On Thursday 1th October 2015 the annual NanoDay of the Laboratory of Nano and Quantum Engineering took place in Hanover/Germany. In eight lectures and a poster session the latest research results from the interdisciplinary working groups in the field of nanotechnology were presented. The Poster prizes funded by Leibniz Universitätsgesellschaft e. V. were awarded this year to: 

• "Organic-silicon solar cells exceeding 20% efficiency“
  Dimitri Zielke, Claudia Niehaves, Wilfried Lövenich, Andreas Elschner, Matthias Hörteis and Jan Schmidt
  Institut für Solarenergieforschung Hameln
• „Chemical and Biological Investigations of Ansamitocin-Nanoparticle-Conjugates as Multifunctional Cancer Therapy Agent“
  Katja Seidel, Mona Oltmanns, Asha Balakrishnan, Michael Ott, Andreas Kirschning
  Institut für Organische Chemie
• „Ultrafast Surface Plasmon-Polariton Logic Gates And Half-Adder“
  Tobias Birr, U. Zywietz, P. Chhantyal, T. Fischer, B. Chichkov and C. Reinhardt
  Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Nanotechnology Department, Nanophotonic Group, Hollerithallee 8, 30419 Hannover, Germany

Congratulations and thank you to all lecturers and participants of the NanoDay 2015!

Lectures: Leibniz Universität Hannover, Appelstr. 4, 30167 Hanover, multimedia lecture hall, technical computer science (Building 3703)

Poster Session: Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 39, 30167 Hannover, Foyer, Laboratory of Nano and Quantum Engineering (Building 3430)

09:15 Greetings

09:15 - 10:45 Session I (in the multimedia lecture hall)

• "Aharonov-Bohm effect in graphene"
  Dmitri Smirnov
  Institut für Festkörperphysik, Abteilung Nanostrukturen
• „Functional Assemblies of Nanocrystals“
  Jan Poppe
  Institut für Physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie, Arbeitsgruppe Bigall
• „Non-cubic Gd₂O₃ on Silicon Substrates“
  Matthias Möllers
  Institut für Materialien und Bauelemente der Elektronik

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 - 12:15 Session II

• „Stable anodes for lithium ion batteries made of self-organized mesoporous silicon“
  Sascha J. Wolter
  Institut für Solarenergieforschung, Abteilung Photovoltaik
• "Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entanglement in Bose-Einstein condensates"
  Bernd Lücke
  Institut für Quantenoptik

12:20 Conference photo 

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 - 15:00 Poster Session (in the LNQE research building)

15:00 – 16:30 Session III

• “Surface functionalization at micro- and nanoscale by ultrashort laser pulses”
  Elena Fadeeva
  Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Nanotechnology Department
• „Plasmons in low dimensional systems“
  Timo Lichtenstein
  Institut für Festkörperphysik, Abteilung Atomare und Molekulare Strukturen
• „Improving Biomedical Silicone by Sophisticated Silica Particles“
  Tanja Heemeier
  Institut für Anorganische Chemie, AK Festkörper- und Materialchemie

16:30 – 16:45 Award ceremony of the poster prize

Follow-up: Get-together in the LNQE-research building to conclude the NanoDay 2015.