X-ray Nanotomography for Advanced Materials and Battery Research Applications

Dr. Antonio Casares is sales and applications specialist at ZEISS Research Microscopy Solutions in Germany. He has more than 25 years of experience in the design and construction of mass spectrometers and electron microscopes and a deep application knowledge in those techniques.

Adrian Mikitisin is a research associate at the Central Facility for Electron Microscopy (GFE) at RWTH Aachen University. He completed his PhD in the field of damage analysis with a focus on microstructural changes in steel materials at the same institution, where he previously studied materials science. His work primarily involved electron microscopy (EM), covering the full spectrum of SEM and TEM techniques. Since 2022, Adrian Mikitisin has been managing an analytical laboratory at the Center for Ageing, Reliability, and Lifetime Prediction of Electrochemical and Power Electronic Systems (CARL) at RWTH Aachen University. He was also responsible for setting up and establishing the laboratory. His current research focuses on energy materials, investigating aging processes in the battery sector. In addition to electron microscopy techniques, he now also employs X-ray microscopy (XRM). By combining EM methods with XRM, one can create a unique correlative workflow that significantly enhances the understanding of material processes.

Stephen Kelly is the Market Sector Manager for Energy Materials at Carl Zeiss RMS. He has been working in the battery and energy materials space for over 20 years and has extensive experience with materials characterization and fabrication across the energy space. His expertise covers batteries, fuel cells, hydrogen storage materials, and photovoltaics, among others. After receiving his BS in Engineering Physics from Colorado School of Mines in 2002, he went on to receive his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University in 2009. He spent 4 years working as a postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory specializing in x-ray microscopy of solar cells and atmospheric aerosols. He has been working at Carl Zeiss RMS for the last 7 years as an imaging specialist and Sector Manager for the Energy Materials market. He lives in San Francisco, California.