Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 November 2008
Organised by Dr Andrew Bleloch, Professor David Cockayne FRS, Professor Angus Kirkland and Dr Peter Nellist
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Dr Andrew Bleloch, University of Liverpool (Organiser and speaker)
Andrew Bleloch is a Reader in Materials Science at the University of Liverpool and has run the SuperSTEM aberration corrected electron microscopy facility at Daresbury Laboratories from its inception in 2002. He gained his PhD developing new techniques on the VG HB501 STEM in Archie Howie and Mick Brown's group at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. More recently he has pioneered the application of aberration corrected STEM techniques to a wide range of sample systems from the ubiquitous silicon 110 through nano- tubes, rods and particles to tentative experiments on biological samples.
Dr Chris Boothroyd, Technical University of Denmark (Speaker - Short Presentations)
Chris Boothroyd is a Senior Scientist at the Center for Electron Nanoscopy, Technical University of Denmark (DTU CEN). His recent research interests are in the field of quantitative high resolution electron microscopy. In the past he worked in the electron microscopy group at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Cambridge where his research covered a wide variety of topics related to electron microscopy. During this time he was a visiting scientist at both NKK in Kawasaki, Japan and IMRE in Singapore. More recently he was a Principal Scientist at IMRE and an adjunct faculty member of the Department of Physics, National University of Singapore.
Professor Michael Brown FRS, University of Cambridge (Chair)
Prof. L. Michael Brown, Canadian by birth, is now retired from the staff at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. He research interests include studies of defects in metals and in other materials, as well as applications and improvements in electron microscopy. He promoted the cause of aberration corrected STEM and played a key role in the establishment of SuperSTEM at Daresbury. Currently he has returned to problems in dislocation plasticity and to the promotion of interdisiplinary science education.
Professor David Cockayne FRS, University of Oxford (Organiser and Chair)
David Cockayne is a Statutory Professor in the Department of Materials, University of Oxford, where he leads the Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis Group. His interests are in the characterisation of defects and amorphous materials using electron scattering methods. After completing his D Phil in Oxford, he was a Professor at the University of Sydney where he was Director of the EM Unit and of the Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis until 2000. He was the President of the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy (2002-2006), and was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999.
Professor Christian Colliex, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud (Speaker)
Dr. Christian Colliex graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris in 1965 and got his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics in 1970 at Orsay under the guidance of Profs. R. Castaing and J. Friedel. He is now CNRS Research Director, back at the Solid State Physics laboratory in Orsay, head of the Electron Microscopy group, after having completed a six-year period (1996-2002) as director of the Aimé Cotton Laboratory, which is a proper CNRS laboratory dedicated to basic atomic, molecular and cluster physics.
His main fields of interest concern the developments of new instrumentation and methodologies for local analysis in condensed matter. Relying mostly on the use of electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) in electron microscopy, these techniques have been used to investigate down to the atomic level, the structural, chemical and electronic properties of isolated nanostructures and nano-objects, such as nanotubes and nanowires. They also constitute a very useful tool for the study of interfaces and defects in many types of materials (of natural origin or artificially grown).
He has published over 280 papers, delivered more than 100 invited lectures over the past ten years (total citation counts over 5000, H factor 38). He has been the Chief Editor of the journal European Physical Journal : Applied Physics, he is now Editor of the new international journal Nano. He has been co-director with Prof. Sumio Iijima, of an international cooperative programme between CNRS and JST, named « Nanotubulites ». He has been partner in seven EC programmes from 1996 to 2008 and has been responsible for the creation of an European Integrated Infrastructure in Advanced Electron Microscopy (ESTEEM).
He is now serving from 2007 to 2010 as President of the International Federation of the Societies for Microscopy (IFSM), after having been the president of the French Society of Microscopies and member of the executive committee of IFSM for eight years. He is and has also been member of several international societies, such as APS, SFP&.
He has served as an external reviewer for EPSRC (UK), NSF and DOE (USA), RIKEN (Japan) and NTY (Taiwan).
He has been laureate of the French Academy of Sciences (1995 and 2005).
He has been the leader of the project and is now the director of the French government selected programme "Triangle de la Physique", an advanced research cluster in physics gathering south of Paris (Palaiseau-Orsay-Saclay), over 1000 physicists from 36 laboratories and 8 national organisations.
Dr Ulrich Dahmen, NCEM-LBNL Berkeley (Speaker)
Dr. Ulrich Dahmen has been engaged in electron microscopy research for over 25 years. He obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Science from UC Berkeley and is a principal investigator and senior staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Since 1993, he has been Head of the National Center for Electron Microscopy at Berkeley Lab, the leading Department of Energy User Facility for Electron Scattering. As Project Director of the large collaborative effort on the "Transmission Electron Aberration-corrected Microscope", he is responsible for the development and implementation of the most advanced next-generation electron microscope. His research focuses on the relationship between atomic structure and behavior of materials. He has published extensively on the crystallographic structure of interfaces, the evolution of precipitate morphologies and the effects of size on the behavior of embedded particles.
Professor Pratibha Gai, University of York (Speaker - Short presentations)
Pratibha L. Gai is Professor in the Departments of Physics, Professor in the Department of Chemistry, JEOL and Yorkshire Forward Professor of Electron Microscopy and Nanotechnology and Co-Director of the York JEOL Nanocentre at the University of York. After graduating with a PhD in Physics from University of Cambridge, she founded and led the Surface Reactions Group in the Department of Materials, University of Oxford. Pratibha held positions as Research Fellow (a rare honour) at DuPont and jointly as adjunct Professor of Materials Science at the University of Delaware, USA. At Oxford, she received a Royal Society Paul instrument fund award with major EPSRC and BP grants to develop in situ electron microscopy (EM); and subsequently pioneered atomic resolution-in situ environmental transmission EM (ETEM) to probe gas-solid reactions at the atomic level. She has published about 250 papers and 9 edited books. She is a Fellow of Institute of Physics and Chartered Engineer of Institute of Materials.
Professor Peter Goodhew, University of Liverpool (Chair)
Peter Goodhew FREng is Henry Bell Wortley Professor of Materials Engineering at The University of Liverpool, and was until recently the leader of the SuperSTEM project team.
Professor Goodhew is also the Director of the UK Centre for Materials Education, which supports the teaching of Materials in all UK Universities, and Director of the MATTER project, which produces educational software.
In the past he has been Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Liverpool (1998-2001), Dean of Engineering (95-98), President of the Royal Microscopical Society (94-96) and was formerly Professor of Microstructural Science, University of Surrey (until 1990). He was a member of the RAE panels on Materials in 1992 and 1996 and is Chair of the panel in 2008. He has given more than 100 invited presentations to conferences, summer schools and research institutes in 20 countries. He is the author of 8 books on electron microscopy and more than 200 publications, most based on electron microscopy.
Dr Max Haider, CEOS GmbH (Speaker)
Following a PhD and Graduate Studentship from TU Darmstadt, Dr Haider moved to EMBL Heidelberg, attaning the position of Group Leader. In May, 1996, he co-founded CEOS GmbH, and remains its Managing Director. He has received several awards including the 2005 Innovation Award of State of Baden-Württemberg (Rudolf-Eberle-Award), 2006 Beckurts-Award for Dr. Max. Haider, Prof. H. Rose and Prof. K. Urban and in 2008 an Honorary Professorship at Univ. Karlsruhe.
Dr Peter Hawkes, CEMES-CNRS, Toulouse (Speaker)
After undergraduate studies at Cambridge, Peter Hawkes prepared his PhD thesis on the aberrations of electron optical systems without rotational symmetry in the electron microscopy group of the Cavendish Laboratory (1963). During the next 12 years, he continued research on electron optics and later, on electron image processing in Cosslett's group, holding various research Fellowships (notably a Research Fellowship of Peterhouse and a Senior Research Fellowship of Churchill College). In 1975, he took up a post as Director of Research in the CNRS Laboratory of Electron Optics (founded by Gaston Dupouy). During these years, many articles on aberrations, those of quadrupole lenses in particular, were published, including a method of transforming aberration integrals systematically instead of by trial and error as was then usual. These were complemented in later years by publications on various aspects of electron image processing and on the usefulness of image algebra in the context of electron imagery. In later years, he has written or commissioned several articles on the history of electron optics and electron microscopy, many of which have appeared Advances in Imaging & Electron Physics (of which he has been editor since 1989).
He is a member of the editorial board of Journal of Microscopy and Ultramicroscopy and was one of the founder-organizers of the series of International Conferences on Charged Particle Optics. He is author, with Erwin Kasper, of the three-volume Principles of Electron Optics (1989, 1994) and more recently, editor with John Spence of Science of Microscopy (Springer 2007); also editor of Magnetic Electron Lenses (Springer, 1982), Milestones in Electron Optics (SPIE 1994), Electrons et Microscopes (CNRS Editions 1995) and several other titles. He is author of the chapter on Aberrations in the Handbook of Charged Particle Optics. He is a past-president of the French Microscopy Society and was founder-president of the European Microscopy Society; he is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and of the Royal Microscopical Society.
Professor Archie Howie (Speaker)
Archie Howie is now an emeritus Professor of Physics in the University of Cambridge, having worked in the Cavendish Laboratory for virtually all his career. With Hirsch and Whelan, he was involved in the early development of diffraction contrast theory for imaging dislocations and other crystal defects. He then applied high resolution electron imaging methods to the study nano particles and amorphous structures. Later he became interested in many aspects of STEM imaging and inelastic scattering, particularly valence excitation processes.
Professor Ute Kaiser, University of Ulm (Speaker - Short Presentations)
Born in Berlin, I studied Crystallography at the Alexander von Humboldt University Berlin from 1972-1976 and finished with the Diploma in Crystallography, 1976. The doctor degree I received in 1993, after working in the field of optical coating at the Academy of Science, Jena. Afterwards I worked as scientific assistant at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in the field of transmission electron microscopy on semiconductors, mainly SiC, and finished with the habilitation in 2003; after several stays at Cambridge University in the group of Mike Stobbs and an one-year stay at Tohoku University Sendai, Japan, in the group of Michiyoshi Tanaka. Since 2004 I am a full professor at Ulm University, guiding the group of materials science electron microscopy. We are focussing on the application and development of advanced electron microscopy techniques applied to carbon materials, metals, oxides, catalysts, and semiconductors, to understand the material's physical properties from the subnanometer scale.
Professor Angus Kirkland, Oxford University (Organiser and speaker)
Professor Angus Kirkland is Professor of materials at Oxford University. He graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1986 and completed his PhD at Cambridge in 1989. He is the author of over 250 refereed papers and is regularly invited to UK, European and International conferences. His research interests span the use of High Resolution Electron Microscopy for structural studies of a variety of materials through to the development of novel electron optical components and computational methods aimed at further increasing available resolution at intermediate voltages. Since 1992 his research has centred on the development of "super resolved" microscopy using indirect reconstruction of tilt azimuth and focal series data as route to improved resolution. In addition he has worked with on the development of algorithms for automated alignment and control of the TEM and on the characterisation of higher order lens aberrations. Since 2000 he has also been involved in the characterisation of CCD cameras for TEM for which a comprehensive theoretical and computational framework has been developed. His most recent work involves the development of approaches to complex phase extension and diffractive imaging to further improve resolution.
Dr Ondrej Krivanek, Nion Co (Speaker)
Ondrej is a co-founder and the president of Nion Co. He has also worked as the director of research at Gatan Inc, professor at Arizona State University, researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and visiting professor/researcher at the universities of Cambridge, Paris-Sud, Kyoto, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has co-authored over 200 research papers, over 10 patents, three book chapters, and one book (EELS Atlas). He was born in Prague, Czech Republic, and has a Ph.D. in Physics from Cambridge University in the UK.
Ondrej's Ph.D. research focused on high resolution electron microscopy. He then branched out into electron energy loss spectroscopy, instrument design, and aberration diagnosis and correction. He has designed or led the design of many instruments for electron microscopy: serial-detection EELS, parallel-detection EELS, CCD cameras, imaging software for electron microscopy, imaging filters, aberration correctors, and now whole electron microscopes.
Hannes Lichte, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany (Speaker)
Fields of research:
Basic:
- coherence properties of electron waves
- role of inelastic interaction for coherence
- noise problems in electron holography
- investigation of the interaction of electron waves with magnetic and electric microfields by means of electron holography
- a-posteriori numeric correction of the aberrations in electron microscopy by means of atomic resolution electron holography
Apparative / Experimental Improvements:
- Development of a disturbance-free laboratory for highest performance in electron microscopy and holography ("Triebenberg-Laboratory for High Resolution Electron Microscopy and Holography")
- Optimizing the performance of transmission electron microscopy to the outermost limits
Applications in Solid State Physics:
- determination of doping profiles and inner potentials by means of electron holography
- holographic investigation of ferroelectrics / magnetics utilizing the phase modulation
- quantitative electron holography at atomic resolution: Which atoms are where? Which fields are around?
Professor David A. Muller, Cornell University (Speaker - Short Presentations)
David Muller is an associate professor in Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University. His current research interests include electronic structure of interfaces and three-dimensional imaging of nanostructures. He received a PhD from Cornell University in the field of Physics. From 1997 to 2003, he worked as a researcher in the physical sciences division at Bell Labs. David's awards include the Burton medal of the Microscopy Society of America; a TR-100 award from Tech Review magazine; best paper awards from Acta Materiala in 1997, Microscopy and Microanalysis in 2003&2004; and Nature Materials selected his study of interfaces as one of the top ten papers of 2006. His work has over 3,500 citations.
Dr Peter Nellist, University of Oxford (Organiser and speaker)
Dr Nellist has worked in the field of high resolution scanning transmission electron microscope for more than 17 years. He gained his PhD from Cambridge in 1995 working in the field of phase retrieval in electron diffraction. He then joined Steve Pennycook's group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a post-doc which initiated his interested in atomic resolution annular dark-field (ADF) imaging. He continued his theoretical and experimental work developing and applying ADF imaging during fellowships at Cambridge and Birmingham. In 2000 he joined Nion Co. in Seattle working on the development of spherical aberration correction in STEM. Missing teaching, he returned to academia in 2004, taking up faculty positions at Trinity College Dublin, and then Oxford University in 2006. His current research interests center on the development and application of aberration-corrected STEM, including its application to the structure determination of nanomaterials, and the development of three dimensional analytical techniques.
Dr Steve Pennycook, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Speaker)
Stephen J. Pennycook is a Corporate Fellow in the Materials Science and Technology Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and leader of the Electron Microscopy Group. Current research interests focus on the study of materials and nanostructures through Z contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy. He has given over 150 invited presentations at international conferences and has over 300 journal publications, 53 in Science, Nature or Physical Review Letters, 22 book chapters and 3 encyclopedia articles. Pennycook is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Physics, and has been awarded the Materials Research Society Medal and the Thomas Young Medal of the Institute of Physics.
Professor Harald H Rose, Institute of Applied Physics, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany (Speaker)
Harald H. Rose is an emeritus Professor of the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1964 from this University with a thesis on theoretical electron optics under the supervision of Professor Otto Scherzer. From 1976-1980 he was a Principal Research Scientist at The New York State Department of Health and spend sabbaticals at in 1973774 at the E. Fermi Institute, Universiy of Chicago and 1995/96 at Cornell and at the University of Maryland. From 1980-2000 he was Professor at the Department of Physics of the University of Darmstadt, After his retirement he was a Research Fellow at the Department of Materials Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2000/1), Department of Materials Science, Argonne National Laboratory (2001/2), and at the Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2003-2005). His main research activities are in theoretical electron optics, especially aberration correction, theory of electron scattering and image formation in EM. He has published more than 200 reviewed articles in scientific journals, 10 major review articles and is inventor of 105 patents on scientific instruments and electron optical components partly manufactured by various companies.
Honorary membership in scientific societies:
Honorary member of the Microscopy Society of America, the German Society of Electron Microscopy, and of the 141 Committee of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Sciences.
Awards: Distinguished Scientist Award 2003 of the Microscopy Society of America, Honorary Professor of the Jiaotong University, Xian, China (since 1987), 2005 Award of the 141 Committee of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Sciences, Karl Heinz
Beckurts Award 2006 together with Dr. Maximilian Haider and Professor Knut Urban.
John Silcox, Cornell University (Chair)
John Silcox is the David E. Burr Professor of Engineering at Cornell University. He is interested in scanning transmission electron microscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy with current interests focused on quantum nanodots and nanorods and graphene (and oxygenated graphene). A NION UltraSTEM provides a window into the near term future. He served as the President of the Microscopy Society of America in 1979 and was awarded the MSA Distinguished Award in Physical Sciences in 1996. At Cornell, he has been Director of the School of Applied and Engineering Physics (1970-1974, 1979-82), Director of the Materials Science Center (1989-97), Vice Provost for Physical Sciences and Engineering (1998-2003) and Interim Director of the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility (2005-2006). His Ph.D thesis in Physics was awarded by Cambridge University in 1961 for a thesis on defects in quenched and neutron irradiated metals.
Etienne Snoeck, CEMES-CNRS (Speaker - Short Presentations)
Dr. Etienne Snoeck graduated from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA),Toulouse in 1984 and got his PhD in Solid State Physics in 1986 at the Laboratoire d'Optique Electronique (LOE). He spent a year as visiting scientist in Stanford University in the group of Prof. R. Sinclair. He is now CNRS Research Director at the CEMES laboratory where he led the group "Magnetic Nanomaterials".
His main fields of interest concern the structural and magnetic study of magnetic nanomaterials (nanoparticles, nanowires, thin film, multilayers,..) and the development of new TEM methodologies for local magnetic and structural quantitative measurements. He has been working for many years on Quantitative-HREM in close collaboration with M. Hÿtch and now is involved in the developpemnt of Electron Holography.
He has published over 130 papers (total citation counts over 1300, H factor 18). He was member of the French Microscopical Society (Sf) board as Physics Secretary. He is co-editor of the European Physical Journal: Applied Physics (EP-JAP). He is in charge of the recent French network for Electron Microscopy and Atomic Probe (METSA).
Prof J.C.H.Spence, Arizona State University and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Chair)
John Spence is Regent's Professor of Physics at ASU, with joint appointment at LBNL. He obtained his PhD in physics at Melbourne university, followed by postdoc at Oxford with Whelan, Hirsch and Cockayne. He is interested in the quantification of electron diffraction, and in all forms of high resolution imaging in biology and materials science, including femtosecond X-ray diffractive imaging of biomolecules, fast photofield electron emitters, and dislocation kink dynamics. He is a Fellow of APS, IOP and Churchill College, serves on DOE's BESAC advisory committee, and received the MSA Distinguished Scientist award in 2006. His books include texts on high resolution electron microscopy and on electron microdiffraction (with J. Zuo). He has chaired the IUCr Electron Crystallography Commission, was co-editor of Acta Cryst A for a decade and serves on advisory committees for the Molecular Foundry (LBNL) and Advanced Light Source sychrotron. Projects in the Spence lab have included perhaps the first CCD camera for TEM (1988), in-situ STM for TEM (1986), the Time-of-flight STM (1989) and currently (with Doak, Weierstall) the protein-beam injector for the LCLS X-ray laser at Stanford. In the past he has worked on coherent bremstrahlung, electron channelling (Alchemi), ab-initio quantum molecular dynamics of defects, and accurate mapping of bond-charge densities by CBED.
Professor Nobuo Tanaka, EcoTopia Science Institute, Nagoya University, Japan (Speaker - Short Presentations)
1978.3: Finish the Graduate School of Engineering (Applied Physics), Nagoya University and obtain Ph.D from Nagoya University. - 1978-79: Research fellow of Japanese Promotion of Science
- 1979-80: Research fellow of Toyota Science Institute
- 1979-90: Assistant Professor of Department of Applied Physics, Nagoya University
- 1983-85: Visiting Scientist of Arizona State University (with Prof. J. Cowley)
- 1990: Associate Professor of Nagoya University
- 1999: Professor of Department of Applied Physics.
- 2006: Professor of EcoTopia Science Institute, Nagoya University
Majoring:
- HRTEM, HAADF-STEM, STM, RHEED of small clusters, interfaces and surfaces of metals and semiconductors and polymers.
Appointed:
- Committee member of electron diffraction in IUCr (Head: Prof. L.Marks).
- Chair of the Committee for the next generation electron microscopy in Japanese Society of Microscopy
Professor Knut Urban, Research Centre Juelich (Speaker)
Prof. Knut Wolf Urban studied physics at the Technical University of Stuttgart where he also received his Doctor degree in natural sciences 1972. He was a staff scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Metal Research in Stuttgart from 1972 till 1986 when he became Professor for General Materials Properties at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Since 1987 he holds a Chair for Experi-mental Physics at RWTH Aachen University, and he is Director at the Institute for Solid State Research at the Research Centre Jülich. Since 2004 he is also Director of the Ernst Ruska Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Elec-trons at Jülich. He has spent extended times as Guest Professor at the Bhabha Research Centre, Mumbay/India, from 1980 to 1981 at Saclay Research Centre in Paris/France and for the year 1997 at Tohoku University Sendai/Japan. He is author and co-author of close to 400 refereed research papers. Among his many awards are as most recent ones the 2007 Karl-Heinz Beckurts-Prize for Innovation (together with M. Haider and H. Rose) and the 2007 Von Hippel Award of the American Materials Research Society. From 2004 to 2006 he was President of the German Physical Society.
Dr Masashi Watanabe, National Center for Electron Microscopy/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Speaker - Short Presentations)
Masashi Watanabe is a Staff Scientist at National Center for Electron Microscopy in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Masashi's research emphasizes materials characterization using various electron microscopy approaches involving analysis via X-rays and energy-loss electrons in analytical electron microscopes (AEMs) and atomic-resolution high angle annular dark-filed (HAADF) imaging in scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEMs). He developed the zeta-factor method for quantitative X-ray analysis and implemented multivariate statistical analysis for spectrum images of X-rays and energy-loss electrons.
Masashi obtained his Ph.D. in Metallurgy from Kyushu University in 1996 and was a postdoctoral research associate at Lehigh until 1998. He was an associate professor at Research Laboatory for High Voltage Electron Microscopy in Kyushu. Then, Masashi returned to Lehigh University as a Research Scientist in 2001 and promoted to a Senior Research Scientist in 2004. In March 2007, Masashi joined to NCEM as a Staff Scientist (and became a TEAM player). Masashi received the K.F.J. Heinrich young scientist award from the Microbeam Analysis Society in 2005 and has been a lecturer in the AEM course at the Lehigh Microscopy School since 2001. He has published over 100 articles.
Professor Yimei Zhu, Brookhaven National Lab (Speaker - Short Presentations)
Yimei Zhu is the Director, Institute for Advanced Electron Microscopy, and Senior Physicist at Dept. of Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science, and Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is also an adjunct professor at Dept. of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Columbia University, and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy as well as Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering at Stony Brook University. His current research focus is on understanding of the structure-property relationship of transition metal oxides, strongly correlated electron systems and multiferroics, and nanostructured functional materials. His research experience includes the use of advanced electron microscopy, such as quantitative imaging, diffraction, spectroscopy, and holography, as well as synchrotron x-ray and neutron scattering to understand electronic structure and imhomogeneity and to study electrons, spins and lattice correlation. Zhu has published over 280 peer-reviewed journal articles. During his career, he has served on various academic committees, and received many honors. Zhu received his Ph.D from Nagoya University, Japan. He is a Fellow of American Physical Society.
Dr Joachim Zach, CEOS GmbH (Speaker)
Joachim Zach studied Physics at the Technical University at Darmstadt, where he received his PhD in 1989. After six years of research at the particle optical department of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory he founded CEOS GmbH together with Maximilian Haider in 1996. CEOS has meanwhile become the world leading manufacturer of correctors for electron microscopes.