The lecture from Feb. 13 - Feb. 17, 2023 will be held in Building 30.22. Room F2/16 from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

ILIAS course "Electron Microscopy I" is online.registration now possible. In addition, the online registration form for the corresponding exercises for EM I is active under "Study and Teaching" > "Electron Microscopy I". In WS22/23 the lecture and the corresponding exercises will take place as a block course. The lecture in the week from 13.02. - 17.02.2023. The lecture will be held in English. The corresponding exercises from 20.02. - 24.02. 2023. Registration deadline for the exercises is the end of January 2023.

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Vijayshankar Asokan to the LEM team. Mr. Asokan started at LEM on January 1, 2023 and is dedicated to the project "WirLebenSOFC". We are very much looking forward to his support!

On November 15, Huichao Wu successfully completed his master's degree at KIT after presenting the results of his thesis: "Identification of the creep-induced deformation mechanism of a eutectic Mo-Si-Ti alloy using electron microscopy" to a scientific committee. The work was carried out by Y. M. Eggeler, D. Schliephake and H. Thota. After a well-deserved break, Huichao will start a PhD in Jülich and MNM wishes him all the best and hopes to see him again.

We are happy to welcome Mr. Dr. rer. nat. Alexander Zintler in our team from 01.09.22. He will support us in the project "KeraSolar"! We are looking forward to the cooperation.

We are pleased to welcome Mr. Kristian Kraft to the MNM-LEM team. Since 01.09.2022 he is working on his master thesis on "Identification of chemical structures and structural changes of 3D microstructures as a function of pressure and temperature". We wish him good luck!

Dr. rer. nat. Lehnert receives the "Outstanding Poster Award" for his poster at SSI-23. Awarded in recognition of the recipient's outstanding presentation in terms of technical content, scientific merit, graphic quality, and quality of presentation.

We congratulate Mr. Lukas Grünewald on the successful completion of his PhD on May 06, 2022 on the topic "Electron Microscopic Investigation of Superconducting Fe- and Cu-based Thin Films". We wish Lukas the best for the future - you are always welcome at the LEM and we are looking forward to any future notification of your further private and professional life.

Mr. Martin Calkovsky successfully defended his dissertation at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) on April 29, 2022. The title of his dissertation is "Material Contrast by Scanning Electron Microscopy and Low-Energy Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy". We are very proud and wish all the best for his professional and private future!

ILIAS course for “electron microscopy II” is now online. Register now. In addition, the online registration for the corresponding exercises for EM2 is active under ”Academics”-> Electron microscopy II.

We are pleased to welcome Miss Yiling Huang to the MNM-LEM team. She will stay with us for one year with her CSC scholarship and started working on her visiting PhD on April 1, 2022 in the area of "creep induced defects in single crystal superalloy". We wish her much success!

We are pleased to welcome Mr. Huichao Wu to the MNM.-LEM-team. Since March.03.2022 he has started his master thesis on the topic “Investigation of the creep-induced deformation mechanism of a eutectic Mo-Si-Ti alloy by transmission electron microscopy (TEM)”.
We wish him much success!

The PhD defense of Ms. Milena Hugenschmidt took place on 04.Feb.2022. With her systematic work on “STEM in SEM: Electron-Beam Broadening, Contamination, and Investigation of ZIF-8 by Correlative Electron Microscopy” she has been awarded the title Dr. rer. nat.!

Congratulations, Milena and we wish you all the best for your future! Remember to drop by anytime and LEM is always your home.

We are pleased to welcome Mr. Hemanth Thota to the LEM team. He started his PhD on January 1, 2022 and will be working in the area of "High Temperature Materials" in the project GRK 2561. We wish him much success!

Prof. Dr. Claus Feldmann will take over the provisional management of the LEM from 01.07.2021. The institute is looking forward to the cooperation and thanks him for his willingness and the interest shown.

We congratulate Prof. Dr. Gerthsen to her new tilte as "KIT Distinguished Senior Fellow". Thus, Ms. Gerthsen will continue to be present at KIT as well as to pursue her scientific topics and will be reachable under her previous contact data.

After more than 27 years! as head of the institute, Prof. Dr. D. Gerthsen will go into well-deserved retirement on 01.04. We thank her sincerely for the many good and successful years of leading the institute. She has played a major role in advancing the LEM and making it what it is today.

The title page of the Journal Particle and Particle Systems Characterization refers to Milena Hugenschmidt´s work on ZIF-8 particles directed deposited on TEM grids published in DOI: 10.1002/ppsc.202000209 (M. Hugenschmidt et al., Part. Part. Syst. Charact. 2020, 2000209) 

An image from Martin Obermair´s paper (Obermaier et al., Ultramicroscopy 218, 113086 (2020)) appeared on the title page of Ultramicroscopy. The topic of the paper is "Analyzing contrast in cryo-transmission electron microscopy: Comparison of electrostatic Zach phase plates and hole-free phase plates"

is Junior Professor and Group leader of Microscopy of Nanoscale Structures & Mechanisms (MNM) at LEM since 01.10.2020

receives 2020 Kavli Price in Nanosciences

KIT Presseinformation zu Kavli Price

Felix Jung was awarded the poster price of the electron microscopy symposium at the European Materials Research Society (EMRS) spring meeting 2019 in Nizza.

was awarded a postdoc scholarship by the Humboldt Foundation.

Martin Obermair won a prize for his talk at the 19. International Microscopy Congress (IMC19) in Sydney.

More details in the descriptions.