The recipient of 2006 Lee Hsun Lecture Series—Lee Hsun Lecture Award, Prof. Knut W. Urban from Research Center Juelich, visited Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMR, CAS) from September 20 to 22, 2017.

During the visit, Prof. Urban delivered a lecture entitled “Aberration-Corrected Electron Microscopy”. He gave an introduction of double-hexapole correction principle. And he discussed a few examples the way how modern aberration-corrected electron microscopy is helping us to better understand materials and their properties in the lecture.

Prof. Urban has been the Director of Research Center Juelich from 1987 to 2010. He was also the President of the German Physical Society (DPG) from 2004 to 2006 which is the world's largest organization of physicists. In 2009 he was elected a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.

Prof. Urban’s research focuses on the field of aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy (both regarding the further development of instruments and the control software), the examination of structural defects in oxides and the physical properties of complex metallic alloys. And he received the prestigious Wolf Prize in Physics with his collaborator for their work in advancing electron microscopy in 2011.

Academician YE Hengqiang presents the plaque of Lee Hsun Lecture Series to Prof. Knut W. Urban. (Image by IMR)

Prof. Knut W. Urban delivers a lecture. (Image by IMR)