Name: FUNLAYERS Hands-on workshop on synchrotron techniques for research in Spintronics and Energy Storage
Start: 2024-03-11T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-03-15T16:00:00+01:00
Location: ALBA Synchrotron

FUNLAYERS Hands-on workshop on synchrotron techniques for research in Spintronics and Energy Storage

from Monday, 11 March 2024 (11:00) to Friday, 15 March 2024 (16:00)

Monday, 11 March 2024

11:30 On-site registration
On-site registration
11:30 - 12:15
Room: Hall in front of the Maxwell Auditorium
12:15 Small and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering for (in situ) characterization of nanostructured materials - Marc Malfois (ALBA Synchrotron)
Small and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering for (in situ) characterization of nanostructured materials
- Marc Malfois (ALBA Synchrotron)
12:15 - 12:45
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
12:45 XAS and XES as complementary tools: insight in in-situ/operando investigations - Laura Simonelli (ALBA Synchrotron)
XAS and XES as complementary tools: insight in in-situ/operando investigations
- Laura Simonelli (ALBA Synchrotron)
12:45 - 13:15
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
13:15 Lunch
Lunch
13:15 - 14:15
14:15 Welcome - Klaus Attenkofer (ALBA Synchrotron)
Welcome
- Klaus Attenkofer (ALBA Synchrotron)
14:15 - 14:30
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
14:30 Soft X-ray absorption and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism - Javier Herrero (ALBA Synchrotron)
Soft X-ray absorption and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism
- Javier Herrero (ALBA Synchrotron)
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
15:00 Photo Emission Electron Microscopy (PEEM) and Low Energy Electron Microscopy (LEEM) - Miguel Angel Niño (ALBA Synchrotron)
Photo Emission Electron Microscopy (PEEM) and Low Energy Electron Microscopy (LEEM)
- Miguel Angel Niño (ALBA Synchrotron)
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
15:30 Ambient Pressure XPS: Technique and Applications - Virginia Peréz-Dieste (ALBA Synchrotron)
Ambient Pressure XPS: Technique and Applications
- Virginia Peréz-Dieste (ALBA Synchrotron)
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
16:00 The electrochemical NAP-XPS - Juan Jesús Velazco Vélez (ALBA Synchrotron)
The electrochemical NAP-XPS
- Juan Jesús Velazco Vélez (ALBA Synchrotron)
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
16:30 Break
Break
16:30 - 17:00
17:00 InCaem: Infrastructure for correlative analysis of advanced energy materials - Lucia Aballe (ALBA Synchrotron)
InCaem: Infrastructure for correlative analysis of advanced energy materials
- Lucia Aballe (ALBA Synchrotron)
17:00 - 17:30
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
17:30 Guided tour to ALBA - Lucia Aballe (ALBA Synchrotron)
Guided tour to ALBA
- Lucia Aballe (ALBA Synchrotron)
17:30 - 19:00
Tuesday, 12 March 2024

09:00 Group 1: Practicals at BL16-NOTOS
Group 1: Practicals at BL16-NOTOS
09:00 - 13:30
Room: BL16-NOTOS

Group 2: Practicals at BL29-BOREAS
Group 2: Practicals at BL29-BOREAS
09:00 - 13:30
Room: BL29-BOREAS

Group 3: Practicals at BL20-LOREA
Group 3: Practicals at BL20-LOREA
09:00 - 13:30
Room: BL20-LOREA

13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30

14:30 Group 1: Practicals at BL16-NOTOS
Group 1: Practicals at BL16-NOTOS
14:30 - 18:00
Room: BL16-NOTOS

Group 2: Practicals at BL29-BOREAS
Group 2: Practicals at BL29-BOREAS
14:30 - 18:00
Room: BL29-BOREAS

Group 3: Practicals at BL20-LOREA
Group 3: Practicals at BL20-LOREA
14:30 - 18:00
Room: BL20-LOREA
Wednesday, 13 March 2024

09:00 Group 1: Practicals at BL29-BOREAS
Group 1: Practicals at BL29-BOREAS
09:00 - 13:30
Room: BL29-BOREAS

Group 2: Practicals at BL20-LOREA
Group 2: Practicals at BL20-LOREA
09:00 - 13:30
Room: BL20-LOREA

Group 3: Practicals at BL16-NOTOS
Group 3: Practicals at BL16-NOTOS
09:00 - 13:30
Room: BL16-NOTOS

13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30

14:30 Group 1: Practicals at BL29-BOREAS
Group 1: Practicals at BL29-BOREAS
14:30 - 17:00
Room: BL29-BOREAS

Group 2: Practicals at BL20-LOREA
Group 2: Practicals at BL20-LOREA
14:30 - 17:00
Room: BL20-LOREA

Group 3: Practicals at BL16-NOTOS
Group 3: Practicals at BL16-NOTOS
14:30 - 17:00
Room: BL16-NOTOS

17:00 Poster session and Networking
Poster session and Networking
17:00 - 18:30
Room: Tesla meeting room

20:00 Dinner at Restaurant Capicua for workshop attendees and Invited Speakers
Dinner at Restaurant Capicua for workshop attendees and Invited Speakers
20:00 - 22:00
Room: Restaurant Capicua
Thursday, 14 March 2024

08:30 On-site registration for Invited Speakers and Partners
On-site registration for Invited Speakers and Partners
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Hall of the Maxwell Auditorium
09:00 Welcome message and the ALBA Synchrotron - Caterina Biscari (Director of the ALBA Synchrotron)
Welcome message and the ALBA Synchrotron
- Caterina Biscari (Director of the ALBA Synchrotron)
09:00 - 09:15
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
09:15 Introduction to the FUNLAERS project - Joaquín Fernández-Rossier (Head of the Group of Theory of Quantum Nanostructures at INL)
Introduction to the FUNLAERS project
- Joaquín Fernández-Rossier (Head of the Group of Theory of Quantum Nanostructures at INL)
09:15 - 09:30
09:30 Talk by a partner of the project - Stuart Parkin (Director of the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics)
Talk by a partner of the project
- Stuart Parkin (Director of the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics)
09:30 - 10:15
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
10:15 Electric Field-Control of the Magnetic Anisotropy in Magnetoelectric Fe/PMN-PT Heterostructures - Kristiaan Temst (Head of the Quantum Solid State Physics research unit at KU Leuven)
Electric Field-Control of the Magnetic Anisotropy in Magnetoelectric Fe/PMN-PT Heterostructures
- Kristiaan Temst (Head of the Quantum Solid State Physics research unit at KU Leuven)
10:15 - 11:00
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
11:00 Group Photo and Break
Group Photo and Break
11:00 - 11:25
11:25 On the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis of LiNixMnyCozO2 (NMC) battery electrodes - Alex Bondarchuk (Head of the Advanced Electron Microscopy Facility at INL)
On the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis of LiNixMnyCozO2 (NMC) battery electrodes
- Alex Bondarchuk (Head of the Advanced Electron Microscopy Facility at INL)
11:25 - 11:50
Room: Maxwell Auditorium Positive electrodes based on lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt oxides (NMC materials) have been quite often characterized with XPS to address ageing mechanisms of NMC materials. Unfortunately, complexity of the multi-element systems containing several transition metals with rich photoelectron and Auger electron spectra turns the XPS analysis of the chemical state and elemental composition into a quite challenging task. In this talk I would like to point attention of the community to two common problems in the interpretation of the XPS spectra of the NMC materials: confusion of Ni2p spectra with Auger electron spectra (FKLL) of fluorine from PVdF binder and from decomposition of the electrolyte, when the XPS spectra are acquired with Al Kα X-ray source; 2) ambiguous fitting of the XPS spectral lines with several Lorentzian-Gaussian shapes leads to doubtful assignments of the oxidation states and questionable conclusions on the ageing mechanisms of the electrode materials. In particular, it pertains to quantification of the Ni3+/Ni2+ ratio in the NMC electrodes. In the talk we detail the common mistakes made when analyzing the Ni3+/Ni2+ ratio and then we present a novel approach to quantify Ni3+/Ni2+ ratio by making use of the satellite structure in the Ni2p spectra, which was generally ignored previously. We have shown that the satellite in the Ni2p spectra of the NMC compounds is mainly originated from the Ni2+ species and we use the intensity ratio between Ni2p3/2 main peak and the satellite to estimate Ni3+/Ni2+ ratio. Applying this approach for commercial NMC333, NMC532, NMC622 and NMC811 powder materials we find good correlation with theoretically predicted values for freshly made materials.
11:50 Flat bands in twisted materials - Carmen Rubio Verdú (ICFO, the Institut of Photonic Sciences)
Flat bands in twisted materials
- Carmen Rubio Verdú (ICFO, the Institut of Photonic Sciences)
11:50 - 12:15
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
12:15 A twisted view on two-dimensional spintronics - Samuel Mañas (Department of Quantum Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology)
A twisted view on two-dimensional spintronics
- Samuel Mañas (Department of Quantum Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology)
12:15 - 12:40
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
12:40 Unlocking New Horizons: Investigating Three-Dimensional Magnetism via Correlative Microscopy - Sandra Ruiz Gomez (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids)
Unlocking New Horizons: Investigating Three-Dimensional Magnetism via Correlative Microscopy
- Sandra Ruiz Gomez (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids)
12:40 - 13:05
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
13:05 Quantum nanostructures at atomic scale: From vertical hybrid nanowires to planar nanowire networks and 2DEG/2DHG systems - Jordi Arbiol (ICREA Prof, ICN2)
Quantum nanostructures at atomic scale: From vertical hybrid nanowires to planar nanowire networks and 2DEG/2DHG systems
- Jordi Arbiol (ICREA Prof, ICN2)
13:05 - 13:30
Room: Maxwell Auditorium
13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30

14:30 Round Tables
Round Tables
14:30 - 15:45
Room: Maxwell Auditorium

15:45 Guided tour to ALBA Instruments and Laboratories for Project Partners and Invited Speakers
Guided tour to ALBA Instruments and Laboratories for Project Partners and Invited Speakers
15:45 - 17:30
Room: Experimental Hall

17:30 Break
Break
17:30 - 17:45

17:45 Transfer to Barcelona and networking
Transfer to Barcelona and networking
17:45 - 20:00

20:00 Dinner at Restaurant Casa Amalia for Project Partners and Invited Speakers
Dinner at Restaurant Casa Amalia for Project Partners and Invited Speakers
20:00 - 22:00
Room: Restaurant Casa Amalia
Friday, 15 March 2024

09:00 Discussions / Drafting of joint projects
Discussions / Drafting of joint projects
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Marie Curie Meeting Room

11:00 Break
Break
11:00 - 11:30

11:30 FUNLAYERS General Assembly meeting (close sessions)
FUNLAYERS General Assembly meeting (close sessions)
11:30 - 13:30
Room: Marie Curie Meeting Room