Invited Speakers in alphabetic order
Plenary Speakers
The congress organisers are proud to present the following plenary speakers at the congress:
Masakazu Aono
NanoSystem Functionality Center, NIMS, Tsukuba, and ICORP Program, JST,
Tokyo,
Scanning tunneling microscope and photons
J.C. Séamus Davis
Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
Formation, Structure and Interactions of the Electronic States in
Copper-oxide High-Tc Superconductors
Albert Fert
CNRS, UMP CNRS-Thales, Palaiseau, France
Recent developments and perspective in spintronics
Wilson Ho
University of California, Irvine, United States
Atomic Scale Optical Phenomena
Leo Kouwenhoven
Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft,
The Netherlands
Quantum transport in semiconductor nanowires and carbon nanotubes
Cedric J. Powell
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, United
States
Quantitative aspects of Auger electron spectroscopy and X-ray
photoelectron spectroscopy
Daniel Rugar
IBM Almaden Research Center, San José, United States
Detecting nuclear spins by magnetic resonance force microscopy
Lars Samuelson
Department of Solid State Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
A narrow-minded approach to materials science and device physics:
NANOWIRES
Gabor Somorjai
University of California, Berkeley, United States
Nanochemistry. The synthesis, characterization and reaction studies of
metal (1–10nm)
monodispersed nanoparticles
Robert M. Westervelt
Harvard University, Boston, United States
Imaging Electrons in Nanoscale Devices
D. Phil Woodruff
University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Understanding the interface structure of alkanethiolate layers on coinage
metal surfaces
Invited Speakers
High temperature metalorganic vapor phase epitaxial growth of AlN and AlGaN
for fabrication of high performance UV/DUV emitters
Hiroshi Amano
Japan
Development of high-speed atomic force microscope for studying biological
macromolecule
Toshio Ando
Japan
Dynamics of nanostructures on surfaces revealed by high-resolution,
fast-scanning STM
Flemming Besenbacher
Danmark
Nanotribology, nanomechanics and materials characterization studies using
scanning probe microscopy
Bharat Bhushan
United States
Characterization of organic films prepared by vacuum based techniques
Hynek Biederman
Czech Republic
Group-IV nanowire transistor structures
Mikael T. Björk
Switzerland
Imaging complex atomic-scale spin structures by spin-polarized STM
Matthias Bode
United States
Growth of III-V nanowires on Si
Magnus Borgström
Germany
LCLS design, construction status, and first experiments
John Bozek
United States
HIPIMS – properties and opportunities
Johan Böhlmark
Sweden
The European Spallation Source - neutrons for material
Colin Carlile
Sweden
Positioning of nanoparticles via electrodynamic focusing
Mansoo Choi
Republic of Korea
Material issues of SiGe and Ge CMOS technologies
Cor Claeys
Belgium
Chemical pumping in large vacuum systems
Andrea Conte
Italy
Multilayer films and platelets for biomedical applications
Kent Coulter
United States
Diagnostics in low-temperature plasmas by laser spectroscopy: Expensive and
difficult but worth all the trouble
Uwe Czarnetzki
Germany
Developments at the European x-ray free electron laser in Hamburg
Winfried Decking
Germany
Dressed states of superconducting qubits
Per Delsing
Sweden
Introduction
Knut Deppert
Sweden
Surface investigations of metal oxides
Ulrike Diebold
United States
Domain-wall manipulations in ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)As
Tomasz Dietl
Poland
Laboratory experiments for plasma wall interactions
Russell Doerner
United States
Solar blind detectors and arrays based on AlGAN
Jean-Yves Duboz
France
Arrays of microcavity plasma devices for display, biomedical, and
photochemical applications
J. Gary Eden
United States
Summary
Don Eigler
United States
Scanning gate microscopy - how local does it get?
Klaus Ensslin
Switzerland
Nano education at the University of Kassel: The synergy between research and
degree course
Rüdiger Faust
Germany
Water at a hydrophilic surface: Structure & transport
Peter J Feibelman
United States
EUV Optics
Torsten Feigl
Germany
Molecular-Level Investigations of Plasma Surface Modification of Polymers
Ellen R. Fisher
United States
Floating Gate Memory From Aerosol-Synthesized Silicon Nanoparticles
Richard Flagan
United States
On the conductance of single walled carbon nanotubes: ballistic, diffusive
and localized regimes. Role of the electron-phonon interaction and defects
Fernando Flores
Spain
Friction Force Microscopy: what you see is what you (don’t) get
Joost W M Frenken
Netherlands
Metal atoms and model clusters on oxide surfaces: Electronic structure and
reactivity
Hans-Joachim Freund
Germany
Finding the right education in nanotechnology – the IoN Nanotech Master’s
Recognition scheme
Steffi Friedrichs
United Kingdom
Understanding and controlling of molecular structures on different surfaces
Hongjun Gao
China
Physics of Graphene
Andre Geim
United Kingdom
AFM technology beyond imaging: Applications towards personalized medical
diagnostics
Christoph Gerber
Switzerland
The force microscope reunited with STM
Franz J Giessibl
Germany
Title to be announced
James Gimzewski
United States
Spin transport phenomena in layered magnetic structures: New results,
unresolved questions
Peter A. Grünberg
Germany
Ionized physical vapor deposition (IPVD): Technology and applications
Jon T. Gudmundsson
Iceland
Au clusters on reduced or oxidized TiO2 surfaces
Bjørk Hammer
Denmark
Optical methods for diagnostics in plasmas
Gus Hancock
United Kingdom
Real-space observation of screened potential and the friedel oscillation by
scanning tunneling spectroscopy
Yukio Hasegawa
Japan
Electronic transport at monolayers and atomic chains on silicon surfaces
Shuji Hasegawa
Japan
Nanomechanics in biology
Martin Hegner
Switzerland
Environmental surface chemistry: Ambient pressure photoelectron spectroscopy
studies of the composition and chemistry of solution interfaces
John C. Hemminger
United States
The vacuum and surface physics of high average current photoemission electron
sources
Carlos Hernandez-Garcia
United States
Low-dimensional electrons at metallic semiconductor surfaces
Franz Himpsel
United States
From atomic-scale structures to dynamic and electronic processes: the power
of simulations in scanning tunneling microscopy
Werner Hofer
United Kingdom
First principles ammonia synthesis and decomposition over a Ru-based catalyst
Karoliina Honkala
Finland
Electronic band structure and many body effects in graphene
Karsten Horn
Germany
Quantum transport in single molecules
Jianguo Hou
China
Biological surface-modification of biomaterials for regenerative medicine
Yoshihiro Ito
Japan
III-V compound semiconductor nanowires and terahertz emission
Chennupati Jagadish
Australia
Interfaces at the nano scale and influence of magnetism
Börje Johansson
Sweden
Extreme high vacuum measurements and calibrations
Karl Jousten
Germany
Microelectronics Research at NSLS
Chi-chang Kao
United States
Synthesis, structure and field emission properties of carbon nanobuds
Esko Kauppinen
Finland
Single molecule reaction via vibrational excitation using STM and the
dynamics behind
Maki Kawai
Japan
Nano-structured biosensors - An integrated digital biosensor with functional
vesicle using oriented nanoWell array electrode
Tomoji Kawai
Japan
Magnetism of atomic-scale nanostructures
Klaus Kern
Germany
Complex surfaces using synchrotron radiation limits of submicrometer
materials analysis
Maya Kiskinova
Italy
Flow phenomena of spacecraft in the re-entry phase
Georg Koppenwallner
Germany
Application of titanium materials to vacuum chambers and components
Hiroki Kurisu
Japan
Surface morphology, surface composition and outgassing behaviour of vacuum
fired stainless steel
Manfred Leisch
Austria
Interaction of water with surfaces: relevance to technical surfaces in vacuum
Theodore Madey
United States
Development of new antimony-based heterostructures for electronic devices
R. Magno
United States
Modelling thin film growth of transition metal nitrides
Stijn Mahieu
Belgium
Nano-education from a European perspective
Ineke Malsch
Netherlands
Quantum geometry and phase extraction in isospectral electronic
nanostructures
Hari Manoharan
United States
Adhesion and Wetting in Aqueous Environments
Abraham Marmur
Israel
Diamond- a next generation synchrotron radiation facility
Gerhard Materlik
United Kingdom
An ITER-like wall for JET
Guy Matthews
United Kingdom
The STM view of the initial stages of polycrystalline Ag film formation
Thomas Michely
Germany
III-V semiconductor nanowires and nanotubes grown by selective area
metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy
Junichi Motohisa
Japan
Hich Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering: Ready for Industrialisation
Wolf-Dieter Münz
Germany
Vacuum Technology for ITER
David Murdoch
Germany
Plasma operation with high-Z environment
Rudolf Neu
Germany
Hydrogen bonding in water: the liquid phase and on surfaces
Anders Nilsson
United States
Exchange bias in nanostructures: at the heart of spintronic devices
Josep Nogues
Spain
Monolayer films of hexagonal boron nitride on transition metal surfaces
Juerg Osterwalder
Switzerland
The surface chemistry and reactivity of oxide surfaces: From UHV to
atmospheric pressure
Herbert Over
Germany
Spin injection characteristics of conducting polymer nanofibers in high
magnetic and electric fields
Y. W. Park
Republic of Korea
Designing biological functions in complex nonbiological assemblies
Virgil Percec
United States
Quantum-regime semiconductor heterostructures grown by MBE for OE devices and
their industrial exploitation
Markus Pessa
Finland
Magnetism in Nano-structured Materials
Earl Ward Plummer
United States
Diffraction with high energy x-rays. Synchrotron instrumentation and nano
science
Henning Poulsen
Denmark
The dance of the domains: excitations and switching in magnetic
microstructures studied by x-ray microscopy
Joerg Raabe
Switzerland
Error-controlled multiscale modeling approaches to surface chemistry and
catalysis
Karsten Reuter
Germany
Plasma-wall interaction: a complex combination of surface processes critical
for thermo-nuclear fusion
Joachim Roth
Germany
In-situ investigations on the growth of nanowires
Frances M. Ross
United States
The structure of surfaces in equilibrium with gases at near ambient pressures
Miguel Salmeron
United States
Sulfur spectroscopy and the Vasa ship
Magnus Sandstrom
Sweden
Data collection and management in the semiconductor industry
Bernhard Schimunek
Germany
Ultrathin oxides on surfaces
Michael Schmid
Austria
Exploring magnetic nanostructures by spin polarized low energy electron
microscopy
Andreas Schmid
United States
A comprehensive study of exchange bias
Ivan Schuller
United States
Modeling and calculations of rarefied gas flows: DSMC vs kinetic equation
Felix Sharipov
Brazil
Angle-resolved photoemission study of complex quantum matter
Zhi-xun Shen
United States
Plasma control for nanoparticle formation and applications
Masaharu Shiratani
Japan
Observation of quantized electron accumulation states at the surface of
indium nitride
Kevin E. Smith
United States
Catalytic materials and catalysis
Frigyes Solymosi
Hungary
Mediating emiconductor surface/interface properties by nanochemistry:
Selective metallization/passivation and nano-objects
Patrick Soukiassian
France
Interference and Localization in Epitaxial Graphene
J. A. Stroscio
United States
Manganese oxide nanolayers: Formation of interface- and bulk-type oxide
phases
Svetlozar Surnev
Austria
Educating the next generation of scientists and engineers: Nanotechnology in
the K-16 science curriculum
Aldrin Sweeney
United States
Near-surface characterization of plasma-facing materials in a DT fusion
reactor
Tetsuo Tanabe
Japan
AFM/STM with sub-Angstrom modulation.
Markus Ternes
United States
Plasma processes to improve Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC)
conversion efficiency
Anne-Lise Thomann
France
The jet tokamak operational limits and design modification control
Thomas Todd
United Kingdom
High depth resolution SIMS analysis using metal cluster complex ion
bombardment
Mitsuhiro Tomita
Japan
Spring-8 X-ray Free Electron Laser Project
Tsumoru Shintake
Japan
Structural and quantum conductance properties of metal nanowires
Daniel Ugarte
Brazil
Role of lipid membrane composition on membrane protein activation: lateral
pressure profiles through atom-scale simulations
Ilpo Vattulainen
Finland
Microelectromechanical sensors for measuring pressure and gas flow
Friedemann Völklein
Germany
Plasma processes and technologies at atmospheric pressure
Klaus-Dieter Weltmann
Germany
Measuring & controlling plasma-surface interactions of low-Z elements in a
Tokamak fusion device
Dennis Whyte
United States
Mapping spin structures on the atomic scale
Roland Wiesendanger
Germany
Metal-insulator transition of doped Si(111)-7x7 surface
Xudong Xiao
Hong Kong
What is the smallest volume into which light can be focused, efficiently?
Eli Yablonovitch
United States
Metallic atomic wires on silicon surfaces; phase transition and beyond
Han Woong Yeom
Republic of Korea
Giant tunneling magnetoresistance in MgO-based magnetic tunnel junctions and
its applications to spintronic devices
Shinji Yuasa
Japan
The vacuum system of the european x-Ray free electron laser XFEL
Kirsten Zapfe
Germany
In situ x-ray diffraction study of the initial dealloying of Cu3Au in
sulphuric acid
Jorg Zegenhagen
France
General trends on the properties of M2AC (M = Ti, V, Cr, A = Al, Si, P, S)
Yanchun Zhou
China
