Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt

Tasks

•   SI traceable inorganic analysis
  • Comparability via traceability
  • Trace analysis: heavy metals in water
  • Clinical chemistry
  • Mono-elemental calibration solutions

• Novel optical reference methods in analytical chemistry
  
  • Isotope dilution Raman spectrometry

• Research and development in material sciences
  • Trace impurities in ultra-pure ²⁸Si
  • Molar masse of Silicon (re-determination of N_A)
  • Micro and nano analytics of advanced materials
    (graphene, "thin films")

• Nano structure for surface enhanced Raman scattering

• Element speciation analysis

• Isotope ratios for provenance analysis

Services

• Certifications and calibrations
• Calibration and Measurement Capabilities (CMC)
  CMC's within the framework of the Mutual Recognition Arrangement are accessible here (BIPM-CCQM)

Projects

Recent EMRP projects

• ENG09   Biofuels "Metrology for Biofuels"

• ENV02   PartEmission "Emerging requirements for measuring pollutants from automotive exhaust
               emissions - Automotive particulate emissions"
• ENV08   WFDtraceability "Traceable measurements for monitoring pollutants under the European
               Water Framework Directive (WFD-2000/60/EC)"
• HLT05    Metallomics  "Metrology for Metalloproteins" (Koordinator)
• SIB09     Elements "Primary standards for challenging elements"
• SIB 03   KNOW "Realisation of the awaited definition of the kilogram-resolving the discrepancies"
• IND07    Thin Films "Metrology for the manufactoring of thin films"
• NEW02  Raman "Metrology for Raman Spectroscopy"