Previous Colloquia
Each spring, we hold a series of Wednesday lunchtimes colloquia that is designed to give students confidence in presenting their research. We have also been lucky to attract a number of visiting speakers, some very distinguished, from around the world. A selection of previous schedules is presented below. |
Colloquia Schedule 2018/2019
Colloquium series
Date | Title | Presenter |
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30th January, 1pm Rm 323 | MAGNETIC SKYRMIONS: STATICS AND DYNAMICS | Dr Christoforos Moutafis, University of Manchester |
4th March, 1pm SUPA room 255a |
Tuning Magnetic Anisotropy in Nanostructures for Biomedical and Electromagnetic Applications |
IEEE Magnetics Distinguished Lecturer Prof. Hari Srikanth, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA |
7th March, 1pm Rm 323 | Nanoscale 3D analysis by Atom Probe Tomography - an introduction and example applications | Dr Paul Bagot, University of Oxford |
10th May | Seeing with Atoms | Prof Paul Dastoor, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge |
5th June |
Breakdown of the rigid disc shift model in DPC STEM Advanced fabrication and magnetometry of nanostructures with complex 3D geometries |
Dr Laura Clark
Luka Skorić |
12th June |
Characterisation of functional oxide materials using transmission electron microscopy The Impact Of Corrosion And Chemical Modification Of Silver Nanoparticle Assemblies On Their Plasmonic Functionality Studied By Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy |
Shane McCartan
Jack Brennan |
19th June |
Focused electron-beam induced deposition, in situ TEM and off-axis electron holography investigation of bi-magnetic core-shell nanostructures Improved FIB Preparation Of Samples For MEMS-based In-situ Simultaneous Heating And Biasing In The TEM/STEM |
Dr Trevor Almeida
Tom MacGregor |
26th June |
Mapping Plasmon Excitations In Near Field Transducers Using Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy Correlative Nanoanalytical Electron Microscopy Of Spontaneously Nanostructured Thermoelectric Half-Heusler Alloys Exploring The Performance Of Hybrid Pixel Detectors For Electron Microscopy With Alternative Sensor Materials |
Liam Wright
Robert Webster
Kirsty Paton |
10th July |
Investigating Skyrmion Dynamics Involving Lattice Defects in FeGe Observation and Characterisation of Magnetisation Ripple using Lorentz Transmission Electron Microscopy |
Fred Rendell
Alison Cowan |
17th July |
Application of Precession Electron Diffraction to Fine Characterization of Nanoscale Materials Domain walls in low Symmetry Nanowires Using data analysis techniques from X-ray absorption spectroscopy on high-loss EELS data |
Dr Daniel Ugarte
Hristo Gergov
Rebecca Cummings |
24th July |
Spin Ice - how do they work? Epitaxial Design of Novel Photonic Architectures |
Gavin Macauley Adam McKenzie |
28th August |
Negative Refraction Regions within Natural Crystalline Materials Three-dimensional image reconstruction An analysis of Xenon bubbles in Zircaloy-4 |
Cameron McEleny John Fullerton Andrew Minty |
Colloquia Schedule 2017/2018
Regular Colloquium series
Date | Title | Presenter |
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9th August |
TBA - POSTPONED EELS quantification of steels Characterisating domain walls in magnetic systems by TEM |
Sean Hughs, MCMP group, Glasgow Bianca Sala, MCMP group, Glasgow Kayla Fallon, MCMP group, Glasgow |
16th August | Topological excitations in thin film ferromagnets and artificial spin ices |
Dr Ezio Iacocca, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado and Department of Physics Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. |
30th August |
The application of transmission Kikuchi diffraction and atom probe microscopy to extra-terrestrial materials. |
Luke Daly, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, Glasgow |
27th September, room 220 |
Finite size effects and artificial spin structures |
Dr Björgvin Hjörvarsson, Uppsala University, Sweden. |
Friday 26th January, rm 257 | Magnetism research at the Alba light source | Prof. Salvador Ferrer, ALBA Light Source, Spain |
Thursday 12th April, SUPA | The role of IP in the commercialisation of advanced materials | Dr. Craig Brownlie, Potter Clarkson |
18th April, rm 323 |
Core-shell effects on the plasmonics of silver nanoparticles Obtaining structural and composition data from nanostructured non-crystalline materials combining STEM diffraction imaging using a Medipix 3 Sensor and EELS spectrum imaging |
Jack Brennan, MCMP Group, Glasgow
Alastair Doye, MCMP / IGR Groups, Glasgow |
25th April, SUPA |
Multi-length Scale Characterisation of Half-Heusler Thermoelectrics TEM Imaging of Phase Behaviour in Relaxor Ferroelectrics |
John Halpin, MCMP Group, Glasgow Tom MacGregor, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
2nd May, SUPA | By student request - Giving 12-minute conference talks | Damien McGrouther, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
9th May, SUPA | The effect of interface formation on the microstructure and mechanical properties of titanium matrix composites | Jiheng Wang, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, P. R. China |
16th May, SUPA |
Imaging nanomagnets in 2D and 3D using X-rays |
Sebastian Gliga, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
23th May, rm 323 |
Spontaneous nanostructuring of thermoelectric half-Heusler thin films 3D reconstruction of magnetization from dichroic soft X-ray transmission tomography |
Robert Webster, MCMP Group, Glasgow Aurelio Hierro Rodriguez, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
30th May, rm 323 |
Chemical and Structural Characterisation of Ferroelectric Materials via Transmission Electron Microscopy CANCELLED |
Shane McCartan, MCMP Group, Glasgow
Hafizah Isa, MCMP / IGR Groups Glasgow |
6th June, rm 323 |
Mapping plasmonic excitations in nano-elements for heat assisted magnetic recording applications Investigation of Magnetostriction in Permalloy Thin Films using Lorentz TEM |
Liam Wright, MCMP Group, Glasgow
Alison Cowan, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
13th June, rm 323 |
Sp(in) ice up your life: how geometry affects the behaviour of artificial spin systems |
Gavin Macauley, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
22nd June, 10:30, SUPA |
Investigating spontaneous skyrmion dynamics in FeGe |
Gyan van der Jagt, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands |
27th June, SUPA |
PEELS and the ARM |
Alan Craven, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
11th July, SUPA |
Lorentz TEM studies of material systems with an interfacial DMI interaction P-FIB to the planets |
Kayla Fallon, MCMP Group, Glasgow Luke Daly, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, Glasgow |
18th July, SUPA |
Idea to product - a brief overview of the product development process for the Merlin detectors. Large area low-loss mapping of precipitates within steel matrices |
Nadia Bassiri, MCMP Group, Glasgow
Bianca Sala, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
24th August, rm 323 |
Spatial Resolution in Low-Loss EELS |
Prof. Ray F. Egerton, University of Alberta, Canada |
Mon 3th Sept., rm 323, from 1pm |
IMC Extravaganza |
John Halpin and Bianca Sala, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
26th Sept. Rm 323 |
GaAs:Cr as an alternative sensor material for direct electron detectors Postponed |
Kirsty Paton, MCMP / PPE Groups, Glasgow Enrique Frutos Myro, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
Fri 16th Nov. 3pm, Rm 312 | Characterising and optimising the role of fine alpha laths in dual-phase titanium alloys | Enrique Frutos Myro, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
Colloquia Schedule 2016/2017
Regular Colloquium series
Date | Title | Presenter |
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Friday 9th September |
Optimizing spatial resolution and minimizing beam damage in TEM and EELS |
Prof. R.F. Egerton, Physics Department, University of Alberta, Canada |
13:00 Thursday 15th September, Rm 323 | Domain walls and magnetisation dynamics in magnetostrictive thin films | Prof. Andrew Rushforth, University of Nottingham |
13:00 Wednesday 28th September, Rm 323 | From domain walls towards functional skyrmion devices | Ales Hrabec, MCMP group, Glasgow |
5th October, Rm 323 | Studying catalyst nanoparticles supported on CNTs: Answers from STEM-EELS | Ida Hjorth, Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
16:00 Thursday 13th October, Rm 323 |
IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecture |
Prof. Teruo Ono, Kyoto University, Japan |
23rd November, Rm 323 | Ge on Si for Integrated Photonics Applications | Aneeqa Bashir, MCMP group, Glasgow |
Postponed |
Using Atomic Structure/Composition Analysis To Improve Sensing Systems |
Hafizah Noor Isa, MCMP/IGR group, Glasgow Alastair Doye, MCMP/IGR group, Glasgow |
11:00 Friday 2nd December, Rm 323 | Broadband Terahertz photonics | Matteo Clerici, School of Engineering, Glasgow |
Postponed | Improvement of shape memory effect through delta to gamma transformation in FeMnSi-based shape memory alloys | Huabei Peng, MCMP group, Glasgow |
3pm, Wednesday 5th April, Rm 323 |
IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecture Functionalized Hybrid Nanomagnets: New Materials for Innovations in Energy Storage and Medical Theranostics |
Prof. Michael Farle, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Russia |
10th May | Metal oxide nanoparticles: synthesis, characterisation and magnetic properties. Compressive sensing used in Transmission Electron Microscopy |
Trevor Almeida, MCMP group, Glasgow
Magnus Nord, MCMP group, Glasgow |
24th May | EELS: From the General to the Particulate. | Prof. Alan Craven, MCMP group, Glasgow |
31st May |
Using Atomic Structure/Composition Analysis To Improve Sensing Systems |
Alastair Doye, MCMP/IGR group, Glasgow |
14th June |
Pulsed Laser Deposition of Half-Heusler Thin Films |
Robert Webster, MCMP group, Glasgow |
28th June |
Resistive switching in ZnO devices |
Monifa Phillips, MCMP group, Glasgow |
12th July |
Skating on spin ice Characterising HAMR plasmonic near-field transducers with STEM EELS |
Gavin MacAuly, MCMP group, Glasgow
Liam Wright, MCMP group, Glasgow |
19th July |
Investigation of magnetostriction in NiFe thin films Getting Hot with Thermoelectrics |
Alison Cowan, MCMP group, Glasgow John Halpin, MCMP group, Glasgow |
26th July POSTPONED |
Reliable Quantification of Mixed Oxide Coatings |
Hafizah Noor Isa, MCMP/IGR group, Glasgow |
31st July, 3pm |
Energy barriers and lifetimes of skyrmions in an ultrathin film: Pd/Fe/Ir(111) |
Stephan von Malottki, ITAP, Kiel University |
2nd August POSTPONED |
A spin ice with chiral dynamics and a pair of magnetic singularities |
Sebastian Giga, MCMP group, Glasgow |
9th August |
TBA - POSTPONED EELS quantification of steels Characterisating domain walls in magnetic systems by TEM |
Sean Hughs, MCMP group, Glasgow Bianca Sala, MCMP group, Glasgow Kayla Fallon, MCMP group, Glasgow |
16th August | Topological excitations in thin film ferromagnets and artificial spin ices |
Dr Ezio Iacocca, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado and Department of Physics Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. |
30th August |
The application of transmission Kikuchi diffraction and atom probe microscopy to extra-terrestrial materials. |
Luke Daly, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, Glasgow |
27th September, room 220 |
Finite size effects and artificial spin structures |
Dr Björgvin Hjörvarsson, Uppsala University, Sweden. |
Colloquia Schedule 2015/2016
Date | Title | Presenter |
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1500, Wednesday 14th October | Tunnable mesoscale magnetic structures by nanoimprint lithography |
Prof. Kannan Krishnan, Department of Materials Sciences and Physics, University of Washington. |
1300, Friday 22nd January, Rm 220a | Weak perpendicular magnetic anisotropy materials as a functional tool for the development of active magnetic systems |
Aurelio Hierro Rodriguez, IFIMUP, University of Porto |
1400, Monday 25th January | TBA |
Felipe Pereira |
1400, Thursday 11th February |
Three-dimensional spintronic systems for memory and logic applications |
Dr. Amalio Fernandez-Pacheco, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. |
1200, Wednesday 20th April | CAMECA Atom Probe Tomography | Peter Clifton, CAMECA Madison |
Wednesday 20th April | Realising fast two-dimensional pixelated STEM detectors | Magnus Nord, MCMP group, Glasgow |
Wednesday 27th April | High Temperature Corrosion Studies of Zircaloy-4 | Kirsty Annand, MCMP group, Glasgow |
Thursday 28th April | Femtosecond charge and spin dynamics in the V-Cr Prussian Blue Molecule-Based Magnet | Dr J. Olof Johansson, University of Edinburgh |
Wednesday 4th May | Postponed | Aneeqa Bashir, MCMP group, Glasgow |
Wednesday 18th May | Are all glasses alike? | Prof. Andrew Long, MCMP group, Glasgow |
Thursday 19th May | Chiral Magnetism and Spin-Orbitronics | Professor Aurelien Manchon, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia |
Wednesday 1st June |
Canceled
New horizons for hyperbolic media |
Ricardo Lopes Da Silva, MCMP group, Glasgow Rair Macedo, MCMP group, Glasgow |
Friday 10th June |
Models of relaxation and thermal activation in low dimensional magnetic spin systems Direct visualization of the thermomagnetic behaviour of vortex states held by magnetic minerals |
Louise Desplat, MCMP group, Glasgow Trevor Almeida, MCMP group, Glasgow |
Wednesday 22nd June |
Nanostructured half Heuslers for thermoelectric waste heat recovery |
John Halpin, MCMP group, Glasgow |
Wednesday 29th June |
Electron tomography and semiconductor device applications |
Hugh Porter, MCMP group, Glasgow |
Wednesday 6th July | CrysTBox Masterclass |
John Halpin, MCMP group, Glasgow |
Wednesday 13th July |
EELs analysis of a PCMO resistive switching device Quantitative chemical characterisation of precipitates in steel |
Monifa Philips, MCMP group, Glasgow Bianca Sala, MCMP group, Glasgow |
Wednesday 20th July |
Macroferromagnetism of a novel artificial spin ice Accessing nanosecond time resolved imaging in the TEM via the Medipix3 direct electron detector |
Yue Li, MCMP group, Glasgow Ray Lamb, MCMP group, Glasgow |
Wednesday 27th July | Towards designing functional materials based on artificial spin ices |
Sebastian Giga, MCMP group, Glasgow |
Wednesday 3rd August, Rm 423 |
Characterisation of electron detection performance of Medipix3 and applications enabled |
Damien McGrouther, MCMP group, Glasgow |
Wednesday 10th August |
Detection and Characterisation of Skyrmions in Magnetic Multilayers A study of inerfacial magnetism using Lorentz microscopy |
Sean Hughes, MCMP group, Glasgow Kayla Fallon, MCMP group, Glasgow |
Colloquia Schedule 2014/2015
Date | Title | Presenter |
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1200, Tuesday 18 Nov | IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecture Opportunities and Challenges in Two Dimensional Magnetic Recording |
Dr Jonathan Coker, HGST, a Western Digital Company. |
1200, Friday 9th January, Room 220a |
Multi-dimensional electron microscopy: challenges and opportunities |
Dr. Francisco de la Peña, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge |
1200, Wednesday 18th February | IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecture Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy: from ultralow power spintronics to cancer therapy |
Prof. Russell Cowburn, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge |
1500, Wednesday 4th March |
Magnetic chiral skyrmions: theoretical results and physical applications |
Dr Alexei N. Bogdanov, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany |
1300, Wednesday 22nd April |
Imaging Magnetic Skyrmions using Transmission Electron Microscopy |
Dr James Loudon, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge |
Wednesday 29th April |
Curved magnonic waveguides based on domain walls |
Pablo Borys, MCMP group |
Wednesday 6th May |
Lorentz imaging of magnetic dynamics from ms to ns |
Ray Lamb, MCMP group Scott Smith, MCMP group |
Thursday 7th May |
Measuring microwave magnons at millikelvin temperatures | Dr Alexy D. Karenowska, Department of Physics, University of Oxford |
Wednesday 13th May |
Is there a realistic prospect of atomistic, physics-based modelling of steels? | Prof. Tony Paxton, Department of Physics, King's College London |
Wednesday 20th May | Localised states in parametrically driven magnetic systems |
David Laroze, MCMP group |
Wednesday 27th May |
Pixelated DPC of magnetic Skyrmions and interesting properties of pixelated STEM |
Matus Krajnak, MCMP group |
Thursday 28th May |
Nonlinear effects in magnetic systems |
Prof. Robert Camley, Physics Department, University of Colorado Colorado Springs |
Wednesday 3rd June |
Using DualEELS to understand corrosion in Zircaloy-4 under simulated nuclear reactor conditions |
Kirsty Annand, MCMP group
Yue Li, MCMP group |
Thursday 4th June 1000 Thursday 4th June 1300 |
A New Twist in an Old Material: Novel Magnetic States in MnSi/Si(111) Pixelated detectors in STEM; Why, how, and what for? |
Prof. Ted Monchesky, Dalhousie University Dr. Ian MacLaren, Dr. Damien McGrouther, and Prof. Peter Nellist |
1100, Tuesday 9th June |
Temperature Maps of the Body - Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetic Nanoparticles |
Prof. Robert Camley, Physics Department, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs |
Wednesday 10th June |
Medium range structural order in amorphous tantala spatially resolved with changes to atomic structure by thermal annealing |
Martin Hart, MCMP group |
Wednesday 17th June |
Pulsed Laser Deposition of LaSrMnO3 for applications in RRAM
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Monifa Phillips, MCMP group
Rair Macedo, MCMP group |
Monday 22nd June |
Research perspectives on chiral magnets: theoretical Research perspectives on chiral magnets: experimental |
Prof. Jun Kishine, Open University of Japan Prof. Katsuya Inoue, Hiroshima University |
Wednesday 24th June |
Monte Carlo and Mean-Field Studies for Three-Dimensional Chiral Helimagnets
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Misako Shinozaki, University of Tokyo
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Wednesday 8th July |
Progress in atomic structure determination of amorphous materials using electrons |
Dr. Konstantin Borisenko, Department of Materials, University of Oxford |
Wednesday 15th July | Optical Waveguide Plasmons | Tom Blackwood, MCMP group |
Monday 24th August, 1600 |
Developing Time Resolved SPLEEM | Prof. Wen-Xin Tang, Chongqing University, China |
Friday 28th August | STEM-EELS of Carbon Nanostructures | Dr. Fredrik Hage, MCMP group / Superstem |
Colloquia Schedule 2013/2014
Date | Title | Presenter |
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Mon. 2nd Sept. | Spin Textures with Long-Range Order in Mixed-valent Manganites | Prof. Yoshihiko Togawa, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan |
Mon. 23rd Sept. | First-principles-based structure prediction of interfaces in oxides | Dr. Georg Schusteritsch, University College London, UK |
Mon. 21st Oct. | Dielectric response of multilayer graphene nano-cones | Fredrick Hage, MCMP Group and SuperSTEM, Daresbury |
Fri. 1 Nov. | An overview of EPSRC funding | Rob Felstead, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council |
Mon. 9 Dec. | Graphene and other 2-Ds: atomic-scale landscapes and chemistry revealed by electron microscopy and spectroscopy | Dr Ursel Bangert, University of Manchester |
Fri. 21 Feb. | Muon scattering from superconducting pancakes | Prof. Steve Lee, University of St. Andrews |
Mon. 24 Feb. | Spin-polarised supercurrents for superconducting spintronics | Dr Niladri Banerjee, University of Cambridge |
26 Feb. | Structure and Electronic Properties of Polycrystalline Dielectrics | Dr Keith McKenna, University of York |
2 April | High resolution lorentz microscopy studies of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 | Kerry O'Shea, MCMP Group |
23 April | Charting the progress of corrosion in reaction liner materials | Kirsty Annand, MCMP Group |
Multi-modal microscopy of organic electronic devices | Aaron Naden, MCMP Group | |
30 April | Domain wall reflection and magnonic crystals | Pablo Borys, MCMP Group |
Diffraction contrast corrected magnetic imaging in Differential Phase Contrast STEM | Matus Krajnak, MCMP Group | |
7 May | Obtaining picometre precision from noisy images STEM data | Marco Bigatti, MCMP Group |
What do you get when you cross a vortex with a B-field? | Colin Greenshields, MCMP Group | |
14 May |
Mapping the distribution of the electric field in a microwave cavity by transmission electron microscopy | Francisco Trindade, MCMP Group |
Now in 3d! Experimental Lorentz Microscopy (Bring your own 3d goggles) | Ciaran Ferguson, MCMP Group | |
21 May | Through the looking glass: what does the other side look like with a vortex beam? | Scott Smith, MCMP Group |
Mapping plasmonic structures in metamaterials | Gary Paterson, MCMP Group | |
28 May |
Filamentary adventures in oxide-land | Pedro Parreira, MCMP Group |
Nonreciprocity in the Goos-Hanchen effect on reflection of antiferromagnets | Rair Macedo, MCMP Group | |
4 June | Soak it up: water adsorption of polymeric humidity sensors | Shabir Ravji, MCMP Group |
11 June | Faster than a speeding bullet? Time resolved studies of magnetic domain wall motion | Ray Lamb, MCMP Group |
Synthetic antiferromagnetic adventures | Maria Jose Benitez, MCMP Group | |
18 June | Direct imaging of electric fields in ferroelectric oxides | Jalal Salih, MCMP Group |
Nanocharacterisation of precipitates in automotive steels with the Dual EELS technique | Joanna Bobynko | |
11am, Monday 23 June | The Sir Martin Wood Prize lecture, awarded by the Millenium Science Foundation of Japan, sponsored by Oxford Instruments plc Development of an advanced scanning transmission electron microscope for material science research |
Dr Naoya Shibata, The University of Tokyo |
25 June | Scanning diffraction studies of the nanometric ordering in glasses in relation to their macroscopic mechanical properties | Martin Hart |
1300, 26 June | IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecture Magnetic Materials in Medicine: Applications in Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of Disease |
Prof. Tim St Pierre, University of Western Australia |
In addition, note that third year PhD researchers give talks during the School's colloquia session in the third term. Prizes are awarded to the student with the most vocal audience, so attendance is mandatory! A summarised line-up of MCMP students talking this year is as follows.
Researcher | Date |
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Joanna | 30 April |
Shabir | 7 May |
Colin & Aaron | 14 May |
Francisco & Ciaran | 21 May |
Pedro | 28 May |
Colloquia Schedule 2012/2013
Date | Title | Presenter |
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Wed. 27th Feb 1600, Rm. 323 |
Exotic magnetism in frustrated metal oxides | Dr Fiona Coomer, University of Strathclyde |
Friday, 22 March 1200 |
IEEE Magnetics Society 2013 Distinguished Lecture Series Magneto-Optic Analysis of Magnetic Microstructures |
Prof. Rudolf Schaefer, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany |
Wed. 3rd April 1300 |
Structure-property relations of organic transistors | Aaron Naden, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
Wed. 10th April 1300 | Stability, bistability and instability in resistive memory devices: a nanoscopic study of functional oxides | Pedro Parriera, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
A new spin on dynamic imaging: towards in-situ ferromagnetic resonance studies during transmission electron microscopy | Francisco Trindade, MCMP Group, Glasgow | |
Wed. 17th April 1300 |
Structure and loss in amorphous tantala oxide | Prof. Andrew Long, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
Wed. 24th April 1300 |
Adventures in ferroelectrics | Scott Smith, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
Micromagnetics of domain wall in three-dimensional structures | Ciaran Ferguson, MCMP Group, Glasgow | |
Wed. 1st May 1300 | Vortex-mediated melting in systems with low-temperature phase competition | Dr Chris Hooley, University of St. Andrews |
Wed. 8th May 1300 | Is pulsed laser deposition good for coating mirrors? | Dominic Lawson, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in a domain wall | Pablo Borys, MCMP Group, Glasgow | |
Wed. 15th May 1300 | From time-averaged electron diffraction towards the making of molecular movies | Dr Derek Wann, University of Edinburgh |
Fri. 17th May, 1200 | Detector geometries and methods for quantitative STEM imaging | Prof. P Nellist, University of Oxford |
Wed. 22nd May 1300 | Modern dowsing: studies of polymer hydration using neutron scattering | Shabir Ravji, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
Dizzy! My head is spinning! Like a whirlpool, it never ends! - The adventure of a helical electron | Colin Greenshields, MCMP Group, Glasgow | |
Wed. 29th May 1300 | Characteristation of nanosized particles in innovative high manganese steels for automotive applications | Joanna Cholewa, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
Tutorial | Prof. R. Stamps, MCMP Group | |
Wed. 5th June | Aspects of Electron Tomography | Dr. Timothy Peterson, Monash University, Australia |
Fri. 7th June, 1200 |
Thermally driven magnonic spin currents | Prof. Ulrich Novak, Universität Konstanz, Germany |
Wed. 12th June | Advanced modelling of Differential Phase Contrast electron microscopy | Matus Krajnak, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
Wed. 19th June | Electrons through a looking glass: diffractive analysis of amorphous materials | Martin Hart, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
Wed. 26th June onwards | Tutorials in magnetism | Prof. Bob Stamps, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
Friday, 19 July 1200 |
IEEE Magnetics Society 2013 Distinguished Lecture Series Artificial Ferromagnetic Nanostructures: An Experimental Platform for Magnonics |
Prof. Adekunle Adeyeye, National University of Singapore |
Colloquia Schedule 2011/2012
Date | Title | Presenter |
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5 September 2011 | Direct Imaging of magnetic reversal of spin-ice and non-adiabatic spin torque effects on vortex core orbits | Dr Yimei Zhu, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA |
Monday 12 Sept. 1200-1300 | Spin torques due to two-dimensional helical electrons | Kohno Hiroshi, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan |
Spin pumping and inverse spin Hall effects: possibility of magnetic monopole | Gen Tatara, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan |
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Friday 16th Sept. 1200-1300 | Dynamic fluctuations at the spin reorientation transition in a Pt/Co/Pt film | Jacques FERRÉ, Universite Paris-Sud 11, France |
Wed. 21st Sept. 1300-1400 |
Applications of atomic resolution HAADF & EELS mapping: recent SuperSTEM results | Bernhard Schaffer, University of Glasgow and SuperSTEM |
Monday 26th Sept. 1200-1300 | Pattern formation and coarsening in growth processes: a multiscale approach | Paolo Politi, ISC-CNR, Fiorentino, Italy |
Thursday 20th Oct. 1330-1430 | IEEE Magnetics Society 2011 Distinguished Lecture Series Growth-Control and Microstructure Characterization of Magnetic Thin Films, Application to High Density Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Media |
Masaaki Futamoto, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan |
Wednesday 16th Nov. 1300-1400 | IEEE Magnetics Society 2011 Distinguished Lecture Series Magnetic Soft X-Ray Microscopy: A Path Towards Imaging Magnetism Down to Fundamental Length and Time Scales |
Peter Fischer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA |
Wednesday 18th April 1300-1400 | Unusual 360degree domain wall nesting in magnetic tunnel junctions: a Lorentz TEM study | Kerry O'Shea, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
Understanding how morphology influences the performance of organic thin film transistors | Aaron Naden, MCMP Group, Glasgow | |
Wednesday 25th April 1300-1400 | Probing the diffusion and structure of Te and CdTe on Cu(111) substrates | Martin King, MCMP Group & School of Chemistry, Glasgow |
Recent Advances in EELS Instrumentation and Analysis:High-Speed Spectroscopy with Extended Energy and Dynamic Range | P Longo, Gatan Inc., Pleasanton, CA, USA | |
Wednesday 2nd May 1300-1400 | Field dependence of microwave frequency absorption in in antiferromagnetic/ ferromagnetic exchange coupled multilayers | Francisco Trindade, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
Capacitance based humidity sensors: an evolving technology | Shabir Ravji, MCMP Group, Glasgow | |
Wednesday 9th May 1300-1400 | Deposition of metal oxide thin films using pulsed laser deposition for ReRAM applications | Pedro Parreira, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
Structure of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) thin films studied by AFM and TFM | Sasha Alekseev, MCMP Group, Glasgow | |
Wednesday 16th May 1300-1400 | Entering the third dimension: Lorentz studies of magnetic cylindrical wires | Ciaran Ferguson, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
Wednesday 23rd May 1300-1400 | Unravelling the polymer | Marco Bigatti, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
The nitty-gritty of precipitates in steels | Joanna Cholewa, MCMP Group, Glasgow | |
Wednesday 30th May 1300-1400 | Optimised pulsed laser deposition of iron vanadates | Dominic Lawson, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
Wednesday 13th June 1300-1400 | Piezo Force Microscopy Analysis of BFO | Natlia Serbu, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
Entering the vortex: modelling and understanding electron beams carrying orbital angular momentum | Colin Greenshields, MCMP Group, Glasgow | |
Wednesday 20th June 1300-1400 | TBA | Bob Stamps, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
Wednesday 27th June 1300-1400 | TBA | Ian MacLaren, MCMP Group, Glasgow |
Colloquia schedule 2010/2011
Date | Title | Presenter | |
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11 April, 2pm, SUPA Room |
Optimized FIB sample preparation for atomic resolution analytical STEM at low kV - a key requirement for successful application | Dr. Miroslava Shaffer, SuperSTEM (http://www.superstem.org) & The University of Liverpool | |
20 April | Crowding, collective conduct and contrariness in magnetic spin behaviour | Matthew Ambrose, University of Western Australia | |
20 April | Decoupling of the surface and core magnetic contribution in antiferromagnetic nanostructures | Dr Maria Jose Benitez Romero, Solid State Physics Group, The University of Glasgow |
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1200, Thursday |
A review of emerging ZnO-based devices and applications | David J Rogers, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews & Nanovation, Orsay, France | |
27 April | Reproducible pinning, depinning and transformation of domain wall spin structures in planar nanowires by ion irradiated features | MA Basith, Solid State Physics Group, The University of Glasgow |
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4 May | Alternative methods for the observation of spin dynamics in magnetic materials | Dr. David Schmool, Universidade do Porto, Portugul | |
4 May | Magnetic Exchange Interactions in the Light of Neutron Scattering | Thomas Saerbeck, The University of Western Australia |
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Fri. 13 May | Under Pressure - Autoclave Synthesis of Rare-Earth Oxide Nanowires and Ribbons | Fraser Douglas,Schools of Chemistryand Physics & Astronomy, The University of Glasgow |
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18 May Mugdock Park |
SSP-Optics Exchange day:An exciting internal event | A variety of researchers from both SSP & Optics groups. | |
25 May | Temporal Resolution Streak Imaging in the TEM | Rob Beacham,Solid State Physics Group, The University of Glasgow |
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25 May | Organic electronics' dirty secrets | Marco Bigatti,Solid State Physics Group, The University of Glasgow |
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1 June | Advanced materials for thermoelectric power generation | Jan-Willem Bos Heriot-Watt University |
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8 June | The Magnetism of Cerium Oxide Nanomaterials | Karl Ackland, Magnetism & Spin Electronics Group, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland | |
8 June | Atomic-resolution STEM Imaging and EELS-SI of Defects in BiFeO3 Ceramics Co-Doped with Nd and Ti | LiQui Wang | |
15 June | Characterising chirality in a thin film system | Martin King, Solid State Physics Group, The University of Glasgow |
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15 June | DFT squared: Density Function Theory During my Florida Trip | Keith Evans,Solid State Physics Group, The University of Glasgow |
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22 June | Magnetic behaviour in kinky patterned permalloy: the next adventure | Kerry O’Shea, Solid State Physics Group, The University of Glasgow |
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29 June | Field tunable localization of spin wave in antidot arrays & current driven movement of domain wall in nanowires | Chunlian Hu, Solid State Physics Group, The University of Glasgow |
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6 July | Atomic Force Microscopy studies of polymeric photovoltaics | Julia Syurik, Solid State Physics Group, The University of Glasgow |
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6 July | Standing spin wave modes to probe magnetic interfaces | Rhet Magaraggia, The University of Western Australia & Glasgow SSP group | |
13 July | How disorder affects the field-induced dynamics of artificial spin ice | Zoe Budrikis, The University of Western Australia & Glasgow SSP group |
Colloquia schedule 2009/2010
Date | Title | Presenter |
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1400 11 Nov 2009 |
Static, quasi-static and dynamical properties of patterned magnetic rings, discs and ellipses | Dr. P. E. Roy, Thin Film Magnetism Group, Dept. Physics, University of Cambridge |
1200, Wed. 2 December 2009 |
IEEE Magnetics Society 2009 Distinguished Lecture Series Controlling Magnetism with Light |
Prof. Dr. Theo Rasing Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
1300 3 December 2009 |
From diffraction data to local atomic structures of amorphous materials | Dr. K. Borisenko, Department of Materials, University of Oxford |
1300 Tues. 2 February 2010 |
Advanced Materials for Clean Energy Conversion and Storage | Dr. Nicole van der Laak School of Engineering and Physical Sciences - Chemistry Heriot-Watt University, UK |
1300, Wed. 17 February 2010 |
IEEE Magnetics Society 2009 Distinguished Lecture Series A new paradigm for exchange bias in polycrystalline films |
Prof. Kevin O'Grady Department of Physics, University of York, UK |
1400, Thurs. 11 March 2010 |
Light emitting quantum clusters of gold and silver | Prof. T. Pradeep DST Unit on Nanoscience (DST UNS), Department of Chemistry and Sophisticated Analytical Instrument Facility, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India |
1300, Wed. 14 April 2010 |
CVD diamond as plasma facing material for nuclear fusion | Dr. Samuele Porro Heriot-Watt University, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, EH144AS Edinburgh (UK) |
1300, Wed. 21 April 2010 |
Microstructural characterisation studies by electron microscopy | Dr. Rumi Petrova Solid State Physics Group, The University of Glasgow |
1300, Wed. 28 April 2010 |
Wind them up and watch them go: controllable motion of vortex domain walls in permalloy nanowires | Duc Quang Hoang Solid State Physics Group, The University of Glasgow |
Staring into the vortex: adventures in Lorentz electron microscopy | Robert Beacham Solid State Physics Group, The University of Glasgow |
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1300, Wed. 5 May 2010 |
Studying the atomic structure of an incommensurate antiferroelectric | Dr. Ian MacLaren Solid State Physics Group, The University of Glasgow |
1300, Wed. 19 May 2010 |
Characterising the atomic structure and properties of Ta2O5 coatings | Riccardo Bassiri Solid State Physics Group, The University of Glasgow |
1300, Wed. 26 May 2010 |
Understanding and controlling of domain walls behaviour in lithographically patterned ferromagnetic nanowires | M A Basith Solid State Physics Group, The University of Glasgow |
Adventures in UHV: Characterisation of TaS3 nanoribbons with photoemission spectroscopy and electron microscopy | Martin King Solid State Physics Group, The University of Glasgow |
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1230,3rd June 2010, Rm. 323 | IEEE Magnetics Society 2009 Distinguished Lecture Series Heusler compounds: Multifunctional materials for spintronics |
Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz |
1300, Wed. 9 June 2010 |
Getting heavy: doping lanthanides into magnetite nanoparticles | Fraser Douglas Solid State Physics Group, The University of Glasgow |
Extracting order from disorder: modelling and analysis of electron scattering in glass | Keith Evans Glasgow Solid State Physics Group |
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1300, Wed. 16 June 2010 |
Analytical Electron Microscopy: the shocking truth exposed | LiQiu Wang Solid State Physics Group, The University of Glasgow |
1400, 6th July 2010 | Materials Challenges for Sustainable Energy | Dr. J. Murray Gibson Advanced Photon Source Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, United States |
1300, Wed. 14 July 2010 |
Three-dimensional atomic-scale structure of size-selected gold nanoclusters | Dr. ZiYou Li Nanoscale Physics Research Laboratory, The University of Birmingham |
1200, Fri 3rd September 2010 | An Investigation of Magnetic Reversal at Almost the Nanoscale IEEE Magnetic Society 2010 Distinguished Lecture Series
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Prof E. Dan Dahlberg School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, USA |
1430, Mon 6th September 2010 | Biomagnetics: An Interdisciplinary Field Where Magnetics, Biology and Medicine Overlap IEEE Magnetic Society 2010 Distinguished Lecture Series
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Prof Shoogo Ueno |
Colloquia schedule 2008/2009
Date | Title | Presenter |
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15 September 2008 | TEM/EELS Research at the National Institute for Nanotechnology | Prof. R.F. Egerton University of Alberta and National Institute for Nanotechnology, Edmonton, Canada |
15 October 2008 | "Measurement of internal stress distribution in bilayer films using grazing incidence x-ray scattering" | Prof. Shinji Takayama, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan |
23 October 2008 | Spectrum-Imaging in (S)TEM, aspects of acquisition, correction and analysis | Dr. Bernhard Schaffer, SuperSTEM, Daresbury Laboratory & SSP Group, University of Glasgow |
10 February 2009 | "Why Metals Can Fall Apart: Vision, Observation, and G. I. Taylor" | Prof. L.M Brown FRS, The Cavendish Laboratory, The University of Cambridge |
1 April 2009 | Grain Volume Effects in Metallic Polycrystalline Exchange Bias Systems | Dr. Gonzalo Vallejo Fernandez, SSP Group, The University of Glasgow |
8 April 2009 | Magnetic domain wall propagation in kinky wires | Kerry O'Shea SSP Group, The University of Glasgow |
Determination of vortex core polarity by simple off-axis Fresnel imaging | Duc The Ngo SSP Group, The University of Glasgow |
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22 April 2009 | Crossing the border in piezoelectrics | Rafael Villaurrutia SSP Group, The University of Glasgow |
Achieving perfection in ion-milled permalloy nanoelements | M A Basith SSP Group, The University of Glasgow |
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6 May 2009 | Which way is up? Imaging buried vicinal interfaces in TEM | Michael Finnie SSP Group, The University of Glasgow |
Analysis of multilayer nanowire stacks | Eleonora Bellini SSP Group, The University of Glasgow |
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13 May 2009 | Shape-control of iron oxide nanoparticles | Fraser Douglas SSP Group, The University of Glasgow |
Analysis of nanopillar magnetic tunnel junctions | Duc Quang Hoang SSP Group, The University of Glasgow |
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20 May 2009 | Manipulation of single atoms and molecules for the fabrication of nanoscale devices | Dr. Neil Curson, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London |
27 May 2009 | Collective oscillations in space and matter: how controlling phonons is essential for gravitational wave detection | Riccardo Bassiri SSP Group, The University of Glasgow |
Quantum transport revealed | Gary Paterson SSP Group, The University of Glasgow |
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1300 17 June 2009 |
A TEM nanoanlytical investigation of Pd/Ge ohmic contacts for the miniaturization and optimization of nInGaAs MOSFET devices | Paolo Longo SSP Group, The University of Glasgow |
Friday 19 June 2008 |
IEEE Magnetics Society 2008 Distinguished Lecture Series Biomedical nanomagnetics : A spin through new possibilities |
Prof. Kannan Krishnan Materials Science and Engineering Dept., University of Washington |
1300 24 June 2009 |
Shape-control of iron oxide nanoparticles | Fraser Douglas SSP Group, The University of Glasgow |
Colloquia schedule 2007/2008
Date | Title | Presenter |
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18/01/2008 4pm |
Nano-Spintronics | Atsufumi Hirohata Department of Electronics University of York |
11 Feb. 2008 11am Rm. 604 |
Telling the truth by FIBbing | Marty Gregg Centre for Nanostructured Media, Queen's University of Belfast |
21 Feb. 2008 12 noon Rm. 604. |
Determination of defects induced by 20 MeV Au ions irradiation in silicon carbide : use of positron annihilation spectroscopy |
Dr. Aurelie Gentils Conditions Extrêmes et Matériaux: Haute Température et Irradiation, CNRS,Orléans, France |
2 April 2008 | Characterisation of Magnetic Nanostructures by Electron Microscopy for the Spinswitch Project | Eleonora Bellini SSP Group, University of Glasgow |
High resolution etching of magnetic elements in organic gases | Dr. Xiang Kong SSP Group, University of Glasgow |
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9 April 2008 | Towards room temperature magnetic refrigeration - exploring the magnetocaloric effect | Dr. Karl Sandeman Dept. of Materials, University of Cambridge |
16 April 2008 | Lorentz TEM studies of vortex domain wall propagation through nanowires containing geometric pinning features | Kerry O'Shea SSP Group, University of Glasgow |
Materials studies for gravitational wave detectors | Riccardo Bassiri SSP Group, University of Glasgow |
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23 April 2008 | Hybrid Density Functionals for Hybrid Materials: Magnetism and Electronic Structure | Derek Middlemiss Dept. of Chemistry, University of Glasgow |
Exploring interfacial sharpness | Michael Finnie SSP Group, University of Glasgow |
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30 April 2008 | Lorentz microscopy studies of domain walls in nanowires with pinning potentials | M A Basith SSP Group, University of Glasgow |
Simulation of Fresnel imaging and Transport-of-Intensity Equation phase reconstruction | Duc The Ngo SSP Group, University of Glasgow |
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1200, Thursday 1 May 2008 |
IEEE Magnetics Society 2008 Distinguished Lecture Series Turbulent Transitions and Frustrated States |
A/Prof. Robert Stamps School of Physics, University of Western Australia |
7 May 2008 | Mapping Composition and Chemistry in the Nanoanalytical Microscope | Prof. Alan Craven SSP Group, University of Glasgow |
14 May 2008 | The preparation of nanometric titanium compounds by reversible and controllable pseudomorphic reactions | Louise Shanahan SSP Group, University of Glasgow |
Magnetic Tunneling Junctions and Domain Walls | Duc Quang Hoang SSP Group, University of Glasgow |
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1600, Tuesday 20 May 2008 |
The Magnetism of Rare Earth Intermetallic Compounds – Mössbauer and Neutron Diffraction Studies | Prof. Stewart Campbell School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Australia |
21 May 2008 Room 220 |
The Impact of Crystal Structure on the Magnetic and Transport Properties of Complex Metal Oxides | Dr. Edmund Cussen Dept. of Chemistry University of Strathclyde |
28 May 2008 | Study of global and local crystallography at domain boundaries of piezoelectric ceramics | Rafael Villaurrutia SSP Group, University of Glasgow |
4 June 2008 | Unravelling the cross-tie | Dr. Nils Wiese SSP Group, University of Glasgow |
1100, Monday 9 June 2008 |
IEEE Magnetics Society 2008 Distinguished Lecture Series Patterned Nanomagnetic Bits and Devices |
Dr. Bruce Terris Hitachi Global Storage Technologies |
1100, Tuesday 22 July 2008 |
IEEE Magnetics Society 2008 Distinguished Lecture Series Spintronic biochips for biomolecular recognition |
Prof. Paulo Freitas Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), Lisbon |
6 August 2008 | Advanced specimen preparation for electron microscopy | Brian Miller SSP Group, University of Glasgow |
Colloquia Schedule 2018/2019
Colloquium series
Date | Title | Presenter |
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30th January, 1pm Rm 323 | MAGNETIC SKYRMIONS: STATICS AND DYNAMICS | Dr Christoforos Moutafis, University of Manchester |
4th March, 1pm SUPA room 255a |
Tuning Magnetic Anisotropy in Nanostructures for Biomedical and Electromagnetic Applications |
IEEE Magnetics Distinguished Lecturer
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7th March, 1pm Rm 323 | Nanoscale 3D analysis by Atom Probe Tomography - an introduction and example applications | Dr Paul Bagot, University of Oxford |
10th May | Seeing with Atoms | Prof Paul Dastoor, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge |
5th June |
Breakdown of the rigid disc shift model in DPC STEM Advanced fabrication and magnetometry of nanostructures with complex 3D geometries |
Dr Laura Clark
Luka Skorić |
12th June |
Characterisation of functional oxide materials using transmission electron microscopy The Impact Of Corrosion And Chemical Modification Of Silver Nanoparticle Assemblies On Their Plasmonic Functionality Studied By Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy |
Shane McCartan
Jack Brennan |
19th June |
Focused electron-beam induced deposition, in situ TEM and off-axis electron holography investigation of bi-magnetic core-shell nanostructures Improved FIB Preparation Of Samples For MEMS-based In-situ Simultaneous Heating And Biasing In The TEM/STEM |
Dr Trevor Almeida
Tom MacGregor |
26th June |
Mapping Plasmon Excitations In Near Field Transducers Using Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy Correlative Nanoanalytical Electron Microscopy Of Spontaneously Nanostructured Thermoelectric Half-Heusler Alloys Exploring The Performance Of Hybrid Pixel Detectors For Electron Microscopy With Alternative Sensor Materials |
Liam Wright
Robert Webster
Kirsty Paton |
10th July |
Investigating Skyrmion Dynamics Involving Lattice Defects in FeGe Observation and Characterisation of Magnetisation Ripple using Lorentz Transmission Electron Microscopy |
Fred Rendell
Alison Cowan |
17th July |
Application of Precession Electron Diffraction to Fine Characterization of Nanoscale Materials Domain walls in low Symmetry Nanowires Using data analysis techniques from X-ray absorption spectroscopy on high-loss EELS data |
Dr Daniel Ugarte
Hristo Gergov
Rebecca Cummings |
24th July |
Spin Ice - how do they work? Epitaxial Design of Novel Photonic Architectures |
Gavin Macauley Adam McKenzie |
28th August |
Negative Refraction Regions within Natural Crystalline Materials Three-dimensional image reconstruction An analysis of Xenon bubbles in Zircaloy-4 |
Cameron McEleny John Fullerton Andrew Minty |