PCAMM Third Annual Meeting
Date: Saturday, December 12, 1998
Location: NRC Innovation Centre, 3520 East Mall at 16th Ave.
Oral and poster presentations are solicited in any area related to advanced materials and microstructures (semiconductors, surface characterization, industrial materials and devices, organic materials, optical and electronicproperties, magnetism, superconductors etc.). Graduate students and postdocs are particularly enouraged to submit presentations.
Registration is free and you may register before Nov. 30 by contacting Michael Wolf at mwolf@chem.ubc.ca, tel. 604-822-1702 or fax 604-822-2847.
Suggestions for invited presentations from local industry and from the University of Alberta should be forwarded to M. Wolf as soon as possible.
Final Meeting Program
9:00-9:30 Coffee / Introduction / Set up posters
9:30-10:35 Session A – Chair: Mike Wolf
| 9:30-9:55 | "Corrosion of Batch and Continuous Digesters in the Pulp & Paper Industry"; Angela Wensley, Bacon Donaldson Consulting Engineers |
| 9:55-10:10 | "New Developments in Multisensor Technology"; Ivan Stoev and Nicolas Jaeger, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UBC. |
| 10:10-10:35 | "Surface Characterization of Plasma Sprayed Coatings"; Lynn Erickson, National Research Council of Canada |
| 10:35-11:10 | Break and Posters |
11:10-12:15 Session B – Chair: Dan Bizzotto
| 11:10-11:35 | "Nonlinear Optical Probes of Surfaces" ; Gary Leach, Department of Chemistry, SFU. |
| 11:35-11:50 | "Real-time monitoring of III-IV quantum dot growth using ultra-violet elastic light scattering"; T. Pinnington, M. Adamcyk, Y. Levy, J.A. MacKenzie, T.Tiedje, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC. |
| 11:50-12:15 | "Effect of light on the behaviour of aqueous dispersions of colloidal metal oxide semiconductors in electric fields"; Geoff Kelsall, Department of Metals and Materials Engineering, UBC. |
| 12:15-1:30 | Lunch and Posters |
1:30-2:35 Session C – Chair: Todd Stuckless
| 1:30-1:55 | "Influence of electrode materials on capacity loss in rechargeable Li-ion cells"; Jan Reimers, Moli Energy. |
| 1:55-2:10 | "Impedance Spectroscopy as a Probe of the Electric Microstructure of Ferroelectric Materials"; M. Dong and Z.-G. Ye, Department of Chemistry, SFU |
| 2:10-2:35 | "Advances in Metal Hydride Batteries"; Sharon Blair, Rend Technologies Ltd. |
| 2:35-3:10 | Break and Posters |
3:10-4:30 Session D – Chair: Jeff Young
| 3:10-3:35 | "Nanopores for Single Molecule DNA Detection and Sequencing"; Andre Marziali, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC. |
| 3:35-3:50 | "Type II photoluminescence and conduction-band offsets of InGaAs/GaAsSb and InP/GaAsSb heterostructures grown by metalorganic vapour phase epitaxy"; Jinsheng Hu, X.G. Xu, J.A.H. Stotz, S.P. Watkins and M.L.W. Thewalt, Department of Physics, SFU and N. Matine and C.R. Bolognesi, Department of Physics and School of Engineering Science, SFU |
| 3:50-4:15 | "Terahertz Pulses for Characterization of Materials"; Frank Hegmann, Deparment of Physics, University of Alberta. |
| 4:15-4:30 | "Magnetoresistance and Magnetic Properties of Fe/Cu/Fe/GaAs(100)"; T. Monchesky, R. Urban, B. Heinrich, J.F. Cochran, K. Myrtle, S. Watkins and P. Yeo, Department of Physics, SFU; M. Klaua, J. Kirschner, Max Plank Institute, Halle. |
Poster Session: list of titles
1. "Iron (II) 4-azabenzimidazolate: A new low temperature molecular magnet"; S.J. Rettig, V. Sanchez, A. Storr, R.C. Thompson and J. Trotter, Department of Chemistry, UBC.
2. "Characterization of Polymer Surfaces and Interfaces"; M. Kono and K.A.R. Mitchell, Department of Chemistry, UBC.
3. "Interfaces in Polymer Light-emitting Diodes"; D. Susac and K.A.R. Mitchell, Department of Chemistry, UBC.
4. "LEED Structural Analysis of (root7)x(root7) systems"; M. Saidy and K.A.R. Mitchell, Department of Chemistry, UBC.
5. "Zinc phosphating on 6061-T6 Alloy"; S. Lei, Y.L. Leung and K.A.R. Mitchell, Department of Chemistry, UBC.
6. "Investigation of the Superconducting and Normal States and Characterization of La2-xSrxCuO4"; J.G. Naeini, X.K. Chen, J.C. Irwin, M.Okuya, T. Kimura, T. Sasagawa, Y. Togawa, K, Kishio, K. Myrtle, A. Curzon and B. Heinrich, Department of Physics, SFU.
7. "Structural Investigations of a second harmonic generating non-linear optical material: para-nitroaniline in ZSM-5 zeolite", Darren H. Brower and Colin A. Fyfe, Department of Chemistry, UBC.
8. "Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Diruthenium Complexes with Dimetal Carboxylate Specific Bridges: Designing "Building Blocks" for Potential Molecular Magnetic Wires"; G.Vamvounis, J.F. Caplan and M.A.S. Aquino; Department of Chemistry, Saint Francis Xavier University, T.S. Cameron; Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University.
9. "Fluorescence Imaging Studies of Octadecanol Adsorption/Desorption onto/from Au(111)"; D. Bizzotto and B. Pettinger, Department of Chemistry, UBC and FHI Berlin, Germany.
10. "Synthesis and Characterization of Innovative Piezo-Ferroelectric Single Crystals (1-x) Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3 - xPbTiO3 [PMN-PT]"; M. Dong and Z.-G. Ye, Department of Chemistry, SFU.
11. "Growth and Properties of Innovative Piezo- / Ferroelectric Single Crystals (1-x) Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3 - xPbTiO3 [PZN-PT]"; L. Zhang, M. Dong and Z.-G. Ye, Department of Chemistry, SFU.
12. "Strong coupling for Distributed Feedback Lasers with high index-contrast gratings: modelling results"; V. Pacradouni, P. Paddon, J.F. Young, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UBC.
13. "MOVPE of InP/GaAsSb/InP double heterojunction bipolar transistors with high fT and low turn-on voltage"; X.G Xu, N. Matine, J. Hu, C. R. Bolognesi, S.P. Watkins, Depts. of Physics and Engineering Science, SFU.
14. "Self-Assembled GaAs Quantum Dots formed with Triethylgallium and Tertiarybutylarsine"; P.S. Yeo, S.P. Watkins, A.E. Curzon, Dept. of Physics, SFU.
15. "X-ray and optical studies of phosphorus passivation of GaAs"; R. Beaudry, X.G. Xu, S.P. Watkins, Dept. of Physics, SFU.
16. "Light Scattering Measurements of Surface Structure Evolution During Molecular Beam Epitaxy"; T. Pinnington,M.Adamcyk,A.Ballestad,Y.Levy,T.Tiedje, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC.
17. "Strong coupling for Distributed Feedback Lasers with high index-contrast gratings: modelling results. V. Pacradouni, P. Paddon"; J.F. Young, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UBC.
18. "Optical Absorption Measurements in a Slab Waveguide Containing a Single
Quantum Well"; M.W.McCutcheon, J.F. Young, P. Paddon, Allan Cowan, Richard Morin, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC.
19. "Physical and optical characterization of wet-oxidized AlxGa1-xAs
with x>0.95"; Francois Sfigakis, Allan Cowan, Christine Nicoll, Paul Paddon,
Martin Adamcyk, Jeff Young, Tom Tiedje, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC.
20. "Luminescent Polymers Encapsulated in Mesoporous Silica"; Andras Pattantyus and Michael Wolf, Department of Chemistry, UBC.
21. "Infrared Laser Diode grown by MOCVD using TBA precursors";
Georg Soerensen, Xiangang Xu, Jinsheng Hu, Simon Watkins, Colombo
Bolognesi; Dept. of Physics;Dept. of Engineering Science, SFU.
22. "A metal-polymer interfacial studies laboratory"
R.J. Murdey, J.A. Ament & Y.K. Sohn, Department of Chemistry, UBC.
23. "X-ray and optical studies of phosphorus passivation of GaAs", Richard Beaudry, Department of Chemistry, SFU.
24. "Solidification of a vicous melt"; M. Degen, N. Costanzino, J. Bechhoefer, Department of ?, SFU?
25. "SAXS of Proton Exchange Membranes"; F.P.Orfino, P.D. Beattie, V.I. Basura, and S. Holdcroft, Department of Chemistry, SFU.
26. "Acid sensitive poly(3-alkylthiophene)s for chemically amplified
photolithography of conjugated polymers"; J. Yu, M. Abley, C. Yang, and S. Holdcroft, Department of Chemistry, SFU.
27. "Coherent Soft X-ray Scattering from Semiconductor Surfaces"; M. Adamcyk, T. Tiedje, C. Pistonesi, S. Eisebitt, A. Karl, R. Scherer, W. Eberhardt, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC.
28. "YBCO Single Crystals Grown Using BaZrO3 Crucibles: Growth, Crystal Quality and New Properties"; Ruixing Liang, Department of Material, UBC.
29. "Coherent Soft X-ray Scattering from Semiconductor Surfaces"; M. Adamcyk, T. Tiedge, C. Pistonesi, S. Eisebitt, A. Karl, R. Scherer, W. Eberhardt, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC.
30. "Effects of oxygen adsorption on photoconductivity in thin-film
titanium dioxide"; Nickolay Golego, S.A. Studenikin, and Michael Cocivera, Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph.
31. "Spin Injection Measurements using Mid-Infrared Electroluminescence"; Ingo Speier, Jeff Young, James Stotz and Mike Thewalt. Department of Physics, UBC and Department of Physics, SFU.