Activities

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...

The WW9 running enthusiasts Running Flamingos welcomed spring by participating in several running competitions. The first one was the traditional Winterwaldlauf in Erlangen on March 16 with a distance of 10 km. Even the rather unstable weather conditions could not dampen the team spirit and enthusia...

The paper “Influence of Au alloying on solid state dewetting kinetics and texture evolution of Ag and Ni thin films” by Martin Dierner, Johannes Will, Michael Landes, Christian Volland, Robert Branscheid, Tobias Zech, Tobias Unruh and Erdmann Spiecker has just been published in the Journal of Surfac...

During the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften (LNdW) 2023 on October 21, we demonstrated how microcopy enables us to decipher the building blocks of the universe, and how this helps to understand and develop new energy materials with enhanced properties. We showcased the application of modern electron a...

The "Olympics" microscopy, the 20th International Microscopy Congress (IMC20), took place last 10-15.September in Busan, South Korea, after being postponed by a year due to the pandemic. Over 3,000 people attended the grand event. We have met long-lost colleagues and friends during this congress and...

After the complete opening since the COVID, the annual IMN/CENEM retreat took place again in Kleedorf during 9-12. May. A total number of 32 members attended the workshop. This year, we arranged a poster session besides the oral presentations, allowing master and bachelor students to present and dis...

After the absence of a "real" conference since the pandemic, the first major conference in the field, Microscopy Conference (MC2023), took place in 26. Feb. to 2. Mar. in Darmstadt, Germany. Over 900 people attended the conference. We have met colleagues and friends there, and participated many talk...

The PhD defense of Mr. Birk Fritsch took place on 20. Feb. 2023, in the seminar room of the IZNF building. With his outstanding work “Quantification of electron beam-induced effects during in situ liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy“, he has been awarded the title Dr.-Ing. with distinction...

During the Materials Science and Engineering Congress (MSE 2022) in Darmstadt from 27 to 29, September, Irene Kraus won the best poster award for her master project presented with the title "Investigation of the 3D reciprocal space using electron diffraction tomography". Congratulations, Iren...

At the summer festival of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, several prices of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering were awarded to outstanding BSc and PhD theses conducted at the IMN:   1. BSc Award: BSc Julian Kauth (Nanotechnology BSc) Title of thesis...