On September 17th Max-Planck-Institut fuer Eisenforschung in Duesseldorf will hold a reception and ceremony to officially inaugurate their new Imago LEAP® microscope.
Prof. Dierk Raabe, Institute Director, commented, "The atom probe will support a broad range of research projects in the area of complex engineering alloys as well as optoelectronic materials and biomaterials. In addition, the unique ability of the atom probe to provide compositional information on the atomic scale will provide a link between the work done by our computational research groups and experimental structure-property data. Particular emphasis will be placed on the analysis of advanced steels."
Even before the official opening ceremony, Max-Planck has received excited inquiries from research colleagues throughout Germany and the world. The Max-Planck atom probe is the second Imago atom probe system to be installed at a German research institute. The Max-Planck program complements the already established, semiconductor-focused atom probe capability at the Fraunhofer Center for Nanoelectronic Technologies in Dresden, Germany.
"LEAP microscopy helps to advance materials science by extending our understanding of structure-property relationships to the nanoscale limit," said Tom Kelly, founder and CEO of Imago.
During the initial qualification and testing of the Imago atom probe, Dr. Choi, a Max-Planck researcher and group leader, was pleased and excited that the Imago microscope was able to routinely obtain data sets with several hundred million atoms. Commented Dr. Choi, "The Imago atom probe has the unique ability to build a three-dimensional representation of the sample that includes the type and location of atoms in the sampled volume. Atom probe enables us to detect and quantify nanoscale precipitates, guiding our research into the development of novel high-performance materials. This information is difficult or impossible to obtain by any other method and is complementary to the information we obtain using TEM, SEM, and X-ray diffraction."
About Max-Planck
At the Max-Planck Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH (MPIE), research is carried out on iron, steel and related materials, such as nickel, titanium and intermetallic phase alloys. An essential target of the investigations is an improved understanding of the complex physical processes and chemical reactions of these materials. In addition, new high-performance materials with outstanding physical and mechanical properties are developed for use as high-tech structural and functional components. In this way, basic research is amalgamated with innovative developments relevant to applications and process technology. For more information, see www.mpie.de.
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