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UK Surface Analysis Forum
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The UK Surface Analysis Forum is a society for scientists from academia & industry with a common interest in the techniques and applications of surface analysis.

Next meeting: NPL 15-16 July 2025

Website: http://www.uksaf.org
With that, the meeting has come to a close. Thank you to all of the speakers, delegates & vendors who made this a special and successful meeting. Congratulations to our local organisers, David Cant, Benjamen Reed, Gustavo F. Trindade & Alex Shard, along with the NPL events team.
July 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It's time to honour our YSA competition winners! We had 6 finalists who all delivered excellent talks & posters, making the judging very difficult! In the end, the winners were:

Seah Award - Eleanor Ender
Castle Award - Aleksandar Radic
IOP Crossley Award - Anna Trzaska

Congratulations to you all!
July 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
We are delighted to announce that Sebastiaan Van Nuffel has been awarded the Vickerman Prize for his extensive track record in mass spectrometry imaging, specifically time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS), and its application in biological and medical research. Congratulations!
July 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The final talk of the Summer 2025 UKSAF meeting is from Anna Kotowska of the University of Nottingham. She is presenting her work on the chemical analysis of biofilms with Orbi-SIMS.
July 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Our final session begins with a talk from Clare Newell from the The Francis Crick Institute and NPL with her latest work on cryo-orbiSIMS.
July 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Next up we have Marcus Rohnke describing work on hard carbon battery anodes.

Following this will be vendor presentations from SPECS Surface Nano Analysis GmbH (Paul Dietrich), IONTOF (Matthias Kleine-Boymann) and Scienta Omicron (Ad Ettema).
July 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This afternoon's session began with Sebastiaan Van Nuffel covering various interesting applications of TOF-SIMS imaging.
July 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Jean-Paul Barnes is our next speaker, describing his group's work on correlative work using TOF-SIMS, XPS and SEM.
July 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Our next session is underway with an entertaining and insightful talk on advances in quantitative atomic scale TEM from Sarah Haigh from the University of Manchester.
July 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
We are pleased to announce not one but TWO winners of the UKSAF Riviere Prize.

Firstly Jiro Matuso is honoured for their work in the development of ion sources for surface analysis.
July 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Our second Travel Award presentation is from Charlie Chandler from Surrey on new developments in XPS depth profiling.
July 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
We are starting day 2 with two UKSAF Travel Award presentations, first up is Yizhuo Ding from the University of Manchester.
July 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Our final talk today is from Elizabeth Legge from National Physical Laboratory (NPL) focusing on Raman spectroscopy of pharmaceutical materials.

Next up vendor presentations from Thermo Fisher Scientific, Blue Scientific and Kratos Analytical, before our poster session & conference dinner.
July 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Kicking off the final session of today is Ian Gilmore from NPL speaking on OrbiSIMS
July 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Our next speaker is Anna Regoutz @bluebananna.bsky.social from the University of Oxford presenting her work on complex interfaces using HAXPES.
July 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
We are pleased to welcome Olivier RENAULT to speak on challenges in reproducibility in HAXPES analysis.
July 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Our YSA finalists are up now introducing their posters. Good luck to Anya Eyres (NPL), Anna Trzaska (Nottingham), William Skinner (Imperial), Eleanor Ender (Manchester), Madeline Berrow (Nottingham) and Aleksandar Radic (Cambridge)!
July 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Our next speaker is Chris Hinkle from Notre Dame speaking on Room-Temperature Ferromagnetism in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides.
July 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Our first speaker is our newly announced Vickerman Prize winner, Mark Biesinger. Mark presented much of his important work on transition metals with XPS.
July 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Our meeting is underway with introductions from David Morgan and Alex Shard!
July 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
We are here at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) for the 2025 summer meeting of the UK Surface Analysis Forum. Looking forward to two great days of science and networking with a full house of 125 delegates!
July 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Lovely morning train journey to Teddington to visit the National Physical Laboratory for the @uksaf.bsky.social meeting today ☀️ Looking forward to a great program and my invited talk on an exciting interface explored using #HAXPES 💪
July 15, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Here is a reminder of our excellent speaker lineup for the upcoming meeting of the UK Surface Analysis Forum at the National Physical Laboratory, July 15-16. Registration is open until July 9th at www.uksaf.net?page_id=20

Also don't forget the XPS Workshop on July 14th!
June 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
We are pleased to announce Hiden Analytical as a silver sponsor of the upcoming meeting of the UK Surface Analysis Forum at NPL in July.
May 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Today we are pleased to announce two more silver sponsors for the upcoming meeting of the UK Surface Analysis Forum in July.

First up, Physical Electronics will be showcasing their XPS, HAXPES, TOF-SIMS and Scanning Auger instruments in conjunction with CN Tech
May 2, 2025 at 8:29 AM