[Spm] AFM School and 7th PFM Workshop

[Catalin Harnagea]

Dear SPM-colleagues,

The program for the Summer School on Advanced AFM Techniques and the 7th PFM
Workshop can be found at the following address:

http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~juan/afm/

Registration is now open. Please note that the number of places is limited.

Best regards, 
Catalin

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Dr. Catalin HARNAGEA
INRS-Énergie,  Matériaux et Télécommunications 
1650, boul. Lionel-Boulet
Varennes (Québec) J3X 1S2 CANADA
Tel: (450)   929 - 8146 (labs: -8132, -8140)
Fax: (450)   929 - 8102
www.emt.inrs.ca
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|Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:26 AM
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|   1. PFM workshop series (Sergei V. Kalinin)
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|Message: 1
|Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:37:12 -0500
|From: "Sergei V. Kalinin" <sergei2 at ornl.gov>
|Subject: [Spm] PFM workshop series
|
|Dear Colleagues
|
|We would like bring to your attention the workshop series on the 
|Piezoresponse Force Microscopy and Nanoscale Electromechanics of Polar 
|Materials. PFM has emerged as a powerful tool to explore and to study 
|nanoscale phenomena in ferroelectric and multiferroic devices, as well 
|as biological and polar macromolecular systems. Recently, PFM was 
|extended to study coupling between polarization and electronic 
|transport, as well as local phenomena in energy storage and generation 
|materials and strongly-correlated oxides, making it directly relevant to 
|the information and energy sciences and technology. The ubiquity of 
|electromechanical couplings in nanoscale systems b from molecular 
|electromotors to polar solids b suggests tremendous potential 
|for this technique.
|
|This year, the three PFM workshops are planned for 2010 as follows:
|
|7^th Workshop will be held in Montreal, Canada, May 31st b June 4th, as 
|a part of the Summer School on Advanced AFM Techniques and International 
|Workshop on Piezoresponse and Conductive AFM. The contact persons are 
|Andreas Ruediger, (ruediger at emt.inrs.ca) and Alexei Gruverman 
|(agruverman2 at unlnotes.unl.edu).
|
|8^th Workshop will be held in Beijing, China, August 25th b 27^th . 
|The information on the workshop can be found at 
|http://www.ustb.edu.cn/materials/files/pfm/International_Worksh
|op.html. 
|The contact person is Prof. Jiangyu Li (jjli at u.washington.edu and 
|workshoppfm at yahoo.cn <mailto:workshoppfm at yahoo.cn>).
|
|9^th Workshop will be held in the conjunction with the International 
|Symposium on Ferroic Domains and Micro- to Nanoscopic structures 
|(ISFD-10) in Prague, Czech Republic, Sept. 22nd-24th. Please visit 
|http://palata.fzu.cz/isfd10/index.php?item=pfm for workshop 
|details. The 
|contact person are /JiEC-/ Hlinka (hlinka at fzu.cz 
|<mailto:hlinka at fzu.cz>) 
|and Andrei Kholkin (kholkin at ua.pt <mailto:kholkin at ua.pt>).
|
|All three workshops, conveniently located in America, Europe, 
|and Asia, 
|offer a combination of tutorial lectures by the advanced practitioners 
|of PFM, topical lectures by leading scientists in the field, 
|industrial 
|lectures from PFM manufacturers, and poster sessions for attendees. It 
|also includes extensive lab demos for participants to gain hand-on 
|experience in PFM on various commercial systems, for which the 
|attendees 
|can bring their own samples for testing and examinations. The PFM 
|conference (Prague) will also feature a series of invited and 
|contributed talks by the attendees.
|
|On behalf of the PFM workshop series organizers:
|Sergei V. Kalinin
|Andrei Kholkin
|Jiangyu Li
|
|-- 
|Sergei V. Kalinin
|co-Theme Leader for Functional Imaging on the Nanoscale
|The Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
|and Materials Sciences and Technology Division
|Oak Ridge National Laboratory
|Oak Ridge, TN 37922
|
|Section Editor, Nanotechnology