Invitation:

 

You are invited to attend the 11th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Center for Advanced Materials and Microstructures (PCAMM) at SFU.  This event brings together materials researchers from all over BC and beyond to present their research results and hear about new developments in materials and device research in BC.
 
The event will be held at Simon Fraser University on Saturday December 9, 2006 in the IRMACS Center.  Lunch will be provided.  The event is free of charge, but attendees are requested to pre-register by emailing Simon Watkins (simonw@sfu.ca)

 
The format will be somewhat different from previous meetings in that there will be more focus on facilitating interactions through expanded poster sessions.

 

Financial travel assistance will be available for students from Victoria.


Approximate Schedule of events:

 

Time                Event                                      Location

 

9:30                 Registration, coffee                   Applied Science Building main foyer

10:00               Poster session 1                        Applied Science Building main foyer

11:00               Oral session 1                           IRMACS theatre
12:00               Lunch/poster session 2              Applied Science Building main foyer     

13:30               Oral session 2                           IRMACs theatre

14:30               Poster session 3                        Applied Science Building main foyer

15:30               Oral session 3                           IRMACs theatre

16:30               PCAMM business meeting       to be determined
 

Directions to meeting rooms (IRMACS facility):   http://www.irmacs.sfu.ca/about/directions.php


Instructions to presenters:

Common projection technologies will be available. We prefer that oral presenters use their own laptops.
Poster presenters are requested to have their poster in place before the start of the first poster session and to keep it there until the end of the day.
There are no assigned spaces for poster placement.


Parking:      Parking in  B-lot will  be free for the entire event.  To reach  B-lot, follow the directions in the above link, but follow the signs for B-lot, rather than the "visitor parking"  circled on the IRMACs link.  B-lot is the large lot on the left hand side just before the visitors lot.

 

Preliminary Invited  Presentation Schedule


Oral Session 1:
11:00  Mike Thewalt, SFU Physics, “Isotopically enriched silicon: from beautiful spectroscopy to quantum computing”

11:20 Josh Folk, UBC Physics and Astronomy,  "Quantum Coherent Spintronics in Old and New Materials"

11:40 Sadik Dost, UVIC Department of Mechanical Engineering, "Growth of bulk SiGe single crystals by liquid phase diffusion"


Oral Session 2:
13:30   Bonny Gray, SFU School of Engineering Science, "Technologies and applications for microinstrumentation in diverse materials"

13:50   Dan Sameoto, SFU School of Engineering Science, “Polymer micromachining technology for low cost rapid prototyping”

14:10  Andrea Damascelli, UBC Department of Physics and Astronomy, “The Quantum Materials Spectroscopy Center at the CLS: New Frontiers in Novel Electronic Materials and Structures”


Oral Session 3:
15:30  Byron Gates, SFU Department of Chemistry, "Synthesis of High-Aspect Ratio Nanowires by Solution-Phase Techniques"

15:50  Alireza Nojeh, UBC Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, "Carbon nanotube electron emitters"

16:10  Ainul Akhtar, UBC Department of Metals and Materials Enginnering, "Oxidation of the intermetallic compound NiAl at 1200°C"


List of  poster presentations to date:


Authors Affiliation Presentation
1 Simin Bagheri SFU Raman and IR Spectroscopy of Carbon-Doped InAs
2 Oliver Pitts SFU Numerical Optimization of an Optical Showerhead Reactor Design for Organometallic Vapor Phase Epitaxy1
3 Oliver Pitts SFU InAsSb multiple quantum wells for mid-IR photodetector applications
4 Bao SFU Epitaxial metal films electrodeposited on GaAs substrates
5 Wen Jie Li SFU STM tip induced photon detected by BEEM
6 Frederick Chesneau SFU TBA
7 Dan Sameoto SFU Operation and characteristics of polymer thermal actuators
8 Xu Han SFU Facile Nano- and Micro-structuring of Thermally-reactive π-Conjugated Polymers
9 David Lee SFU Structural Investigation of Carbopol using Small Angle Light Scattering
10 See-Ho Tsang SFU Automated Assembly of Hingeless 90 Degree Out-of-plane Microstructures
11 Hanifa Jalali SFU Defects in Self-Assembled Monolayers on Semiconductors
12 Gisela Schulz SFU The effect of raising the triplet energy on phosphorescence of conjugated polymers
13 Rodney A. Herring UVIC Degree of Coherence Measurements of Electrons and their Contribution to our Understanding of the Stobbs Factor
14 Rodney A. Herring UVIC Coherence Measurements of Phonon Loss and Plasmon Loss Electrons
15 Terry J. Gordon SFU Direct Thermal Patterning and Characterization of a pi-Conjugated Polymer
16 Robert Johnstone SFU Non-uniform Residual Stresses for Parallel Assembly of Out-of-plane Structures
17 X. D. Chen SFU Electrical and Optical Properties of Particle Irradiation Induced Defects in 6H-SiC
18 Astrid van der Horst SFU Patterning of surfaces using optical tweezers
19 Lydia Tse SFU Characterizations of Low Temperature P-type Hydrogenated Microcrystalline Silicon Thin Films Deposited by Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition
20 Hamel Tailor SFU Piezoelectric properties of sol gel PMNT x
21 Mingqian Tan UVIC Blue Light Emitting Diodes with Group-13 Nitride Nanomaterials
22 Cunhai Dong UVIC Versatile LnF3 core-shell(s) structured nanoparticles
23 Xin Zhang  SFU Positive and Negative Lithographic Deposition of Titanium Oxide and Composite Film
24 Michael Adachi SFU Structural Analysis of Nanocrystalline Silicon on Polymer Substrates
25 Jasbir N. Patel SFU Glucose Measurement Using Non-Invasive Sensor
26 Tatyana Soboleva SFU  A comparative study of novel proton exchange membranes for fuel cell applications
27 Simon Trudel SFU Preparation and magnetic properties of amorphous metal oxide matrices containing encapsulated metal
28 Enrico Bovero  UVIC Conformational characterisation of Eu3+-doped LaF3 core-shell nanoparticles through luminescence anisotropy studies
29 Stephanie Westwood SFU Initial investigation of SU-8 photopolymer as a material for non-invasive endothelial cell research platforms
30 Aya Sode UBC Overview of Pt/Zn alloy as a fuel cell catalyst
31 Seema Jaffer SFU Mechanical assembly and microfluidic analysis of modular interconnects using SU-8 and Polydimethylsiloxane for microfluidic breadboarding
32 Vincent Lemieux SFU Selective and Sequential Photorelease Using Molecular Switches
33 Shun Lu SFU Conductivity Measurements of Single DNA Molecules using Conductive-Atomic Force Microscopy
34 Haiyan Guo SFU Studies of Ferroelectric Materials on Nanoscale by Piezo-Response Force Microscopy 
35 Krishnendu Mukherjee UBC EBSD characterization of ultrafine grained dual phase steel
36 Michael Steger SFU Shallow Impurity Absorption Spectroscopy in Isotopically Enriched Silicon
37 Takaya Ueda SFU Metal Patterns on Polymers 
38 Farhad Taghibakhsh SFU Fabrication of Nanocrystalline Silicon Thin Film Devices on Plastic Sheets using Hot-Wire CVD
39 Amanda Musgrove UBC Fluorescence Imaging of the Electrochemical Desorption of a BODIPY Tagged Alkyl-Thiol Monolayer Coated Au Bead
40 Lavigueur, Christine SFU Formation of Novel-Shaped Mesogens through Hydrogen Bonding 
41 Sujay Sarkar UBC A novel technique for austenite grain size measurements in modern low carbon steels
42 Simon Trudel SFU Direct Positive Photochemical Deposition of Metal Oxide Thin Films
43 Julie Lefebvre SFU Preparation of Au1-xNix Nanoparticles from Dicyanoaurate-Based Precursors 
44 Hamid Azizi UBC Towards improvement of mechanical properties in low carbon steels through heterogeneous microstructures
45 Huichun Yu SFU A New Lead-free Relaxor Ferroelectric (1-x)BaTiO3-xBiAlO3 Solid Solution
46 Andras G. Pattantyus-Abraham UBC Site-Selective Grafting of PbSe Nanocrystals on SOI-based Microcavities
47 Ingrid Koslow SFU Defect Energy Levels in P-Type Dilute GaAsN
48 Mario Beaudoin UBC Measurement of absorption edge and gap states in GaAsN and GaAsBi films by photothermal deflection spectroscopy
49 Eric Jensen SFU FIB Fabrication of Nanoholes Arrays in Gold on Plastic
50 A.S. Akhtar UBC Surface Science Studies of the Effects of Mn2+ and Ni2+ on Zinc Phosphate Coatings on Aluminum
51 Darija Susac UBC Transition Metal Disulfides as Model Thin Film Catalysts for PEM Fuel Cells
52 Albion Yang SFU Resolved Fine Structure of the Boron Bound Exciton in Highly Enriched 28Si Using Single Frequency Laser Spectroscopy
53 Barbara Sawicki UVIC Doping and Probing Diamond using Energetic Particles
54 Kevin Mitchell UBC Continuum Model for Chaotic Pattern Dynamics on Au Surfaces Sputtered by Focused Ion Beam


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