We are delighted to announce the plenary and invited speakers for the EVC-17 and ECOSS-37 conference, these world-leading experts bring cross-disciplinary expertise and they will explore and provide valuable insights into physics and chemistry of surfaces as well as their industrial application.
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Plenary Speakers
Prof. Zhaofeng Chen, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Talk title: Vacuum insulation panel and its application in the field of building
Prof. Ian Gilmore, National Physical Laboratory, UK
EPS Invited Lecture
Talk title: OrbiSIMS – high resolution mass spectrometry imaging with simultaneous chemical identification and localisation with high confidence
Prof. Bjørk Hammer, Aarhus University, Denmark
Talk title: Machine learning in structure determination
Prof. Mark J. Kushner, University of Michigan, USA
Talk title: Progress towards the digital twin for plasma microelectronics fabrication
Prof. Alfred Ludwig, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Talk title: Combinatorial synthesis and high-throughput characterisation of thin film materials libraries for the accelerated discovery of materials
Prof. Jascha Repp, University of Regensburg, Germany
Talk title: Accessing non-equilibrium at the intrinsic scales of molecules
Invited Speakers
Applied Surface Science, Surface Engineering and Surface Science
- Dr. Rebecca Clulow, Uppsala University, Sweden
Talk title: High entropy proton conducting perovskites for solid oxide fuel cells - Dr. David Duncan, University of Nottingham, UK
Talk title: Understanding the structure of two dimensional films using X-ray standing waves
- Prof. Roberto Hiroki Miwa, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil
Talk title: PtSe2/metal interfaces: electronic and eletronic transport properties, and the access to the topological gap in PtSe2[VSe] monolayer
- Prof. Norbert Koch,
Institut für Physik
& IRIS Adlershof, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Talk title: Energy level alignment and fundamental processes at interfaces between monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides and organic semiconductors
- Dr. Federico Mazzola, University of Venice and CNR IOM, Italy
Talk title: Hide and seek in the electron’s world
- Dr. Jenny Noble, Aix-Marseille
University, France
Talk title: Amorphous solid water: from the laboratory to the interstellar medium - Dr. László Óvári, Extreme
Light Infrastructure ALPS, Szeged, Hungary
Talk title: Hexagonal boron nitride monolayers on metals and alloys: relevance for templating and model catalysis - Prof. Amalia Patane, University of
Nottingham, UK
Talk title: A new facility for growth and study in UHV of two-dimensional semiconductors
- Dr. Maciej Rogala, University of Lodz, Poland
Talk title: Electrical properties of crystalline MoO3 monolayers - Dr. Anna Rosławska, MPI Stuttgart, Germany
Talk title: Light-matter interaction probed at the atomic scale
- Dr. Letizia Savio, CNR-IMEM, Italy
Talk title: Pd-cyclometallated complexes at Ag(110): from
self-assembly to the synthesis of new compounds
- Prof. Martin Setvin, Charles University, Czechia
Talk title: Imaging and tracking polarons in Fe2O3 and SrTiO3 by atomic force microscopy - Dr. Nina Schalk, Montanuniversität
Leoben, Austria
Talk title: Unprecedented insights into microstructure-property relations of Ti(Al)SiN coatings by combinatorially applied advanced characterization methods
- Prof. Alastair Stacey, RMIT University, Australia
Talk title: Diamond
surface science for quantum and electronics applications
- Prof. Hans-Peter Steinrück, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Talk title: Modification of the surface properties of a Pt(111) surface by ionic liquids
- Prof. Charles Sykes, Tufts University, USA
Talk title: Single-atom alloy catalysts: born in a vacuum, tested in reactors, and understood in silico
Biointerfaces and Materials Engineering
- Prof. Michael Bryant, University of Birmingham, UK
Talk title: Engineered surfaces for biotribological applications: a soft solution for a hard problem? - Prof. Suwan Jayasinghe, University College London, UK
Talk title: Cell electrospinning: revolutionising tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
- Prof. Jorge Rubio Retama, University of Madrid, Spain
Talk title: TBC
- Dr. Marcus Rohnke, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Center for Materials Research, Germany
Talk title: Characterisation of sodium ion batteries - from post-mortem to operando analysis
- Prof. Sebastiaan van Nuffel, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Talk title: Investigating biointerfaces using integrative ToF-SIMS imaging
Electronic materials, Energy Reduction and Carbon Reduction
- Prof. Katsura Takao, Hokkaido University, Japan
Talk title: Development of new structured-core transparent vacuum insulation panels contributing to insulation retrofit of existing buildings
Nanometer Structures
- Prof. Pedro Alpuim, Braga, Portugal
Talk title: Advantages and challenges of graphene transistors for biosensing - Dr. Grażyna Antczak, Wroclaw, Poland
Talk title: Identification of chirality of the organic molecular domains in the reciprocal space - Dr.Giada Franceschi, Technical
University of Vienna, Austria
Talk title: Surfaces of cleaved aluminosilicates at the atomic scale - Prof. Yukiko Yamada-Takamura, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Talk title: Novel 2D materials stabilized on surfaces
Plasma Science and Technologies
- Dr. Julian Held, University of Minnesota, USA
Talk title: Ionization of sputtered material in high power impulse magnetron sputtering plasmas - Dr. Zdeněk Hubička, Department of Low-Temperature Plasma, Institute of Physics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czechia
Talk title: Plasma diagnostics in various configurations of reactive pulse magnetron sputtering systems used for thin film deposition of semiconductors - Prof. Sedina Tsikata, Georgia Institute Of Technology, USA
Talk title: TBC
Thin Films Deposition, Characterisation and Applications
Prof. Rafael Alvarez, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Sevilla, Spain
Talk title: Porous nanocolumnar thin films deposited at glancing angles: fundamentals and applications
- Prof. Silvia Maria Deambrosis, National Research Council of Italy - Institute of Condensed Matter Chemistry and Technologies for Energy, Italy
Talk title: High entropy alloy protective coatings via magnetron sputtering technology - Prof. Maarit Karppinen, Aalto University, Finland
Talk title: Novel inorganic-organic materials through ALD/MLD as enablers of next-generation energy and nanotechnology applications - Prof. Jolanta Klemberg-Sapieha, Polytechnique
Montréal, Canada
Talk title: Functional coatings for aerospace applications
Vacuum Science and Applications
- Dr. Vincent Baglin, CERN, Switzerland
Talk title: The high-luminosity large hadron collider vacuum system - Dr. Matthias Bernien, PTB, Germany
Talk title: Traceable vacuum and outgassing rate measurements - Dr. Valentine Petit, CERN, Switzerland
Talk title: Surface technology for electron multipacting mitigation in the Large Hadron Collider vacuum system: developments towards in-situ implementation - Dr. Reza Valizadeh, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), UK
Talk title: NEG as an multifunctional coating: pro and cons, present limitations and possible developments/applications for future machines - Dr. Stylianos Varoutis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Talk title: The role of vacuum gas dynamics in the particle exhaust of tokamak and stellarator fusion devices
Mini-Symposia
Invited (Keynote) Speakers- Dr. Andrew Pollard, NPL, UK
MS-1: talk title: The importance, challenges and solutions for measuring 2D materials - Dr. Martin Švec, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia
MS-2 talk title: Scanning probe microscopy as a tool for nano-optical measurements - Dr. Markus Lackinger, Technical University of Munich, Germany
MS-3 talk title: On the Utility of Spectroscopy for On-Surface Synthesis - Dr. Harjit Singh, Brunel University London, UK
MS-4 talk title: Vacuum Insulated Elements for Radical Enhancement in Energy Efficiency
Prof. Richard Fu, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK
MS-5 talk title: Smart thin film materials for MEMS and microsystem applications - Dr. Farnoush Salarzaei, MKS, USA
MS-6: talk title: Remote RGA operation up to 100m, with a novel radiation resistant extender cable