APT Research
APT Applications in Materials Research
- Corrosion of structural steels
- Nano-composition of novel energy materials (batteries, thin film photovoltaics ...)
- Local structure of thin films for advanced interconnects (metals, silicides, germanides ...)
- Thin multi-element functional films (magnetic, superconducting, photonic, phononic ...)
- Nano-precipitates and cluster-matrix complexes
- Nano-engineering of thin films
- Conformal coatings of 3D objects
- 3D-dopant incorporation and diffusion in nano-electronic devices
- ....
The distribution of major elements in the laboratory steel grade
Atom Probe Tomography for advanced materials studies in 3D
APT Physics
- Atom evaporation
- Tip shape evolution and 3D-reconstruction
- fs-laser - nano-object interactions
- Data mining for atomic cluster identification