SPM for Energy Applications Int’l Workshop Sept. 15-17
The Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Asylum Research are co-organizing the International Workshop for Scanning Probe Microscopy for Energy Applications, to be held at ORNL September 15-17, 2010.
This workshop of invited and contributed talks will cover the recent advances in characterization of energy-relevant materials systems using SPM/AFM techniques, as well as the state of the art in 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.
Detailed information on the agenda, presentations, and registration can be found at www.asylumresearch.com/Energy.
Major topics to be covered include:
• Mapping of carrier dynamics and photoinduced behavior of photovoltaic materials
• Ionic and electronic transport in fuel cells and Li-ion batteries
• Energy harvesting by piezoelectric and ferroelectric systems,
• Novel advances in functional probes – microwave, thermal, and conductive
• Imaging energy transformations and dissipation by multimodal and Band Excitation SPM/AFM
