Banner image: False-colour STEM bright-field image of a row of four identical SiGe MOSFET transistors. Image by D. J. Norris and T. Walther, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield.
The conference will focus on the most recent advances in the study of the structural and electronic properties of semiconducting materials by the application of electron microscopy. The latest developments in the use of other important microcharacterisation techniques including scanning probe microscopy, X-ray topography and diffraction will also be featured. Developments in materials science and technology covering the complete range of elemental and compound semiconductors will be addressed.
Scientific Organiser
Gunnar Kusch
Gunnar is an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Cambridge, leading his group in the Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride. His research areas include using TR-CL, EBSD and ECCI for the characterisation of semiconductor materials as well as multi-microscopy approaches combining microscopy techniques on the same sample area to create a more in-depth image of the sample properties.
A special focus is on using (multi-)microscopy approaches to study the impact of 0D and 1D defects on the opto-electronic properties of semiconducting materials, specifically as factors influencing device reliability and efficiency.
- Email:
- gk419@cam.ac.uk
Thomas Walther
Thomas is Reader in Advanced Electron Microscopy at the University of Sheffield and Director of the Kroto Centre for High Resolution Imaging and Analysis.
His research areas include electron microscopy method development and instrumentation, in particular HREM, EFTEM, ADF-STEM, EELS, ELNES, EDX.
A focus is on quantitative analysis of semiconductor quantum wells and quantum dots, but also the study of interdiffusion and segregation at grain boundaries and within metal nano-particles.
He runs the Microscopy of Semiconducting Materials conference series which is alternatingly held in Oxford and Cambridge, always in odd years.
RMS Organisers
Alessandra Reni
alessandra@rms.org.uk
+44 (0) 1865 254779
Contact Alessandra for RMS Event enquiries.
