Diamond Light Source will shortly start user operations with one of the first beamlines being the Nanoscience beamline. This beamline houses a state-of-the-art PhotoEmission Electron Microscope (PEEM) with a resolution of less than 20nm, allowing spatially resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy, X-ray photoemission spectroscopy and X-Ray Magnetic Circular and Linear Dichroism. The beamline covers the energy range 80eV to 2100eV with circular and variable linear polarisation, making it ideal to study nanomagnetism, surface catalysis, interface electronic structure and interface chemical structure.
This one and a half day workshop was designed to give a general audience an idea of the wide ranging capabilities of the Nanoscience beamline, with talks and discussions on interface magnetism, geological science, surface chemistry and the principles of X-Ray excited PEEM. This workshop was co-sponsored by the IoP Thin Films and Surfaces Group.
| Programme Day One - 11th July 2006 | |
| 12:00 | Registration and Buffet lunch in the Atrium |
| 12:45 | Welcome from Gerd Materlik |
| Session 1 Chair: Prof G Materlik | |
| 13:00 | Abstract: SMART, an aberration-corrected spectro-microscope using high-brilliance synchrotron radiation Eberhard Umbach, Universität Würzburg |
| 14:00 | Abstract: XPEEM in nanobiology and nanomedicine |
| 15:00 | Coffee |
| Session 2 Chair: Prof C Binns | |
| 15:30 | Abstract: Investigating the interaction between single-crystalline antiferromagnetic FeMn films and ferromagnets by layer-resolved magnetic imaging Wolfgang Kuch, Freie Universitaet Berlin |
| 16:30 | Abstract: PEEM as a tool for the detection of optical near fields and localized surface plasmons Gerd Schonhense, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität |
| 17:30 | Discussion Forum |
| 18:00 | Close |
| 18:30 | Evening Networking event at Coseners House, Abingdon. This event was kindly sponsored by the IoP Thin Films and Surfaces Group |
| Programme Day Two - 12th July 2006 | |
| Session 3 Chair: Prof G van der Laan | |
| 09:00 | Abstract: Static and time-resolved XMCD-PEEM investigations of domain wall induced interactions in magnetic trilayer systems |
| 09:50 | Presentation: Photoemission electron microscopy studies of ring and disc nanoelements C A F Vaz, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge |
| 10:20 | Presentation: Valence state imaging of mineral intergrowths using X-ray Photo- Emission Electron Microscopy (XPEEM) |
| 10:50 | Coffee |
| Session 4 Chair: Prof C M B Henderson | |
| 11:10 | Presentation: Study of novel ultrathin TiOx growth using XPEEM and STM Geoff Thornton, University of London |
| 11:30 | Presentation: Direct observation of metastable organic layer growth: transition from Stranski-Krastanov to Frank van der Merwe |
| 11:50 | Presentation: PEEM on polycrystalline catalysts in action |
| 12:10 | Presentation: The importance of polymeric nano structures in tissue engineering |
| 12:30 | Lunch and tours of the synchrotron and nanoscience beamline |
| 14:00 | Close |
For further information on this workshop please contact Sara Fletcher.