Welcome to register for the LINXS - MAX IV Summer School!
When: 18-22 August, 2025
Registration/abstract submission deadline: July 7, 2025
Where: LINXS (The Loop, Rydbergs torg 4, 224 84) and MAX IV Laboratory, Lund, Sweden
Organisers: MAX IV Laboratory and Quantum Materials theme
You can find more information here
What is the LINXS/MAX IV Summer School?
MAX IV Laboratory and LINXS offer a unique opportunity to combine theoretical lectures with hands-on training at the synchrotron. The lectures serve as an introductory step for new users, providing a solid foundation in the techniques utilizing soft X-rays, while data analysis classes and beamline exercises offer valuable opportunities to engage with experienced scientists and discuss user projects. MAX IV staff members are excellent resources for guidance on data collection and interpretation. This Summer School focuses on techniques using soft X-rays, e.g. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS).
The Summer School is primarily designed for, but not limited to, PhD students and early-career researchers. This program introduces key concepts essential for understanding and applying various scientific and technological techniques. It also helps participants recognize and avoid common misinterpretations found in the literature, equipping them with the knowledge to navigate complex research topics with confidence.
The Summer School will take place at LINXS and MAX IV during start-up week (week 34 , 18-22 August).
Methods to be used
The LINXS/MAX IV summer school makes accents on spectroscopy techniques represented at MAX IV Laboratory.
• X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is the most widely used surface analysis technique because it can be applied to a wide range of materials and provides valuable quantitative and chemical state information from the surface of the material being studied.
• Many-body quantum physics is at the heart of modern condensed matter. Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) studies the electronic structure directly in momentum space. This technique provides direct insights into the energy and momentum dependent electronic band structure of such materials. Often this is vital information in itself, but with careful measurements a variety of other insights can be gained, including the nature of phase or structure transitions, many-body interactions, or modifications by dopants or interstitial sites.
• X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is a widely used method to study atomic local structures and electronic states. XAS has proven to be a valuable spectroscopic tool to study the changes in local structure because it does not require long-range ordering and is applicable to almost all types of samples regardless of their actual physical state (solid, liquid, gas). XAS is another technique that can be applied to in situ/operando studies.
• Access to a primary photon source with high brightness is crucial for resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS). With a high degree of control over the process of energy, momentum, and angular momentum transfer, the new synchrotrons offer the ability to observe it. It has been shown, for instance, that fundamental excitations in correlated materials can be thoroughly studied and that it is possible to resolve individual vibrational excitations in molecular systems. From physics and chemistry to biology, RIXS offers new possibilities for research in these fields. Research on correlated systems, energy materials, and materials science will particularly profit from this, and it is highly feasible to study corrosion and catalysis in operando with high precision.
All courses are taught in English.
Please note that we have a no-show fee of 200 SEK (for physical participation) if you do not inform us beforehand at josefin.martell@linxs.lu.se
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