Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Department of Physics

PCAMM

PCAMM Second Annual Meeting

Date: Saturday December 6, 1997
Location: Room AQ 3154, Simon Fraser University, Department of Physics 

Please register by Wednesday December 3 by contacting Simon Watkins by email simonw@sfu.ca, phone 604-291-5763, or fax 604-291-3592. A limited number of additional posters will be accommodated with sufficient notice. 

Directions:
To get directions and to see a map of the campus, check out www.sfu.ca/bbymap/. The meeting room AQ 3154 is in the southeast corner of the Academic Quadrangle, adjacent to the Physics Department. 

Parking:
Persons with UBC faculty stickers may park anywhere in B or C lot (recommended) or in the main parkade (turn right after traffic and security). Others may park in the visitor's parkade (opposite the Shell station). Take a ticket on entering and tell the attendant upon leaving that you are with the PCAMM meeting and they will waive the $4.50 per day fee. 

Program:(Subject to minor changes)
 

9:15  Coffee.
9:25  Introduction and Welcome.

Surface and Interface Characterization, Synchrotron Radiation
(Chair: T. Tiedje)
 

9:30  "The UBC Interfacial Analysis and Reactivity Laboratory", Keith Mitchell, Department of Chemistry, UBC.
9:45  "The Application of Field Emission Auger Electron Spectroscopy to the Study of Advanced Materials", Kenton D. Childs, Physical Electronics Laboratories, Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
10:00  "Study of surface and grain boundary segregation in steels". Mathias Militzer, Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, UBC.
10:15  "X-ray Waveplate for Magnetic X-ray Studies with the PNC-CAT", Robert A. Gordon, Department of Physics, SFU.
10:30  "Use of synchrotron radiation to probe ultrathin InAs quantum wells in GaAs grown by MOCVD", James Gupta, Department of Physics, SFU.
10:45  Coffee and posters.

Industrial Materials and Devices
(Chair, K. Mitchell)
 

11:00  "Lithium Battery Development at BlueStar Advanced Technology Corporation: An Overview", Silvia Wessel, BlueStar Advanced Technology Corporation, Vancouver BC.
11:15  "Sapphire substrates for GaN applications", David Reid, Crystar Research, Victoria BC.
11:30  "Materials issues for digital offest printing", Bill McMullan, Creo Products.
11:45  "Material Challenges in Solid Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells", Kevin Colbow, Ballard Power Systems.
12:15  Lunch and Posters (see below for a list of titles and authors).

Ferroelectrics, Superconductors, and Magnetism
(Chair, B. Heinrich)
 

1:30  "Relaxor Ferroelectric Materials: Present Understanding and New Perspectives for Applications", Zuoguang Ye, Department of Chemistry, SFU.
1:45  "Magnetic field penetration into high Tc superconductor films", Sergei Govorkov, CTF Systems Inc., Port Coquitlam, BC.
2:00  "Engineering of interlayer coupling in ultrathin metallic Fe/Cu/Fe structures", Mathew Kowalewski, Department of Physics, SFU.
2:15  Coffee and Posters.

Semiconductors
(Chair, M. Thewalt)
 

2:30  "Overview of Compound Semiconductor Device Research at SFU", Colombo Bolognesi, Department of Engineering Science and Department of Physics, SFU.
2:45  "Homogeneous Properties of Excitons in Moderately-Doped GaAs/AlGaAs Multiple Quantum Wells", J. Watson, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC.
3:00  "Surface passivation of GaAs by Exposure to Atomic Species", Ligia Gheorghita, Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory, UBC.
3:15  "Self-Heating in Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors: Dynamics and Isothermal Measurements", Todd Kleckner, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UBC.
3:30  "Real-time in situ thickness monitoring during MBE epitaxial growth using alpha particle energy loss", Y. Levy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC.
3:45  "Recent developments in semiconductor crystal growth at Firebird Semiconductor", W. Mickelthwaite, Firebird Semiconductor.
4:00  Lab Tours of SFU facilities (make arrangements during lunch break).
4:00  PCAMM Business Meeting P8445.

Poster Session: list of titles
Semiconductors

  1. "Lattice parameter variation in doped GaAs substrates determined using high resolution PL spectroscopy", Jinsheng Hu, Dale Harrison, Mike Thewalt, Simon Watkins, Department of Physics, SFU. 
  2. "Magnetophotoluminescence of D- states in GaAs", Dale Harrison, Mike Thewalt, Department of Physics, SFU. 
  3. "Textured GaAs/AlGaAs/Al2O3 Slab Waveguides with High Index Contrast using Wet Oxidation", V. Pacradouni, P.Paddon, P. Chen, S. Hoifeldt, S. Johnson, T. Tiedje, J.F Young, Department of Physics, UBC. 
  4. "Critical thickness and surface morphology of strained InxGa1-xAs/GaAs heterostructures observed by atomic force microscopy", J. Hu, X. Xu, and S. P Watkins, Department of Physics, SFU. 
  5. "On the Use of Oxygen Atoms to Form Gate Oxides on SiGe", Lan Zheng and Elmer Ogryzlo, Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory, UBC. 
  6. "Near Infra-Red Luminescence of Polyexcitons in Silicon", M.L.W.Thewalt, V.A.Karasyuk, D.A.Harrison and D.A.Huber, Department of Physics, SFU. 
  7. "Light scattering measurements of the smoothing of textures of GaAs in molecular beam epitaxy", A.Ballestad, M. Adamcyk, D. Grandmaison, T. Pinnington, T. Tiedje, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC. 
  8. "A New Approach to DLTS Defect Analysis in Semiconductors", P. Kolev, M.J. Deen, Engineering Science, SFU, T. Hardy and R. Murowinski, NRC, Victoria, and M. Citterio and J. Kerstead, Brookhaven National Lab, New York. 
  9. "The intrinsic splitting of the ground state of shallow acceptors in Si", V. A. Karasyuk, M. L. W. Thewalt, E. C. Lightowlers, Dept. of Physics, SFU, Dept. of Physics, Imperial College, London. 

    10. Magnetic materials

  10. "Fe Growth on S-Passivated GaAs(100): Magnetic and Growth Properties", Ted Monchesky, Department of Physics SFU. 

    11. Polymer Materials/Oxides

  11. "Proposal for Polymer Metallization Calorimetry", Richard Murdey and J. Todd Stuckless, Department of Chemistry, UBC. 
  12. "The Oxygen Charge Transfer Complex and its Effect on the Electrical, Optical, and Luminescent Properties of Poly(3-Alkylthiophenes)", M. S. A. Abdou, F. P. Orfino, Y. Son, and S. Holdcroft, Department of Chemistry, SFU. 
  13. "Photochemical Deposition of aluminum oxide", W. L. Law, Department of Chemistry, SFU. 
  14. "Photodeposition of Rhenium oxide", J. P. Bravo-Vasquez, Department of Chemistry, SFU. 
  15. "Novel Amorphous molybdenum tungsten oxides sensors for NO2 detection", C. W. Chu, Department of Chemistry, SFU. 
  16. "Chemically Amplified Photolithography using Water Soluble Polymers", A. Diaz-Quijada, B. M. Pinto and S. Holdcroft, Department of Chemistry, SFU. 

    17. Devices

  17. "Noise in Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers", Mahan Movassaghi and Mike Jackson, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UBC. 
  18. "GaInP/GaInAs pseudomorphic HFETs", Sheldon McLaughlin, Department of Engineering Science and Department of Physics, SFU. 
  19. "Time-Resolved Measurement of Chirp in Modulated Optical Sources", Dave Jez and Mike Jackson, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UBC. 
  20. "Electro-Optic Characterization of Switching in Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors", Jiaming Zhang, Russell Ruo, Todd Kleckner and Mike Jackson, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UBC.

    21. X-rays/ Synchrotron radiation/Surface characterization

  21. "Coherent soft X-ray scattering off surfaces"M.Adamcyk, S.Eisebitt, A. Karl, R. Scherer, A. Ballestad, T. Tiedje, W. Eberhardt. 
  22. "Materials Science Research With the PNC-CAT", Daryl Crozier, Robert Gordon, Alper Sahiner, De-tong Jiang, Physics Department, Simon Fraser University, PNC-CAT, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne, Ill. 
  23. "LEED Studies for Chemisorbed Root 7 Structures on Transition Metal Surfaces", M. Saidy, W. Liu, K.C. Wong, M.Y. Zhou and K.A.R. Mitchell, Department of Chemistry, UBC. 
  24. "XPS Studies of Model HDN Catalysts: Effects of Calcination and Nitridation", Y.L. Leung, M.Y. Zhou, P.C. Wong, K.A.R. Mitchell and K.J. Smith, Department of Chemistry, UBC.