NanoMi Workshop 2026 Program
All talks last for 35 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A.
Day 1: June 24th (Wednesday)
8:50 Welcome Address
Makoto Kuwahara (Nagoya University)
Session 1 Chair: Fu-Rong Chen (Hong Kong City University)
9:00 Current-Controlled Electrostatic Phase Plates For Tunable Three-Fold Astigmatism Correction
Payam H.Kavkani, Paolo Rosi, Enzo Rotunno, Alberto Roncaglia, Vincenzo Grillo, Marco Beleggia
(University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, CNR-NANO, CNR-ISMN)
9:45 The space charge phase plate, part 1: A NanoMi gun for generating a 5 µA, 1 µm electron beam
Philip J. B. Koeck et al.
(KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
10:30 Application of Electron Microscopy to Biomineralization Studies
Masaki Watanabe, Fabio Nudelman and Noriaki Ozaki
(Akita Prefectural University, University of Edinburgh)
Lunch at the Cafeteria of Akita Prefectural University
Session 2 Chair: Tatiana Latychevskaia (Paul Scherrer Institute)
12:30 Design of Zeno Quantum Resonator for Interaction-Free Electron Microscope
Xiaofeng Guo, Yuchun Hsueh, Yuchi Chen, Yan Chen, Weishi Wan, Xiaoyan Zhong, Xiaocui Li, Dirk Van Dyck and Fu-Rong Chen
(City University of Hong Kong, International Quantum Center, University of Antwerp)
13:15 Algorithms for quantum computational electron microscopy
Hiroshi Okamoto, Ismet I. Kaya
(Akita Prefectural University, Sabanci Universitesi)
14:00 Design and Implementation of a Surface Ion Trap within a TEM
D. Hornof, M. Zanetti, N. Jungwirth, M. S. Seifner, P. Schindler, T. Juffmann, P. Haslinger
(TU Wien, University of Vienna, University of Innsbruck)
Coffee Break
Session 3 Chair: Makoto Kuwahara (Nagoya University)
15:15 Electron Ptychography and Ultrafast Electron Microscopy on 2D Materials
Isabel Burgos, Juan Gaitan Toro, Alex Giovannone, Mark S. Sherwin, Stephen D. Wilson, Thomas Gage, and Kayla Nguyen
(University of Oregon, UC Santa Barbara, Argonne National Lab.)
16:00 Femtosecond ultrafast electron microscopy based on NanoMi
Asuka Nakamura, Hidenori Tsuji and Kyoko Ishizaka
(RIKEN, The University of Tokyo)
16:45 Enhanced time resolution with an energy dispersive X-ray PIN photodiode detector for improved EDX-EELS coincidence measurements in an electron microscope (online)
Luca Serafini, Mylo Gijbels, Jo Verbeeck
(University of Antwerp)
Day 2: June 25th (Thursday)
Session 4 Chair: Rafal Dunin-Borkowski (Ernst Ruska-Center)
9:00 NanoMi: a Hardware and Software Platform for Electron Microscopy (Plenary Talk, online)
Marek Malac, Makoto Schreiber, Sam Ruttiman, Mark Salomons, Darren Homeniuk, James Tordiff, Paul Concepcion, Patrick Price, Martin Cloutier, Frank Hegmann
(NRC-Quantum & Nano, University of Alberta)
9:45 Design of a Low-Cost Tabletop Scanning Electron Microscope
Atharva Shukla
(Bharat Atomic Labs)
10:30 A cloud-parallelized high performance 3D electron optical design software package integrating multimodal emission physics and stochastic Monte Carlo scattering and featuring hybrid structural-aware meshing for advanced SEM instrumentation
Prerana Chakrabarti
(Bharat Atomic Labs)
Lunch at the Cafeteria of Akita Prefectural University
Short Tour of Akita Prefectural University
Session 5 Chair: Marco Beleggia (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
13:15 Measuring the Coherence Lengths of Inelastically Scattered Electrons
Makoto Tokoro Schreiber, Marek Malac, and Ken Harada
(University of Alberta, NRC-Quantum & Nano, Osaka Metropolitan University)
14:00 Coherent Low-Energy (30 ‒ 300 eV) Electron Microscope
Tatiana Latychevskaia, Giordano Galati and Sayed Shkeebullah Sadat
(Paul Scherrer Institute, University of Zurich)
Coffee Break
Session 6 Chair: Kayla Nguyen (University of Oregon)
15:15 Transmission Electron Microscope Technology Development in the European and German Landscapes
Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski and Amir H. Tavabi
(Ernst Ruska-Centre)
16:00 Research and Development in a User-Focused Facility
Carlos Ramirez-Brinez, Jonathon Taufatofua, and Roger Wepf
(The University of Queensland)
16:45 Panta Rhei: A software platform for acquisition and processing of image and spectral data
Angelika Leibscher, Dominique Lörks, Michael Krieger, Dr. Giulio Guzzinati, Heiko Müller, Martin Linck, Pirmin Kükelhan, Ingo Maßmann
(CEOS GmbH)
Banquet
Matsugaya (Restaurant): Generously sponsored by CEOS GmbH
Day 3: June 26th (Friday)
Session 7 Chair: Asuka Nakamura (RIKEN)
9:00 Exploring Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy in the SEM (online)
John Simonaitis, Joseph A. Alongi, Karl K. Berggren, and Phillip D. Keathley
(MIT)
9:45 Resonant Excitation of Acoustic Waves Using a GHz-Pulsed Electron Beam
Yohei K. Sato, Spencer A. Reisbick, Daisuke Morikawa, Kenji Tsuda, Masami Terauchi, and Yimei Zhu
(Tohoku University, Brookhaven National Lab.)
10:30 Transmission and Scanning Muon Microscopes
Yukinori Nagatani, Junichi Ohnishi, Yuga Nakazawa, Yu Oishi, Shinki Nakamura, Taihei Adachi, Toshikazu Adachi, Akira Goto, Patrick Strasser, Motonobu Tampo
(KEK, RIKEN, Ibaraki University)
11:15 Concluding Remarks
Rafal Dunin-Borkowski (Ernst Ruska-Center)
Lunch at the Cafeteria of Akita Prefectural University
Optional Tour
We ride a local Yuri Kogen Railway and visit a sake brewery Tenju-Syuzo.
NOTE: Lunchtime is scheduled a bit early to avoid crowding by students.