PROGRAM

7:30 - 8:15 Registration
8:15 Opening
8:30 - 9:00 Fundamentals of optical polarization microscopy (Irena Drevenšek Olenik)
9:00 - 9:30 Quantitative microstructural analysis (Klementina Zupan)
9:30 - 10:15 X-ray powder diffraction analysis (Anton Meden)
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:15 Analytical electron microscopy - a powerful tool for the development of new materials (Goran Dražić)
11:15 - 11:45 Characterization of functional ceramics by scanning transmission electron microscopy combined with electron energy loss spectroscopy (Sašo Šturm)
11:45 - 12:15 Scanning electron microscopy and microanalysis (Miran Čeh)
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 13:45 Compositional and structural study of a (K0.5Na0.5)NbO3 single crystal using complementary microscopy techniques (Andreja Benčan)
13:45 - 14:15 Structural characterization of polycrystalline thin films (Jesús Ricote)
14:15 - 15:00 Piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) as a tool to characterize piezoelectric materials (Tim Burnett)
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee break
15:30 - 17:30 Demonstration of SEM, TEM microscopes,
TEM sample preparation (Elena Tchernychova, Sebastjan Glinšek, Brigita Kužnik, Tina Ručigaj)

LECTURERS

  • Andreja Benčan, Jožef Stefan Institute
  • Tim Burnett, National Physical Laboratory, UK
  • Goran Dražić, Jožef Stefan Institute
  • Irena Drevenšek Olenik, Jožef Stefan Institute
  • Danjela Kuščer, Jožef Stefan Institute
  • Anton Meden, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana
  • Jesús Ricote Santamaría, Materials Science Institute of Madrid, Spain
  • Sašo Šturm, Jožef Stefan Institute
  • Klementina Zupan, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana
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