Ernst Bauer Poster Award for Björn Riedel

At the 14th International Conference on LEEM/PEEM in Tokyo, Björn Riedel won the ‘Ernst Bauer Student Poster Award’, which was presented for the first time. It was Bauer who first invented low-energy electron microscopy (LEEM).

In his work, Björn investigated the growth behaviour of samarium oxide on a copper substrate (see abstract for details). This research is essential for understanding the stabilisation of catalytically active sites for carbon dioxide hydrogenation.

Earlier this year, Björn Riedel had already won the 2026 Physics Student Prize from the Berlin Physical Society (Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin e.V.) as well as the prize for the best Master’s thesis from Faculty 1 at the BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg.

B. Riedel, R. Sánchez-Barquilla, L. Buß, L. Müller, I. Cojocariu, T. O. Mentes, A. Locatelli, J. I. Flege
Switching Crystal Structures: Sm₂O₃ Nanoislands on Cu(111) and Their Polymorphic Behaviour
Poster, 7 October 2026
Abstract

Contact

Björn Riedel
Angewandte Physik und Halbleiterspektroskopie
T +49 (0) 355 69-5361
riedebjo(at)b-tu.de

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Jan Ingo Flege
Angewandte Physik und Halbleiterspektroskopie
T +49 (0) 355 69-5352
flege(at)b-tu.de
Photo: Jan Ingo Flege

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