NORTEM – The Norwegian Centre for Transmission Electron Microscopy

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We provide access to high-end TEM infrastructure for materials physics, chemistry, geology and other physical sciences. The Oslo-node of NORTEM is hosted by the Department of Physics, and co-owned with SINTEF.

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Recent publications

  • García-Fernández, J.; S. B. Kjeldby; L. J. Zeng; E. Olsson; L. Vines; Ø. Prytz. Formation and stability of Ge nanocrystals in polymorph converted Ga2O3: Temperature-driven journey. Appl. Phys. Lett. 126, 126, 051601, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0235371 (2025).
  • Petlund, Henrik; Pokle, Anuj & Chatzitakis, Athanasios. Suppression of surface amorphization during oxygen evolution reaction in A-site deficient perovskite oxides. Journal of Physics: Energy. 7(2), ISSN 2515-7655, https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7655/adb2c0 (2025).
  • Zhao, Junlei; Garcia Fernandez, Javier; Azarov, Alexander; He, Ru; Prytz, Øystein; Nordlund, Kai; Hua, Mengyuan; Djurabekova, Flyura; Kuznetsov, Andrej. Crystallization Instead of Amorphization in Collision Cascades in Gallium Oxide. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 126101, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.126101 (2025).
  • Azarov, A., Fernández, J.G., Zhao, J. et al. Phase glides and self-organization of atomically abrupt interfaces out of stochastic disorder in α-Ga2O3. Nat Commun 16, 3245, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58516-9 (2025).
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    Centre organization

    NORTEM is a consortium between the University of Oslo, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and SINTEF, establishing a large scale national infrastructure for TEM in the physical sciences. It consists of two nodes, one in Oslo and one in Trondheim.

     

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    With funding from:

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