XXI International Summer School “Nicolás Cabrera”
NEW FRONTIERS IN SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPY:
FROM ULTRAHIGH-VACUUM TO BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL
14-18 July 2014
Residencia La Cristalera, Miraflores de la Sierra, Madrid
ORGANIZERS:
| Rubén Pérez Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Autónoma de Madrid ruben.perez[AT]uam.es | José María Gómez-Rodríguez Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Autónoma de Madrid josem.gomez[AT]uam.es |
Contact:
E-mail: school[AT]nicolascabrera.es
Telephone: 91 497 4689 Fax: +34 91 497 3961
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SCHOOL SCOPES AND GOALS:
Since its invention in 1986, Force Microscopy has become a fundamental tool for studying materials properties at the atomic scale. Due to its high spatial resolution and its ability to manipulate atomic objects, it has contributed in a great extent to the development of Nanoscience and to the study of biological processes. In the last few years, new dynamic force microscopy techniques have achieved atomic or molecular resolution in a broad range of materials from magnetic systems in ultra-high vacuum to proteins and DNA in vitro.
These techniques are able to provide atomic-scale information on both the structure and the mechanical and electrical properties of these material, including subtle changes in charge distribution associated to interatomic bonding, with an unprecented detail. Among the recent examples, AFM has made it possible to visualize in real space, for the first time, different chemical bonds, including strong covalent intramolecular ones, hydrogen bonding and metal coordination bonds; and to obtain the structure of a molecule with potential clinical applications where traditional chemistry techniques have failed.
The goal of the Summer School is to provide a comprehensive view of the most recent experimental advances in force microscopy, from cryogenic and ultra-high vacuum environments to the physiological conditions necessary for the study of biological materials, as well as on the latest theoretical developments towards the interpretation of these experiments. With that purpose, we have invited the world scientific leaders in the field of force microscopy.
SCHOOL TOPICS:
• New advances in experimental scanning force microscopy
• Single molecule applications in liquids: DNA packing, virus assembly, etc…
• High resolution imaging with scanning force microscopy under UHV or liquids
• Simultaneous scanning force/scanning tunneling microscopy
• Theory in scanning force microscopy
SPEAKERS AND DOCUMENTS:
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The contents of the talks should not be used without author permission.
| Michael Crommie Synthesis at the Single Molecule Level: Manipulation and Reaction University of California, Berkeley, Department of Physics Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Materials Sciences División | Óscar Custance Atom manipulation, single-atom chemical identification and sub-molecular resolution by silicon-cantilever based AFM Atomic Force Probe Group National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) Tsukuba, Japan |
| Adam Foster Simulating Atomic Force Microscopy: (I) Introduction to modern computational approaches and (II) Building an AFM simulation. Department of Applied Physics Aalto University Helsinki, Finland | Takeshi Fukuma (Part II) Instrumentation and applications of liquid-environment FM-AFM Frontier Science Organization Kanazawa University Kanazawa, Japan |
| Ricardo García Advances in quantitative and three-dimensional mapping of soft matter by bimodal force microscopy Force Tool Group Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC Madrid, Spain | Franz Giessibl (Part II ) Atomic force microscopy at the pico scale University of Regensburg Faculty of Natural and Applied Physics II – Physics Regensburg, Germany |
| Leo Gross Investigating the contrast mechanisms of AFM and KPFM using functionalized tips IBM Research Zurich Research Laboratory Rüschlikon, Switzerland | Peter Grutter Structure – property by AFM: from atomically defined electromechanical contacts to manipulation of neurons Department of Physics McGill University Montréal, Canada |
| Suzanne Jarvis ( Part II ) Unraveling nature’s secrets with AFM Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Research University College Dublin Ireland | Stephen Jesse Frequency and Bias Spectroscopy and the Use of Multivariate Analysis in Scanning Probe Microscopy Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences and Materials Sciences and Technology Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, USA |
| Ernst Meyer (Part II – Part III) AFM experiments with single molecules Department of Physics University of Basel Basel, Switzerland | José Ignacio Pascual Spin, forces and photons in molecular tunneling junciton Nanoimaging (CIC9) CIC Nanogune Donostia–San Sebastian, Spain |
| Udo Schwarz Multi-Dimensional Scanning Probe Microscopy with Species-Selective Atomic Resolution Imaging School of Engineering and Applied Science Yale University New Haven, USA | Alexander Schwarz (Part II) Magnetic Sensitive Force Microscopy Institute of Applied Physics and Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center Hamburg University of Hamburg Hamburg, Germany |
| Hirofumi Yamada (Part II) Molecular-scale Investigations of Solid-Liquid Interfaces by both FM-AFM and 3-Dimensional Force Mapping Method Department of Electronic Science and Engineering Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan |