About CEITEC
Do you know…
- … the scientists in CEITEC will be researching what happens in the brain when a human has realized that they have made a mistake?
- … there will be nearly 800 scientists in CEITEC?
- … in CEITEC we will be researching how the brain works and why some people are motivated and others are not?
- … thanks to CEITEC most of the diagnostic methods will be cheaper, faster and more comfortable for the patients?
- … 63 research teams will be created in CEITEC?
- … there will be 7 research programmes in CEITEC?
- … there will be more than 1,000 modern instruments in CEITEC?
- … more than 31,000 m2 of new infrastructure will be built in CEITEC?
- … more than 1,500 students will use the CEITEC infrastructure per year?
- … there will be 10 shared laboratories created in CEITEC?
- … CEITEC has 6 partners?
- … work will be carried out on self-cleaning surfaces in CEITEC?
- … CEITEC will co-operate closely with the industrial sector?
- … there will also be international scientists working in CEITEC?
- … CEITEC will support the international mobility of scientists?
- … the scientists in CEITEC are developing a subdermal chip which will analyse some life functions and will inform doctors from a distance?
- … the scientists in CEITEC are working on the development of a device which will enable physiotherapy from a distance?
- … the scientists at CEITEC are working on the development of biosensors?
- … CEITEC will be created in the south-Moravian city of Brno?
Nanocharacterisation
Head: Prof. RNDr. Josef Humlíček, CSc.
Main Activity
Characterisation of surfaces and nanostructures by various analytical methods. Also includes komplex facilities for in-situ investigation of the processes responsible for the growth of thin films and self-assembling nanostructures.
Unique Features
Clean room laboratory (class 1 000 – 100 000) equipped with state-of-the-art techniques for characterisation of nanostructures allows effective control and analysis of all types of nano- and microstructures and devices. Together with the Nanolitography and Nanofabrication Core Facility, it offers a unique combination of techniques enabling both the fabrication of complex functional nanostructures and nanodevices and provides for their diagnostics.
Key equipment (Core Facility fully operational from 2014)
- XPS
- SIMS
- SEM
- SNOM
- TERS + Micro-Raman
- Vacuum FTIR
- NIR/VIS/UV/(VUV) spectrometers and ellipsometers
- Powder XRD diff ractometer
- Low temperature (He) electrical and magnetic transport measurement system
- Semiconductor characterisation system
- Electronic measurement components
- Complex UHV equipment for in-situ deposition and in-situ analysis (MBE, STM, nano-SAM)
- PLD deposition system: UHV, in-situ RHEED, IR laser rating
- Experimental PECVD system
- Scanning electron microscope with focused ion beam and 4 nanomanipulators
- Scanning probe microscopy for fabrication of nanostructures




