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Program Overview

The program begins with a Tutorial, on Sunday afternoon, March 5. Following the Tutorial is a buffet reception. Regular morning sessions, consisting of contributed and invited oral presentations, begin Monday morning and extend through Thursday. After-dinner presentations will be held on Monday and Wednesday evenings, followed by poster sessions each night. Full dinners will be served on Monday and Wednesday at restaurant le Morgane. A special conference reception will be held Tuesday night: we will travel by train to the 'mer de glace' - a hotel built on top of a glacier - for a traditional gourmet dinner, complete with live entertainment. As per PXRMS tradition, weekday afternoons are free (local ski areas are accessible by bus.)

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Topics To Be Considered

Growth

• development of microstructure and morphology
• evolution of roughness
• interface formation
• growth models and computer simulations
• new multilayer deposition techniques

• Characterization

• X-ray and neutron scattering
• electron microscopy
• surface probe metrology
• ellipsometry
• chemical analysis
• novel techniques

• Structure and Properties

• X-ray and EUV optical properties
• X-ray optics applications
• electronic, magnetic, and mechanical properties
• thin-film X-ray optical constants
• thermal and radiation stability

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Partial List of Invited Speakers

Jeff Bokor (Berkeley) - EUV Interferometry

Webster Cash (Colorado) - Astronomical X-Ray Interferometry

Peter Cloetens (ESRF) - Coherent Hard X-Ray Imaging

Reiner Dietsch (Fraunhofer) - Laser Deposition of X-Ray Multilayers

Paulo Freitas (INESC) - Magnetic Thin Film Materials

Fiona Harrison (Caltech) - Hard X-Ray Multilayer Telescopes

Tsuneyuki Haga (NTT) - EUV Beamsplitters

Yves Idzerda (NRL) - Interfacial Magnetic Roughness in Multilayers

Igor Kozhevnikov (Lebedev) - Design of X-Ray Supermirrors

Christian Morawe (ESRF) - Sputter Deposition of X-Ray Multilayers

Franz Schaefers (BESSY) - Soft X-Ray Polarimetry

Eberhard Spiller (LLNL) - EUV Lithography

Sunil Sinha (Argonne) - Magnetic X-Ray Scattering

Barend Thijsse (Delft) - Thin Film Modification by Ion Etching

Mihiro Yanagihara (Tohoku) - Soft X-Ray Emission Microscopy

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Tutorial on X-Ray and Neutron Scattering

A tutorial on X-ray and neutron scattering from thin films and multilayers will be held on Sunday afternoon. The tutorial is intended to be a very practical and useful session for people who want to use these characterization techniques. Therefore it will include theory, practical examples and useful advice for those new to the field, as well as enough detail and discussion to make it worthwhile for experienced scientists.The tutorial is included in the registration fee, and will cover:
Hard X-ray diffuse scattering, taught by Tim Salditt (Munich)

Soft X-ray reflectance and diffuse scattering, taught by Eric Gullikson (LBNL)

Multilayers and neutron scattering, taught by Peter Høghøj (ILL)