[Spm] Workshop on Piezoresponse Force Microscopy - EPFL, Switzerland

[Sergei V. Kalinin]

Dear colleagues

            We are bringing to your attention the workshop 
"Piezoresponse Force Microscopy: Instrumentation, Techniques, and 
Applications" to be held at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne 
(EPFL) on June 2-4, 2008. The workshop will feature invited tutorials on 
emergent phenomena in nanoscale ferroelectrics and ferroelectric 
surfaces, ferroelectric device application and characterization, 
polarization-mediated surface phenomena in polar materials, and 
piezoelectricity and electrophysiology of biosystems. The central theme 
of the workshop - Piezoresponse Force Microscopy - will be discussed in 
a series of tutorials by S.V. Kalinin (ORNL), A. Gruverman (UNL), A. 
Tagantsev (EPFL) and A. Kulik (EPFL) that will introduce basic 
principles of PFM operation, relevant instrumental aspects, and recent 
advances in PFM imaging of switching ferroelectric films and 
nanostructures, biological materials and macromolecular systems, and PFM 
in liquid and ultra high vacuum environment.

            The 3 day workshop is integrated with experimental 
demonstrations of PFM, Switching Spectroscopy PFM, and band-excitation 
PFM. The participants are welcome to bring their own samples. The 
workshop abstract and outline are available on line at 
http://lc.epfl.ch/lc/electro/download/PFM_EPFL_Workshop_8a.pdf 
<http://www.lc.epfl.ch/>

            Due to the space limit (maximum 24 participants), please 
contact workshop organizers [nava.setter at epfl.ch, sergei2 at ornl.gov] 
immediately if you are interested in attending. Participants will be 
accepted on a ‘first come basis’. The cost of inscription to the course 
is 500 Euro.

            Yours

            Nava Setter and Sergei V. Kalinin

_List of lectures_

1.    Electromechanical Coupling on the Nanoscale: Bonds, Cells, and 
Molecules (Kalinin)

2.    Nanoscale Ferroelectrics: Size effects on stability and 
polarization dynamics (Tagantsev)

3.    Probing forces and structure on the nanoscale by Scanning probe 
Microscopy (Kulik)

4.    Principles and instrumental aspects of Piezoresponse Force 
Microscopy (Gruverman)

5.    PFM of piezoelectric materials: contact mechanics and resolution 
theory (Kalinin)

6.    Cantilever dynamics in PFM (Kulik)

7.    High-frequency PFM and advanced imaging modes in PFM (Kalinin)

8.    PFM studies of polarization dynamics in capacitors (Gruverman)

9.    Polarization patterning and single point PFM spectroscopy (Gruverman)

10.    Switching Spectroscopy PFM and imaging nucleation centers (Kalinin)

11.    Advanced topics in PFM and SPM of ferroelectrics: surface 
chemistry effects and imaging in vacuum (Kalinin)

12.         PFM of biological systems and imaging in liquids (Kalinin)

 

 

_List of  Demonstrations_ (for groups of 3 persons)

 

*Lab 1: Low-frequency PFM Imaging* **

1. Basic experimental set-up for PFM

2. Polarization patterning and lithography

 

*Lab 2*: *PFM of capacitor structures* **

1. Imaging of capacitor structures

2. Polarization dynamics in capacitors

 

*Lab 3: Polarization dynamics in films*

1. PFM spectroscopy

2. Switching Spectroscopy PFM

 

*Lab 4: Dynamics PFM modes* **

1. Dual resonant frequency tracking PFM

2. Band excitation PFM

(Presenters of demonstrations: Kalinin, Stolichnov, Colla, Gruverman, Kulik)

The workshop is supported by MIND - Multifunctional and Integrated 
Piezoelectric Devices (NoE 515757-2.), PIEZO Institute - European 
Institute of Piezoelectric Materials and Devices, CNMS – The Center for 
Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and by 
Asylum Research Corporation.