International Workshop on Scanning Probe Microscopy for Energy Applications 2010

Energy generation, storage, and conversion systems are an integral component of emerging green technologies, including solar power, automotive, and storage components of solar and wind energy economics. Despite the rapidly expanding manufacturing capabilities and wealth of phenomenological information on the macroscopic behaviors of energy storage and conversion systems, the microscopic mechanisms underpinning solar cell, battery and fuel cell operations in the nanometer to micron range are not well understood. The series of keynote and invited talks will cover the recent advances in characterization of energy relevant materials systems using Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) techniques, as well as the state of the art in energy dissipation and transformation measurements by SPM. The two-day meeting will also include contributed talks and a poster session.