Austrian Centre for Electron Microscopy and Nanoanalysis
The Austrian Centre for Electron Microscopy and Nanoanalysis (short: FELMI-ZFE) is a cooperation between the Institute of Electron Microscopy and Nanoanalysis (FELMI) of the Graz University of Technology (TUG) and the Graz Centre of Electron Microscopy (ZFE), which is a member of Austrian Cooperative Research (ACR) and run by the non-profit association for the promotion of electron microscopy. It is located at the “Neue Technik Steyrergasse” campus in Graz. The FELMI-ZFE is offering both research and services, to interested partners from academia and industry, using advanced electron microscopic methods for both structural and chemical characterization. History The acquisition process of the first electron microscope of the Graz University of Technology was started by a donation from industry in 1949. The next year a research group, headed by Fritz Grasenick, was established. Finally, the first electron microscope (“Übermikroskop UEM100” by Siemens & Halske) was bought in 1951 and the opening ceremony was attended by Ernst Ruska, Werner Glaser and Otto Wolf. Despite the Graz University of Technology providing rooms and infrastructure, from the very beginning supplementary income from services research provide for industry was necessary to help cover the high operating and investment cost. Due to the larger interest in measurements