New techniques and instrumentation are developed by the ER-C’s scientific and technical staff in collaboration with academic and commercial partners, as well as with the instrumentation institutes in Forschungszentrum Jülich.
The ER-C is a centre of excellence in advanced transmission electron microscopy and spectroscopy for addressing topical problems in solid state physics and chemistry, materials science, soft matter and biology.
The ER-C operates a user facility that provides access to state-of-the-art instruments, methods and expertise to universities, research institutions and industry. It is governed jointly by FZJ and RWTH Aachen.
The project ER-C 2.0 aims to expand our infrastructure in order to create unique characterization opportunities. This helps to create targeted incentives for companies to move to the Rhineland.
The ER-C offers opportunities for students (B.Sc. / M.Sc. / PhD) and scientists to conduct research in fundamental and applied electron microscopy. We provide access to world-leading instruments and support from our experts.
The ER-C is a key part of the European landscape of infrastructures for the characterization of materials using advanced techniques and instrumentation.
The biological process of oxidative phosphorylation takes place in the cells of all eukaryotic, aerobic organisms: It produces energy that sustains the life of complex organisms such as humans. Its malfunction is associated with severe diseases, affecting multiple organs, but in particular the brain and muscles.
In the IMPRESS project, researchers from 19 European institutions are aiming to create an interoperable platform that enables samples to be transferred easily between different electron microscopes and experiments. As part of a pre-commercial procurement (PCP), which was recently launched, several competing innovative solutions are to be tested and developed up to the prototype level.
Access to the ER-C’s facilities is provided on the basis of peer-reviewed applications. Please contact our User Office for further information.
As part of the programme to promote structural change in the Rhineland, the Ernst Ruska-Centre at Forschungs- zentrum Jülich is to be strategically expanded within the framework of the ER-C 2.0 project, and as a national research infrastructure for high-resolution electron microscopy, will create characterisation capabilities that are unparalleled world- wide. With its unique profile, the Rhineland is thus set to become Germany's most attractive region for the establishment of new materials technologies.
Revolutionizing TEM with a team of experts from 11 European countries making electron microscopy accessible and adaptable to individual needs through interoperable arrangements for a wider range of scientific communities is the aim of impress - a project by e-Dream.
ReMade@ARI commits to leverage the development of innovative, sustainable materials for key components in the most diverse sectors, such as electronics, batteries, vehicles, construction, packaging, plastics, textiles and food on an unprecedented level. It will be the central hub in Europe for all sectors and research areas in which new materials for a circular economy will be developed.
The 3D MAGiC project aims at understanding the behavior and controlling of some of the least explored and most puzzling objects in nanomagnetism: three dimensional magnetic solitons.
A unique transmission electron microscope with a resolution of 50 picometres has been available in the ER-C since February 2012. Learn here how the "PICO" (Advanced Picometre Resolution Project) works.
The Jülich Centre for Structural Biology ("JuStruct") is a user platform for determining atomically-resolved structures of medically and neurobiologically relevant proteins using NMR spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, computer simulations, neutron scattering, neutron spectroscopy and cryo-EM.