TVIPS GmbH, in collaboration with NANOMEGAS Company (www.nanomegas.com), is organizing a one-day workshop on May 4, dedicated to the new electron precession diffraction technique. The workshop will be held in Munich Gauting.

Using electron precession diffraction [1], quasi-kinematical electron diffraction intensities can be obtained on any crystal, extending diffraction pattern information up to < 1 Å to find ab-initio unknown nanocrystal structures [2]. Thanks to the new precession interface “SPINNING STAR” designed by NANOMEGAS Company, electron beam precession can be performed on any TEM (100-400kV) and can also be interfaced to older TEM, upgrading them effectively to powerful structure determination tools.

The workshop will be centered on experimental and theoretical / software sessions with practical exercises and theoretical simulations for ab-initio structure determination from precession ED data.

Registration is free, but the number of places is limited.
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[1] Vincent R.,Midgley P.,Ultramicroscopy, 1994, 53, 271. 
[2] Weirich T., Portillo J., Cox G., Nicolopoulos S., Ultramicroscopy, 2005, 106 ,164.

• Sven Hovmöller, Stockholm University:
  Quantification of electron diffraction patterns
• Stavros Nicolopoulos, Nanomegas:
  From diffraction pattern to 2D structural map at one step
• Joachim Portillo, University of Barcelona:
  Determination of heavy-metal oxide
  CsxNb2.54W2.46O14
• TVIPS:
  Recent camera developments

• Practical sessions on our Tecnai-12 and JEM-2010, equipped with SPINNING STAR and TemCam-F224HD