Novel Approaches to Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy... Workshop 2005

Novel Approaches to Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy:  Scanning Transmission X-Ray Microscopy and Ambient-Pressure X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Morning Session

The morning session will highlight areas of new development using scanning transmission x-ray microscopy (STXM). The current state of the STXM’s will be presented with an emphasis on new developments including time-resolved magnetic experiments, electrochemical experiments, as well as environmental science at low energies. The workshop is designed to bring together experts in a diverse range of fields employing STXM for research. The emphasis is on new and novel uses of the STXM and will provide a unique opportunity to exchange ideas and technology.

Afternoon Session

The properties of solid or liquid interfaces in contact with a gaseous environment are of great importance in the fields of environmental and atmospheric chemistry and heterogeneous catalysis.  One of the main challenges is the study of the interaction of water vapor with surfaces.  The high vapor pressure of water at ambient temperatures (4.6 Torr at 273 K) makes the application of many classical surface science techniques difficult or even impossible.  Ambient pressure photoemission spectroscopy (AP-PES) is a promising tool for the investigation of solid/vapor and liquid/vapor interfaces.  Initially developed more than 30 years ago by Hans Siegbahn and coworkers, a growing number of laboratory- and synchrotron-based AP-PES instruments are now being commissioned.  In this workshop we will discuss technical aspects as well as the applications of AP-PES to heterogeneous catalysis and environmental and atmospheric science studies.




Saturday, October 22


Time

Speaker

Topic

8:30 am Tolek Tyliszczak
Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Opening Remarks Current state of the STXM and Capabilities
8:45 am Bartel Van Waeyenberge
Dept. of Subatomic and Radiation Physics, Ghent University
Time Resolved Magnetic X-ray Microscopy at the STXM: Implementation and the study of Magnetic Vortex Dynamics
(abstract)
9:25 am Hendrik Oldag Can Carbon be Ferromagnetic?
9:45am Adam Hitchcock
C hemistry and BIMR, McMaster University, Hamilton
STXM of Wet Electrochemical Systems Under Potential Control
(abstract)

10:25 am

Refreshment Break


10:40 am Yves Acremann
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
Direct Observation of Switching in Spin Transfer Devices
11:20 am Gordon E. Brown, Jr
Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences, SSRL
Applications of STXM to Microbial Bioweathering and Biomineralization
(abstract)

12:00 pm

Box Lunch


1:15 pm Simon Mun
Advanced Light Source, LBNL
Hendrik Bluhm
Chemical Sciences Division, LBNL
Opening Remarks
Current State of Ambient Pressure Photoemission Spectroscopy (APPES) at beamlines 9.3.2 and 11.0.2
1:35 pm John Hemminger
Dept. of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
APPES of Alkali Halide Solutions
2:00 pm Guido Ketteler
Materials Sciences Division, LBNL
The interaction of water with metal oxide surfaces studied using APPES
2:25 pm Dennis Nordlund
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
Attosecond Timescale Probing of Electron Delocalization Processes in Water and an Overview of the new High Pressure Surface Science Endstation at SPEAR3
(abstract)

2:50 pm

Refreshment break


3:10 pm Spiros Zafeiratos
Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin
Application of APPES to Heterogeneous Catalysis at BESSY
(abstract)
4:00 pm Yoshiharu Enta
Hirosaki University, Japan
Real-Time Observation of Surface Reactions on Si(100) by APPES
(abstract)
4:30 pm Klas Andersson
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory and University of Stockholm, Sweden
Water Chemistry on Cu(110) at Near Ambient Conditions Studied by Photoelectron Spectroscopy
(abstract)




 

 

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