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The program of CENEM's research unit GRK 1896 from 2019 started with an excursion to the Thermo Fisher factory in Brno (10th to 11th of January). Thanks to a well-organized factory tour from the Thermo Fisher side, the participants got deep insight into the TEM as well as SEM assembly process at an ...

Local electrostatic field at sharp field emission tips is key to answer fundamental questions of how the field interacts with these tips. Despite a long history of study, three-dimensional (3D) electrostatic fields at nanometer resolution around sharp tips have not been experimentally quantified. Si...

Self-assembly processes play an important role in nature and often result in complex structures, e.g. in chlorophyll or in living organisms. Compact clusters of elemental particles can be shown to be of practical relevance, and are found in atomic nuclei, nanoparticles or viruses.   Self-as...

In „Die Geschichte des Mikroskops - Als die Welt vergrößert wurde...“ Bayern 2 radio programme „radioWissen“ features the development of microscopy from the 16th century to modern applications in materials science and medicine. The story was broadcast on November 22. Prof. Erdmann Spiecker, h...

On 10.Oct and 13. Nov. 2018, IMN & CENEM has opened it's door welcoming Chinese delegation, as a part of their 30-days training program in Germany. The visiting and training programs were supported by MIIT (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology) and SAFEA (State Administration of Forei...

The annual “CENEM Workshop on Advanced Electron and X-ray Microscopy Techniques” took place in Bad Rodach during 5-7. Nov. this year. Extended presentations by our motivated colleagues provided very good overview of our on-going research. Intense discussions have stimulated sparks in new research id...

The 4th CENEM Summer School for X-ray Scattering 2018 took place from July 16th to July 19th 2018 at the Institute for Crystallography and Structural Physics (ICSP) in Erlangen. The summer course was sponsored by Anton Paar. During seminars in the mornings and hands-on training in the afternoons it ...

CENEM member Nadine Buchinger won the best poster award during the Materials Science and Engineering Congress (MSE) held between 26 and 28. Sep. 2018 at the Darmstadt University of Technology, with her outstanding contributions to the work of "investigating the 3D-structures of oxide layers of Co-ba...

Dr.-Ing. Benjamin Apeleo Zubiri from the Institute of Micro- and Nanostructure Research (IMN, Prof. Erdmann Spiecker) and the Center for Nanoanalysis and Electron Microscopy (CENEM) was awarded the “Best Oral Presentation Award” at the ”International Microscopy Congress (IMC19)” which took place in ...

In the 1940s, scientists first explained how Materials can deform plastically by atomic-scale line defects called dislocations. These defects can be understood as tiny carpet folds that can move one part of a material relative to the other without spending a lot of energy. Many technical application...