Marcel Verheijen

Marcel Verheijen operates the high-end TEM microscope purchased as part of Solliance (the alliance that brings together R&D activities in thin-film solar cells of TU/e, TNO, Holst Centre, ECN, Imec and Forschungszentrum Jülich). It is physically housed at Philips Innovation labson the Eindhoven High Tech Campus, where Verheijen is employed as TEM application specialist. At Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) Verheijen is a part-time Assistant Professor in the Plasma & Materials Processing group of Prof. Erwin Kessels, where he serves all TU/e Applied Physics research groups with his expertise. As such he has co-authored many publications and acted as co-promotor (doctoral advisor) with multiple PhD students.

At TU/e his research interest includes high resolution TEM characterization of multi-layer systems, nanowires and ALD deposited nano-particles and nano-laminates. At Philips Verheijen performed materials characterization studies on a variety of materials systems, such as IC devices, rewritable DVD materials, MRI contrast agents, OLED and solar cell devices, and nanomaterials. The present focus of his Philips work is on failure analysis and yield improvement.

I enjoy both solving industrial problems in materials science and finding answers to relevant scientific questions.”