Optimized MEMS-based Nanoreactor for In-Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Studies at High Temperature and Atmospheric Pressure

Transmission electron microscopy is a powerful and commonly used tool to study nanoparticles, nanowires and 2D materials. It provides static information from the sample with atomic resolution, in high vacuum and at ambient temperature. However, in real processes, the environment is often different and dynamic.<br/><br/> MEMS-based sample...

Making Better Batteries: Following Electrochemistry at the Nano Scale with Electron Microscopy

With the focus in automobile industry to switch from petroleum-based vehicles to all electric vehicles, the increasing demand on harvesting energy from renewable sources for a safer and greener future and the ever-increasing demand of the portable electronics systems, the need for better batteries is eminent. The ultimate aim of battery research...

Ultra thin films for sensing and heating of microprobes

This dissertation aims to advance the current state of cantilevers with integrated metal thermal and deflection sensing elements. Metallic sensing elements enable the use of alternative substrate materials (such as polymers), that tend to exhibit higher compliance properties and are more robust (less brittle) compared to Si or Si3N4 cantilevers....

Design and Feasibility Test of a Microfluidic MEMS for an Integrated Light and Scanning Electron Microscope

Nowadays both fluorescence and scanning electron microscopy are highly developed imaging techniques that are commonly used in many fields of research. As both techniques have their own strengths and weaknesses, a combination of both techniques can complement each other in certain fields of research. The combination of these two imaging...