Under the project on Utilization of Particle Accelerators, the IAEA promotes the use of accelerators in various fields, such as for surface modification, sterilization, therapy, isotope production, material analysis. This is done by providing technical cooperation funds to developing Member States, organizing cooperative research projects, and by organizing various workshops and meetings to help exchange of information. Due to increased use of synchrotron radiation for material characterisation in the last decade, it has been proposed to hold a workshop dedicated to applications of synchrotron radiation. Synchrotron radiation became available in a routine and regular manner to the scientific community in an early 1980s. Since that time the use of techniques employing synchrotron radiation has proliferated, so that investigations in this field are now having a major impact on several areas of physical and biological sciences. New advanced sources are more and more becoming available in developed and in developing countries. It is difficult to select an active area of materials research that does not benefit from knowledge gained via synchrotron experiments.
Because of recent discoveries and current increased interest in the field of high-Tc supeconductivity, it is proposed to focus the scope of the Workshop on applications of synchrotron radiation to characterization of cuprates, fullerides and new high-Tc superconductors.The discovery of high temperature superconductivity in 1986 stimulated an enormous research activity around the world in physics, chemistry and material science. Several materials, like for example, cuprates and fullerides have been in the focus of interest during the last decade as very promising materials for practical applications. Among the other potential high-Tc superconducting materials, a compound of magnesium and boron recently turns out to have superconducting properties with practical potential.
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for a discussion of current issues relating to applications of synchrotron radiation to characterization of cuprates, fullerides and new high-Tc superconductors. A successful research in the field of high-Tc supeconductivity strongly demands an intensive cooperation between scientists from various fields. By bringing together specialists in high-Tc superconductivity and specialists in synchrotron radiation techniques, the workshop may demonstrate how an impressive variety of synchrotron-based methods can be used to characterize these advanced materials with unprecedented detail.
Specialists in high-Tc superconductivity, cuprate and fulleride physics, and specialists in synchrotron radiation techniques familiar with the use of synchrotron radiation to study the cuprate, fulleride and new high-Tc supeconducting materials. It is expected that the invited speakers will submit a short paper to the Workshop (see point 6 below).
After the formal opening, the meeting will consist of the presentation of papers by the invited speakers, while a poster session is foreseen for the other partecipants. A visit to the ELETTRA facility and a social event will be organized.
The workshop is organized by the IAEA, the Sincrotrone Trieste (Elettra Laboratory) and the ICTP. It will be held at the ICTP main building (Lecture Hall C), Trieste, Italy, between 6-8 December 2001. The contact person at the IAEA is Stjepko Fazinic, IAEA, Vienna, Austria (Email: S.Fazinic@iaea.org).
The members of the local Organizing Committee are:
It is planned to publish a special issue of the IAEA-TECODC series devoted to the Workshop. Invited speakers should bring to the Workshop an electronic version and a hard copy of their presentations in a form of a short paper (extended abstract) of about 3-4 pages (including very short abstract, references and possible tables and figures). This should be in the Microsoft Word format; paper size A4; line spacing single; margins - top 1.8, bottom 1.5, left/right 2.5; font Times New Roman 11 point.
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