PCAMM First Annual Meeting
Date: Saturday December 7, 1996.
Location: NRC Institute for Sensor and Control Technology, 3250 East Mall at 16th Ave.
Register before Monday December 2, by contacting Cheryl Slevin at slevin@physics.ubc.ca or tel 822-4543, fax 822-4750, info. contact Tom Tiedje, tiedje@physics.ubc.ca, tel 822-6615
Program:
| 9:15 | Coffee. |
| 9:25 | Introduction and Welcome. |
Semiconductor Materials
(Chair: S. Watkins)
| 9:30 | Simon Watkins, SFU. Overview of Semiconductor Growth Research at SFU. |
| 9:45 | David Reid, Crystar. LEC growth of InGaAs. |
| 10:00 | Richard Ares, SFU. "New model for atomic layer epitaxy of GaAs" |
| 10:15 | Ross Hill, SFU. Surface Photochemistry for Materials Synthesis. |
| 10:30 | Tom Pinnington, UBC. Surface Morphology Dynamics During MBE Growth of Strained InGaAs. |
| 10:45 | Break |
(Chair, K. Mitchell)
| 11:00 | Sayuri Ritchie, UBC. X-ray Reflectivity Study of the Growth Kinetics of LaF3 Films on III-V Semiconductors. |
| 11:15 | Martin Dvorak, SFU. InAs FETs. |
Organic Conductors
| 11:30 | M. Wolf, UBC. New Self Assembled Materials for Molecule-Based Electronic Devices. |
| 11:45 | Holdcroft, SFU. Electronically Conducting Plastics. |
| 12:15 | Lunch and Posters (see listing below) |
Superconductors and Magnetism
(Chair, D. Bonn)
| 1:30 | A. Fife, CTF Systems. Magneto-optical Studies of SQUID Circuits. |
| 1:45 | Bret Heinrich, SFU. Magnetic Metallic Ultrathin Film Structures, Role of Interfaces. |
| 2:00 | Bonn, UBC. "Microwave Surface Resistance of YBCO" |
| 2:15 | Break |
Optical Properties
(Chair, M. Thewalt)
| 2:30 | Paul Paddon, UBC. Light scattering in textured semiconductor waveguides exhibiting photonic bandstructure: theory and experiment |
| 2:45 | Dale Harrison, SFU. Fabry-Perot interference of exciton-polaritons in epitaxial GaAs" |
| 3:00 | Jennifer Watson, UBC. Measurement of exciton dephasing rates using four wave mixing in GaAs/AlGaAs multiple quantum wells. |
| 3:15 | Yves Lacroix, SFU. "A New Eye Into the Mid-Infrared: A High Resolution Cryogenic Interferometer for Semiconductor Photoluminescence Studies." |
| 3:30 | PCAMM Business Meeting |
Poster Presentations
Semiconductors
- Wenkai Zhong, SFU. "Analysis of spiral growth of semiconductors using atomic force microscopy"
- Ping Chen, UBC. Grating Fabrication for DFB Lasers
- Mario Beaudoin, UBC. InP Grown by MBE with a GaP Source for Phosphorus
- Jinshen Hu, SFU. "Industrial applications of high resolution x-ray diffraction"
- H. Li and E. A. Ogryzlo, UBC. Passivation and De-passivation Processes at the SiO2/Si Interface.
- Kaspar Mossmann, UBC. "Spiral RF Resonators made from YBaCuO"
- Andre Wong, UBC. "Inhibition Patterning of YBaCuO by Ion Implantation"
- Massoud Badaye, UBC. "Laser Ablation Growth of NdBaCuO Thin Films"
- Saeid Kamal, UBC. "Microwave Penetration Depth of YBaCuO"
- Maciej Kowalewski, SFU. "Studies of Interlayer Exchange Coupling in Fe/Cu/Fe Ultrathin Heterostructures"
- Ted Monchesky, SFU. "The Epitaxial Growth of Fe on Sulfur Passivated GaAs"
- H. Hawthorne NRC. Materials Tribology at NRC.
- Y. Leung, UBC. Interfacial Chemistry of Alumina Supported Mo Catalysts.
- J. Fang, UBC. Search for New Spray Coating Methods for Corrosion Protection of Aluminum Alloys.
- M. Kono, UBC. Surface Modification of Polymers using Hydrogen Plasma Treatments.
- Y. M. Yang. Evolution of Structure with Coverage for Electronegative Atoms Adsorbed on Transition Metal Surfaces
- Vighen Pacradouni, UBC. Application of a transfer matrix method to the calculation of optical properties of textured waveguides
- Sune Hoifeldt UBC. Modelling of dispersion compensation by chirped gratings using a coupled mode theory approach
Superconductors
Metal Thin Films
Surface Modification
Optical Properties