The European Ceramic Society

Laboratory sheet

Austria

Materials Center Leoben Forschung GmbH

Department Materials for Microelectronics

Director : Dr. Elke KRAKER

Email : elke.kraker@mcl.at

Phone : +43 3842 45922 37

Address : Kerpelystrasse 2, 8700 Leoben

Website : www.mcl.at

Research topics :

Thin film ceramic capacitors: Sol-gel processing of ceramic thin films, compositional design, characterization of electrical properties (permittivity, capacitance, breakdown strength, leakage, conductivity, energy density).

Raman spectroscopy of ceramics: Physical-chemical analysis of ceramics (phase identification, phase fraction, phase transitions, stoichiometry), residual stress analyses, crystal orientation/texture analyses, defect identification. Ab-initio modelling of Raman spectra. Mathematical routines for data interpretation including statistical analysis.

Contact: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Marco DELUCA

Tel.: +43 3842 45922 530

marco.deluca@mcl.at

    

3D analysis of porous ceramic materials: Correlated morphology/structural/chemical image based characterization using methods like X-ray computed tomography, SEM/FIB tomography, synchrotron tomography, neutron tomography as well as image analysis workflows comprising algorithm development based on conventional and machine learning approaches.

Contact: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Roland BRUNNER

Tel.: +43 3842 45922 48

roland.brunner@mcl.at

Exceptional facilities :

  • Sol-gel thin film deposition laboratory: Dry glove box, spin coating, spray pyrolysis, rapid thermal annealing furnace, e-beam electrode deposition.
  • Electrical characterization laboratory.
  • Raman spectrometer with UV laser capability.
  • X-ray computed Tomography
  • SEM/FIB tomography
  • High resolution analytical FESEM in transmission & reflection mode (EBSD, EDX capabilities)

Financial support programmes :

  • European fundings: ERC - Consolidator Grant CITRES (GA 817190). H2020 FET-Proactive FOXES (GA 951774), H2020 ECO2LiB LC-Bat 2019, H2020 InnnovaXN MSCA Cofund Programme, ILL-Beamtime Grant 1-05-13 NEXT,
  • National fundings: FFG (COMET Program, Produktion der Zukunft), FWF

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