ERC Starting Grant
Award year: 2024
Category: Scholarship / Grant
Type: ERC Starting Grant
Awarding organization: Europäischer Forschungsrat (ERC)
With his ERC-funded project HyperScaleEM, Philipp Pelz is developing methods for high-volume atomic 3D imaging using electron microscopes. His research covers three different areas. First, very light elements, such as hydrogen and oxygen, which are barely detectable using more traditional methods. Second, alloys that are difficult to characterize due to the fact that the included elements have a similar contrast and are therefore difficult to tell apart. "And third, nano and quantum electronics,” explains Pelz. “Here, structures are so small that the three dimensional positions and bonds between the individual atoms play a major role. I hope to make this visible.”