Meeting sponsored by the NSERC Nano IP Program and Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University

Date: Saturday, December 6, 2003

The meeting will be held in the Halpern Centre of the Burnaby Campus of Simon Fraser University. For directions and maps, please check the links 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.

A data projector with a desktop computer will be available for Power Point presentations; the speakers should save their files to a CD or USB storage device. An overhead projector will also be available. Presenters are encouraged to come early to download their files or setup their posters. The size of a poster board is 4’¥ 4’.

Registration is on site and free of charge.

Oral Presentations

Chair: Frank van Veggel (UVic)

 

9:00 Probing the Plant Surface: Composition and Function of Epicuticular Waxes

R. Jetter (UBC)

9:20 Conjugated Macrocycles for Molecular Assembly

M. MacLachlan (UBC)

9:40 Improving Solid State Emission of Polymers for Polymeric Light Emitting Diode (pLED) Technology

G. Vamvounis, Y. Li, G. L. Schulz, and S. Holdcroft (SFU)

10:00 Large Area, Diagnostic X-ray Imaging Electronics

K. S. Karim (SFU)

10:20 Coffee Break

Chair: Karen Kavanagh (SFU)

10:40 The NSERC Nano IP and the Canadian Nano Scene

M. Roseman (Associate Scientific Director, NSERC Nano Innovation Platform)

11:00 The Surface Plasmon Route to Nanophotonics
R. Gordon, A. Brolo, A. McKinnon, A. Rajora, B. Leathem, K. Kavanagh (UVic /SFU)

11:20 MEMS and NEMS Research at UBC

M. Chiao (UBC)

11:40 Carrier Mobility in Organic Semiconductor Thin Films

H. L. Kwok (UVic)

12:00 Lunch and Poster Session

Chair: Mark MacLachlan (UBC)

2:20 Micro Fuel Cell & MEMS Research at the NRC Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation

J. Wu and K. Stanley (NRC)

2:40 Theoretical Modeling of Fuel Cell Materials –From Understanding to New Design

M. Eikerling (SFU/NRC)

3:00 Engineering Relaxations in Metallic Multilayer Films: Dynamic Exchange Coupling and 2-Magnon Scattering

G. Woltersdorf, B. Kardasz, J. Foros, and B. Heinrich (SFU)

3:20 Local Manipulation of Nuclear Spin in a Semiconductor Quantum Well

G. Steeves (UVic)

3:40 Capabilities of the Canadian Light Source in advanced materials research

E. Hallin (Acting Research Director of the CLS)

4:00 Thanks

H. Yu (SFU)

 

Poster Presentations

I. Nano IP poster session: nanoscience and nanomaterials

 

1. Lanthanide (III) Based Luminescent Nanomaterials and Their Applications

F. van Veggel (UVic), J.W. Stouwdam, G.A. Hebbink, J. Huskens (University of Twente)

2. Structure of GaAs and AlGaAs Nanowires

J. Q. Liu, K. L. Kavanagh (SFU); Z. H. Wu, X. Y. Mei, and H. E. Ruda (Uof T)

3. Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy of Nanostructured Materials
A. G. Pattantyus-Abraham, M. O. Wolf (UBC), F. J. Garcia de Abajo, A. Rivacoba, N. Zabala (Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU, San Sebastian, Spain)

4. The Transparency and Conductivity of Bismuth Indium Oxide Thin Films

M. Karimi, J. Peng, Y. Tu, K.L. Kavanagh, and G.H. Chapman (SFU)

5. Seeing the Light: Identifying the Electrochemical Dimerization of An Adsorbed Monolayer on Au by In-situ Fluorescence

E. Chung, J. Shepherd, D. Bizzotto, and M. O. Wolf (UBC)

6. Structure of the Magnetic Trilayer System Fe/Pd/Fe Epitaxially Grown on GaAs(001)-4_6

P. S. Budnik, R. A. Gordon, and E. D. Crozier (SFU)

7. Evolution of Interface Voids under Current and Temperature Stress in Integrated Circuit Metallization

J. H. Choy and K. L. Kavanagh (SFU)

8. Sol-gel Preparation and Electric Characterization of Crystalline Metal Oxide Thin Films on Silicon

H.-Y. Guo and Z.-G. Ye (SFU)

9. Modeling of the Growth of CdTe Single Crystals by the Traveling Heater Method under Various Magnetic Fields

S. Dost¹, B. Lent², Y. Liu¹, and R. F. Redden² (¹UVic; ²Amistar Research and Development Inc.)

10. Electron-Transport at Organic-Aqueous Interfaces: New Application of Side Product

J. Xu, A. Frcic, J. A. C. Clyburne, H. Z. Yu (SFU), and R. G. Gossage (Acadia)

11. Bismuth Used to Induce Ordering in GaAsSb Grown by MOVPE

W. Jiang, J. Q. Liu, M. G. So, T. S. Rao, K. L. Kavanagh, and S. P. Watkins (SFU)

12. Self-Assembling Latex Particles into Proton-Conductive Membranes

J. Gao, D. Lee, B. J. Frisken, Y. Yang, and S. Holdcroft (SFU)

13. Synthesis of Nanosized MgAl₂O₄ Powder Using Sol-Gel Precipitation

G. T. Ye, G. Oprea, and T. Troczynski (UBC)

14. Organic Modified Metal-Semiconductor Junctions: Molecular Tunability?

H. Asanuma, Y. J. Liu, and H. Z. Yu (SFU)

15. Integrated Nonlinear Optical Circuitry on SOI Wafers

A. Cowan, G. W. Rieger, K. S. Virk, and J. F. Young (UBC)

16. Morphology and Conductivity of Partially Sulfonated Fluorine-containing Block Copolymers as Proton Exchange Membranes

Z. Shi and S. Holdcroft (SFU)

17. Selective Reductive Desorption of a Fluorescent SAM as Monitored in Real Time with Fluorescence Microscopy

J. L. Shepherd* , A. Kell+ , E. Chung* , M. Workentin+ , C. Sinclair^*, and D. Bizzotto* (* UBC; ⁺UWO)

18. Developing a Self-aligned Transistor Process for Large Area X-ray Imaging in Crystalline Silicon Technology

G. Sanaie-Fard, M. Zhao, T. Ottaviani, M.H. Izadi, and K.S. Karim (SFU)

19. Quantitative morphology of PEM Fuel Cell Microstructures: An Image Analysis Approach

J. Zhang, K. Shi, J. Wu, and S. Holdcroft (NRC)

20. Simulation and Fabrication of 2D hexagonal Lattice Photonic Crystal Structures with High-Q Defect States

M. W. McCutcheon and J. F. Young (UBC)

21. Nanoscale Pattern Evolution in Cl2 Etching of Textured GaAs (001) Surfaces

R. E. Mar, J. H. Schmid, and T. Tiedje (UBC)

22. DNA Concentration on a Microfabricated Biochip

M. Sjoerdsma, M. Parameswaran, and P. C. H. Li (SFU)

23. Binding Kinetics of Multiply Charged Metal Cations to DNA Monolayers on Gold

L. Su, C. G. Sankar, D. Sen, and H. Z. Yu (SFU)

24. Adsorption and Detection of Promoter Atoms on the MoS₂ Catalyst Surface

G. Cetnarowski and G. W. Leach (SFU)

25. Carbon Nanotube Synthesis and use in Saturable Absorbers

A. Izadi-Najafabadi, E. Fok, and J. Madden (UBC)

26. Polymer Electronic Devices

E. Schortinghuis, A. Taskshi, and J. Madden (UBC)

27. The Deposition of Nanostructured and Porous Nanostructured Metal Oxide Films

X. Zhang and R. Hill (SFU)

28. Materials and Microstructures of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

O. Kesler (UBC/NRC)

29. Low Temperature Studies of the Vibrational Structure of Organic Thin Films

T. Johansson and G. Leach (SFU)

30. Self-Assembled Monolayer of 4-Thiomethyl Substituted m-Terphenyls on Gold

H. Jalali, D. A. Dickie, H. Z. Yu, and J. A. C. Clyburne (SFU)

31. The Study of Polycrystalline Nickel Films by Magnetic Second Harmonic Generation. T. Xu and G. W. Leach (SFU)

32. A Quartz Crystal Sensor for Monitoring the Polymerization, Expansion and

Contraction of a Contractible Body

X. Li and Paul C.H. Li (SFU)

33. β-Detected Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

T. J. Parolin,¹ R. F. Kiefl,^1,3 W. A. MacFarlane,¹ K. H. Chow,² and Z. Salman³ ( ¹UBC; ²UofA; ³TRIUMF)

II. Advanced materials: synthesis and fabrication

34. Gas Diffusion Electrodes Containing Sulfonated Poly (Ether Ether Ketone)

E. B. Easton and S. Holdcroft (SFU)

35. Green Emission from End Group Induced Aggregation in Polydioctylfluorene

X. W. Chen (SFU), J. L. Liao, S. A. Chen (National Tsing Hua University)

36. Unsymmetrical Precursors to Liquid Crystals

J. Foster and V. Williams (SFU)

37. Liquid Phase Electroepitaxial (LPEE) Crystal Growth

R. Rook, M. Yildiz, H. Sheibani, and S. Dost (UVic)

38. Growth of Germanium Rich-Graded SixGe1-x Single Crystals by Liquid Phase Diffusion

M. Yildiz,^a S. Dost^a, and B. Lent ^b (^a UVic; ^b DL Crystals Inc.)

39. Electroluminescent Polythiophenes

X. Han, G. Vamvounis, and S. Holdcroft (SFU)

40. Formation of Liquid Crystals via Supramolecular Interactions

Y. –C. Ke and V. Williams (SFU)

41. Study of Water in Polyelectrolytes containing Styrene-Sulfonic acids using Differential Scanning Calorimetry

1. Siu and S. Holdcroft (SFU)

42. Sulfonated Polysulfone-block-PVDF Copolymers: Synthesis and Effect of Morphology on Proton Conductivity

Y. Yang, Z. Shi, and S. Holdcroft (SFU)

43. Synthesis and Characterization of Sulfonated Polyimides

M. Rodgers, Y. Yang, and S. Holdcroft (SFU)

44. Novel Electrochromism of Photochromic 1,2-Dithienylethene Molecules

B. Gorodetsky, H. Samachetty, A. Peters, and N. R. Branda (SFU)

45. Investigation of Light Controlled reactivity

D. Sud and N. R. Branda (SFU)

46. Proton Conductivity of Partially Fluorinated PEM’s under Conditions of Controlled Temperature and Humidity

J. Schmeisser and S. Holdcroft (SFU)

47. LPEE Growth of Binary and Ternary Crystals under External Magnetic Field- I. Experimental

H. Sheibani^1,2, S. Dost¹, and B. Lent^1,2 (¹ UVic; ² DL Crystals Inc.)

48. [Au(CN)₂]^- Based Polymers for Materials Applications

J. Lefebvre, R. J. Batchelor, and D. B. Leznoff (SFU)

49. The Synthesis and Characterization of Novel 3,4-Dialkylthiophene-co-Thiophene Amphiphilic Polymers

J. Mattu, T. J. Gordon, G. Leach and S. Holdcroft (SFU)