Functional and Nano-Structured Materials
Session organisers: Dr Steve McVitie, Dr Gavin Bell and Dr Vlado Lazarov
Thursday 3rd July from 10.00-12.15 and 14.15-16.15
The symposium will focus on nano-scale materials and functional materials, including low dimensional systems, semiconductor materials & heterostructures, (multi)functional oxides, quantum structures, magnetic materials and heterostructures, and self-assembled nanostructures. The focus of the sessions will be on the use of microscopy in evaluating structure-property relationships of functional and nano-materials. Applications of multi-modal microscopy in evaluating the full range of material properties (e.g. combining electron microscopy and scanning probe methods) are also encouraged. These aspects include defect characterisation, quantitative structural measurements, true atomic-scale characterisation and spectro-microscopy.