Conveners
(DCMMP) W1-8 Frontiers of Synchrotron Based Materials Physics | Frontières de la physique des matériaux basée sur le rayonnement synchrotron (DPMCM)
- Tor Pedersen (Canadian Light Source Inc.)
Description
Frontiers of Synchrotron Based Materials Physics (DCMMP) – This symposium will highlight recent advances in synchrotron based science at the Canadian Light Source and facilities around the world. Such large scale facilities enable a wide range of science research on multiple experimental stations (beamlines) operating simultaneously. The beamlines are optimised for select parts of the light spectrum and used in a broad range of experimental techniques including spectroscopy, diffraction, imaging from the macro to the nanoscale and combinations thereof. This symposium will showcase both Canadian and international advances in synchrotron related science. The sessions will be multidisciplinary and designed to be accessible to a wide audience with an interest in materials science, computational physics, instrumentation and accelerator physics. Sponsored jointly by the Canadian Institute of Synchrotron Radiation (CISR) and the Canadian Light Source (CLS).
A series of significant advances in our acquisition and analysis of total scattering measurements at the Brockhouse X-Ray Diffraction and Scattering Sector (BXDS) of the Canadian Light Source has enabled atomic pair distribution functions (PDF) of unprecedented quality and sensitivity along with simultaneous high-resolution powder diffraction for Rietveld analysis. We have also managed to...
A new fourth generation of synchrotrons are currently coming on-line. The main improvement generated by these sources is an increase in coherence by two orders of magnitude. X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) is a technique that uses the coherence properties of x-rays to give detailed information about structural fluctuations and their dynamics at nanometer and shorter length...
The outer electrons in matter govern nearly all properties of materials including bonding, structure, magnetism, band gap, heat-, electrical- and superconductivity, and optical properties to name a few. The binding energies of these outer electrons reside in the soft X-ray range. Tuning the energy of synchrotron radiation to specific orbitals allows accessing these outer electrons and hence...
