Programme

There is a permanently growing need of studying the properties of materials and devices in a small spatio-temporal scale and with good energy resolution. Studies of such kind became possible owing to development of modern position sensitive (PSD) detectors installed at classical and synchrotron radiation as well as neutron sources. Unique properties of linear and area detectors permit for collecting data with speed and quality much better in respect to any classical detector, making that many applications in materials science, physics, chemistry, crystallography, geology, medicine, biology and astrophysics have been found. The continued progress in development of such detectors leads to improvement of existing materials-characterisation methods and to creation of new ones. In a connection with development of intense radiation sources, the in-situ time-resolved studies of phase transitions, the chemical reactions and other fast processes deciding about the material properties, can be studied. The observed progress would not be possible without work of scientist and technologists on detector materials, on physical principles of the detection processes, on fast low-noise electronics and hardware/software systems permitting collection and processing of huge amount of data. The scope of the symposium will cover the detectors used for detection of X-rays and neutrons in the domains of diffraction and spectroscopy methods of studies of materials properties: crystal structure, ordering, defects and electronic structure. Emphasis will be put on the detecting tools applicable with synchrotron radiation sources, as justified by fast development of these sources.

Motivation:

The meeting is thought to be especially valuable because of an opportunity given for users of such detectors to meet with those working on physics of detection process, with detectors producers and with authors of software. Exchanging ideas within this broad community is thought to be fruitful for future studies in materials science, where the use of PSD detectors is permanently growing.

Objectives:

The aim of the Symposium is to give an overview of the currently used LADs, their construction, methods of data processing as well as to inform about fields of their application. It will cover the detectors used for detection of X-rays and neutrons in diffraction and spectroscopy methods of studies of materials properties: crystal structure, atomic ordering, defects and electronic structure. In particular, the Symposium will:
  • Present a large variety of applications of linear and area detectors in materials science in studies involving X-ray and neutron diffraction and spectroscopy,
  • Present applications of position sensitive detectors as tools for studies of condensed matter, biological and medical materials,
  • Discuss and compare the classical and new materials used for detector construction,
  • Identify and discuss how to overcome technological and scientific barriers in this field,
  • Discuss the current physical limits of detector construction influencing their energy and spatial resolution, noise, counting rate and efficiency,
  • Present and review the recent advances and future limits in the development of linear and area detectors
  • Provide a common forum for discussion what the materials science can do for detector development and how the progress in detectors technology influences the materials science.

Topics:

  • Detector design:
    • physics of detector design,
    • fast scintillators,
    • state-of-the-art area and linear detectors for X-ray and neutron detection,
    • ultrafast x-ray detectors and imaging systems,
    • new trends, new concepts, new detector materials,
    • future developments and perspectives.
  • Data collection and analysis:
    • image analysis,
    • data reduction,
    • advanced software for data processing.
  • Applications of X-ray and neutron position sensitive detectors:
    • in powder, single-crystal and thin-film diffraction studies,
    • in high-pressure crystallography,
    • in protein crystallography,
    • in neutron and soft/hard X-ray spectroscopy,
    • for nuclear resonant scattering,
    • in time-resolved studies of materials processing, crystal growth etc.,
    • in determination of crystal structure, local structure and defect structure,
    • in materials science (phase transitions, stress studies, defectoscopy),
    • in structural biology,
    • for imaging spectrometry in space
  • Imaging:
    • in X-ray microscopy and related techniques (holography, tomography, nanotomography),
    • of structure and strain of textured materials,
    • for medical applications.

    Scientific Committee:
  • A. Burian, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland,
  • F. Beckmann, Institute for Materials Research, GKSS-Res. Center, Hamburg, Germany
  • R.J. Cernik, Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, U.K.,
  • W. D±browski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland,
  • D.L. Ederer, OBES, Washington, USA
  • H. Fuess, DTU Darmstadt, Germany,
  • J.H. Je, Pohang Univ. of Science & Technoloogy, South Korea
  • M.M. Kocsis, ESRF, Grenoble, France,
  • W. Minor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA,
  • R.J. Nelmes, University of Edinburgh, Scotland,
  • A. Pietraszko, Institute of Low Temperature & Structural Research, Wrocław, Poland,
  • R. Przeniosło, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland,
  • P.A. Rodnyi, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, St. Petersburg, Russia,
  • A.J. Wojtowicz, N. Copernicus Univ., Toruń, Poland.

Organisers

Symposium is organised by:

Proceedings

Proceedings of the Symposium will be published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods A.

Contact

Website address is http://www.e-mrs.org/meetings/fall2004/sympD.

Contact e-mail address: paszk@ifpan.edu.pl.

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