Methods

Single crystal diffraction

Powder diffraction

Thermal analysis with DTA/DSC/TG methods, incl. TG-MS-coupling

IR /UV /Raman spectroscopy

Luminescence spectroscopy (Prof. C. Wickleder, Siegen)

Magnetic measurements (Prof. Pöttgen, Münster)

Mößbauer spectroscopy (Prof. Pöttgen, Münster)

Solid state NMR (Prof. Senker, Bayreuth)

Scanning elctron microscopy (SEM) / transmission electron microscopy (TEM)

Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX)

X-ray photo electron spectroscopy (XPS) (Prof. Al-Shamery, Oldenburg)

Thermal desorption spectroscopy (TDS) (Prof. Al-Shamery, Oldenburg)