Simon Fraser University
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Department of Physics

PCAMM

Pacific Centre for Advanced Materials and Microstructures (PCAMM) Sixth Annual Meeting, December 8, 2001

The PCAMM meeting will be held in the Halpern Centre of the Burnaby Campus of Simon Fraser University. For directions please see the online map at http://www.sfu.ca/bbymap/. We recommend that attendees park in the visitor parkade.
The Halpern centre is located near the northwest corner of the convocation mall, just between the academic quadrangle and the library.

Registration is on site and free of charge.

Oral Presentations

Chair: Mike Thewalt

9:30

 Invited Talk: Materials Challenges in High Power Arc Electrodes,
Anthony Hewett, Vortek Industries Ltd., Vancouver

9:50

 Low Temperature Magnetophotoluminescence of InSb,
James A.H. Stotz and Mike L.W. Thewalt, Physics, SFU

10:10

 Some Challenging Surface and Interface Structures
Madiba Saidy and Keith A.R. Mitchell, Chemistry, UBC

10:30

 Coffee Break

 

Chair: Ross Hill

11:00

 Invited Talk: Surface Engineering at the Molecular Level: Fabrication and Characterization of Self-Assembled Organic Thin Films
Hua-Zhong (Hogan) Yu, Chemistry, SFU

11:20

 Liquid Phase Electroepitaxial growth of InGaAs crystal - effect of applied magnetic field,
Sadik Dost, H. Sheibani and Brian Lent, Mechanical Eng., U. of Victoria

11:40

 Applications of Electron Backscatter Diffraction in materials science and engineering,
Taryn Biggs, M. Militzer, W. Poole and M. Wells, Metals and Matls Eng., UBC

12:00

 Lunch, Poster Session, and Lab Tours

1:00

 PCAMM Business Meeting

 

Chair: Simon Watkins

2:00

 Invited Talk: Resonant soft x ray scattering; a new tool to study the electronic and magnetic structure of ultra thin films,
George Sawatzky, Physics and Astronomy, UBC.

2:20

 Focused Ion Beam Microscopic Study on Interfacial Failure of Bio-coatings and Surface-Cell Interactions,
Rizhi Wang, Metals and Matls Engineering, UBC

2:40

 Domain wall-induced switching of whisker-based tunnel junctions
Radovan Urban, D. Ullmann, B. Heinrich, Physics, SFU, J. Kirschner, Max Planck Institute, Halle, R. Schaefer, IFW, Dresden, Germany

3:00

 Microinhomogeneity of Amorphous Materials: Ribbons, Bulks and Glass coated Microwires,
Ludvilla Shepelev, Vortek Industries Ltd., Vancouver, and V. Manov, Advanced Metal Technologies Ltd., Israel

3:20

 Photophysical properties of Poly(thiophene) Materials for Light Emitting Devices,
George Vamvounis, Yuning Li and Steven Holdcroft*, Chemistry SFU

3:40

 P-Type Carbon Doping of GaSb,
Rod Wiersma, and Simon Watkins, Physics, SFU

4:00

 Final Announcements

 

Posters:

I     Polymers, Coatings, Membranes

  1. Amphotericin B Interactions with a DOPC Monolayer, Electrochemical Investigations, Robin Stoodley*, K. M. Wasan#, D. Bizzotto*; * Chemistry, #Pharmaceutical Science, UBC
  2. Preparation and electrochemistry of self-assembled monolayers of 2-(2'-thienyl)pyridine on gold surfaces, Emily Chung, Dan Bizotto and Michael O. Wolf, Chemistry, UBC
  3. Acid-Labile 3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene Based Conjugated Polymer: A Processable Low Band-gap Polymeric Semiconductor Material, Jianfei Yu and Steven Holdcroft, Chemistry, SFU
  4. Electronic detection of DNA using nanometer-scale pores, Jonathan Nakane and Andre Marziali, Physics and Astronomy, UBC
  5. Chemically Bonded Composite Sol-Gel Coatings - Adhesion And Permeability, Gesheng Li, Quanzu Yang, and Tom Troczynski, Metals and Matls Eng., UBC
  6. The Interaction of Water in Proton Exchange Membranes, Ana Siu and Steven Holdcroft*, Chemistry, SFU
  7. Nanoporous Alumina/Conjugated Polymer Hybrid Materials: Progress Towards Electroluminescent Devices, Madiba Saidy, Katja Rademacher, Keri Kwong, Andras Pattantyus and Michael, Wolf, Chemistry, UBC
  8. Enhancement of Fluorescence Efficiency of PPVs via Post-Halogenation, Yuning Li, George Vamvounis, and Steven Holdcroft*, Chemistry, SFU
  9. Visualization of the potential induced formation of water insoluble surfactant aggragates by epi-fluorescent microscopy, Jeff Shepherd, UBC
  10. Vibrational Structure and Dynamics of Monolayer Thin Films, Tom Johansson and Gary Leach, Chemistry, SFU.

II     Magnetic, Electronic and Optical Properties

  1. Third order nonlinear response of slab waveguide Photonic crystals, Mohamad Banaee, A. R. Cowan, and Jeff F. Young, Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory, UBC
  2. Non-Local Gilbert Damping in Magnetic Double Layers, Georg Woltersdorf, R.Urban, and B. Heinrich, Physics SFU
  3. Carbon doping and growth rate reduction of GaAsSb grown by metalorganic chemical-vapor deposition using CCl4 ,Chengxin Wang, Simon Watkins, Physics, SFU
  4. Resonant Enhancement of LO Phonon Raman Scattering in 2-Dimensional Planar Photonic Crystal Waveguides, Xiaonong Shen, W. Jiang, A.R. Cowan and Jeff F. Young, Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory, Physics and Astronomy, UBC.
  5. Oligo- and Polythiophene - Metal Hybrid Materials, Tracey Stott, Carolyn Moorlag, Antje Teichert and Michael O. Wolf, Chemistry, UBC
  6. Zero Field Electron Spin Resonance and Applications to High Tc Superconductors, Tami Pereg-Barnea, Patrick Turner, Richard Harris, Walter Hardy, Ruixing Liang, Physics and Astronomy, UBC
  7. Laser Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Polymeric Semiconductors, Young-Ku Sohn and J. Todd Stuckless, Chemistry, UBC
  8. Broadband Microwave Spectroscopy of the High Temperature Superconductor YBa2Cu3Ox, Patrick J. Turner, R. Harris, Saeid Kamal, M.E. Hayden, D.M. Broun, D.C. Morgan, Hosseini, P. Dosanjh, J.S. Preston, Ruixing Liang, D.A. Bonn, and Walter N Hardy, Physics and Astronomy, UBC.
  9. Growth and Characterization of High Temperature Superconducting Materials: The UBC HiTc Research Effort, Doug A. Bonn, J. Babiak, D.M. Broun, P. Dosanjh, W.N. Hardy, R. Harris, A.Hosseini, Saeid Kamal, M. Kurylowicz, Ruixing Liang, G. Mullins, D. Peets, T. Pereg-Barnea, P.J. Turner, Physics and Astronomy, UBC.
  10. Anisotropic Resistivity correlated with Atomic Ordering in p-type GaAsSb, Victoria Fink, E. Chevalier, K. L. Kavanagh, M. W. Dvorak, C. R. Bolognesi, O. Pitts, M. Wang, S. P. Watkins, Physics, SFU, and S. Hummel and N. Moll, Hewlett Packard.

III     Microstructure and Properties

  1. Nitrogen K-edge spectra of GaN and GaNAs , Astrid Jürgensen (Canadian Synchrotron Beamline, Wisc.), Daryl Crozier (Physics, SFU), James Gupta (NRC, Ottawa), Julian Noad and David Coulas (CRC, Ottawa)
  2. Coursening of Nanosize Precipitates, Pavel Freundlich, and Matthias Militzer, Metals and Matls. Eng., UBC
  3. In situ XAFS of ultrathin films grown epitaxially by MBE, Robert Gordon, Peter Budnik, Daryl Crozier, Physics, SFU.
  4. Effect of Cd Vacancies on the Optical Absorption from Monolayers of Exfoliated CdPS3 , Datong Yang, Philippe Westreich, , and Robert Frindt, Physics, SFU
  5. Synthesis of narrow size distribution sub-micron TiO2 spheres, Mehrdad Keshmiri, and Tom Troczynski, Metals and Matl.s Eng., UBC
  6. Effects of 2024-T3 Aluminum Alloy Microstructure on Adsorption of BTSE and _-APS, Darija Susac and K.A.R. Mitchell, Chemistry, UBC
  7. New Sol-Gel Routes to Relaxor Ferroelectric Ceramics and Thin Films, Keshwaree Babooram and Z. G. Ye, Chemistry, SFU
  8. Growth and characterization of Pb[(Sc1/2Nb1/2)1-xTix]O3 single crystals with MPB composition, Yonghong H. Bing and Z.-G. Ye, Chemistry, SFU
  9. Study of the High Temperature Phase Diagram of Piezo-/Ferroelectric (1-x)Pb1-x(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-xPbTiO3 Solid Solution, Jean Gao, Ming Dong and Zuo-Guang Ye, Chemistry Department, SFU
  10. The magnetic properties of Ni thin films studied by MSHG, Tianhong Xu, Gary W. Leach, Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University.
  11. Nitrogen Effects on Defect Mobilities in Dilute Nitrides, Martin Adamcyk, Sebastian Tixier, Jens Schmid, Tom Tiedje, Victoria Fink, Alexey Koveshnikov, Adil Chahboun, and Karen Kavanagh, Physics, UBC and SFU.

VI     Surfaces

  1. GaSb/GaAs Quantum Dots and Quantum Wells, Oliver J. Pitts, C. X. Wang, S. P. Watkins, V. Fink, K. L. Kavanagh, J. A. H. Stotz, and M. L. W. Thewalt, Physics, SFU
  2. 3He Nuclear Relaxation as a Probe of Borosilicate Glasses, Cecilia Lei, Nichol Furey, Shannon Kolind, M.E. Hayden, William McIvor, Sam Wong, Physics, SFU
  3. Versatile multi-mode SPM, Christoph Hebeisen, R. Greenall*, and J. Bechhoefer, Physics, SFU, *and RTS Consulting, Port Moody, BC
  4. Adsorption and detection of promoter atoms and reactions on the MoS2 catalyst surface, Gregory Cetnarowski and G. W. Leach, Chemistry, SFU.
  5. Scanning Spreading Resistance Microscopy and Current Transport Studies on Doped III-V Semiconductors, Ryan .P. Lu and K.L. Kavanagh, ECE, UC San Diego, and Physics, SFU, and St. J. Dixon-Warren, A. J. SpringThorpe, R. Streater and I. Calder, Nortel Networks, Nepean, Ontario