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After a construction of less than 3 years, the new IZNF building is handed over to FAU earlier this year. With intense planing and active involvement of many members, we could smoothly moved into the new IZNF building. Thank all who made this possible!

Christina Harreiss won the best poster awards out of 65 posters, during the workshop "Microscopy Characterization of Organic-Inorganic Interfaces 2019 (MCOII-2019)", with her outstanding presentation of “Crystallinity, Texture and Nanomorphology of Oganic Bulk Heterojuction Solar Cells Studied by El...

After the last official working day in the university, Petra Rosner, our friend, colleague and technician, is entering her retirement life. Thank you for your dedication to work in FAU, materials science, WW7 and WW9, in particular your pursuit of excellence in TEM sample preparation for the past 40...

The tension/compression asymmetries of materials, i.e., changing the mechanism loading directions while keeping all other parameters identical, is particularly interesting as it provides insight into the elementary defect mechanisms. In a recent work published in Acta Materialia (click here), resear...

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-base superalloy...

The inauguration of our new x-ray microscope will take place on the 10th of November starting at 10:00. The festive activities will include a presentation by renowned tomography expert Prof. Philip Withers as well as a labtour to the new instrument For more information on the program please look at ...

Erlangen 27.07.2017 – Zeiss Xradia Ultra 810 (nano-CT), a high resolution lab source X-ray microscope, has been installed in Erlangen and successfully passed the acceptance test. The instrument can provide a resolution of 50 nm thanks to its advanced modern X-ray optics. Being a dedicated tomography...

The application for funding of the NanoMill® TEM specimen preparation system has been granted recently by DFG. Fischione’s Model 1040 NanoMill® TEM specimen preparation system is an excellent tool for creating high-quality thin specimens needed for advanced transmission electron microscopy imagin...

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...

Researchers in IMN has recently reported the direct observation of nucleation and propagation of basal plane dislocations in Nb2AlC, a member of MAX phases, using nanomechanical testing inside a transmission electron microscope. MAX Phases (with M an early transition metal, A an A group element a...