536th Brookhaven Lecture on Wednesday, 7/24: Slow Electrons and 2D Materials
July 23, 2024
A sheet of paper seems flat. But the 2D materials that researchers work with are much flatter — only one or two atoms thick, as thin as nature allows.
Some 2D materials are unusually strong. Others conduct electricity exceptionally well or provide different benefits useful for applications. Designing, fabricating, and studying materials only one atom thick is no small feat.
All are invited to join Jerzy "Jurek" Sadowski of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory for the 536th Brookhaven Lecture on Wednesday, July 24.
Sadowski's talk, titled "Using Slow Electrons to Investigate Surfaces and Interfaces of Two-Dimensional Materials," will be held at 4 p.m. Attendees can join in two ways:
- In person in the Bldg. 490 conference room. Note: Seating may be limited.
- Virtually on Zoom.
During this Brookhaven Lecture, Sadowski will introduce 2D materials and benefits they can provide. He will then discuss techniques and tools used to produce and characterize 2D materials — including "slow electrons" — at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) and National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II). CFN and NSLS-II are both DOE Office of Science user facilities at Brookhaven Lab.
About the speaker
Sadowski is a staff scientist in the Interface Science and Catalysis Group at CFN. He joined CFN in 2008. Before that, he was a postdoc, then research associate, and later an associate professor at the Institute for Materials Research at Tohoku University in Japan.
Sadowski earned his Ph.D. in physics from the Institute of Electron Technology in Poland in 1999. In 1993, he earned a master's in physics from Nicolas Copernicus University, also located in Poland.
About the Brookhaven Lecture Series
The Brookhaven Lecture Series began in 1960. In the foreword to the first lectures, Brookhaven physicist Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber wrote, "The Brookhaven Lectures, held by and for the Brookhaven staff, are meant to provide an intellectual meeting ground for all scientists of the Laboratory. In this role they serve a double purpose: they are to acquaint the listeners with new developments and ideas not only in their own field, but also in other important fields of science, and to give them a heightened awareness of the aims and potentialities of Brookhaven National Laboratory."
That tradition continues today.
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