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Welcome from the Chair Winter 2017 Welcome from the Chair Dear members further one-day meetings, greater Inside this issue: opportunities for student involve- As the new chair of the group, I ment with the group, and on a Welcome from the Chair 1 am delighted to have the oppor- larger scale, looking towards tunity to welcome you to the establishing a UK Surface Sci- Reports on Meetings 2-5 2017 winter newsletter from the ence network. If you have ideas, Organised & Sponsored Thin Films and Surfaces Group requests, or would like to get by the TFSG (TFSG) of the IOP. involved with the TFSG (we are TFSG Lecture Series 5 As many of you know, last year very keen for involvement of the Engineering and Physical enthusiastic members at all lev- Woodruff Thesis Prize: 6 Sciences Research Council els), please contact me. Winners and Call for (EPSRC) commissioned a review In the rest of these pages, we are Nominations of all the subject areas they fund, able to report on a number of the TFSG Student Bursaries, and known as the Balancing Capabili- TFSG Student Bursaries 6 group’s activities in 2017, and to the Woodruff Thesis Prize. ties exercise. They solicited evi- publicise forthcoming ones. The These are all great opportunities Committee Membership 7 dence from a variety of sources, highlight of the year was the bi- for obtaining funding and recog- including learned societies. The annual Interdisciplinary Surface nition of exceptional research in a TFSG (mainly through extensive Science Conference, which was recent PhD thesis. work by our previous chair, Dr held at the Royal Northern Col- Neil Curson) submitted a 17-page Best wishes, lege of Music in Manchester from report in support of the surface 10-13 April 2017. The event was science community, and members a great success and involved an also attended an EPSRC Surface outstanding array of invited Andrew Jardine (Chair of the Science Focus Group. The well- speakers covering all experi- TFSG) deserved outcome is that the pri- mental and theoretical aspects of ority of ‘Surface Science’ has Cavendish Laboratory surfaces, interfaces and nanoscale been increased, which dramati- Department of Physics physics and chemistry. One of University of Cambridge cally improves our funding out- my personal favourites was the look. I take these changes as clear excellent talk given by Mark recognition of both the techno- Golden on Topological Insula- [email protected] logical and fundamental im- tors, which many colleagues portance of our field. Given this commented was the ‘best they increase in funding priority, we had seen’ in this very active area. have a tremendous new oppor- More details, along with the high- tunity to apply our techniques and lights of the multiple smaller methodologies to the many meetings that the group supported emerging challenges at surfaces - financially are described below. we are at an exciting moment! Next year, we look forward to the Looking forwards at a group nanoScience@Surfaces summer specific level, I would like to ask school, which will again be held the group membership for sug- at the Cavendish Laboratory, gestions on where the group Cambridge, between 30th July can further support your pro- and 2nd August 2018, and which fessional activities. The news- we hope will be similarly suc- letter gives an overview of what cessful to the event in 2016. we do at the moment and we have Finally, please do take a look at discussed several new ideas, in- the newsletter sections on the cluding a database of expertise, TFSG Lecture Series, the Page 2 Reports on Meetings Organised by the TFSG Interdisciplinary Surface Science Conference (ISSC) Announcement: Summer School on nanoScience@surfaces 2018 The biennial flagship TFSG conference Interdisciplinary Surface Science Conference was held at the Royal Northern College of Mu- Following the success of the Summer School on nanoSci- sic in Manchester from 10-13 April 2017. The meeting attracted ence@surfaces in 2016 the Thin Films and Surfaces Group, Struc- around 100 delegates, with high profile invited speakers from Eu- tural Condensed Matter Physics Group, Vacuum Group, and Na- rope, the UK and the USA. Sessions focussed on synchrotron radia- noscale Physics and Technology Group will organise a second meet- tion for surface analysis and structure determination, self-assembly ing: 30th July - 2nd August 2018. The summer school will cover key at surfaces, nano- and 2D materials and electrochemistry. The Royal aspects of surface analysis and surface science including spectrosco- Society of Chemistry, Solid Surfaces Group sponsored a special py, microscopy and theoretical approaches to understanding funda- session on applications of surface science to corrosion. For the first mental processes occurring at surfaces on the nanoscale. time we also had an invited talk from the winner of the previous year’s Woodruff Thesis Prize winner. This was given by Dr. Hannah The summer school will be held in Cambridge again with accommo- Aitchison, covering her PhD work on the self assembly of molecules dation at Murray Edwards College and meals both included in the silver and copper modified gold surfaces. registration fee. Although the fee has not yet been finalised we aim to keep it as low as possible. Further details on registration will be There were over 30 contributed talks on subjects from fundamental circulated by the Institute of Physics early in the New Year. work on He ion scattering to applied studies of corrosion of steel in seawater. Poster sessions were held on the Monday and Tuesday Confirmed speakers include: evening, and a prize for the best student poster was awarded to Pavel Kliuiev of the University of Zurich. It was a difficult decision with Phil Woodruff (Warwick) some outstanding posters and presentations on display, an encourag- Bill Allison (Cambridge) ing sign for the future of surface science. Wendy Flavell (Manchester) In addition to the science program we had a good range of commer- Rob Jones (Nottingham) cial exhibitors with Specs, MolecularSpray, Scienta Omicron, Man- tis_Sigma, Japan Vacuum Instruments, Henniker Scientific and Hiden Analytical in attendance. The conference meal was held at Zouk, an Indian restaurant on the edge of the city centre and was thoroughly enjoyed by all who at- tended. The chairs would like to take this opportunity to thank Joanne Hem- stock and Dawn Stewart of the IOP conferences team and also the staff of the RNCM team who helped make the event a success. Most of all we would like to thank all of the speakers, poster presenters and delegates, without whom the conference would not have taken place. Andrew Thomas and Rob Lindsay (ISSC co-chairs) If you have any ideas for future meetings, please contact the group chair, Dr Andrew Jardine ([email protected]). Page 3 Reports on Meetings Sponsored by the TFSG Plasmas, Surfaces and Thin Films: Early Career 16-00 Adam Bennett, Cranfield University Atmospheric pressure Researchers Meeting plasma technology for ultra-precision engineering of optics for appli- cations in aerospace, defence and science 16-15 Jingcheng Guan, Department of Materials, Loughborough The annual meeting, plasmas, surfaces and thin films was held in University, Atomistic modelling of zinc oxide thin film growth by Loughborough on June 22 2017. There were 36 delegates at the different deposition techniques meeting with 5 invited talks from senior scientists, 8 talks by young researchers and 12 poster presentations. The IPSI poster prize was won by Juliet Ojiako for her work on investigating plasma interac- tions with liquids. POSTER PRESENTATIONS The programme for the meeting is given below. There was a strong energy materials emphasis from MAX phases and high entropy al- 1 Stuart Robertson, Loughborough University, Structure and loys to diamond, Solgel and Cadmium Telluride thin films. The mechanical performance characterisation of zirconium nitride after standard of the oral presentations by the young researchers this year heavy ion irradiation was especially high. Further information about specific presentations can be obtained from the meeting organiser Roger Smith: 2 Chris Chalmers Loughborough University, Modelling the dewetting of inkjet printed drops [email protected] 3 Carmen Alonso Herr Oxford University, Deposition of organic layers by roll-to-roll coating in vacuum Invited talks by established Researchers 4 Benjamin Maerz Loughborough University, Microstruc- 10-30 Christian Bradley, Tokamak Energy, UK, Plasma Challenges ture of Isostatic Pressure-Moulded Graphite (Iso-Graphite) and Glow Discharge Vessel Conditioning in the Tokamak Energy 5 Wilhelm Huettenes, Cambridge University, Sustainable ST40 magnetostrictive thin film alloys 11-00 Chris Walker, Diamond Hard Surfaces Ltd, Diamond Hard 6 Michael Watts, Loughborough University, Understanding Surfaces; Successful technology implementation; from idea to com- CdTe/CdS solar thin film structures through ab initio modeling mercial success 7 Faraz H. Montazersadgha, Loughborough University, Space Averaged Mathematical Model of Pulse Powered Atmospheric 11-30 Ben Beake, Micromaterials, Improved characterisation of Pressure Air Plasma DLC coatings for automotive applications 8 Juliet Ojiako, Loughborough University, First steps in 12-00 Konstantza Lambrinou, SCK-SEN, Belgium, Radiation dam- modelling plasma interactions with liquids age to materials and developments towards next generation of nucle- 9 O. Ogunyinka, Loughborough University, Enhancement of ar reactors mass transfer rate of plasma reactive species in gas-liquid
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