The European Ceramic Society
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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
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
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
Last news
New YCN Special Issue on Open Ceramics - Young Ceramists leading the Future
The special issue will accept hitherto unpublished original results submitted both in the form of full-length scientific papers and short communications, but also review papers on the topics in the list.
Results of the 1st Bioceramics Student Speech Contest
The ECerS Bioceramics Network is delighted to announce the winners of the 1st Bioceramics Student Speech Contest, which took place online from 17 to 18 April 2024!
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