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News Archive 2018

Metrology with Synchrotron Radiation

 

Since 2006, the European X-Ray Spectrometry Association (EXSA) has awarded prizes for excellent work in the field of x-ray spectrometry and, since 2010, additionally for the best dissertation in this field of research.

 

This year, three scientists from PTB's Working Group 7.24, "X-ray Spectrometry", were honored for their work, which for the most part, was conducted at the electron storage...

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The significant challenges posed by the increasing complexity of nanostructured surfaces used in technological applications include the characterization of such surfaces. The importance of complex and multidimensional nanostructures consisting of several materials is particularly noticeable in the semiconductor industry. At PTB's laboratory at the BESSY II electron storage ring, synchrotron...

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PTB and ASML are putting a new test beamline into operation at BESSY

 

Increasing miniaturization in the microelectronic sector has created inevitable facts: In the future, structures on microchips and on other components will have to be manufactured by means of lithography in the EUV range, which means using extremely short wavelengths of just 13.5 nm. For test measurements, the...

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Fundamental material parameters such as the interaction cross sections used to describe the interaction of matter with radiation are very important, both for fundamental research and for diagnostic and analytical applications. In collaboration with Fraunhofer IPM in Freiburg im Breisgau, interaction cross sections for the photoionization of noble gases in the VUV spectral range have recently been...

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Raul Garcia Diez from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin – and former doctoral candidate of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) – was awarded the prize for the "Best doctoral thesis Adlershof 2017" on 14 February 2018 for the thesis he elaborated in the X-ray Radiometry working group at PTB's laboratory at BESSY II. This prize is endowed with 3000 euros and has been awarded every year...

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