BCA Spring Meeting 2003 University of York Tuesday 15 March to Thursday 17 April 2003

The science and methods of crystallography are widely applied across disciplines for the investigation of materials with technological applications, both potential and realized. Our aim is to demonstrate the widespread and continuing importance of crystallography and its methods to current materials research through a varied programme of talks, which are intended to be accessible and interesting to the wider audience of the BCA. This session brings together in the programme a number of expert speakers who are united by their use of diffraction and scattering methods to address problems in the physics and chemistry of technologically important materials.

Detailed Programme

08:30 Tom Hase (Durham) - Investigations of Materials showing Giant / Colossal Magneto-Resistance

09:00 Petra Pernot (ESRF) - Periodically Poled Non-Linear Optical Materials Investigated by New X-ray Imaging Methods

09:30 Stephen Lee (St Andrews) - Scattering Studies of Magnetic Media

10:00 (Coffee & Exhibition Break)

10:30 Tricia Kidd (PANalytical) - Crystallographic Studies of Semiconductor Thin Films

11:15 Don Paul (Warwick) - Neutron Diffraction from the Vortex Lattice in Type II Superconductors