Advanced Electron Microscopy and Instrumentation

Program

11 - 12 December, 2023 | City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. China

Day 1: 11 Dec 2023 (Monday)
Session 1: Electron Microscopy in Materials Physics
Chair: Prof. Qiang Xu
(Guangzhou Laboratory, China)
09:00 - 09:10 Opening Remarks
09:10 - 10:00 Prof. Knut Urban (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
Topic: Precision measurements of atomic positions and displacements in aberration-corrected conventional transmission electron microscopy (CTEM)
10:00 - 10:30 Tea Break (Group Photo)
10:30 - 11:00 Prof. Wolfgang Jäger (Kiel University, Germany)
Topic: Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy for the Development of High-Efficiency Solar Cells
11:00 - 11:30 Prof. Ye Zhu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
Topic: Resolving exotic structure and polar ordering using advanced STEM
11:30 - 12:00 Prof. Philipp Pelz (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany)
Topic: Large-Scale 3D Atomic Resolution Phase-Contrast Imaging from 4D-STEM Measurements
12:00 - 12:30 Free Discussion
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Day 1: 11 Dec 2023 (Monday)
Session 2: Advanced Instrumentation
Chair: Prof. Liang Jin
(Bioland Lab, China)
14:00 - 14:50 Prof. Maximilian Haider (CEOS Company, Germany)
Topic: Prospects of future instrumental developments for advanced electron
14:50 - 15:20 Dr Petra Specht (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Topic: Applied low current microscopy
15:20 - 15:50 Tea Break
15:50 - 16:20 Prof. Wenxin Tang (Chongqing University, China)
Topic: Tailoring two dimensional materials in LEEM
16:20 - 16:50 Prof. Zhu-Jun Wang (ShanghaiTech University, China)
Topic: Observing while it happens: CVD growth of graphene inside a scanning electron microscope
16:50 - 17:05 Dr Maarten Wirix (Thermo Fisher Scientific Co.)
Topic: Spectra for sample integrity, custom automation and field free imaging
17:05 - 17:20 Takeo Sasaki (JEOL Co.)
Topic: Introduction of the latest instrumentation development of JEOL
17:20 - 17:50 Free Discussion
17:50 - 20:00 Dinner
Day 2: 12 Dec 2023 (Tuesday)
Session 3: Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
Chair: Prof Lin Gan
(Tsinghua University, Shenzhen International Graduate School, China)
09:00 - 09:30 Prof. Wu Zhou (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Topic: Single-atom microscopy and spectroscopy for 2D materials
09:30 - 10:00 Prof. Xiaoyan Zhong (City University of Hong Kong, China)
Topic: Progress, prospects and challenges for achromatic imaging of electron energy loss spectroscopy
10:00 - 10:30 Tea Break
10:30 - 11:00 Dr Xingxu Yan (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Topic: Probing Nanoscale and Atomic-Level Exotic Vibrational Modes and Phonon Dynamics using Monochromated Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy
11:00 - 11:30 Dr Benedikt Haas (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
Topic: Extending the Capabilities of Energy- and Momentum-Resolved STEM
11:30 - 12:00 Free Discussion
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Day 2: 12 Dec 2023 (Tuesday)
Session 4: Electron Microscopy in Materials Physics
Chair: Dr Qi Wang
(City University of Hong Kong, China)
14:00 - 14:30 Prof. Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
Topic: Progress, prospects and challenges for in situ transmission electron microscopy of electrical and magnetic switching processes in functional materials and nanoscale devices
14:30 - 15:00 Prof. Songhua Cai (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
Topic: Ex situ and in situ Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Studies of Functional Perovskite Materials and Devices
15:00 - 15:30 Prof. Jiong Zhao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
Topic: In situ transmission electron microscopy on two-dimensional ferroic chalcogenides
15:30 - 16:00 Tea Break
16:00 - 16:30 Dr See Wee Chee (Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck Society, Germany)
Topic: Understanding Electrocatalyst Re-structuring during Reaction with Electrochemical Cell Transmission Electron Microscopy
16:30 - 17:00 Prof. Manling Sui (Beijing University of Technology, China)
Topic: In situ electron microscopy for electron radiolysis effect and dose dependence of functional metal oxides
17:00 - 17:30 Prof. Shih-Wei Hung (City University of Hong Kong, China)
Topic: Accurate Retrieval of Three-Dimensional Atomic Dynamics of Moiré Materials
17:30 - 18:00 Free Discussion
18:00 - 21:00 Dinner

13 - 14 December, 2023 | City University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Futian Research Institute, Shenzhen, P. R. China

Day 3: 13 Dec 2023 (Wednesday)
Session 5: Imaging Soft Matter by Electron Microscopy
Chair: Prof. Junhao Lin
(Southern University of Science and Technology, China)
14:00 - 14:10 Opening Remarks
14:10 - 14:40 Prof. Angus Kirkland (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Topic: Making every electron count – Ptychography at low dose
14:40 - 15:10 Prof. Fu-Rong Chen (City University of Hong Kong, China)
Topic: Atomic Resolution 3D Dynamics of Helix Materials: Present and Future
15:10 - 15:40 Prof. Xiaodong Han (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)
Topic: Developing Atomic Resolved Mechanical Testing System and Measuring Grain/Twin Boundary Plasticity at Atomic Level
15:10 - 16:10 Tea Break
16:10 - 16:40 Prof. Ute Kaiser (Ulm University, Germany)
Topic: From functionalizing inorganic two-dimensional materials on the level of single atoms towards molecular imaging of organic two-dimensional materials
16:40 - 17:10 Prof. Peiyi Wang (Southern University of Science and Technology, China)
Topic: The Principle of Aberration Corrected 300 kV Cryo-EM and Its Application to Thick Specimens in Biology
17:10 - 17:40 Prof. Tao Ni (The University of Hong Kong, China)
Topic: Cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging for high-resolution structure determination of macromolecules
17:40 - 18:10 Free Discussion
18:10 - 21:00 Lunch Break
Day 4: 14 Dec 2023 (Thursday)
Session 6: Ultrafast Imaging
Chair: Prof. Wanpeng Li
(Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
09:00 - 09:30 Dr Xihang Shi (Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Topic: Tunable X-ray Radiation from Quantum Free-electron Radiation
09:30 - 10:00 Dr Murat Sivis (Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences & University of Gottingen, Germany)
Topic: Mapping and controlling of optical near fields in an ultrafast transmission electron microscope
10:00 - 10:30 Dr Roy Shiloh (Hebrew University, Israel)
Topic: Nanophotonic electron accelerators towards electron microscopy
10:30 - 11:00 Tea Break
11:00 - 11:30 Prof. Xuewen Fu (Nankai University, China)
Topic: 4D electron microscopy and its applications in non-equilibrium dynamics
11:20 - 11:50 Prof. Sascha Schäfer (Oldenburg University, Germany)
Topic: Instrumental developments in ultrafast transmission electron microscopy
12:00 - 12:30 Free Discussion
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Day 4: 14 Dec 2023 (Thursday)
Session 7: Quantum Electron Microscopy
Chair: Prof. Lin Xie
(Great Bay University, China)
14:00 - 14:30 Prof. Pieter Kruit (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Topic: Contrast formation in Quantum Electron Microscopy
14:30 - 15:00 Prof. Hiroshi Okamoto (Akita Prefectural University, Japan)
Topic: Entanglement-Enhanced Electron Microscopy and Its Generalizations
15:00 - 15:30 Prof. Yu-Chun Hsueh (City University of Hong Kong, China)
Topic: Quantum Resonator in A Time-resolved Electron Microscope
15:30 - 16:00 Tea Break
16:00 - 16:30 Prof. Vincenzo Grillo (National Research Council, Italy)
Topic: A few “quantum” and spooky ideas and experiments in electron microscopy
16:30 - 17:00 Dr Christian Kisielowski (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
Topic: Probing Dynamic Responses of Nano-Materials at the Boundary between Classical and Quantum Mechanics detecting Coherent-Inelastic Electron Self-interferences
17:00 - 17:30 Free Discussion
17:30 - 17:40 Closing Remarks
17:40 - 21:00 Dinner