ALISI – European Centre of Electron Microscopy

The Inauguration of Application Laboratories of Microtechnologies and Nanotechnologies (ALISI) was held May 30, 2013 in the Institute of Scientific Instruments in Brno. The aim of ALISI was to build a new research center with modern equipment achieving applicable R&D results and approaching the top world institutions. According to the Director of ALISI Professor Pavel Zemanek, the research activities are related to diagnostics and technologies using the methods of magnetic resonance, laser microtechnologies and nanotechnologies – especially interferometry and spectroscopy, measurement and processing of signals in medicine, electron microscopy and lithography, electron and laser beam welding, thin film deposition by magnetron sputtering, cryogenics, and construction of unique scientific instruments and systems. The existence of ALISI is supposed to be an impulse towards broadening cooperation with Czech as well as abroad industrial partners, universities, medical facilities and R&D institutes.

Ilona Müllerová and Bohdan Růžička during the opening ceremony of ALISI

The implementation period of the ALISI project is mainly cofinanced by the grant 432.9 million Czech crowns from Research and Development for Innovations Operational Program (RDIOP). The budget covering the infrastructure and ALISI implementation period up to 2014 is expected to be 512.7 million Czech Crowns.
Institute of Scientific Instruments was established in 1957 as an institution going on in the activities of Developmental workshop of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (CSAS) and providing instrumentation for the institutes of CSAS. ISI focused mainly on electron optics and microscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, infrared spectroscopy and, after the invention of lasers, also on quantum generators of light. From the very beginning, it has ranked among the forefront institutions in its field.