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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...

The annual institute seminar took place in Schönau am Königsee during 19-22. June 2017. During the 4 days, we had intensive and fruitful scientific discussions in the morning sessions and excursions and team-building events in the afternoons to wonderful places in the Königsee area. A highlight of t...

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...

The PhD defence of Ms. Manuela Göbelt took place on 19. May. 2017 in the Max-Plank-Institute for the Science of Light (MPL). With her great work on the study of silver nanowire based transparent electrode, under the support of GRK1896 and co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Erdmann Spiecker (WW9, FAU) and Pr...

High-resolution X-ray tomography reveals how butterflies form their iridescent wing scales It has only been one year since the material scientists around Prof. Erdmann Spiecker from the Center for Nanoanalysis and Electron Microscopy (CENEM) at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg had been granted funding for...

A research article "A Novel Approach for Preparation and In Situ Tensile Testing of Silica Glass Membranes in the Transmission Electron Microscope" by our colleagues Mirza Mačković, Thomas Przybilla, Christel Dieker, Patrick Herre, Stefan Romeis, Hana Stara, Nadine Schrenker, Wolfgang Peukert and Er...

Research article "Correlative micro-diffraction and differential phase contrast study of mean inner potential and subtle beam-specimen interaction", by Mingjian Wu and Erdmann Spiecker, has been accepted for publication in the journal Ultramicroscopy. Probing nanometer scale electrostatic (Coulom...