Centers
Empa is running a number of top-notch centers, which on one hand offer services and consulting to external partners, and on the other hand cooperate in numerous research and development projects to boost and advance the technologies in question. Likewise, Empa is a partner in several national interinstitutional research networks such as the Strategic Focus Areas and the Joint Initiatives of the ETH Domain.
In its Coating Competence Center (CCC) Empa develops new technologies by bringing together key players along the value chain and by closing the gap between lab-scale research and industrial production. This includes all aspects of technology: materials, processes and machines.
Empa's Electron Microscopy (EM) Center offers EM services to internal and external research partners, conducts forefront research in the development and application of new EM techniques in materials science and acts as a consulting unit for electron microscopy in materials science.
Empa's Center for X-ray Analytics works on advancing X-ray-based analytical methods in materials science and technology, often in partnership with research institutions and industry. Fields of application comprise semiconductor technology, chemistry, pharmacology and biology.
Empa’s Center for Reliability Engineering provides consulting on issues related to reliability, offers research cooperations and runs a service pool for partners from industry, through which customers are granted access to state-of-the-art testing methods and facilities.