The European Ceramic Society
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Austria
Materials Center Leoben Forschung GmbH
Department Materials for Microelectronics
Director : Dr. Elke KRAKER
Email : elke.kraker@mcl.at
Phone : +43 3842 45922 37
Address : Kerpelystrasse 2, 8700 Leoben
Website : www.mcl.at
Research topics :
Thin film ceramic capacitors: Sol-gel processing of ceramic thin films, compositional design, characterization of electrical properties (permittivity, capacitance, breakdown strength, leakage, conductivity, energy density).
Raman spectroscopy of ceramics: Physical-chemical analysis of ceramics (phase identification, phase fraction, phase transitions, stoichiometry), residual stress analyses, crystal orientation/texture analyses, defect identification. Ab-initio modelling of Raman spectra. Mathematical routines for data interpretation including statistical analysis.
Contact: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Marco DELUCA
Tel.: +43 3842 45922 530
3D analysis of porous ceramic materials: Correlated morphology/structural/chemical image based characterization using methods like X-ray computed tomography, SEM/FIB tomography, synchrotron tomography, neutron tomography as well as image analysis workflows comprising algorithm development based on conventional and machine learning approaches.
Contact: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Roland BRUNNER
Tel.: +43 3842 45922 48
Exceptional facilities :
- Sol-gel thin film deposition laboratory: Dry glove box, spin coating, spray pyrolysis, rapid thermal annealing furnace, e-beam electrode deposition.
- Electrical characterization laboratory.
- Raman spectrometer with UV laser capability.
- X-ray computed Tomography
- SEM/FIB tomography
- High resolution analytical FESEM in transmission & reflection mode (EBSD, EDX capabilities)
Financial support programmes :
- European fundings: ERC - Consolidator Grant CITRES (GA 817190). H2020 FET-Proactive FOXES (GA 951774), H2020 ECO2LiB LC-Bat 2019, H2020 InnnovaXN MSCA Cofund Programme, ILL-Beamtime Grant 1-05-13 NEXT,
- National fundings: FFG (COMET Program, Produktion der Zukunft), FWF
Latest news
2025 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 3rd call!
In the frame of the 2025 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a first call to allow grants to European Students to attend the 2025 International Symposium on Green Processing for Advanced Ceramics (IGPAC 2025), organised by the Ceramic Society of Japan, from 5th to 9th October 2025 in Ise-Shima/Mie, Japan.
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust for Mobility projects is 31st August 2025!
Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before end of October 2025. Activities submitted for the deadline of 31st August 2025 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before November 2025.
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