Esther Barrena, as part of the organizing committee, encourage participation in IPOE 2024 to be held in September, Barcelona.

Following the spirit of the previous editions, IPOE will be entirely devoted to the physical phenomena occurring at organic/organic, organic/inorganic and organic/metallic interfaces, as motivated by their essential role in many (bio-)physico-chemical processes, ranging from solar energy conversion to biosensing. The conference will cover a broad range of areas related to both experimental and theoretical aspects of these processes, comprising the following topics (but not limited to): Charge separation mechanisms, Organic/organic interfaces, Charge generation mechanisms, Solar energy conversion, Energy transfer processes,  Energy landscape at interfaces, Molecular spintronics, Materials for interface engineering, Organic and Hybrid SCs, O&H LEDs, OFETs, Interfacial versus bulk properties, Experimental probes, Hybrid organic/inorganic interfaces, Molecular modeling and theoretical models, Metal/organic interfaces

IPOE-2024 is a single-session conference, comprising a invited lectures, oral contributions, and a poster session.

The conferences will be followed by ample time devoted to questions , in addition to discussions during a poster session. We hope that new insights will emerge from this conference, providing additional design criteria for novel materials fulfilling optimized interfacial properties. As such, the conference is open to all confirmed and young researchers from a broad diversity of domains, ranging from design and synthesis of novel materials, to theoretical and experimental characterizations.

Invited speakers. 

Daniel Martin, as part of the organizing committee of this symposium within the XXXIX RSEF Physics Biennial , to be held in Donostia/San Sebastian, in July (2024) invites you to participate and you to send your abstract as soon as possible!

The closing date for abstract submission is updated to April 24th, 2024 

Scope: In recent years, improvements in the miniaturization and assembly processes of matter, as well as the use of novel chemical species, have placed nanotechnology as a major producer of new materials: customized organic molecules, nanowires, 2D materials and materials for energy, among others. These new materials are expected to be part of future electronic devices addressing some of humanity’s current challenges, such as electronic efficiency, energy storage, climate change and disease control. Scanning probe microscopies (SPM) play a key role in the characterization and fabrication of these materials. These techniques provide valuable information at the nanometer scale about the structure and physical properties of materials. It also enables structure-property correlations, which is crucial for understanding the behavior of materials and is a source of inspiration for the design of new ones with specific properties. In addition, SPM studies on materials can be performed in situ on working devices, such as transistors, photodetectors or batteries. This symposium will cover SPM works for the production, characterization and test of materials for future electronics.

The symposium includes a Special Session: SPM techniques + synchrotron radiation.

Keynote speaker:  Daniel Ebeling from Justus-Liebig University 

Invited speakers:

• Fabian Schulz (CIC nanoGUNE),
• Sara Barja (Donostia International Physics Center)
• Carmen Munuera (Madrid Institute of Materials Science)
• Eider Berganza (Madrid Institute of Materials Science)
• Marc González Cuixart (Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology)
• Aitor Mugarza (Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology).

• And the contribution of  Niklas Friedrich (CIC nanoGUNE) as the winner of the best experimental thesis of GEFES in 2023.

Organizing Committee:

Héctor González Herrero, Atom by Atom lab at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, UAM

Daniel Martín Jiménez, PCSI group at Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC

Ana Pérez Rodríguez, Nanotechnology group at Universidad de Salamanca, USAL

Sponsors:

División de Física de la Materia Condensada (GEFES), Asociación Usuarios Sincrotrón España (AUSE), Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona (ICMAB), Condensed Matter Physics Center-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (IFIMAC-UAM), The Spanish Vacuum Society (ASEVA).