Mission Statement

Osaka Vienna International Development Laboratory

A major mission of condensed-matter physics is to understand material properties via the knowledge of the energy vs. momentum (q) dispersion and lifetime of fundamental excitations. Unfortunately, none of the currently available techniques can be applied to emerging advanced nanomaterials and quantum matter to facilitate a direct correlation of the local structure, defects and edges to the q-resolved excitation spectra at all energy scales.´The OVID laboratory focuses on development of new techniques fostering the cutting edge scientific and technological developments regarding approaching the Heisenberg limit regarding the needed combined high spatial, energy & q-resolution for microscopic imaging, structural characterization and concomitant nanospectroscopic analysis at all energy scales.  For these purposes we are furthering international research cooperation using the synergy of combined expertise of the individual research laboratories at the SANKEN institute at Osaka University and at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Vienna.