
- Unit:
- SINTEF Industry
- Department:
- Sustainable Energy Technology
- Office:
- Oslo
Annett Thøgersen is a senior scientist at SINTEF in Oslo. Her background is materials physics, with a focus on investigating material properties using transmission electron microscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Her focus has been on materials related to renewable energy, such as solar cells and batteries. She has over 50 scientific publications with 1000 citations, and a h-index of 18. She was also awarded a Young Research Talents Research Grant in 2013 from NFR.
Education
2009: PhD, Dept. of Physics, UiO, Norway. Thesis: “TEM and XPS studies of nanocrystals and clusters in nanostructured materials used for memory storage applications.”
2004: Cand. scient (Master degree). Dept. of Physics, UiO, Norway. Thesis: “Structural changes in supermartensittic stainless steel under deformation and welding”
2002: Cand. Mag. (B.Sc.) Dept. of Physics, UiO, Norway.
Competence and research areas
- Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
- X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS)
- Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
- Solar cell materials
- Battery materials
- Nanowires and nanoparticles
- Electron diffraction
- Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS)
- Structural materials (Stainless steel)
- In-situ TEM experiments
For more information see: https://annettthogersen.com/
Publications
- Investigation of veryintenseD 3-band emission in multi-crystalline silicon wafers using electron microscopy and hyperspectral photoluminescence imaging
- Coating of powder by ALD
- EELS and SEM-CL investigations of ZnFe2O4 nanoparticles and iron-decorated inversion domain boundaries in bulk ZnO
- Selective etching of nanostructured a-Si:Al and its effect on porosity, Al gradient and surface oxidation
- Short-Range Structure of Ti0.63V0.27Fe0.10D1.73 from Neutron Total Scattering and Reverse Monte Carlo Modelling
- The surface of CeO2 unravelled
- Monitoring selective etching of self-assembled nanostructured a-Si:Al films
- Surface effects and optical properties of self-assembled nanostructured a-Si:Al
- Surface reactivity and cation non-stoichiometry in BaZr1-xYxO3-δ (x=0-0.2) exposed to CO2 at elevated temperature
- Hydrogen-assisted crack propagation in α-iron during elasto-plastic fracture toughness tests