Final Program

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. Persons with valid UBC faculty stickers can park free. Others should retain their PCAMM name tag to show the attendant on the way out and the fee will be waived. The Halpern centre is located near the northwest corner of the convocation mall, just between the academic quadrangle and the library. Registration is free of charge.

9:00AM Arrive SFU Halpern Centre

(Poster Setup)

Session A

9:30 Jeff Young, UBC Physics, "Collaborative research examples within PCAMM".

9:45 Daniel Leznoff, SFU Chemistry, "Molecular Magnetic Materials: An Introduction".

10:00 Ainul Akhtar, Powertech Labs Inc, "Characterization of steel surfaces containing wustite and magnetite".

10:15 Youmao Shi, Lightyear Technologies, "Metal hydride alloy modifications"

10:30 Break and Posters

Session B

11:00 D. Gelbart, CREO Products

11:30 J. Rostworowski, PMC Sierra, "Challenges in the CMOS Roadmap"

12:00 A. Fife, CTF Systems, "Neuromagnetic Measurements of the Human Brain".

12:15 -1:15 Lunch, Posters

Session C

1:15 B. Ruck, UBC Physics, "Dynamic Vortex Instabilities in Superconducting Ta/Ge Multilayers"

1:30 R. Urban, SFU Physics, "Ballistic Tunneling in Epitaxial Fe/MgO/Fe Whisker (100) Structures"

1:45 A. Bokov, SFU Chemistry, "Critical Behavior in Relaxor Ferroelectric Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O₃-PbTiO₃"

2:00 A. Enders, SFU Physics, "Strain Dependence of the Magnetic Properties in nm Fe Films on W Substrates"

2:15 L. Gheorghita, AMPEL, UBC Chemistry, "Why is H₂ annealing essential to fabricate working MOSFETs?",

2:30 Break and Posters

3:00 D. Meade, UBC Metals and Materials, "Radiation Induced Segregation in Reactor Pressure Vessel Steels"

3:15 V. Pacradouni, UBC Physics, "Photonic band structure in 2-d waveguide based photonic crystals: modelling and experiment".

3:30 M. Dvorak, SFU Engineering Science, "High Speed Double Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors".

3:45 PCAMM Business Meeting

Posters:

1. M. Dong, SFU Chemistry, "Microstructural and Electrical Characterization of Sol-Gel Derived Pb(Zr,Ti)O₃ Nanocomposite Ceramics and Thin Films"

2. Kevin Xu, SFU Chemistry "Synthesis of TiBO₃ Single Crystals by CVT Methods and Structure Determination"

3. C. Kaiser, UBC Physics, "AEL (alpha particle energy loss) Method of Determining, in

situ, the Profile of Etched Surfaces"

4. S. Tixier, UBC Physics, "Helical Resonator Plasma Source for MBE Growth of III-V-Nitrogen Alloy Semiconductors"

5. J. Stotz, SFU Physics, "Magneto-Optic Characterization of InSb"

6. C. Nicoll, UBC Physics, "The Same, Only the Other Way Around"

7. G. Vamvounis, SFU Chemistry, "Steric and Heavy-Atom Effects on the Luminescence of Thienyl-Based Polymers"

8. Y. Yang, UBC Chemistry, "Effect of Electrolyte Concentration on the Adsorption /Desorption of Octadecanol onto Au(111)"

9. A.Pattantyus, UBC Chemistry, "Preparation and characterization of porous oxide thin films"

10. X. Sun, UBC Chemistry, "Chemistry at Interfaces Associated with Corrosion Protection of Aluminum Alloys"

11. Madiba Saidy, AMPEL/UBC Chemistry, "Comparison of Four Very Different Structures with Common Ö 7xÖ 7 Symmetries Formed by Electronegative Atoms on FCC(111) Surfaces ".

12. R. Beaudry, Dale Harrison, J. Hu, M. Thewalt, Simon Watkins, X.G.Xu

"In situ phosphorus passivation of GaAs"

13. S.P. Watkins, X.G. Xu, F. Hamed, G. Soerensen, O. Pitts, C.R. Bolognesi, A. Moore, S. Kurtz, Dept. of Physics, SFU "905 nm InGaAs quantum well lasers grown using alternate source precursors".

14. R.P. Lu, B.A. Morgan, K.L. Kavanagh, (UCSD/SFU), C.J. Powell, P.J. Chen, F.G. Serpa, W.F. Egelhoff, Jr. (NIST) "Hot-Electron Attenuation Lengths in Ultra-Thin Magnetic Films".