Facilities

We celebrate the successful installation of a laster cutter (microPREP) for fast, clean, and efficient preparation of samples for microstructure characterization and failure analysis. It is suitable for preparation of metal, semiconductor, ceramic and compound materials from bulk, and greatly reduce...

Two Collaborative Research Projects of the Unruh Group funded by BMBF Two research applications have been granted for more than 1.4 million euros by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The funding enable the researchers of the nanomaterials characterization group to build up...

The expertise and outstanding instrumentation available at CENEM manages to attract the attention of many people, including diplomats like the french general consul for bavaria. The consul was given a guided tour to the facilities of CENEM and showed a lot of interest in the work done here. CENEM a...

On the 6th of May the ground-breaking of the new building CENEM will based in was celebrated. The interdisciplinary center for nanostructured films as it is called will be home to over 200 scientists from different fields, strengthening the collaborative efforts in Erlangen. The building which is sc...

3.1 Mio € funding has been granted for a new high-resolution x-ray microscope, which will enable entirely new perspectives in materials science. Researchers will be able to analyze the 3D-structure of materials non-destructively on a sub-micrometer scale and use the obtained information for the targ...

CENEM is proud to announce that the first TEM holder of its cryo-TEM subdivision has arrived. The Fischione cryo transfer holder enables the transfer of frozen samples into the TEM while holding a constant temperature of -196° C, enabling the analysis of biological and especially fragile samples. In...

The group Electron Microscopy, that builds one part of CENEM, was assigned to the Institute for Biomaterials at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. This working group evolved significantly in the last years in terms of staff members and scienti...

On March 18th 2015 the upgrade of our unique SAXS/GISAXS instrument VAXSTER (Versatile Advanced X-ray Scattering instrumenT ERlangen) started. This includes the full rebuild of the primary instrument part with the 3/4 slit collimation system focusing X-ray mirror and the X-ray source. VAXSTER will b...

In October 2014 the installation of the new transmission electron microscope (TEM) FEI Titan Themis³ 300 was finished. Now the staff of IMN and CENEM is able to perform high quality research using this high-end TEM providing high-resolution imaging as well as high performance analytical investigatio...