr. Gerhard Escher (Senior Ad-viser to the President, EPFL) introduced EPFL and its research, Professor Adrian Ionescu (EPFL) presented the EU FET Flagship Initiative "Guar-dian Angels" during a seminar at the Swiss Embassy with 46 high-level participants from academia and industry. Smart personal sensors of the future are enabled by nanotech and hold a huge potential in the fields of Life Science, traffic management and personal security amongst others. The initiative is actively seeking cooperation partners from Japan which is consi-

dered to be among the leading nanotechnology nations. Prof. Hiroshi Iwai (Tokyo Institute of Technology), Prof. Hideo Ohno (Tohoku University), Dr. Hidemi Ishiuchi (Toshiba Corp.) and Dr. Heike Riel (IBM Switzerland) pre-sented their research and ideas about the future of nanotechnology. The seminar and networking event provided an excellent opportunity to establish first contacts between Swiss researchers and Japanese industry and academia. Article by the Swiss Chamber of Commerce and Indust ry in Japan : http://tinyurl.com/SCCIJ-nanotech-2012 Summary movie clip : http://tinyurl.com/GA-nanotech-2012-clip








The nano tech 2013 exhibition will take place in Tokyo from 30 January to 1 February, 2013. As one of the nano-technology founding nations, Switzerland should strive to capitalize on the success of SWISS Pavilion @ nano tech 2012 by again presenting a Swiss pavilion at nano tech 2013. Participation from academia and the private sector is crucial for Switzerland to present its excellence in nanotechnology. The SWISS Pavilion @ nano tech 2013 is already reserved and applications are very welcome to David Ziltener: [email protected].

SWISS Pavilion @ nano tech 2012

nano tech 2012, the 10th International Nanotechnology Exhibition & Con-ference was held from February 15 to 17, 2012 at Tokyo Big Sight showcas-ing cutting-edge developments and applications in the field. This world’s largest nanotechnology event was also part of Japan’s “nano week 2012”, which comprised of 20 conferences and symposiums on nano-technology. Website: http://www.nanotechexpo.jp/en/index.html

The exhibition attracted 45’024 visitors to the three-day fair including 8 con-current exhibitions: InterAqua 2012, ASTEC 2012, SURTECH 2012, Printable Electronics 2012, Convertech Japan 2012, neo functional material 2012 and Eco-cell Battery 2012. A total of 865 exhibitors , of which 661 were domestic and 204 from 21 countries were present.

From Japan, many governmental research institutions, including the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), National Institute for Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), and RIKEN, as well as laboratories of major universities , such as the University of Tokyo, University of Tsukuba, Tohoku University and Kyushu Univer-sity, participated in the event. Big industry names (e.g. Toshiba Corp., Toray Industries Inc., NEC Corp. and many others) could also be found with their latest technologies. Of the 21 countries and regions participating in nano tech 2012, those presenting their own pavilions were Switzerland , Belgium, Germany, Iran, Italy, Russia, Sin-gapore, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, U.S. and the UK. This year marked the 6th joint presence of Swiss exhibitors at the nano tech exhibition. Ten partici-pants were grouped under the roof of the SWISS Pavilion @ nano tech 2012 . Swiss Pavilion: • Swiss Science Corner • ETH • EU FET Flagship Initiative "Guardian Angels" • Swiss MNT Network • Science & Technology Office Tokyo Co-Exhibitors from Private Sector: • BaselArea • Imina • Micronarc • Reishauer AG • Trimos Oganized by: • swissnanotech Empowered by: • Inno-X GmbH • State Secretariat for Education and Research SER Partnered by: • Osec Business Network Switzerland • Lindt








A considerable number of industry academics and professionals visited the SWISS Pavilion during the three days of the exhibition. The common Swiss presentation helped produce more business meetings and expanded the op-portunity to build new contacts, resulting in positive feedbacks from the participants.

Testimonials

I would like to express our highest gratitude for the support given to our Guardian Angels event by the Swiss Em-bassy in Tokyo, Japan. We highly appreciated and enjoyed your kind participation and personal involvement that honored us and all our guests. The social event that followed the technical program was wonderful and we are very thankful for all the facilities kindly offered by the Swiss Embassy. The event was a success due to excellent organi-zation and follow-up by Dr. Felix Moesner, Mrs. Kyoko Suzuki and Mrs. Karin Jaymes; many thanks to all of them! We hope that based on the event organized in Tokyo we will be able to identify concrete possibilities of cooperation with Japan and enlarge the international dimension of the FET Flagship project.

Prof. Dr. Adrian M. Ionescu (EPFL) for the Guardian Angels Consortium

Key Trend at nano tech 2012 For the third year in a row, nano tech 2012 endorsed the common theme “Green Nanotechnology” with the subtitle; Sustainability with every nanometer. Reflecting the increased awareness on environmen-tal issues, there was much focus on nanotechnology as the base technology to create clean energy devices such as solar cells and fuel cells or for soil and water purification. There were nine presentations marked as “Green Nanotechnology Special Symposium”, which intro-duced how research organizations and industries are undertaking en-vironmental issues.

Inno-X GmbH and Star Coating were included in the list of exhibitors with special emphasis on environment-related technologies and products, compiled by the exhibition organizer. A special link was provided on the official event website so that visitors could search for these “Green Nanotechnolo-gy exhibitors”.

Fuji Film was awarded this year’s “Green Nanotechnology Category Award” for the development of material solu-tions based on its competence in photographic technology built over many years. The company advances technol-ogies as ITO–replacing transparent conductive materials, new coating concepts, honeycomb films for regenerative medicine and anti-aging cosmetics.

www.ga-project.eu

Communication

Inter-GA & via

existing gateways

Physical sensors

Patterns of activity & biological signals

Energy harvesting and storage

Energy from body activity

& remote powering

Sensing & local data processing

Access to augmented reality

Patterns of activity & biological signals

Guardian Angels are tiny, autonomous, smart systems that we can choose to integrate into our

everyday lives where needed, and in a wide range of situations. They are based on networks of intelligent

nanosensors designed to safeguard our health, safety and general well-being. Currently, high energy

consumption and the short lifespan of batteries are obstructing further progress in autonomous

systems. Guardian Angels will meet the technological challenges of weaving together energy efficient

information processing, sensing, communication and energy harvesting, into a zero-power concept.

Zero Power

Energy harvesting:

dynamic detection - outdoor & indoor

SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES... THE QUEST FOR ZERO-POWER

Guardian Angels will not only benefit innovation in the nanoelectronics sector, but also build new

bridges across domains such as energy-efficient electronics and integrated energy scavengers.

The GA project will bring them under one roof with the goal of a long-term design and integration

platform. The project is based on fundamental research to identify underlying principles, devices,

novel materials, system architectures, algorithms and techniques.

Computation: 1000x more efficient

The project has established expertise in innovative switch concepts, such as nanowire subthermal

subthreshold switches. These novel switches will function with a radically reduced voltage along with

negligible leakage offering a power gain of over 100 fold.

Sensing: 1000x more efficient

Arrays of multiple sensors will be incorporated into single systems thanks to a reduction in their

power needs and their size.

Communication: 1000x more efficient

Candidate technologies exploit new materials such as graphene for RF front ends and are based on

ultra-wideband systems, with a diversity of advanced techniques such as powerful low-rate error

correcting codes and cooperative communication techniques. Other energy-saving solutions are

foreseen at the architectural level.

Energy Harvesting: 100x more efficient

Guardian Angels will combine disruptive materials and devices for solar, thermal, vibration, and

electromagnetic harvesting, as well as developing biochemical and photosynthetic scavengers.

Research will include novel green batteries to facilitate a realistic transition to autonomous systems.

10 mW/cm2

100 µW/cm2

100 µW

100 nW

100 aJ/op

0.1 aJ/op

1 nJ/bit

1 pJ/bit

Autonomous, quasi-invisible systems

for biological monitoring.

Multi-modal sensing of emotional states

for complex assistance.

New generations of smart driving

assistants and inter-GA communications

for increased safety.

Monitoring of natural environments,

buildings, industrial processes

and transportation for improved safety

and energy efficiency.

A new generation of autonomous robots

with applications in safety, prevention

and rescue missions.

Zero-power body area sensor networks

for preserving human health.

Access to augmented reality.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF GUARDIAN ANGELS

Three generations of Guardian Angels are targeted over the project's timeframe:

Physical Guardian Angels are quasi-invisible, zero-power body area networks monitoring the state of

a person’s health via constant, real-time measurement of multiple parameters using ECG, accelero-

meters, gyroscopes or pulse oximetry for example. They will draw on non-invasive Guardian Angels

technologies such as electronic skin or wearable networks of sensors with wireless interfaces

communicating with existing gateways such as mobile phones.

Environmental Guardian Angels will integrate the first disruptive energy harvesters developed in the

project through biochemical, thermoelectric and synthetic photosynthesis, providing extended

autonomy. They will offer access to an augmented reality including alerts for hazards, pollution and

changes in the environment. They will make life safer for vulnerable members of society, such as

children or the elderly, but will also have everyday applications for smart monitoring in industry,

buildings and transport.

Emotional Guardian Angels will form a completely new generation of device based on man-machine

interfaces. They could guarantee our safety on the roads or in the air through smart drive or air traffic

control assistants that detect tiredness or lapses in concentration. The technology could provide a

method of communication for sufferers of autism spectrum disorders and their loved ones, and could

allow quadriplegics or other severely handicapped people to regain control over their environment.

Emotional Guardian Angels will have wide-reaching applications and the project will be working in close

collaboration on the issues of ethics and data-security with all stakeholders including the medical

profession, industry and general public.

2012 2022

Physical

Environmental

Emotional

GUARDIAN ANGELS… YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED

Will you be able to capture enough ‘free’ energy from the environment to power Guardian Angels?

Guardian Angels will be up to 100 times more efficient than existing scavengers, harvesting energy

from multiple sources. With this comes energy consumption that is up to 1000 times lower thanks to

energy efficient materials, devices and systems, providing technology that is dramatically more efficient

than it is today.

What kind of physiological signals can be measured and are the sensors invasive?

One of Guardian Angels initial aims is to replace current bulky or invasive biosensors (such as ECGs)

with technology that can be incorporated into clothing, temporary skin patches or electronic skin.

The technology will be there when you need it without being invasive.

Are there any other applications asides from personal monitoring?

Physical Guardian Angels will be a first step in the project but the possible applications are wide

reaching. Environmental Guardian Angels could be used to monitor our surroundings, warning us

of potential danger, signaling small changes that we would not normally be able to pick-up. They could

also be used to improve quality and safety in industry and transportation.

What are emotional Guardian Angels?

Currently we interact and control the technology around us using our hands, fingers or speech

for example. A future goal is to develop Guardian Angels that allow us to use our intentions to manage

systems and applications and to assist us in stressful situations. Initial developments could also help

paraplegic patients regain autonomy.

Will Guardian Angels make decisions for me?

Guardian Angels will be a means of giving you information about yourself, your environment or a loved

one. The decision making process remains with the user.

Will there be any regulatory processes in place?

An external committee made up of medical, legal and social professionals, industry members and the

general public will ensure ethical guidance at all stages of the project.

Can anyone access my personal data?

Guardian Angels are personalised so you choose the information you want to collect and receive.

Information relayed wirelessly is encrypted and stored data protected using new hardware technology,

ensuring that only you, or the people you want to, have access to it.

It sounds expensive!

Guardian Angels technology is intended for everyone, which means it has to be affordable. Part of the

research involved will be developing new materials and smaller systems that are cheaper to produce

and even biodegradable. In some cases, physical products may be replaced by virtual or service-based

alternatives, providing greater savings. Guardian Angels zero-power capabilities and their energy

efficiency will have a positive effect on your pocket as well as on the environment!

EUROPEAN PARTNERS

ww w.g a-project.eu

Coordination:

[email protected]

[email protected]

Office contact:

karin [email protected]

Media enquiries:

[email protected]

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Institutional partners

Industrial partners

Guardian Angels will position Europe at

the top of key Information and Commu-

nication Technology (ICT) domains of

the future, strengthening its leading

role in zero-power technologies. The

project will bring together two dozen

universities, research institutions and

industrial R&D labs in 13 European

countries, as well as key international

collaborations in the USA and South

Asia. In addition, by manufacturing in

Europe, the project will improve the

competitiveness of our leading commu-

nication, equipment and tools compa-

nies and service providers, resulting in

the creation of new employment.

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