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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 CENEM 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 the s...

The 3rd CENEM Summer School for X-ray Scattering will be held at the Institute for Crystallography and Structural Physics (ICSP) from 24th to 27th of July 2017. The school will provide a perfect opportunity to get a detailed insight into theory and practice of several modern scattering methods as X-...

We celebrate the successful installation of a laser cutter (microPREP) at CENEM 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 greatl...

Researchers at CENEM have 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 elemen...

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-Nuremberg had been granted funding f...

In the framework of the “EAM Science meets fiction” event of the cluster of excellence “Engineering of Advanced Materials” (EAM), our GISAXS measurement of highly ordered DMPC phospholipid multilayer structure (cf. picture) will be presented by CENEM member Lisa Lautner. The sample was prepared f...

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...

Congratulations, Dr.-Ing. Florian Niekiel, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Erik Bitzek and Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Erdmann Spiecker! The Cluster of Excellence (EAM, Engineering of Advanced Materials) selects the high-resolution TEM image of a fivefold twinned silver nanowire as picture of the month April 2017! R...

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