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 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.
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.
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.
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. D¹browski, 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, Wroc³aw, Poland,
R.
Przenios³o, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland,
P.A. Rodnyi, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical
University, St. Petersburg, Russia,
A.J. Wojtowicz, N. Copernicus Univ., Toruñ,
Poland.
Symposium
is organised by:
Wojciech PASZKOWICZ, Institute of
Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Jürgen
HÄRTWIG, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility,
Experiments Division
Krystyna LAWNICZAK-JABLONSKA,
Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Paul SIFFERT, CNRS Laboratoire de
Physique et Applications de Semiconducteurs (PHASE)
Thomas WROBLEWSKI, DESY, HASYLAB
Andrzej ZIÊBA, AGH University of Science
and Technology Faculty of Physics and Nuclear Techniques
Lecturers invited within the European Program of the
CEPHEUS CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE
|
No. |
Speaker |
Title of invited lecture |
|
1 |
Dr Frantisek Dubecky Slovak Academy of Sciences,
Bratislava, Slovakia |
“Digital portable X-ray
scanner working in quantum regime based on bulk ubdoped semi-insulating GaAs
radiation detectors” |
|
2 |
Dr Michael FiederleUniversity of Freiburg,
Freiburg, Germany |
“Materials for
semiconductor detectors:CdTe and CdZnTe” |
|
3 |
Dr Giuseppe Bertuccio Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy |
“GaAs and SiC based
position sensitive radiation detectors” |
|
4 |
Dr Burckhard Gebauer Hahn Meitner Institute, Berlin,
Germany |
„Towards high-rate and
high-resolution time-of-flight area detectors for spallation neutron sources
like ESS” |
|
5 |
Dr Heinz Graafsma ESRF, Grenoble, France |
“Area detectors for synchrotron
radiation detection – applications in crystallography” |
|
6 |
Dr Andy P. Hammersley ESRF, Grenoble, France |
“Using FIT2D software for
data analysis” |
|
7 |
Dr Alex C. Hannon Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
Oxon, U.K. |
”Recent results on
disordered materials from the GEneral Materials Diffractometer, GEM, at ISIS” |
|
8 |
Dr Erik H.M. Heijne CERNN, France, CCE |
“Past and present of
semiconductor detectors” |
|
9 |
Dr Hans Krueger University Bonn, Bonn,Germany |
“2D detectors for particle
physics and for imaging applications” |
|
10 |
Dr Andrea Lausi Sincrotrone Trieste,
Trieste,Italy |
“X-ray holography using
area detectors” |
|
11 |
Dr Gerhard Lutz Max-Planck Institute of Physics,
Munich, Germany |
“ Semiconductor detectors
for X-ray imaging spectrometry in space” |
|
12 |
Dr
Jean-Pierre Ponpon CNRS,
Strasbourg, France |
“X-ray
imaging using 2D semiconductor detectors” |
|
13 |
Dr Giuseppe Salvini Daresbury Lab. Warrington.
UK |
“Detectors
for EDE experiments” |
|
14 |
Dr
Michael Schlapp Darmstadt
University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany |
“Novel
materials and concepts for Neutron Image Plates” |
|
15 |
Dr
John Morse, ESRF,
France |
“Recent
developments in 3D and active edge silicon detectors” |
|
16 |
Dr
Rodrigo Martins FCT-UNL,
Capriacia, Portugal |
“3D
position sensitive detectors for pattern recognition applications” |
|
17 |
Dr
Jasper Plaisier Leiden
University, Leiden, Netherlands |
“Application
of state-of-the-art 2D detectors in structural biology” |
|
18 |
Dr
Jurgen Giersch ErlangenUniversity,
Germany |
“Medical
quantum X-ray imaging with 2D detectors” |
Proceedings
of the Symposium will be published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in
Physics, Section A.