Nathalie, Curran and Anna ventured to Glasgow this week for the group’s first in-person conference since March 2020. Nathalie and Curran presented part of their PhD work in excellent contributed talks. Curran got people excited about studying the behaviour of TiW diffusion barriers in metallisation schemes for power electronics (see a recent paper) and Nathalie clearly showcased the importance of radiation dose when comparing the effects of X-rays on samples during diffraction and spectroscopy (see a recent paper and Diamond Light Source Science Highlight). Anna presented an invited talk on the influence of polymorphism in Ga2O3 trying to convince the audience that core level spectra are sensitive to local coordination environments (read all about it here).
It was great to get back to in-person talks and be inspired by an excellent line-up of speakers in the Photoemission Spectroscopy for Materials Analysis section organised by Robert Palgrave, Rosa Arrigo and Phil King.
Applied X-ray spectroscopy 