Fourteen joint professorships and the associated research groups on Campus North and Campus South of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology cooperate in the KIT NanoMicro Center. In addition, the Center pools the excellence of several outstanding research programs, projects, and facilities in this field. These are:
- The programs “NANOMICRO: Science, Technology, Systems” and “BioInterfaces” of the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers,
- the DFG excellence cluster “Center for Functional Nanostructures” (CFN),
- the graduate school “Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics” (KSOP),
- the DFG Collaborative Research Center 499 “Design, Production, and Quality Assurance of Molded Microcomponents Made of Metallic and Ceramic Materials”,
- the DFG graduate college / Research Training Group 1294 “Analysis, Simulation, and Design of Nanotechnological Processes”,
- the Laboratory for Electron Microscopy (LEM),
- the Functional Nanostructures Competence Network (Baden-Wuerttemberg State Foundation),
- the Syncrotron Light Source ANKA, and
- the Karlsruhe Nano Micro Facility (KNMF), a cost-free user platform for cooperation partners from research and industry. The platform offers unique high technologies to structure and characterize functional materials on the nanometer and micrometer scales. These are pooled at the laboratories for micro and nanostructurization, for microscopy and spectroscopy as well as for synchrotron characterization.
The work of the KIT NanoMicro Center is organized in eight topics.
