Venue: ILL Chadwick Amphitheatre

Programme

Monday, 24 May 2004
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:05 Opening of the workshop by the organisers
9:05-9:15 Welcome by a Director of Research, ESRF
Diamonds and their applications
Chairman: Simon Connell
9:15-10:00 Diamond in X-ray optics Andreas Freund
ESRF, France
10:00-10:30 Applications of synthetic IIa diamonds at SPring-8 Tetsuya Ishikawa
SPring-8, Japan
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
Diamond growth/Production, post-growth treatment
Chairman: Tetsuya Ishikawa
11:00-11:45 Physics of diamond Simon Connell
Univ. of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
11:45-12:15 Growth of high-quality large diamond crystals under high pressure and high temperature Hitoshi Sumiya
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Japan
12:15-14:00 Lunch at the ESRF Canteen
Chairman: John Morse
14:00-14:30 Growth of single crystal CVD diamond Bradford Pate/Jim Butler
Naval Research Laboratory, USA
14:30-15:00 Choice of diamond type, Ib or IIa, for use in X-ray optics: implications for HPHT synthesis Joh Hansen
Element Six, South Africa
15:00-15:30 Processing diamonds for synchrotron related applications Miklos Rebak
Univ. of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
15:30-15:50 Stain in treated and untreated single crystal CVD diamond Patrick J. Doering
Apollo Diamond, Inc., USA
15:50-16:20 Coffee break
Characterisation, further applications
Chairman: Joanna Hoszowska
16:20-16:40 Crystal quality investigated by X-ray diffraction topography

Jürgen Härtwig
ESRF, France
16:40-17:00 The rocking curve imaging method: visualizing the lattice quality of a crystal Daniel Lübbert
HASYLAB, Germany
17:00-18:00 Origin and evolution of lumps in European pancake-diamonds Dr. Eightech
Institute for Pancake Research (IPR), Freilassingen
18:30 Bus departure to the restaurant from the ESRF site entrance
19:00 Workshop Dinner: Restaurtant Garin-Cartusia, Le Col de Porte
22:30 Return to Grenoble (Hotels and ESRF)
Tuesday, 25 May 2004
Characterisation, further applications
Chairman: Miklos Rebak
9:00-9:20 Surface characterisation Benno Vrolijk
Element Six, NL
9:20-9:30 Application of single crystal diamonds for detectors at the ESRF John Morse
ESRF, France
9:30-9:50 Single crystal CVD diamond for Detector Applications Andrew Whitehead
Element Six, UK
9:50-10:10 Diamond for DAC Herman Godfried
Element Six, NL
10:10-10:30 X-ray topographic investigation of diamond anvils for high pressure generation - Correlation between defects and early failure Agnès Dewaele
CEA/DPTA, France
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
Coherence properties, further char acterization
Chairman: Horst Schulte-Schrepping
11:00-11:30 Coherent imaging: applications and optics requirements Peter Cloetens
ESRF, France
11:30-11:50 Characterisation of synthetic IIa diamonds at SPring8 Kenji Tamasaku
SPring8, Japan
11:50-12:10 Diamond synthetic single crystals: characterisation of crystalline quality and coherence preservation

Joanna Hoszowska
ESRF, France
12:10-14:00 Lunch at the ESRF Canteen
Chairman: Christian Morawe
14:00-14:30 Diamond for 4th generation X-ray sources Horst Schulte-Schrepping
HASYLAB, Germany
14:30-14:50 Diamond crystals under extreme heat-load Lin Zhang
ESRF, France
14:50-15:10 X-ray topography and tomography studies of surface damage in etched diamond-crystal plates Albert T. Macrander
APS, USA
15:10-15:30 The linac coherent light source and its X-ray optics needs John Arthur
SSRL, USA
15:30-15:50 Energy recovery linac source properties and X-ray optics needs Qun Shen
CHESS Cornell, USA
15:50-16:10 Coffee break
Chairman: Andreas Freund
16:10 Round table discussion, conclusion