Project acronym: ESTEEM
Project full title: Distributed European Infrastructure of Advanced Electron Microscopy for
Nanoscience
Contract no.: 026019
Integrated Infrastructure Initiative.
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Project summary
The ESTEEM consortium of electron microscopy laboratories for materials science and solid state physics
brings together the major electron microscopy centres in Europe. The project involves:
I. Networking
- To spread electron microscopy across the community and to regions where the technique is not fully exploited
at present and where it will help stimulate economic growth.
- To inform solid state scientists and engineers in Europe about new developments in this increasingly complex
technique.
- To improve the collaboration between different laboratories and set consistent standards for measurements.
- To establish a shared hardware and software infrastructure and to develop open access standards for data
exchange, storage and instrument control.
- To offer remote access to the most advanced instruments.
II. Transnational access
- To open the major microscopy centres (Antwerp, Cambridge, Delft, Dresden, Orsay, Oxford, Stuttgart,
Toulouse) together with their expertise to scientists from Member States or Associated States.
III. Joint research projects
- To improve three dimensional imaging of nanoparticles down to the sub- nanometer, and possibly atomic,
scale.
- To push the limits of chemical and electronic mapping in nanostructured materials.
- To develop improved detection in electron microscopy for rapid acquisition of images and spectra.
- To develop tools for nanomanipulation experiments inside the electron microscope and apply these tools for the
study of dynamic systems.
These efforts and objectives will not only strengthen the position of European microscopy, but also generate new
technology for signal detection and support the European nanotechnology programme.
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Project webpage: http://esteem.ua.ac.be
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Start date: 1 July 2006
Duration: 60 months
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List of participants
Participant
number
1
2
3
4
5
Organisation
Short name
University of Antwerp,.Belgium
Université Paris Sud, France
CEMES Toulouse, France
Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
ANT
UPS
TOU
OXF
CAM
1
6
7
8
9
10
11
Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Max –Planck- Institute Stuttgart, Germany
Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands
Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
University of Cadiz, Spain
University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
2
DRE
STU
DEL
LJU
CAD
CRA