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Dresden Center for Nanoanalysis (DCN)

Due to their ongoing miniaturization, the performance It offers a modern infrastructure with highly specialized
of modern devices may be affected already by few ultra-low noise laboratories, state-of-the-art equipment
individual atoms. Together with the establishment of as well as the necessary know-how. The DCN conducts
new fabrication routes and the incorporation of novel nanoanalytical service measurements, provides for
materials, this renders high resolution chemical and user training and strives towards own methodological
structural analyses indispensable in order to gain a developments.
better understanding of the device structures and to
eventually improve them. Since in addition to the mere Being a technology platform of cfaed, the tools and
choice of materials, synthesis processes also affect the methods available in the DCN can be accessed by all
resulting function, both in-situ and operando charac- users within TUD and the DRESDEN-concept commu-
terizations become increasingly important. nity. Analytical services are also offered nationally and
internationally to external customers.

Left: Dr. Bernd Rellinghaus / Image: private
Right: DCN scientists Dr. Markus Löffler und Dr. Darius Pohl conducting
nanoscale chemical analyses at a scanning electron microscope /
Image: Jürgen Lösel

To cope with this enhanced analytical demand, the CONTACT
Dresden Center for Nanoanalysis (DCN) serves as a
central user facility to the TUD Dresden University of Dr. Bernd Rellinghaus
Technology and its neighboring scientific institutions. Director DCN
The DCN aims at gaining synergies by centralizing the
access to expensive high-end scientific tools in particular
in the fields of microscopy with electrons, ions and ✉ bernd.rellinghaus@tu-dresden.de
X-rays. cfaed.tu-dresden.de/dcn

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