The overall objective of the TEM Gemini Centre is to build and secure a robust scientific TEM environment with high international profile as basis for growth for the Centre itself, NTNU, SINTEF and academic and industrial partners.

TEM Gemini Centre was established in 2006 and consists of professors, engineers, postdoctoral fellows, doctoral candidates and students at the Department of Physics (IFY) and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (IMT) together with research scientist on TEM at SINTEF Industry. In 2021 we are ~4.4 professors, 3 engineers, 5 SINTEF researchers, 3 postdoctoral fellow, 10 PhD candidates and several master students with TEM as their main activity.

We have in total three TEM instruments, ranging from a double-corrected JEOL ARM installed 2013 to conventional LaB6 all-round instruments.

ESTEEM3 – Enabling Science and Technology through European Electron Microscopy – is an EU funded project for electron microscopy, which aims at providing access to the leading European state-of-the-art electron microscopy research infrastructures, facilitating and extending transnational access services of the most powerful atomic scale characterization techniques in advanced electron microscopy research to a wide range of academic and industrial research communities for the analysis and engineering of novel materials in physical, chemical and biological sciences.

Here you can find more details about access through ESTEEM3 and an application form.

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), SINTEF and the University of Oslo (UiO) have established the Gemini Centres.

The objective of the Gemini Centres is to develop large scientific groups of higher quality than either of the partners could manage to build up on their own. There is an international demand for first-class scientific groups from both project sponsors and students. For this reason, the Gemini Centres have adopted the following vision: Together for International Excellence.