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Description
.There is more than one pathway to obtain a professorship. I like to present my way as it cannot be found so often. Based on a foundation for a dedicated professorship, denominated “Analytical X-ray Physics”, I got the chance to build up my research group.
I will give insights into our research which main basis is BliX, the „Berlin Laboratory for innovative X-ray Technologies “.
BliX, is an application laboratory in the knowledge triangle between university, research and companies. It is jointly operated by the Institute of Physics and Astronomy of the Technical University of Berlin (TUB) and the Max Born Institute (MBI). For the Max Born Institute it fulfils the function of a “Leibniz-Application laboratory”. BLiX is settled at the chair for Analytical X-ray Physics of the Technical University of Berlin.
One major leading line for the scientific research and development at BLiX is the establishment of synchrotron-based X-ray methods in the laboratory. For example, the characterization of nanostructured material by soft X-ray spectroscopy is made possible by a Laser-Plasma-Source which delivers soft X-rays below 1.2 keV. This Laser-Plasma-Source has been jointly developed by MBI and TUB. The characterization of thin film solar cell material will now become possible in the laboratory. Also, a new X-ray microscope, based on a Laser-Plasma-Source as well, enables the investigation of bio-medical specimens with a resolution of about 30 nanometers in the laboratory. In the hard X-ray regime, we developed X-ray absorption spectrometers for chemical speciation, currently mainly used for catalysis research.
The talk will give insight into the creation of an endowed professorship and an overview of new laboratory X-ray instrumentation, its performance and fields of applications.
