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Our team is working on advanced methods in electron microscopy with the aim to study materials on microscopic scale down to atomic resolution. The goal of our work is to achieve a quantitative understanding of the correlation between fabrication and materials structure on one hand and between materials structure and materials properties on the other hand. Our main focus is on functional materials, nano-structures, interfaces and thin film systems.
Our group belongs to the Institute of Biomaterials and further represents the nanoanalytic and tomographic electron microscopy within the "Center for Nanoanalysis and Electron Microscopy" (CENEM), a recently founded center of the Cluster of Excellence "Engineering of Advanced Materials" (EAM).
Within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence a top class transmission electron microscope has been installed in summer 2009 at the Department for Materials Science. Equipped with the latest developments of aberration corrected electron optics the so-called Titan3 80-300 (FEI company) fundamentally extends the possibilities of transmission electron microscopy at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg. For instance, the Titan3 80-300 enables imaging the atomic structure of materials with a resolution below 1 Å (= 0.1 nm), analysing the three dimensional structure of nanomaterials by tomography and studying their chemical composition and electronic structure on the nanometer scale.
If you are interested in our research work, want to know more about the possibilities of transmission electron microscopy at the Department for Materials Science or if you think about using them in your own research work, don't hesitate to contact us.
