The 15th European Microscopy Congress
Manchester Central, United Kingdom
was held on 16th -
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PS1.1: Functional Materials
Session co-organisers: David McComb, Wolfgang Jaeger, Etienne Snoeck
Understanding the synthesis-structure-property relationships and the precise control of microstructure and interfaces are of fundamental importance for novel functional materials and their technological applications. Advanced high-resolution imaging and spectroscopic techniques of electron microscopy play a key role in characterizing and quantifying these properties. The symposium invites contributions describing current research on novel functional materials, including:
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Magnetic materials and data storage
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Ferroelectric and multiferroic materials
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Plasmonic materials
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Metamaterials
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Ceramic and composite materials
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Electronic and spintronic materials
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Photonic materials
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Polymeric materials
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Biological materials and hybrid systems
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14:00 The Application of Lorentz TEM to the study of magnetic nanostructures
Amanda Petford-Long (Invited) Argonne National Laboratory, USA
14:30 Domain wall structures and nucleation magnetic fields in FEBID Co nanowires studied by Lorentz Microscopy
C. Magen (Contributed) LMA-INA, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
14:45 Lorentz TEM investigation of the switching behavior in artificial spin ice building blocks
S Felton (Contributed) Imperial College London, UK
15:00 Epitaxial MnFe2O4 and CoFe2O4 ultrathin films for spin-filtering applications
B. Warot Fonrose (Contributed) CEMES-CNRS, France
15:15 Transmission electron microscopy of Co:ZnO magnetic semiconductor layers
A. Kovacs (Contributed) Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy, Germany
15:30 Ostwald ripening in nanoalloys: when thermodynamic drives a size-dependent particle composition
D. Alloyeau (Contributed) CNRS - University Paris Diderot
15:45 Atomic structure imaging of CoPt nanoparticles: effect of cooling rate on size-dependent atomic ordering
K. Sato (Contributed) Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan
Thursday 20th September AM
10:00 Strain and polarization coupling in ferroelectric defect structures revealed by high-resolution HAADF-STEM
Axel Lubk (Invited) Triebenberg Laboratory,Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany
10:30 Nanorod precipitates in doped bismuth ferrite - 3D atomic structure reconstruction and their effect on phase equilibria and properties
McLaren (Contributed) University of Glasgow
10:45 Atomic structure of highly strained BiFeO3 thin films
M. Rossel (Contributed) Empa, Dübendorf, Switzerland
11:00 Full characterization of localized surface plasmons on a silver nanodisc
F.P. Schmidt (Contributed) Graz University of Technology, Austria
11:15 Three-dimensional imaging of localized surface plasmon resonances of metal nanoparticles
O. Nicoletti (Contributed) University of Cambridge
11:30 Surface plasmon polariton mediated collective excitations of cavity resonances in gold sub-wavelength slit-arrays
D. GERTHSEN (Contributed) Laboratorium für Elektronenmikroskopie, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Germany
11:45 Surface-plasmon coupling in metallic nanostructures
W. Sigle (Contributed) MPI for Intelligent Systems, Germany
Thursday 20th September PM
14:15 Probing the electronic structure and magnetic properties of Fe-based superconductors parent compounds with EELS
Wu Zhou (Contributed) Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
14:30 Direct evidence of Fe2+/Fe3+ charge order in the ferrimagnetic hematite-ilmenite Fe1.5Ti0.5O3-δ solid solution
Laura Bocher (Contributed) Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Groupe STEM, France
14:45 Quantitative analysis of an Yb3+-doped YAG optical ceramic at the atomic level by STEM-HAADF
T. Epicier (Contributed) MATEIS, INSA de Lyon, France
15:00 Applications of Aberration-Corrected STEM and Atomically-Resolved EELS on the Study of High-Tc Superconductors in Epitaxial Films and Layered Heterostructures
N. Gauquelin (Contributed) Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Mc Master University
15:15 Nanostrain induced superconductivity improvement in YBa2Cu3O7 nanocomposite thin films
R. Guzman (Contributed) Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC
15:30 HRTEM study of self-assembled superparamagnetic iron-silicide nanoislands
M. Garbrecht (Contributed) Thin Film Physics Div., IFM, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
15:45 Experimental Observation of the Eshelby-Stroh Twist in Dislocations in GaN Imaged End-On
J.G. Lozano (Contributed) University of Oxford
Friday 21st September AM
10:30 Direct visualization of the spatial distribution of functional groups in graphene oxide
C. Boothroyd (Contributed) Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
10:45 Nanomorphology of fluorenyl hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene-based absorber layers of organic solar cells
M. Pfaff (Contributed) Laboratory for Electron Microscopy, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
11:00 Advanced three dimensional characterization of functional nanomaterials
B. Goris (Contributed) EMAT, University of Antwerp, Belgium
11:15 Electron energy loss spectroscopy on coupled metamaterials
F. von Cube (Contributed) Universität Bonn, Physikalisches Institut, Germany
11:30 Nanooptical study of structural imperfections of lithographed plasmonic antennas
Zackaria Mahfouf (Contributed) Université Paris-Sud, France
11:45 Focused ion beam in-situ lift out of nanowires for TEM analysis
F. Lenrick (Contributed) nCHREM / Center for analysis and synthesis, Lund University, Sweden