Xavier Maeder

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Samuel Felix Bojarski, Kamila Elzbieta Hamulka, Philipp Konrad Clewie Kroeker

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Nicolò Maria Della Ventura

Courses

Advanced Microscopy for Materials

MSE-677

This course provides an overview of advanced materials characterization techniques, focusing on modern Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) combined with Focused Ion Beam (FIB) systems (dual-beam), as well as Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and Atom Probe Tomography (APT).

X-Ray Analysis for thin films

MSE-627

Intro into the relation between physical and structural properties; introduction into different X-Ray techniques; examples of successful technological transfer using X-Ray techniques; Structural properties; coherent and non coherent scattering; high resolution X-Ray techniques; stress; coatings.