The Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons: National User Facility for Ultra-high Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy

Jülich基金会和RWTH亚琛大学建立了Ernst Ruska中心(ER-C)，作为联合能力中心和国家用户中心。目前，ER-C是高分辨率电子光学技术开发和应用领域的国际领先中心。本提案的目的是在其核心融资倡议的框架内，将恩斯特·鲁斯卡中心作为国家用户中心的支助再延长两年。在这种支持的基础上，ER-C不仅将提供具有独特仪器的世界级设施，而且还将向用户介绍ER-C提供的独特方法，并将对其应用以及像差校正仪器的优化操作进行培训。此外，用户将可以使用所有现有的软件工具，并将了解数据分析和量化方面的最新发展。仪器基础将包括Ernst Ruska中心的最新仪器，特别是Pico仪器上新的CCOR+校正器、Titan Holo、Titan ChemiSTEM和将于2015年5月安装的第二台Helios NanoLab FIB。

Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University have established the Ernst Ruska-Centre (ER-C) as a joint competence centre and national user centre. At present, the ER-C is the internationally leading centre in the field of the development and application of high resolution electron-optical techniques. The present proposal aims at extending the support of the Ernst Ruska-Centre as a National User Centre by the DFG within the framework of their Core Facility Initiative for a further two years. Based on this support, the ER-C will not only offer access to a world class facility with unique instrumen¬tation, but users will also be introduced to the unique methods which are available at the ER-C and will be trained in their application as well as in the optimised operation of the aberration corrected instruments. In addition, users will have access to all existing software tools and will be introduced to the newest developments in data analysis and quantification. The instrumental basis will include the newest instruments at the Ernst Ruska-Centre, in particular the new CCOR+ corrector on the PICO instrument, the Titan Holo, the Titan ChemiSTEM and a second Helios Nanolab FIB, which will be installed in May 2015.