NSTI Nanotech Symposium on Nanoscale Materials Characterization
Abstract submission deadline: January 27th
June 18-21, Santa Clara, CA June 18-21, Santa Clara, CA
Special Symposium: Nanoscale Materials Characterization
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Most technological research includes advanced characterization at the
nanoscale. This symposium targets a wide range of characterization techniques
including microscopy, scattering, spectroscopy/spectrometry, nanomechanical
and other tools, along with specimen preparation methods and handling. It is
essential that this burgeoning knowledge base be transparently presented to the
broadest technical community. This event promotes the rapid education,
dissemination, and commercialization of new characterization techniques into
industries based in both physical and life sciences. It seeks to introduce general
technique types to newcomers, report pioneering methods, and drill down into
new physical understandings, all the while addressing applications useful to
industrial engineers and technicians.
Advances in characterization include not only far-field probes (e.g., beams of
electrons, ions, neutrons or photons) and near-field probes (indentors, nanotips,
fibers and nanotubes), but also a growing intellectual component whereby data
are manipulated, analyzed, rendered and simulated to yield meaningful
information. As some tools and methods have become more common and
practical, certain misunderstandings and misinterpretations also have crept into
the lexicon. Besides an element of “methods training” to promote the insightful
application of characterization tools in nanotechnology R&D, this symposium will
emphasize projects utilizing a spectrum of complementary techniques.
Topics & Application Areas
• Direct space imaging methods
• Indirect space methods & spectroscopy
• Polymer phase transition & kinetics
• Nanocomposites morphology &
structure
• Thin-film structure
• Characterizing nanocatalysis surfaces
• Micro/nano electronic devices
• Liquid suspensions/melts
• Other
Symposium Co-Organizers: Dalia Yablon (ExxonMobil), Greg Haugstad (Univ. of Minnesota), Pierre Panine (Xenocs, SA)
