
Dr.ir. M. (Marcel) Tichem
Dr.ir. M. (Marcel) Tichem
Profile
Expertise
Marcel leads a research program on manufacturing at the small length-scale. His interests include micro-assembly, photonic alignment, self-assembly of discrete components and nanomaterials, and nanoparticle patterning. Among key results are micro-fabricated structures and MEMS functions to achieve high precision alignment in integrated photonic systems, and magnetic-driven self-alignment of ultra-thin chips for flexible electronic packages.
Currently, he focuses on volume scale-up of manufacturing for 3D, nano-enabled materials and devices, with key applications in micro-mechanical and multi-physics metamaterials and nanoparticle-based functionalities.
Marcel has been active in setting up collaborative research programs, both within the university (e.g. Delft Centre of Mechatronics and Microsystems, DCMM, 2003-2010) and with industrial stakeholders, amongst others as part of the Nano Engineering Research Initiative (NERI) which he led to establish. He is currently the scientific leader of a large collaborative research program with Nexperia-ITEC on new processes for massive chip assembly (2021 and onward). He was a Research Fellow, funded by an EU Marie Curie IEF grant, in the Optical and Semiconductor Devices Group, Imperial College, London, in 2011, to investigate volume methods for nano-particle patterning.
Links
Projects
- X.AL: next generation chip assembly processes.
Scientific project leader.
2021-present.
Large direct collaboration (6 PhD + 2 Postdoc) with Nexperia-ITEC.
Direct funding, RvO grant. - MECOMOS: mechanical metamaterials for compact motion systems.
Project leader.
2022-2026.
Joint project with Prof. Dr. J.L. Herder and Dr. J.F.L. Goosen (TU Delft, PME).
Funding: NWO-TTW. - Dry Aerosol Direct Writing for Selective Nanoparticle Deposition.
Project leader.
2018-2022.
Joint project with Dr. A. Accardo (TU Delft, PME).
TU Delft internal funding.
Research interests
micro and nano engineering and manufacturing
micro-assembly
self-assembly
scale-up micro and nanomanufacturing
micro-mechanical metamaterials
nanoparticles
photonic alignment
massive chip assembly
Publications
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2022
Concept and design of a metastructure-based multi-stable surface
Yong Zhang / Marcel Tichem / Fred van Keulen
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2022
Process and nozzle design for high-resolution dry aerosol direct writing (dADW) of sub-100 nm nanoparticles
Saleh Aghajani / Angelo Accardo / Marcel Tichem
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2022
Toward a modular, integrated, miniaturized, and portable microfluidic flow control architecture for organs-on-chips applications
Gürhan Özkayar / Joost C. Lötters / Marcel Tichem / Murali K. Ghatkesar
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2021
A novel design of multi-stable metastructures for energy dissipation
Y. Zhang / Marcel Tichem / Fred van Keulen
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2021
Rotational snap-through behavior of multi-stable beam-type metastructures
Yong Zhang / Marcel Tichem / Fred van Keulen
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Ancillary activities
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2022-01-04 - 2024-01-05
Industry