ALC ’09

December 6 (Sun) – 11 (Fri), 2009
The Westin Maui Resort & Spa, Maui, Hawaii, USA

(Current date/time: October 12, 2018 / 13:57 JST)

» Plenary & Invited Speakers

Invited Speakers

Presidential Talk

Makoto Kobayashi (The Novel Laureate in Physics 2008): to be announced

Plenary Talks

Hans-Joachim Freund (Fritz-Haber-Institute, Germany): “Electronic Structure — Reaction Relations of Oxide Supported Nanoparticles at the Atomic Level”
Chuhei Oshima (Waseda University, Japan): “A Single-atom Electron Source and Its Application to Microscopes”

Tutorial

Harald Ibach (Research Center Jülich, Germany): “Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy — a Method for the Atomic Level Characterization of the Chemical and Electronical Properties of Surfaces”
Wolf-Dieter Schneider (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland): “Creation and Characterization of Atomic-Scale Structures — Necessary Steps towards a Future Nanotechnology”
Gabor A. Somorjai (University of California, Berkeley, USA): “Molecular Studies of Surfaces under Reaction Conditions; Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy”
Masaru Tsukada (Tohoku University, Japan): “Theoretical Approaches for the Analyses of Scanning Probe Microscopy”
Nicholas Winograd (Pennsylbania State University, USA): “Nanoscale Chemical Imaging of Biomaterials with Mass Spectrometry”

General Sessions and Workshops

Michael S. Altman (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong): “LEEM Studies of Coarsening: Adatom/Vacany Creation, Annihilation and Mass Transport at Surfaces”
Friedrich Aumayr (Vienna University of Technology, Austria): “Surface Nanostructures by Single Highly Charged Ions”
Ernst Bauer (Arizona State University, USA): “Spin-polarized Low Energy Electron Microscopy”
Harald Brune (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland): “Atomic Level Understanding of Magnetic Anisotropy”
Uli Dahmen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA): “Recent Advances in Electron Microscopy in the Context of the TEAM Project”
Arnaud Delcorte (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium): “Sputtering Soft Materials with Energetic Molecules: from Microscopic Models to the Real World”
Hermann A. Dürr (BESSY, Germany): “Magnetism on the fs Time and nm Length Scales”
Karl-Heinz Ernst (Empa, Switzerland): “Hopping, Flipping, Cutting: Inelastic Electron Tunneling Action Spectroscopy with Single Molecules”
Charles S. Fadley (UC Davis, USA): “Digging Deeper: Characterization of Buried Layers and Interfaces with Standing Wave- and Hard X-Ray- Photoemission”
Barbara Garrison (Pennsylbania State University, USA): “Modeling Energetic Cluster Bombardment of Solids”
Raynald Gauvin (McGill University, Canada): “Quantitative X-Ray Microanalysis of Nanomaterials in the FE-SEM and the FE-TEM”
Thomas Greber (Universität Zürich, Switzerland): “Template Function of Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Single Layers”
Brendan J. Griffin (University of Western Australia, Australia): “A Review of the Secondary Electron Imaging of Nanostructure in the Scanning Electron and Ion Microscopes”
Alexander Grüneis (University of Vienna, Austria): “Dynamics of Graphene Growth on a Metal Surface: a Time-dependent Photoemission Study”
Terumitsu Hasebe (Toho University Sakura Medical Center, Japan): “Diamond-Like Carbon Films for Blood-Contacting Medical Devices: Plasma-Modified Biomimetic Surface”
Shuji Hasegawa (University of Tokyo, Japan): “Nano-Measurements by Four-Tip STM”
Hiroki Hibino (NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan): “Microscopic Evaluations of Structure and Electronic Properties of Epitaxial Graphene”
Kenzo Hiraoka (University of Yamanashi, Japan): “Analysis of Organic and Biological Materials by Electrospray Droplet Impact/SIMS”
Takashi Ikuta (Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan): “Transmission and Scanning-transmission Microscopy using Annular Objective Pupil”
Terrence Jach (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA): “X-ray Spectroscopy and Quantitative Analysis with the Microcalorimeter X-ray Detector”
Hiroshi Jinnai (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan): “3D Elemental Mapping of Soft Materials Using Transmission Electron Microtomography”
Ondrej Krivanek (Nion Company, USA): “Atomic Resolution Imaging and Analysis by STEM and EELS”
Hannes Lichte (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany): “Atomic Resolution Electron Holography: Performance and Limits”
Dietrich Menzel (Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG, Germany): “Laser-induced Photochemistry in (NO)₂ Layers on Silver Nanoparticles: Size and Plasmon Influences”
Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany): “Nonlinear Photoemission Electron Microscopy: A Tool for the Plasmonic Sandbox”
Goro Mizutani (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan): “Development and Application of a Multi-functional Optical Sum Frequency Microscope”
Karina Morgenstern (Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany): “Single Molecule Manipulation”
Seizo Morita (Osaka University, Japan): “Toward Atom-by-Atom Assembly of Composite Nanostructures Based on AFM”
Takeshi Nakagawa (Institute for Molecular Science, Japan): “Magnetic Circular Dichroism using Laser Photoemission and Its Application to Photoemission Electron Microscope”
Kiyoshi Nikawa (NEC Electronics, Japan): “Three-dimensional Analysis in LSI Failure Analysis”
Håkan Nygren (University of Gothenburgh, Sweden): “Strategies for the Use of TOF-SIMS in Biomedical Research”
Ludovic Renaud (CAMECA, France): “Advances in Atom Probe Tomography for Semiconductor Materials”
Harald Rose (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany): “Design of an Obstruction-free Phase Plate Yielding Maximum Contrast over a Large Range of Spatial Frequencies”
Eli Rotenberg (Advanced Light Source, USA): “The Effect of Adsorbates and Interfaces on the Electronic Properties of Graphene”
Koichiro Saiki (University of Tokyo, Japan): “Structure and Properties of Chemically-prepared Graphene”
Marika Schleberger (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany): “Modification of Graphene with Swift Heavy Ions”
Mitsutoshi Setou (Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan): “Mass Microscopy; Integration of Imaging Mass Spectrometry with Microscopy”
Se Ahn Song (Samsung Electronics Co., LTD., Korea): “Sub-Angstrom Resolution Analysis with Electron Beam: Challenge and Prospect”
Taku Suzuki (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan): “Element Selective Spin Polarization Analysis on Surfaces by Spin-Polarized Ion Scattering Spectroscopy (SP-ISS)”
Noriaki Takagi (University of Tokyo, Japan): “Molecular Spins at Surfaces”
Geoff Thornton (University College London, UK): “Towards Interconnects on a Dielectric Substrate”
Takayuki Uchihashi (Kanazawa University, Japan): “Direct Observation of Dynamic Structural Changes of Proteins using High-Speed AFM”
Peter Varga (Vienna University of Technology, Austria): “Magnetic Nanostructures on Surfaces”
Masashi Watanabe (Lehigh University, USA): “Atomic-resolution Chemical Analysis by Electron Energy-loss Spectrometry and X-ray Energy Dispersive Spectrometry in Aberration-corrected Electron Microscopes”
Wolf Widdra (University of Halle, Germany): “Oligothiophene Adsorption on Noble Metal Surface: From Chiral Self Organization to Surface Polymerization”
Helmut Winter (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany): “Structure of Surfaces from Classical and Quantum Mechanical Rainbow Scattering of Fast Atoms”
Tsuneo Yasue (Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan): “Development of High Brightness and Highly Spin Polarized Low Energy Electron Microscope”
Han Woong Yeom (Yonsei University, Korea): “Impurity Physics of Surface Atomic Wires — Doping and Finite Size Effect”
Hisayoshi Yurimoto (Hokkaido University, Japan): “Observation of Meteorites by Isotope Microscopy”

Sponsored by The 141st Committee on Microbeam Analysis
of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)