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38th International Conference on Vacuum Ultraviolet and X-ray Physics (VUVX2013)
Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 196 (2014) 1–2
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/elspec
Preface
38th International Conference on Vacuum Ultraviolet and X-ray Physics (VUVX2013)
This volume contains the contributions presented at the 38th International Conference on Vacuum Ultraviolet and X-ray Physics (VUVX2013), which was hosted by the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, China July 12–19, 2013. All manuscripts were refereed and accepted using regular procedures followed by the Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena. The VUVX2013 conference is the second of a new series born in 2010 that merged the Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiation Physics Conference and the Conference on X-ray and Inner Shell Processes. The first of the new series, VUVX2010, was held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This series of conferences has been and is intended to be held every three years. The next conference will be hosted by Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI, Zürich, Switzerland) in 2016. The VUVX2013 conference topics covered the research fields of developing synchrotron, laser, or plasma based sources of electromagnetic radiation in the vacuum ultraviolet, soft X-ray and hard X-ray regions, and/or developing novel applications using these sources. Altogether, 260 scientists attended the VUVX2013 conference, coming from 24 countries or areas. In addition to 4 plenary talks the conference featured 31 parallel invited talks, 4 invited talks, in a special historical session devoted to the centennial of the discovery of X-ray absorption, 77 contributed oral presentations, and 170 poster presentations. Following the tradition of this series of conferences, two senior researchers, Artem Rudenko from Kansas State University and Giacomo Ghiringhelli from Politecnico of Milan, and one student, Zheng Li from Hamburg University, were honored for their outstanding research with VUVX conference awards and the VUVX Student Prize, respectively. It was a great honor for China to host this event. At present, three synchrotron radiation facilities with storage rings working at different beam energies are available for users in the Chinese mainland. All three are significant contributors to the scientific enterprise of the country. Because of the impact and the unique capabilities that synchrotron radiation sources provide to both fundamental and applied researchers, other facilities are planned for http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.elspec.2014.09.002 0368-2048/© 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V.
construction over the next decade in China. At the time of this writing, a next-generation facility has been approved and will soon be built in Beijing. Hefei, the capital city of Anhui Province, and its citizens were very proud to host the VUVX2013 conference. In addition to the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) three other Chinese national laboratories are located in Hefei, making the city second only to Beijing on China’s national science arena. VUVX2013 provided ample opportunities for scientists working with synchrotron radiation to interact, served as a unique and important platform for scientific exchanges, and helped open the door to establishing new collaborations among Chinese researchers and colleagues working abroad. It also helped promote the worldwide growth of many research fields that need synchrotron radiation and advanced X-ray, UV and atto- & femtosecond laser sources. The conference provided the opportunity for several speakers to present outstanding experiments such as coherent diffraction imaging performed with X-ray free electron lasers, a method that allows one to characterize materials at sub-10 nm spatial resolution and with about 10 fs time resolution. The combination of new imaging methods and FEL sources allows monitoring of electrons within a molecule. Some speakers showed how to image breaking of bonds and how to make real-time movies of unique molecular phenomena. Others showed how to use multi-photon ionization and intense short X-ray free electron laser pulses used as a clock, to reveal molecular dynamics, to investigate chemistry and chemical dynamics with unprecedented spatial and time resolutions. Challenging low-temperature high-resolution laser-ARPES experiments with spectra exhibiting the energy resolution record of about 100 eV at sample temperatures of about 1.0 K in superconductors and graphene were also presented at VUX2013. These recently unattainable time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy results feature many new phenomena that should be further studied using next-generation sources. The organizing committees of VUVX2013 thank all participants for their contribution to the success of this event, for the
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stimulating presentations, and for valuable discussions. We would also like to acknowledge work by the program committee, the awards committee, and the international science committee. We also would like to thank the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and all companies that sponsored the event, as well as the editors, authors and reviewers of the articles in this proceedings volume.
Ziyu Wu Conference Chairman, Professor & Director, National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, China E-mail address: [email protected]
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/elspec
Preface
38th International Conference on Vacuum Ultraviolet and X-ray Physics (VUVX2013)
This volume contains the contributions presented at the 38th International Conference on Vacuum Ultraviolet and X-ray Physics (VUVX2013), which was hosted by the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, China July 12–19, 2013. All manuscripts were refereed and accepted using regular procedures followed by the Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena. The VUVX2013 conference is the second of a new series born in 2010 that merged the Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiation Physics Conference and the Conference on X-ray and Inner Shell Processes. The first of the new series, VUVX2010, was held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This series of conferences has been and is intended to be held every three years. The next conference will be hosted by Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI, Zürich, Switzerland) in 2016. The VUVX2013 conference topics covered the research fields of developing synchrotron, laser, or plasma based sources of electromagnetic radiation in the vacuum ultraviolet, soft X-ray and hard X-ray regions, and/or developing novel applications using these sources. Altogether, 260 scientists attended the VUVX2013 conference, coming from 24 countries or areas. In addition to 4 plenary talks the conference featured 31 parallel invited talks, 4 invited talks, in a special historical session devoted to the centennial of the discovery of X-ray absorption, 77 contributed oral presentations, and 170 poster presentations. Following the tradition of this series of conferences, two senior researchers, Artem Rudenko from Kansas State University and Giacomo Ghiringhelli from Politecnico of Milan, and one student, Zheng Li from Hamburg University, were honored for their outstanding research with VUVX conference awards and the VUVX Student Prize, respectively. It was a great honor for China to host this event. At present, three synchrotron radiation facilities with storage rings working at different beam energies are available for users in the Chinese mainland. All three are significant contributors to the scientific enterprise of the country. Because of the impact and the unique capabilities that synchrotron radiation sources provide to both fundamental and applied researchers, other facilities are planned for http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.elspec.2014.09.002 0368-2048/© 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V.
construction over the next decade in China. At the time of this writing, a next-generation facility has been approved and will soon be built in Beijing. Hefei, the capital city of Anhui Province, and its citizens were very proud to host the VUVX2013 conference. In addition to the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) three other Chinese national laboratories are located in Hefei, making the city second only to Beijing on China’s national science arena. VUVX2013 provided ample opportunities for scientists working with synchrotron radiation to interact, served as a unique and important platform for scientific exchanges, and helped open the door to establishing new collaborations among Chinese researchers and colleagues working abroad. It also helped promote the worldwide growth of many research fields that need synchrotron radiation and advanced X-ray, UV and atto- & femtosecond laser sources. The conference provided the opportunity for several speakers to present outstanding experiments such as coherent diffraction imaging performed with X-ray free electron lasers, a method that allows one to characterize materials at sub-10 nm spatial resolution and with about 10 fs time resolution. The combination of new imaging methods and FEL sources allows monitoring of electrons within a molecule. Some speakers showed how to image breaking of bonds and how to make real-time movies of unique molecular phenomena. Others showed how to use multi-photon ionization and intense short X-ray free electron laser pulses used as a clock, to reveal molecular dynamics, to investigate chemistry and chemical dynamics with unprecedented spatial and time resolutions. Challenging low-temperature high-resolution laser-ARPES experiments with spectra exhibiting the energy resolution record of about 100 eV at sample temperatures of about 1.0 K in superconductors and graphene were also presented at VUX2013. These recently unattainable time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy results feature many new phenomena that should be further studied using next-generation sources. The organizing committees of VUVX2013 thank all participants for their contribution to the success of this event, for the
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stimulating presentations, and for valuable discussions. We would also like to acknowledge work by the program committee, the awards committee, and the international science committee. We also would like to thank the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and all companies that sponsored the event, as well as the editors, authors and reviewers of the articles in this proceedings volume.
Ziyu Wu Conference Chairman, Professor & Director, National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, China E-mail address: [email protected]