The Summer School 2016 with a technical focus took place from 6 – 10 June 2016 in a seminar center near Travemünde, Germany. The Ph.D. candidates and Post-Docs chose “Characterization Methods for Multi-Scale Materials” as the topic of the Summer School. This subject addresses an important part of the materials synthesized within the SFB 986.

The following scientists discussed their research with the Summer School participants:  

Prof. Dr. Christoph Eberl
Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM, Freiburg, Germany
Small Scale Testing of Micro and Nanostructured Materials and a Glimpse into Digital Materials

Dr. Lutz Hammer
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Low Energy Electron Diffraction: Basic Application and Surface Structure Determination 

Prof. Erik Herbert, Ph.D.
Michigan Technological University, USA
Nanoindentation: Fundamentals of Experimental Methods 

Prof. Carl Krill III, Ph.D.
University of Ulm, Germany
Micrometer-Scale Characterization of Polycrystalline Materials in 3D

Prof. Dr. Erica Lilleodden
Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht and Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Micromechanical Testing: Principles and Applications

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Guido Schmitz
University of Stuttgart, Germany
Microscopy in Higher Dimension: Tomography with Electrons and Ions