Asylum Research is inviting abstracts for contributed talks and posters for the International Workshop for Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) for Energy Applications.
Co-organised by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Asylum Research, the workshop will be held at ORNL on 15-17 September 2010.
The deadline for abstract submission is 13 August 2010.
The programme will include invited and contributed talks covering recent advances in characterisation of energy-relevant materials systems using SPM/AFM techniques, as well as energy dissipation and transformation measurements by SPM/AFM.
The three-day meeting will also include a poster session, as well as an equipment lab and hands-on tutorials for demonstration of recently developed dynamic and multi-spectral SPM/AFM modes on Asylum's Cypher and MFP-3D SPM/AFMs.
The keynote talk will be on 'Local Probing of Carrier Dynamics in Polymer Photovoltaic Materials' by David Ginger of the University of Washington.
Abstracts can be submitted on the following topics (but are not limited to): mapping of carrier dynamics and photo-induced behaviour of photovoltaic materials; micro Raman and NSOM imaging of energy-related materials; local ionic and electronic transport in fuel cells and Li-ion batteries; energy harvesting by nano-structured piezoelectric and ferroelectric systems; and novel advances in functional probes - microwave, thermal, and conductive.
