The increasing need for energy coupled with growing concerns about climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our society. Renewable energy is one of the solutions to replace fossil fuels, but sustainability imposes the combination of efficient energy conversion and energy storage. Notwithstanding, the vast R&D activities the technology has not reached the maturity to comprise the high-conversion and high-power range due to the fact that successful operation of solar cells and batteries is determined by numerous physical, chemical, electrical and thermal processes, occurring over wide spatial and temporal ranges. One of the most promising guides for solving technology problems is to understand the evolving device properties via in-situ and operando analyses and here the synchrotron and FEL-based methods have become indispensable tools to provide rational guidelines for technological breakthroughs. New insights into the governing processes that are crucial for development of engineering strategies for the next generation energy devices have been attained via operando synchrotron and FEL-based methods and will be presented by the selected speakers in the LS sessions.
LS+2D+MI+SS-TuA: Magnetism Dichorism and Spin-Resolved Techniques of Magnetic Materials
- Nicholas Brookes, ESRF, France, “Soft X-ray Resonant Inelastic Scattering (RIXS) to Study the Magnetic and Electronic Properties of Materials”
- Alex Frano, University of California, San Diego, “X-Rays Approaching Neutrons: RIXS with Ultrahigh Resolution and Applied Magnetic Field to Study a Magon-spinon dichotomy in β-Li2IrO3“
- Gerd Schönhense, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, “Bulk and Interface Hard-X-ray Bandmapping with Spin Resolution Combining Full-field Momentum Imaging with ToF-recording”
- Shigenori Ueda, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, “Variable Polarization, External Magnetic Field, and Spin Resolution for Buried Magnetic Materials Studied by Hard X-Ray Photoemission”
LS+CA+MI+SE+SS-WeM: Microscopy and Imaging Techniques Exploiting Enhance Coherence Properties and Time-Resolved Methods
- Ute Cappel, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, “Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Solar Cell Materials”
- Ana Diaz, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland, “Non-Destructive Nanotomography of Materials using X-Ray Ptychography”
- Mikel Holcomb, West Virginia University, USA, “My Adventures with Synchrotrons: From Discovering New Types of Magnetism to Helping NASA”
- Mark Sutton, McGill University, Canada, “Extending Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction using Coherence”
LS-On Demand: New Trends in Structural Electronic Characterization of Materials, Interfaces, and Surfaces Using Synchrotron and FEL Based Radiation Sources On Demand Session
LS-TuP: New Trends in Structural Electronic Characterization of Materials, Interfaces, and Surfaces Using Synchrotron and FEL Based Radiation Sources Poster Session