Inorganic Oxide Surfaces and Interfaces

Meeting of Workgroup4 on March 29-30, 2007

Jointly with Members of Workgroups 1 and 3: “SPM imaging of defects at oxide surfaces”

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Meeting Location:

Room E7 (Ground floor) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Organisers:

Prof. Alexander Shluger – WG4 Coordinator; Dr Peter Sushko; Ms Denise Ottley

Scientific Programme:

Thursday, March 29

13.50 – 14.00 – Welcome and Introduction – Alexander Shluger

Session 1: Alumina surfaces. Discussion Leader – Georg Kresse

14.00 – 14.40 Peter Varga (Wien) Structure of the Surface Oxide on Ni3Al(111)

14.40 – 15.20 Michael Reichling (Osnabrück) Disorder or complexity? Understanding alumina/Ni3Al(111)

15.20 – 16.00 Clemens Barth (Marseille) From the atomic structure to supported metallic nanocluster: Ultrathin Al2O3 films grown on Ni3Al(111)

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee Break

Session 2: Imaging point defects. Discussion Leader – Michael Reichling

16.30 – 17.10 Oscar Custance (Osaka) Dynamic force microscopy on oxide surfaces at atomic scale

17.10 – 17.50 Adam Foster (Helsinki) Chemical specificity and defect characterization on MgO(001) by SFM

17.50 – 18.30 Tom Trevethan (London) Temperature effects in NC-AFM imaging of defects at oxide surfaces

Discussion

19.30 Dinner

Friday, March 30

Session 3: TiO2 surfaces. Discussion Leader – Peter Varga

9.00 – 9.40 Geoff Thornton (London) Scanning probe microscopy studies of identification and manipulation of defects on TiO2(110)

9.40 – 10.20 Christiana Di Valentin (Milano) STM image simulation of TiO2 (110) surface with hybrid functionals and the localized basis set approach

10.20 – 11.00 Ozgur Ozer (Dublin) Simultaneous STM/AFM investigation of TiO2(110)

11.00 – 11.20 Coffee Break

Session 4: Thin oxide films. Discussion Leader – Adam Foster

11.20 – 12.00 Friedrich Esch (Trieste) Oxide formation on Rh(110)

12.00 – 12.40 Svetlozar Surnev (Graz) Oxide Nanostructures on Metal Surfaces: Manganese Oxides on Pd(100)

Discussion

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

Session 5: Metal bonding and nucleation. Discussion Leader – Geoff Thornton

14.00 – 14.40 Gaetano Granozzi (Padova) Ordered defects on oxide surfaces as preferential nucleation sites for metal cluster growth

14.40 – 15.20 Stefan Wendt (Aarhus) Enhanced Bonding of Gold Nanoparticles on Oxidized TiO2(110)

15.20 – 15.40 Coffee Break

Session 6: Oxide structure and defects. Discussion Leader – Friedrich Esch

15.40 – 16.20 Vaino Sammelselg (Tartu) Crystal structure effects on X-ray absorption of ZrO2 and HfO2 thin ALD films studied by electron spectrometry

16.20 – 17.00 Martin Castell (Oxford) STM of defects on oxide surfaces

17.00 General Discussion and Conclusion

Poster Presentations:

Olli Pakarinen (Helsinki): Constant height mode in SFM imaging: Pd nanoclusters on MgO

Henry Pinto (Helsinki): Strong electron correlation on the Fe3O4(0 0 1) surfaces

Henry Pinto (Helsinki): Computational studies on Si(0 0 1):CaF2 interfaces

Chen Wu (Oxford): Selecting the shape of supported metal nanocrystals: Pd huts, hexagons or pyramids on SrTiO3(001)

Luka Gragnaniello (Modena): Nanopatterned metal-oxide surfaces: templates for nanoparticles self assembling