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 combination with efficient conversion and 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.
LS1+2D+MI: Magnetism Dichorism and Spin-Resolved Techniques of Magnetic Materials
- Nicholas Brookes, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France, “Soft X-ray Resonant Inelastic Scattering (RIXS) to Study the Magnetic and Electronic Properties of Materials”
- Mikel Holcomb, West Virginia University, “My Adventures with Synchrotrons: From Discovering New Types of Magnetism to Helping NASA”
LS2+2D+MI+SS: Photoemission spectroscopy Applied to Interfacial Science
- Gerd Schönhense, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 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 X-ray Polarization, External Magnetic Field, and Spin-resolution for Buried Interfaces by Hard X-ray Photoemission”
LS3+CA+MI+SE+SS: Microscopy and Imaging Techniques Exploiting Enhance Coherence Properties
- Ana Diaz, Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Switzerland, “Non-Destructive Nanotomography of Materials using X-Ray Ptychography”
- Mark Sutton, McGill University, Canada, “Extending Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction using Coherence”
LS4+2D+SS: Structural Characterization of Energy Materials
- Ute Cappel, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, “Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Solar Cell Materials”
- Alex Frano, University of California at San Diego, “The ‘Quantumness’ of Quantum Materials Understood Via Resonant X-Ray Scattering”
LS5: New Trends in Structural Electronic Characterization of Materials, Interfaces, and Surfaces Using Synchrotron and FEL Based Light Sources Poster Session