Microscience 2008 : Microscopy and Analysis at the Frontiers

✍ Scribed by Allison Winton

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2008
• Weight: 569 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1439-4243
• DOI: 10.1002/imic.200890033

✦ Synopsis

Microscience 2008 is destined to be the largest to date, with a 10% increase in exhibition space from 2006, and 110% since 2002! In addition, running for three days alongside this major biennial exhibition, the sister conference has grown into a fully fledged international scientific conference for 2008. Organised by the Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) and now the largest exhibition and conference in Europe focussing on microscopy, imaging and analysis, Microscience will again return to London's ExCeL on 23 -26 June.

over 70 years ago, TEM resolution had until recently been limited by lens aberrations to about 100x the wavelength of the electron beam, typically around 0.15 -0.2 nanometres. The successful development of aberration correctors, for both TEM and STEM instruments has changed this. These devices are based on Scherzer's finding that non-round (i.e. multi-pole) electromagnetic lenses can have negative spherical aberration, and they employ complex arrangements of multi-pole lenses to correct many of the hitherto limiting aberrations -rather like spectacles for the short-sighted! Knut Urban and his group in Jülich have been at the forefront of applying aberration corrected HRTEM in materials research, and his plenary lecture will complement Stefan Hell's in presenting the latest developments in aberration-corrected HREM." Also presenting as plenary speakers will be Sir David King, until recently the UK Government's Chief Scientific Adviser, and Nobel Prize winner Sir Harold Kroto who will deliver the RMS Lecture.