Group Ion Beam Analysis - has been dissolved 1st of Janaury 2019
Previous head of group: Dr. Axel Renno
The applied ion beam analysis (IBA) makes use of high-energy ions for materials, structural and radionuclide analysis. Within the framework of resource analysis IBA helps developing new technologies for exploration, mining and recycling of raw materials along the value chain.
Generally, all chemical elements of the periodic table can be determined by means of IBA. However, there are numerous factors influencing which special IBA method is the "method of choice" such as
- Concentration of the to determined element
- Matrix and interfering elements
- Lateral resolution (bulk, < 3 µm)
- Depth resolution (bulk, < 1 nm)
For further information with respect to cooperative research projects or quotations for commercial analyses, please contact Axel Renno.
Alumni
Georgy Belokonov (Doktorand), Amélie Chabilan (internship - with IBC), Tamás Ditrói (DAAD student - with IBC), Sandra Dreßler (researcher), Dr. Santiago Miguel Enamorado Baez (Post-Doc), Christian Freiherr (Diplomand), Lubomir Gabriš (summer student), Dr. Andreas Gärtner (researcher - with IBC), Quentin Guelennoc (Diplomand), Max Günthner (summer student), Dr. Dominik Güttler (researcher - with IBC), Hendrik Herdler (Diplomand), Julien Huguet (master student), Victoria Kabanova (summer student), Stefan König (researcher), Madita Kudla (internship/trainee), Loic Le Bras (researcher), Alexandra Lightfoot (summer student), Roberto Llovera (researcher - with IBC), Malin Lüdicke (internship/trainee), Dr. Silke Merchel (researcher), Przemyslav Michalak (part-time PhD-student), Dr. Stefan Pavetich (PhD-student), Dr. Axel Renno (group leader), Dr. Georg Rugel (researcher), Elizaveta Samoilova (internship/trainee), Dr. Andreas Scharf (researcher - with IBC), Katharina Schraut (internship/trainee), Katharina Stock (internship/trainee - with IBC), Collin Tiessen (student/part-time PhD-student), Stephanie Uhlig (part-time research assistant), Antonia Weber (internship/trainee), Hannes Wenzel (internship/trainee), Haosheng Wu (Diplomand), Renè Ziegenrücker (engineer)
News archive
- "Historical" milestones of our large-scale facility research
| January 2019 - Due to an HZDR restructering activity the majority of members of the group Ion Beam Analysis are now part of the new departement "Accelerator Mass Spectrometry and Isotope Research" at the Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research. |
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November 2017 - The ECHo (Electron Capture in Holmium Experiment) team performs experiments at DREAMS. Development of AMS at DREAMS for experimental determination of the ratio 163Ho/166mHo in ECHo samples. The long-lived 166mHo (t1/2=1200 a) is an unwanted by-product of the 163Ho (t1/2=4570 a) production, which is reduced to ultra-low levels (~10-9) after sophisticated mass separation. For a background-free measurement of the 163Ho spectrum in the ECHo metallic magnetic calorimeters the absence of 166mHo is critical. f.l.t.r.: Felix Wiescher (JGU Mainz), Oliver Forstner (FSU Jena & HI Jena), Christoph Düllmann (GSI Darmstadt, JGU Mainz, HI Mainz), Holger Dorrer (JGU Mainz), Klaus Wendt (JGU Mainz), Silke Merchel & Georg Rugel (HZDR, HI Freiberg) and Tom Kieck (JGU Mainz). |
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September 2017 - Congratulations to Haosheng Wu, who received an award for best poster at the 21st International Conference on Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS), Kraków, Poland. More information here. |
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June 2017 - DREAMS user Lisa Luna (U Potsam; now: NewClimate Institute for Climate Policy and Global Sustainability, Berlin) receives the graduation award (1.000 Euro) of the university of Potsdam 2017. She graduated in geosciences with her MSc work "A glacial chronology and cosmogenic nuclide cross calibration from the central southern Andean Plateau (Puna, 24°S)“. The university of Potsdam gives this yearly award to persons who show a high potential for scienctific work and further qualification. The work was performed under the supervision of Bodo Bookhagen, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science. Further information (in German only) can be found here: "Alumni des Monats 06/2017 - Lisa Luna ". |
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May 2017 - "Self-praise? - Never mind!" The HZDR Research Award 2016 goes to (c) HZDR/André Wirsig |
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January 2017 - Meeting of project partners for BMBF-Förderung „Erforschung kondensierter Materie“ - Entwicklung einer effizienten Hochstromionenquelle für Untersuchungen von Mikrometeoriten mit Beschleunigermassenspektrometrie (Project part 1 (U Göttingen); Project part 2 (TU Berlin) at the Ion Beam Centre (IBC) f.l.t.r.: Andreas Scharf (IBC, HZDR), Jenny Feige (TU Berlin), Hans Hofsäß & Felipe Bregolin (U Göttingen), Silke Merchel & Georg Rugel (HIF, HZDR), Andreas Gärtner (Senckenberg Dresden). |
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Dezember 2016 - Treasure in ice core waste: Elsevier promotes our Open-Access-Paper in Results in Physics by making it a "Highlight". |
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October 2016 - "Self-praise? - Never mind!" We are really proud about our second place in the poster competition at the "Archäometrie und Denkmalpflege" meeting in Göttingen for our German poster "Bestimmung langlebiger Radionuklide mittels Beschleunigermassenspektrometrie (AMS) für archäometrische Fragestellungen". |
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August 2016 - The first PNAS paper with DREAMS-data is published: More information can be found in the common press release "Discovery of a time-resolved supernova signal in Earth’s microfossils". ©-Foto: NASA/CXC/SAO//TUM |
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April 2016 - Size does matter! ;-) Succesful sampling of big boulders from a rock fall in Namibia. |
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April 2016 - The first Nature paper with DREAMS-data is published: A. Wallner, J. Feige, N. Kinoshita, M. Paul, L.K. Fifield, R. Golser, M. Honda, U. Linnemann, H. Matsuzaki, S. Merchel, G. Rugel, S.G. Tims, P. Steier, T. Yamagata, S.R. Winkler, Recent near-Earth supernovae probed by global deposition of interstellar radioactive 60Fe, Nature 532 (2016) 69-72. You can read more on this in the press release. |
©-Foto: NASA, ESA, R. Sankrit and W. Blair (Johns Hopkins University) / CC BY 3.0. |
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December 2015 - The first Science paper with DREAMS-data is published: W. Schwanghart, A. Bernhardt, A. Stolle, P. Hoelzmann, B.R. Adhikari, C. Andermann, A press conference at the AGU Fall meeting introduced our paper and the one of Kargel et al. (Science Express) to the public. Instant notice was taken e.g. by Nature News. Thanks to our coauthors for sampling this big guy and trusting DREAMS to determine a 10Be exposure age as low as 330 years! |
©-Foto: C. Andermann, GFZ. |
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October 2015 - DREAMS-User Dr. Jenny Feige (VERA, U Vienna; now TU Berlin) receives the "Klaus Tschira Preis für verständliche Wissenschaft" for her German paper "Astronomie unter dem Meer" (astronomy under the sea). ©-Foto: S. Pavetich. |
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October 2015 - Stefan Pavetich succesfully defends his PhD thesis "Determination of non-routine radionuclides by medium-energy accelerator mass spectrometry" at the TU Dresden - Congratulations, Dr. Pavetich! And best wishes for your Post-Doc at the ANU! |
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September 2015 - DREAMS-User Dr. Jenny Feige (VERA, U Vienna; now TU Berlin) receives the dissertation award of the division nuclear chemistry of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) for her work "Supernova-Produced Radionuclides in Deep-Sea Sediments Measured with AMS“. Prof. Christoph Düllmann hands the award over. |
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July 2015 - Team "Ion beam Analytics" brings light to the "Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften" (Researchers’ Night)... (c) Stephan Floss, Jana Grämer, Tina Schulz |
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June 2015 - Team building activity in "Saxon Switzerland" (with guest from Switzerland and IBC-colleague) |
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January 2015 - Georg Rugel publishes with colleagues from Canberra, Wien, Garching, Jerusalem and Darmstadt in Nature Communications about "Abundance of live 244Pu in deep-sea reservoirs on Earth points to rarity of actinide nucleosynthesis". |
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January 2015 - Our DFG-project "Evolution of the western Namibian drainage systems since Eocene times – a multi-methodical approach" together with Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden starts with taking samples in Namibia. ©-Foto: Mandy Hofmann. |
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November/December 2014 - Knowledge-transfer: ANSTO- and VERA-colleagues Mike Hotchkis (2. from left), Peter Steier (2. from right) and Stephan Winkler (right) help us to develop actinides-AMS at DREAMS. |
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October 2014 - The HIAF scientists Anton Wallner (left) and Michaela Fröhlich (right) from the ANU in Canberra (DAAD project AUGEAS) help us again to perform heavy element mass spectrometry experiments and meet members of the User Selection Panel (Gunther Korschinek, TUM (middle) of the ion beam centre. |
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September 2014 - Our trainee, Malin Lüdicke (TU Dresden), learned how to do 10Be sample preparation, but also re-designed DREAMS. |
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August 2014 - Our first HIF summer student - Victoria Kabanova - investigates the homogeneity of the proton beam for HS-PIXE . |
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| July 2014 - Report (in German) about the Super-SIMS in the HZDR-Forschungsmagazin "entdeckt" - Ionen auf der Überholspur (picture by Oliver Killig). | |
| Mai 2014 - Hundreds of visitors took the chance at the Tag des offenen Labors (Open day) to go on a guided tour led by the ion beam analytics group of HIF. | |
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Mai 2014 - Visitors of the "Bilateral German-Russian Workshop on joint research activities in the field of mineral deposits" at the 3 MV accelerator. Participants from the Siberian Federal University at Krasnoyarsk, the Toms Polytechnical University, the Russian Academy of Sciences (Siberian Branch) at Novosibirsk and the company Germanium OJSC at Krasnoyarsk. |
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April 2014 - Our paper about the didicated ion source for volatiles is published. S. Pavetich, S. Akhmadaliev, M. Arnold, G. Aumaître, D. Bourlès, J. Buchriegler, R. Golser, K. Keddadouche, M. Martschini, S. Merchel, G. Rugel, P. Steier, Interlaboratory study of the ion source memory effect in 36Cl accelerator mass spectrometry, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B 329 (2014) 22–29. |
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April 2014 - Our review paper reaches "Number One" of "Most accessed papers throughout 2013" of Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research (GGR). Our paper has achieved the highest download statistics (currently > 1400) ever for GGR. M. Wiedenbeck, R. Bugoi, M.J.M. Duke, T. Dunai, J. Enzweiler, M. Horan, K.P. Jochum, K. Linge, J. Košler, S. Merchel, L. Morales, L. Nasdala, R. Stalder, P. Sylvester, U. Weis, A. Zoubir, Critical Review of Analytical Developments since 2010, Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research 36 (2012) 337-398. |
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| February 2014 - As the Super-SIMS-source has now its own "home", the installation starts by adjusting its height to the accelerator. | |
| December 2013 - Arrival of the CAMECA IMS 7f-Auto - our new ion source for the project. | |
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October 2013 - Our High-Speed PIXE system runs routineously. To celebrate this, we have invited human beings and minerals to visit the "chemical photo studio". |
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| September 2013 - We perform our first heavy element mass spectrometry experiments together with HIAF-scientists from Canberra (DAAD-project AUGEAS) at DREAMS. | |
| September 2013 - We are proud to annouce that René has received a poster award! He presented our poster entitled "High-Speed PIXE – schnelle Multielementanalyse mit Ionenstrahlen" (R. Ziegenrücker, J. Buchriegler, D. Hanf, J. Gutzmer, S. Ihle, S. Merchel, F. Munnik, A.D. Renno, G. Rugel, O. Scharf) at the annual meeting of the nuclear chemistry division, which took place at Darmstadt as part of the GDCh-Wissenschaftsforum. | |
| August 2013 - "First stone laying" of the Super-SIMS House-in-House. | |
| 13th-24th May 2013 - DREAMS scientists "learn" heavy element mass spectrometry at the HIAF @ ANU, Canberra (DAAD project AUGEAS). | |
| 18th December 2012 - First "element picture" taken at the HS-PIXE-Beamline. | |
| November 2012 -First PIGE measurements at the in the framework of a SPIRIT project of Monika Nowak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, PL) and Frans Munnik (IBC). | |
| October 2012 - The High-Speed-PIXE is slowly taking shape. | |
| September 2012 - The HIF trainees within the TU Dresden project "Lehrer studiert Unternehmen" (Lisa Michel und Rebecca Schmidt) are preparing AMS samples from manganese nodules. | |
| September 2012 - The DFG supports our bilateral Networking (FRALAMS) with ASTER, Aix-en-Provence, France: Maurice Arnold @ DREAMS. | |
| 28th August 2012 - Installation of the 6.4 tons heavy Gabbro plate for Super-SIMS experiment. | |
| August 2012 - First HIF trainee in the IBA group: Dominique Brising (TUBAF). | |
| 9th May 2012 - Arrival of Super-SIMS ion source. | |
| March 2012 - First HIF trainee within the TU Dresden project "Lehrer studiert Unternehmen": Andreas Rieseler |
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Media Information 14.10.2013: |
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| Nanowerk News Nanotechnology Research and General News10.05.2012 |
Tons of equipment for nanograms of science |
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Press release 09.05.2012: |
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