Outreach

The World Market Leader Innovation Day 2024 with the topic AI and future-oriented technologies was hosted by FAU and took place on September 18, 2024, at Heinrich-Lades-Halle, Erlangen. The event brings together representatives from politics, business, science, and society and features numerous pane...

In collaboration with WW1 and Ruhr-Universität Bochum, the Institute of Micro and Nanostructure Research (IMN)/CENEM is proud to announce two paper contributions to the 15th International Symposium on Superalloys, taking place from September 8th-12th, 2024, in Seven Springs, Pennsylvania (USA). Both...

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Philipp Pelz, a member of the Institute of Micro- and Nanostructure Research (IMN)/CENEM at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and leader of the ECLIPSE Lab, has been awarded the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for h...

A team of delegations from the Institute of Micro and Nanostructure Research (IMN)/CENEM made its mark at the European Microscopy Congress (EMC 2024), one of the world's largest and most prestigious microscopy exhibitions from 25-30. August 2024. Held every four years, EMC combines advancements in m...

Two members of the Tomo-Group, Alexander Götz and Dr. Benjamin Apeleo Zubiri, represented the Institute of Micro and Nanostructure Research (IMN)/CENEM at the 16th International Conference on X-Ray Microscopy (XRM 2024), which took place in Lund, Sweden, from August 12-16, 2024. The conference broug...

The Institute of Micro- and Nanostructure Research (IMN)/CENEM proudly announces that Mr. Peter Denninger defended his PhD on June 24, 2024. His exceptional work, titled “Development of Novel In Situ Electron Microscopy Techniques and Their Applications to Functional Thin Films,” has earned him the ...

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Ashton Egan, a distinguished researcher from Ohio State University, as a Humboldt Research Fellow. Dr. Ashton Egan brings a wealth of expertise in nickel and cobalt-based superalloys, and electron microscopy. He joins us from The Ohio State University and the Center f...

The annual retreat of the Institute of Micro- and Nanostructure Research (IMN) and the Center for Nanoanalytics and Electron Microscopy (CENEM), held from April 8th to 11th in Bad Windsheim, transcended conventional academic gatherings by integrating research progress presentations, a vibrant poster...

Just in time for Advent, the stars arrange themselves in a highly symmetrical pattern. The beautiful picture was actually created using electron diffraction, with the electron beam transmitting through a thin PbS film grown epitaxially on a TiS2 substrate. While the six-fold symmetry of the substr...

Graphite, a versatile material. On the one hand it is used in daily life as pencil, on the other hand graphene with its remarkable properties can be produced by cleaving graphite. This scanning electron microcopy image shows the beautiful structure of graphite, which consists of only one element, ca...