Röntgen-Ångstrom workshop on Multidimensional X-ray Spectroscopy

19./20.05.2011 Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin / Adlershof, BESSY lecture hall

Functional materials are the backbone of efficient energy technologies, the harvesting of solar energy, clean chemistry as well as data storage and distribution. The interdisciplinary nature of these fields requires a complementary approach in the investigation methods. To get a grasp at functional materials with X-rays in a comprehensive way we have to approach the quantum mechanically linked parameters of energy and time as well as momentum and space through multidimensional X-ray methods, where simultaneous and complementary detection gives a full picture of the atomic processes driving materials function. To this end we will discuss resonant X-ray scattering with ultimate energy, momentum and time resolution for low energy excitations in functional materials and molecular dynamics in matter at a Swedish-German undulator beamline equipped with angle resolved high transmission detectors for momentum, energy, and temporal resolution for functional materials.