CENEM Core Facility - Nanocharacterization with Electrons, X-rays and Scanning Probes

CENEM 核心设施 - 使用电子、X 射线和扫描探针进行纳米表征

• 批准号: 213948344
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Mathias Göken
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für Kristallografie und Strukturphysik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2011-12-31 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/213948344?language=en
• 关键词: CENEM; Core; Facility; Nanocharacterization; Electrons

The Center for Nanoanalysis and Electron Microscopy (CENEM) at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) closely brings together the three pillars of nanocharacterization: electron microscopy, scattering methods and scanning probes. The mission of the CENEM core facility is to provide dedicated instrumentation and expertise in these fields to scientists at the FAU, at other research institutes as well as to industry. The CENEM runs user facilities in all three fields and provides different modes of access, depending on instrumentation and user profile. The independent use of instruments after training and the cooperation with the CENEM research groups for more advanced studies turned out to be the most favored ones. In order to keep the CENEM at the forefront of research with nanocharacterization techniques during the past three years the CENEM has acquired, with the help of the University, cutting-edge instrumentation in each field and has already started to establish the instruments in own research and in collaborations with users. A modern FIB/SEM instrument as well as a double-corrected, monochromated TEM with extensive eauipment have been installed and put into operation in CENEMs electron microscopy unit in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Moreover, dedicated TEM sample holders have been acquired and put into operation, enabling, e.g., nanomechanical and electrical testing, chip-based sample heating, conventional and 360° electron tomography as well as vacuum or inert gas transfer of sensitive samples. In CENEMs scattering unit two SAXS instruments have been installed, a smaller standard SAXS machine for external user access and a specially-developed large SAXS/GISAXS machine for advanced collaborative CENEM work. A speciality of CENEMs scattering unit is the development of dedicated sample environments in collaboration with users, e.g., for the in situ investigation of film drying processes under controlled atmospheres. In CENEMs scanning probe, apart from the existing instruments and methods (large chamber SEM, nanoindentation, AFM), a state of the art atom probe tomography instrument will become available for 3D nanocharacterization on the sub-Nanometer scale nicely complementing the existing nanoanalytical techniques in CENEMs electron microscopy facility. In the second funding period the CENEM core facility project aims at consolidating this progress bringing all these new instruments and advanced techniques into CENEMs regular user access. Moreover the project will help to further develop the CENEM into a sustainable platform for nanocharacterization research with complementary techniques by bringing the three research areas even closer together. This includes dedicated workshops and research schools for user as well as education of students and young scientists.

埃尔兰根-纽伦堡弗里德里希-亚历山大大学 (FAU) 的纳米分析和电子显微镜中心 (CENEM) 将纳米表征的三大支柱紧密结合在一起：电子显微镜、散射方法和扫描探针。CENEM 核心设施的使命是：为 FAU、其他研究机构以及工业界的科学家提供这些领域的专用仪器和专业知识 CENEM 在所有三个领域运行用户设施并提供不同的模式。为了使 CENEM 保持在研究的前沿，最受青睐的方法是在培训后独立使用仪器以及与 CENEM 研究小组合作进行更高级的研究。过去三年中，CENEM 在大学的帮助下获得了各个领域的尖端仪器，并已开始在自己的研究中以及与用户合作中建立现代 FIB/SEM 仪器。以及作为具有广泛设备的双校正单色 TEM 已分别于 2013 年和 2014 年在 CENEM 电子显微镜装置中安装并投入运行。此外，还购买并投入了专用 TEM 样品架，可进行纳米力学和电气测试等。 、基于芯片的样品加热、传统和 360° 电子断层扫描以及敏感样品的真空或惰性气体传输。已安装两台 SAXS 仪器，一台用于外部用户访问的较小标准 SAXS 机器，以及一台专门开发的大型 SAXS/GISAXS 机器，用于高级协作 CENEM 工作。 CENEM 散射单元的特点是与用户合作开发专用样品环境。例如，对于受控气氛下的薄膜干燥过程的原位研究，在 CENEM 扫描探针中，除了现有的仪器和方法（大室 SEM、纳米压痕、AFM）之外，还需要一种状态。 art 原子探针断层扫描仪器将可用于亚纳米尺度的 3D 纳米表征，很好地补充了 CENEM 电子显微镜设施中现有的纳米分析技术。在第二个资助期内，CENEM 核心设施项目旨在巩固这一进展，带来所有这些新仪器。此外，该项目将通过将三个研究领域更加紧密地结合在一起，帮助进一步将 CENEM 发展成为具有互补技术的可持续纳米表征研究平台。为用户提供专门的研讨会和研究学校以及学生和年轻科学家的教育。