Scope

Surface Analysis 2009, which is the 31^st Symposium on Applied Surface Analysis, will be held at the University Inn & Conference Center, Santa Cruz, California, April 22-24, 2009.  This year’s meeting, which is an AVS Topical Conference (Applied Surface Science Division) is hosted by the Northern California Chapter AVS.

As is traditional for the meeting, an equipment exhibition will be held, featuring vendors of surface analytical an vacuum technology equipment.

Student participation in this meeting is highly encouraged and will be subsidized. There will also be a monetary prize for the best student poster paper.

Topics

All traditional and emerging methods of surface, thin film, and nano materials analyses, and their applications, will be considered, including technique/instrument development, data reduction/handling, and sample preparation.

Applications in the following areas are particularly encouraged: 

• Alternative Energy (solar, batteries, etc)
• Bio and Biomaterials
• Catalysis
• Data Storage
• Environmental
• Practical Use of Synchrotron Radiation
• Ultra-Thin Film Structures

 Partial List of Invited Speakers

• Hendrick Bluhm, LBNL, Berkeley, CA. “Ambient Pressure XPS”
  

• Greg Fisher, Physical Electronics, Eden Prairie, MN “3D Imaging of Polymers and Biomaterials using TOF-SIMS and a C60 Microprobe”
  

• Julia E. Fulghum, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, "Practical Spatial Resolution in XPS"
  

• Dick Hockett, Evans Analytical Group, "A Survey of Surface Analysis Applications and Challenges for Bulk and Thin Film Photovotaiics"
  

• Bruno Marchon, Hitachi, San Jose, CA “Head-Disk Interface of a Hard Disk Drive: Nanotechnology at 100 Miles/hour”
  

• Anders Nilsson, SSRL, Stanford, CA “Developments in Surface Spectroscopy using Synchrotron Radiation”
  

• Reginald M. Penner, University of Irvine, CA, “Single Palladium Nanowires for Fast, Sensitive, Power Efficient and Cheap Hydrogen Gas Quantitation”
  

• Angus Rockett, U. Illinois, Urbana, IL “Surface Analysis of Photovoltaic Materials”
  

• Harm Rotermund, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada and Fritz Haber Inst., Berlin, Germany “Real Time Imaging at Surfaces: Catalysis to Corrosion”
  

• Kuang-Jen Wu, LLNL, CA “TOF-SIMS of Cancer Cells”

 

Organizing Committee

Conference Co-Chairs:

• C. R. Brundle, C. R. Brundle and Associates, Brundle@attglobal.net

• John Callaghan, Physical Electronics, JCallaghan@PHI.com

• Miquel Salmeron, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, mbsalmeron@lbl.gov

Committee:

• Dave Castner, University of Washington

• Sue Carter, UCSC

• C.A. Evans, Consultant and EAG

• Lucille Giannuzzi, FEI

• John Hemminger, UC Irvine

• Mike Kelly, Stanford University

• Seong Kim, Penn State University

• Jeff Kingsley, Solyndra Corp.

• Kuang Jen Wu, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

 

Presentation Guidelines  

      Oral Presentation Guidelines:
Invited: 40 minutes (5-10 minutes for question and answer).
Contributed:  20 minutes (3-5 minutes for question and answer).

A master computer will be provided for you to use during your presentation or you may also bring your own laptop. PowerPoint is the preferred presentation medium.  
 

Poster Presentation Guidelines:
All posters should be set up for display by the time of the first poster session on Wednesday. Poster presenters will be provided with a blank poster board sitting on an easel. The easels will be arranged in the order that the posters are listed on the program. The poster dimensions are 30" wide x 40" tall.   

Most authors choose to attach their paper directly to this poster, but you also may also bring your own poster with your paper pre-mounted as long as the poster does not exceed the 30" width-there will be many posters lined up together so we must limit the width. For the same reason, the long dimension of the poster needs to be the vertical one. There is room on a 30" x 40" poster board for eight or nine sheets of paper (each 8.5 x 11") plus the title.