EPIOPTICS 17

XENES-5

6 – 12 July 2024

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF

SOLID STATE PHYSICS

88th Course/School: EPIOPTICS-17

5th XENES WORKSHOP

ERICE- SICILY: 6 – 12 July 2024

GALILEO GALILEI FOUNDATION
WORLD FEDERATION OF SCIENTISTS
ETTORE MAJORANA FOUNDATION AND CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE – GALILEO GALILEI CELEBRATIONS
Four Hundred Years Since the Birth of MODERN SCIENCE

 

Sponsored by the:

European Physical Society

Italian Ministry of Education

Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research

Sicilian Regional Government

National Research Council

PURPOSE OF THE SCHOOL

The Course will have tutorials in the optical studies of surfaces and interfaces (solid-solid and solid-liquid), epitaxial growth, graphene-like materials, biomaterials, low-dimensional systems, dynamics and optical diagnostics relevant to new materials and structures of interest for present and anticipated (spin) electronic devices.

In addition, there will be presentations by the participants on their latest results in these fields.

An excursion to Segesta-Selinunte Archeological site is planned together with several local happenings

The following arguments will be treated during the lectures (speakers to be confirmed):

1) Tutorials:

Nanoelectronics based on 2d materials,

2d silicon, germanium, and pnictognes

 

Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of 2d materials

Excitons in 2D materials: Polarization and chemistry 

2) Linear and non-linear optics:

 Raman at surface phonons: surface structure/reconstruction and 1D and 2D atomic layers on surfaces

 Ellipsometry/RAS on liquid-solid-interfaces and in-situ optics in electrochemistry.

 Bulk photovoltaic effects in semiconductors and metals: jerk current and the DC nonlinear Hall effect

Heat transfer at nanoscale

Physical Orign of Decoherence and Depolarisation in (Statistical) Optics

 Optical nanospectroscopy for bioanalysis

 Optical Properties of exotic electronic materials: From Graphene and Silicene to Topological Insulators and Weyl Semimetals 

Measurement and manipulation of excitons in 2D semiconductors 

3) Dynamics:

Ultrafast and nonlinear optical spectroscopy on electronic phase transitions in 2D materials.

Femtosecond Laser Induced Transient States of Matter 

Ultra-fast spectroscopy of 2d materials

4) 2D materials:

 Xenes: from growth to applications

Quantitative determination of silicene and germanene structures by Grazing incidence X ray Diffraction

2d materials-based interfaces for spintronic applications, 

 Nanostructured surfaces

 Atomically-controlled graphene nanostructures and ribbons

2D materials under strain
 
 
 
Flatworld: the fantastic properties of 2-dimensional materials
 

5) Special Seminar:

Excitation of terahertz acoustic surface plasmon by hyperthermal Ne scattering

Ultrafast dynamics of excitons and polarons in low dimensional systems

 

High-throughput search, characterization and engineering of novel 2D and 1D materials

 

Artificial shape engineering of MoS2 layers

 

Flat-optics photon harvesting in large-scale 2D semiconductor layers

 
 
 

Other advanced seminars will be included in the final programme

APPLICATIONS

Persons wishing to attend the School should send an application, preferably by fax or electronic mail, to the Co-Director of the Course:

Dr. Antonio Cricenti
Istituto di Struttura della Materia – Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100 – 00133 Roma , ITALY
Fax: +39 0645488153
Tel: +39 0645488143
school@ism.cnr.it
cricenti@ism.cnr.it

specifying:
I) date and place of birth;
II) nationally;
III) present position;
IV) their specific interest in the School;
V) an abstract, if they wish to give a contribution (oral or poster).

The total fee, which includes everything in Erice (transportation from/to Palermo or Trapani airport, accomodation in Erice in the period July 6-12, breakfast, lunch and dinner at selected restaurants, coffee breaks, sandwiches, fruit, water (anytime at the San Rocco Center), excursion, social dinner and other amenities (arranged by the School) is € 900. Those wishing to submit an abstract for oral or poster presentation shall send a page in A4 format before May 1st 2024. Accepted abstracts will be notified by May 7th 2024.

Closing date for application May 1st 2024

 

Admission to the Workshop and acceptance of the abstract will be decided by the Selection Committee of the School comprising Professors G. Benedek, A. Molle, A. Cricenti and A. Zichichi. More detailed information on the final programme of the Workshop, fee payment and local transportation will be sent together with the letter of acceptance. Participants should arrive in Erice on Saturday, July 6, no later than 5 p.m. The lectures, in “San Francesco” room, begin July 7 at 8:30 a.m. and end July 11 at 07:30 p.m.
Departure is on Friday, July 12.

APPLICATION FORM:
compile it and send it back by fax or e-mail.
(Please use cut&copy)

INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS: how to reach Erice and payment of fee.
See also the list of participants and the scheduled arrivals

SCHOOL FINAL PROGRAM

ABSTRACT

ORAL TALKS

PROCEEDINGS

The deadline for manuscript submission is on date of arrival.

Manuscripts will be given to the referee during the school.

Written contributions must be prepared in 9″x6″ camera-ready format and their length should not exceed 10 pages for invited talks and

6 pages for oral and poster contributions.

For more information see the example files (please choose ‘general – Trim size 9.00″x6.00″ ‘) in the World Scientific Web pages at

www.worldscientific.com

a sample from previous Proceedings can found in:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Epioptics-9-Proceedings-International-Physics-Science/dp/9812794026#reader_9812794026

POETIC TOUCH

According to legend, Erice, son of Venus and Neptune, founded a small town on top of a mountain (750 metres above sea level) more than three thousand years ago. The great historian
Thucydides (~500 B.C.) said that the Elymi – founders of Erice – were survivors of the destruction of Troy. Ancient historians agreed that Erice was the oldest city in Europe.
Homer (~1000 B.C.), Theocritus (~300 B.C.), Polybius (~200 B.C.), Virgil (~50 B.C.), Horace (~20 B.C.), and others have celebrated this magnificent spot in Sicily in their poems.
In Erice you can admire the Castle of Venus, the Cyclopean Walls (~800 B.C.) and the Gothic Cathedral (~1300 A.D.). Erice is at present a mixture of ancient and medieval architecture.
Other masterpieces of ancient civilization are to be found in the neighbourhood: at Motya (Phoenician), Segesta (Elymian), and Selinunte (Greek). On the Aegadian Islands – theatre of the decisive naval battle of the first Punic War (264-241 B.C.) – suggestive neolithic and paleolithic vestiges are still visible: the grottoes of Favignana, the carvings and murals of Levanzo. Splendid beaches are at San Vito Lo Capo, Scopello, and Cornino, and a wild and rocky coast around Monte Cofano: all at less than one hour’s drive from Erice.

DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRE
A. Zichichi
DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL
G. Benedek
DIRECTORS OF THE COURSE
A. Cricenti, A. Molle