Gerhard Ertl Lecture & Award

The Ertl Lecture Award was established in 2008 by the three Berlin universities (Humboldt University, Technical University and Free University) and the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society and is awarded once a year. It commemorates former FHI Director Gerhard Ertl's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which he received in 2007. The prize honours outstanding personalities and researchers in the field of catalysis where Ertl carried out exceptional research for many decades. The prize, sponsored by BASF, includes a one-week research stay at the participating Berlin institutions and a keynote lecture. The winner is typically announced in Spring, the lecture takes place around the December 10th, the anniversary of Ertl's Nobel Prize reception.

Near-field Optical Microscopy and its Recent Advances: High Speed Imaging and Broadband Measurements

• Joint Online Seminar
• Date: Feb 28, 2022
• Time: 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Dr. Takuyuki Umakoshi
• Osaka University, Department of Applied Physics
• Host: Takashi Kumagai

Near-field optical microscopy (aperture-less type) enables optical analysis and imaging with the nanoscale spatial resolution owing to light field localized at a nanometric volume at a plasmonic tip apex. It has been recognized as a powerful analytical technique for a few decades since its invention, and has still shown tremendous progress, contributing to a wide variety of scientific fields. Its spatial resolution, for example, has been drastically improved in recent years, which now goes down to the single molecular level. [more]