A workshop to discuss establishing a beamline for
Infrared Microscopy at Maxlab (IMAM2000)
will be held on March 29 at the Ideon conference center in Lund.
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Motivation for IMAM2000
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The high spatial resolution of a microscopy experiment restricts the amount
of light which reaches an optical detector, severely limiting the
performance of such units in the infrared 'chemical fingerprint' region.
In contrast to typical blackbody light sources, relativistic electrons
orbiting in the storage ring act as a point source in the infrared,
allowing several orders of magnitude improvement in signal intensity and
subsequent reduction in the time required to perform an experiment. This
is especially important when one desires to construct a two dimensional
spectroscopic map of a surface. We would like to develop the technique of
infrared microspectroscopy using a synchrotron light source at MAX-Lab, and
propose this workshop to discuss the possibilities of the technique and
design of the beamline with the user community.
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Scientific Program
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Scheduled speakers include the following:
*Prof. Paul Dumas, Univeresitet Paris Sud, 'Interdisciplinary Applications
of Synchrotron IR Microscopy,' a talk focusing on the application of the
technique in the fields of biology, polymer science, geology, and
astrophysics.
*Prof. Mikael Eriksson of MAX-Lab concerning the design of the new infrared
beamlines on the MAX-III storage ring.
*Dr. Søren Hvilsted, Danish Polymer Centre, Risø National Laboratory, 'The
ordered azobenzene-in-a-matrix puzzle-How polarization FTIR can help.'
*Prof. Peter Ogilby, Aarhus University, Denmark, 'The Singlet Oxygen
Microscope.'
*Marianne Glerup, Material Research Depoartment, Risø National Laboratory,
'FT-Raman microscopy.'
*Dr. Gunther Zachmann, Bruker, will be presenting an overview of infrared
microscopy.
*In addition, we plan a tour of the electron storage rings. The workshop
will conclude with a roundtable discussion.
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Facilities
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Bruker has kindly agreed to provide their latest infrared microscope
including a CCD camera, IR detector and technician, from week 11 to 15. We
will use the first week to align and test the microscope, and then the
microscope will be made available to workshop participants to investigate
their own samples. Funding for travel and accomodation in connection with
experiments with the microscope is available for persons travelling from
another EU country. The microscope will be installed on the Bruker IFS 120
HR FTIR spectrometer connected to the beamline for infrared microscopy of
the MAX-I electron storage ring. For further information about scheduling
experiments with the microscope, please contact the organizing committee.
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Time and Place
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The conference will run from 10.30 AM on the 29th of March, until 5.00 in
the afternoon. Lunch and workshop proceedings are included in the price.
A small fee (ca. 100 SEK) will be collected at the conference. The
organizing committee is grateful for the financial support of the Danish
Society for Molecular Spectroscopy and MAX-Lab.
Directions for reaching MAX-Lab may be found at the web page (see menu
item, 'Travel to MAX'):
http://www.maxlab.lu.se/
You can also read about the workshop at our website (Thanks to Sverker
Werin of Maxlab):
http://www.maxlab.lu.se/maxlab/conference/imam2000/
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Organizing Committee
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To schedule experiments please contact:
Bengt Nelander
Department of Chemical Physics
University of Lund
S-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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Matthew S. Johnson
Department of Chemistry (KLV)
University of Copenhagen
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Danmark
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