Awarded the 6th BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences, physicist Knut Urban explains in this interview how his contributions to the development of aberration-corrected electron microscopy have revolutionized the ability to observe materials at the atomic scale. Urban details how these innovations allow the study of crystalline defects, interfaces, and nanometric structures with unprecedented precision, providing essential information for advancing materials science, nanotechnology, and solid-state physics. His reflections highlight the importance of high-resolution experimental tools for understanding the fundamental properties of matter and designing new materials with technological applications.
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Laureate in the Basic Sciences category goes in this sixth edition to German physicists Maximilian Haider, Harald Rose and Knut
Awarded the 6th BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences, physicist Knut Urban explains in this interview how his contributions to the development of aberration-corrected electron microscopy have revolutionized the ability to observe materials at the atomic scale. Urban details how these innovations allow the study of crystalline defects, interfaces, and nanometric structures with unprecedented precision, providing essential information for advancing materials science, nanotechnology, and solid-state physics. His reflections highlight the importance of high-resolution experimental tools for understanding the fundamental properties of matter and designing new materials with technological applications.
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Laureate in the Basic Sciences category goes in this sixth edition to German physicists Maximilian Haider, Harald Rose and Knut Urban for greatly enhancing the resolving power of electron microscopy by developing aberration-corrected electron optics, a breakthrough enabling subatomic precision.
00:00 Introduction
00:05 So how did the creation of a company come to finance a basic research project in an area that state agencies had abandoned?
01:55 How was the research team formed, and to what extent was it the key to your success?
