Electronic cross-linking of the Kiel Nanolab

• Subject Area: Synthesis and Properties of Functional Materials
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 455605520

Kiel’s Nanolab is a joint laboratory for the production and partial characterization of nanosystem components established at the Faculty of Engineering of the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (CAU) and is open to the entire university and external cooperation partners. It is registered as a research infrastructure at the DFG. The focus of the equipment and the work carried out is on the production, structuring and integration of novel functional materials for applications in sensor technology, medical implants, neuromorphic components, energy harvesting and actuators. In addition to many individual grants from the DFG and ERC, Kiel’s Nanolab is a central scientific infrastructure for large collaborative projects such as the SFB 1261 "Magnetoelectric Sensors: from Composite Materials to Biomagnetic Diagnosis", the GRK 2154 "Materials for Brain", the FOR 2093 "Memristive Components" and the graphene flagship FLAG-ERA. At present, the laboratory is regularly used by about 80 registered students, doctoral researchers and postdoctoral researchers from 12 working groups in materials science, electrical engineering and physics. In addition, it is regularly used by employees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology (ISIT) as a branch office at CAU and by two spin-off companies at the Faculty of Engineering: Acquandas GmbH and Phi-Stone AG. The objective of this application is to make the already partly existing access and billing system more transparent and subsequently more comprehensible. For this purpose, electronic booking and accounting systems will be installed at all facilities, which additionally enable online monitoring of the equipment, e.g. to carry out timely maintenance work. Furthermore, the device settings and control parameters should be fully documented in order to contribute to a higher reproducibility of the processes used. As a final step, these data will be merged with electronic observation books of the users introduced in the context of this measure in order to generate further usable scientific data in accordance with the objectives of the NFDI.

• DFG Programme: Core Facilities
• Applicant Institution: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
• Leader: Professor Dr.-Ing. Eckhard Quandt