Günther Dollinger (born 2 August 1960 in

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) is a German

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and

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at the

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Life

Dollinger completed his doctoral studies in physics at the

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(TUM). He is currently head of the Institute of Applied Physics and Measurement Technology within the Faculty of

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and

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. He conducts research in different interdisciplinary and interinstitutional research projects. He is a member of the Munich Centre for Advanced Photonics, an inter-university excellence cluster, funded by the German government,http://www.munich-photonics.de/1/menschen/members/member/?personid=34&cHash=d277f75f55 Dollinger's profile at the Munich Centre of Advance Photonics based at the

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Awards

For his doctoral dissertation titled ''Carbon film as a stripper for heavy ions'' Günther Dollinger was awarded doctoral and postdoctoral price of the Association of Friends of the Technical University of Munich.

Research

Together with his team at the Institute of Experimental Physics of the TUM in

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, Günther Dollinger developed a new type of

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methods for material analysis. For the first time it allows the three-dimensional analysis of the distribution of

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in microstructured samples.

External links

Institute for Applied Physics and Metrology

Three-dimensional hydrogen microscopy in diamond films, (Faculty of Physics, Technical University of Munich)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dollinger, Gunther 1960 births 21st-century German physicists Living people Technical University of Munich alumni Academic staff of Bundeswehr University Munich