Advanced Electron Microscopy and Instrumentation
Advanced Electron Microscopy and Instrumentation
11 - 12 December, 2023
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. China
Day 1: 11 Dec 2023 (Monday)
Session 1: Electron Microscopy in Materials Physics
Chair: Prof. Qiang Xu (Guangzhou Laboratory, China)
| 09:00 - 09:10 | Opening Remarks |
| 09:10 - 10:00 | Prof. Knut Urban (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) Topic: Precision measurements of atomic positions and displacements in aberration-corrected conventional transmission electron microscopy (CTEM) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Tea Break (Group Photo) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Prof. Wolfgang Jäger (Kiel University, Germany) Topic: Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy for the Development of High-Efficiency Solar Cells |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Prof. Ye Zhu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China) Topic: Resolving exotic structure and polar ordering using advanced STEM |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Prof. Philipp Pelz (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany) Topic: Large-Scale 3D Atomic Resolution Phase-Contrast Imaging from 4D-STEM Measurements |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Free Discussion |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
Day 1: 11 Dec 2023 (Monday)
Session 2: Advanced Instrumentation
Chair: Prof. Liang Jin (Bioland Lab, China)
| 14:00 - 14:50 | Prof. Maximilian Haider (CEOS Company, Germany) Topic: Prospects of future instrumental developments for advanced electron |
| 14:50 - 15:20 | Dr Petra Specht (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Topic: Applied low current microscopy |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Tea Break |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Prof. Wenxin Tang (Chongqing University, China) Topic: Tailoring two dimensional materials in LEEM |
| 16:20 - 16:50 | Prof. Zhu-Jun Wang (ShanghaiTech University, China) Topic: Observing while it happens: CVD growth of graphene inside a scanning electron microscope |
| 16:50 - 17:05 | Dr Maarten Wirix (Thermo Fisher Scientific Co.) Topic: Spectra for sample integrity, custom automation and field free imaging |
| 17:05 - 17:20 | Takeo Sasaki (JEOL Co.) Topic: Introduction of the latest instrumentation development of JEOL |
| 17:20 - 17:50 | Free Discussion |
| 17:50 - 20:00 | Dinner |
Day 2: 12 Dec 2023 (Tuesday)
Session 3: Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
Chair: Prof Lin Gan (Tsinghua University, Shenzhen International Graduate School, China)
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Prof. Wu Zhou (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Topic: Single-atom microscopy and spectroscopy for 2D materials |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Prof. Xiaoyan Zhong (City University of Hong Kong, China) Topic: Progress, prospects and challenges for achromatic imaging of electron energy loss spectroscopy |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Tea Break |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Dr Xingxu Yan (University of California, Irvine, USA) Topic: Probing Nanoscale and Atomic-Level Exotic Vibrational Modes and Phonon Dynamics using Monochromated Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Dr Benedikt Haas (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) Topic: Extending the Capabilities of Energy- and Momentum-Resolved STEM |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Free Discussion |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
Day 2: 12 Dec 2023 (Tuesday)
Session 4: Electron Microscopy in Materials Physics
Chair: Dr Qi Wang (City University of Hong Kong, China)
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Prof. Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) Topic: Progress, prospects and challenges for in situ transmission electron microscopy of electrical and magnetic switching processes in functional materials and nanoscale devices |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Prof. Songhua Cai (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China) Topic: Ex situ and in situ Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Studies of Functional Perovskite Materials and Devices |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Prof. Jiong Zhao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China) Topic: In situ transmission electron microscopy on two-dimensional ferroic chalcogenides |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Tea Break |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Dr See Wee Chee (Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck Society, Germany) Topic: Understanding Electrocatalyst Re-structuring during Reaction with Electrochemical Cell Transmission Electron Microscopy |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Prof. Manling Sui (Beijing University of Technology, China) Topic: In situ electron microscopy for electron radiolysis effect and dose dependence of functional metal oxides |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Prof. Shih-Wei Hung (City University of Hong Kong, China) Topic: Accurate Retrieval of Three-Dimensional Atomic Dynamics of Moiré Materials |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Free Discussion |
| 18:00 - 21:00 | Dinner |
13 - 14 December, 2023
City University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Futian Research Institute, Shenzhen, P. R. China
Day 3: 13 Dec 2023 (Wednesday)
Session 5: Imaging Soft Matter by Electron Microscopy
Chair: Prof. Junhao Lin (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)
| 14:00 - 14:10 | Opening Remarks |
| 14:10 - 14:40 | Prof. Angus Kirkland (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Topic: Making every electron count – Ptychography at low dose |
| 14:40 - 15:10 | Prof. Fu-Rong Chen (City University of Hong Kong, China) Topic: Atomic Resolution 3D Dynamics of Helix Materials: Present and Future |
| 15:10 - 15:40 | Prof. Xiaodong Han (Southern University of Science and Technology, China) Topic: Developing Atomic Resolved Mechanical Testing System and Measuring Grain/Twin Boundary Plasticity at Atomic Level |
| 15:10 - 16:10 | Tea Break |
| 16:10 - 16:40 | Prof. Ute Kaiser (Ulm University, Germany) Topic: From functionalizing inorganic two-dimensional materials on the level of single atoms towards molecular imaging of organic two-dimensional materials |
| 16:40 - 17:10 | Prof. Peiyi Wang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China) Topic: The Principle of Aberration Corrected 300 kV Cryo-EM and Its Application to Thick Specimens in Biology |
| 17:10 - 17:40 | Prof. Tao Ni (The University of Hong Kong, China) Topic: Cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging for high-resolution structure determination of macromolecules |
| 17:40 - 18:10 | Free Discussion |
| 18:10 - 21:00 | Lunch Break |
Day 4: 14 Dec 2023 (Thursday)
Session 6: Ultrafast Imaging
Chair: Prof. Wanpeng Li (Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, China)
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Dr Xihang Shi (Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Topic: Tunable X-ray Radiation from Quantum Free-electron Radiation |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Dr Murat Sivis (Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences & University of Gottingen, Germany) Topic: Mapping and controlling of optical near fields in an ultrafast transmission electron microscope |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Dr Roy Shiloh (Hebrew University, Israel) Topic: Nanophotonic electron accelerators towards electron microscopy |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Tea Break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Prof. Xuewen Fu (Nankai University, China) Topic: 4D electron microscopy and its applications in non-equilibrium dynamics |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Prof. Sascha Schäfer (Oldenburg University, Germany) Topic: Instrumental developments in ultrafast transmission electron microscopy |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Free Discussion |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
Day 4: 14 Dec 2023 (Thursday)
Session 7: Quantum Electron Microscopy
Chair: Prof. Lin Xie (Great Bay University, China)
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Prof. Pieter Kruit (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Topic: Contrast formation in Quantum Electron Microscopy |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Prof. Hiroshi Okamoto (Akita Prefectural University, Japan) Topic: Entanglement-Enhanced Electron Microscopy and Its Generalizations |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Prof. Yu-Chun Hsueh (City University of Hong Kong, China) Topic: Quantum Resonator in A Time-resolved Electron Microscope |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Tea Break |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Prof. Vincenzo Grillo (National Research Council, Italy) Topic: A few “quantum” and spooky ideas and experiments in electron microscopy |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Dr Christian Kisielowski (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) Topic: Probing Dynamic Responses of Nano-Materials at the Boundary between Classical and Quantum Mechanics detecting Coherent-Inelastic Electron Self-interferences |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Free Discussion |
| 17:30 - 17:40 | Closing Remarks |
| 17:40 - 21:00 | Dinner |