AFM/STM imaging workshop

“AFM/STM imaging and manipulation of insulating surface and films”
COST D41 WG4 workshop on April 17-18, 2008, London

Location: Room E7 in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCL
Talks are 25 min + 15 min discussion

Session 1: Imaging molecules and nanoparticles on oxides (Discussion leader – Geoff Thornton)

• 10.00 – 10.40 G. Cabailh: “Palladium nanoparticles supported on metal oxides”
• 10.40 – 11.20 Henry Pinto: “Simultaneous AFM/STM studies on hydroxilated TiO2 surface and the effect of the tip: experiment and theory”
• 11.20 – 12.00 Andrew Fisher: “Reaction schemes, STM images and charge states for defect-mediated chemical reactions on TiO2(110)”
• 12.00 – 12.40 Silvia Schintke: “Voltage-dependent scanning tunneling microscopy of copper octaethylporphyrin (CuOEP) on metals and ultrathin insulators”
• 12.40 – 13.40 – lunch and coffee
  

• 13.40 – 14.20 Gérald Dujardin: “STM studies of wide band gap substrates (SiC and CaF2/Si) for molecular electronics” 
• 14.20 – 15.00 Yoshitake Toda: “Clean surface preparation and STM study on C12A7 electride” 
• 15.00 – 15.40 Peter Sushko: “Dry surface of an inorganic electride: electron-rich or electron poor?”
• 15.40 – 16.00 Coffee break 
• 16.00 – 16.40 Stefan Torbruegge: “Different mechanisms of polar stabilisation of Zn-ZnO(0001)”
• 16.40 – 17.20 Ruben Perez: “Single-atom lateral and vertical manipulation on semiconductor surfaces with dynamic force microscopy”  
• 17.20 – 18.00 Tom Trevethan: “Modelling the diffusion of organic molecules on insulating surfaces”
• 19.00 Dinner

Session 3: Forces and imaging in liquids (Discussion leader – Andrew Fisher) 

• 9.00 – 9.40   Bart Hoogenboom: “High-resolution AFM on solid-liquid interfaces”
• 9.40 – 10.20 Susan Perkin: “Dynamic and hydration properties of cations confined to molecularly thin films between mica surfaces” 
• 10.20 – 11.00 Masaru Tsukada: “Development of Theoretical Simulator of SPM”
• 11.00 – 11.20 Coffee break

Session 4: Molecular structures (Discussion leader – Michael Reichling) 

• 11.20 – 12.00 Sigrid Weigelt: “Molecular nanostructures on surfaces formed by organic reactions” 
• 12.00 – 12.40 Lev Kantorovich: “DNA bases on the Au(111) surface: order versus disorder”
• 12.40 – 13.20 Bartosz Such: “Truxenes on KBr(001): NC-AFM study” 
• 13.20 – 14.20 Lunch and coffeee 

Session 5: Fullerenes on insulators (Discussion leader – Adam Foster)

• 14.20 – 15.00 Martin Castell: "Fullerenes on SrTiO3 surfaces" 
• 15.00 – 15.40 Michael Reichling: “Ordering of C60 molecules on TiO2(110)”
• 15.40 – 16.00 Discussion and close

Poster presentations (during lunch and coffee breaks): 

• Manuela Mura: “Ab initio calculation of H-bonded super-structures and their interaction with the Au(111) surface”
  
• Natalia Martsinovich: “Theoretical modeling of the effect of an AFM tip on intra-molecular rotation”
  
• Chen Wu: “Elemental Growth of SrTiO3 thin films”
  
• Nik Beglitis: “"Tracking the O2 reactivity of the hydroxylated Rutile TiO2(110) surface."