Meeting sponsored by Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Lab, UBC

Date:                Saturday , December 9, 2000

Place:               NRC Innovation Centre, 3250 East Mall at 16 Ave, UBC Campus

Registration:    On site, no fee

 

Oral Presentations

 

Chair: Jeff Young

 

9:00     LPEE Growth of Ternary Single Crystals,

Sadik Dost, University of Victoria

 

9:20     Recent Results from the PCAMM Nanoimaging Facility,

            Karen Kavanagh, SFU

 

9:40     Structural and Optical Properties of Ultrathin GaSb/GaAs Quantum Wells

            Grown by MOVPE,

            O.J. Pitts, J.A.H. Stotz, C.X. Wang, S.P. Watkins, Department of Physics SFU

 

10:00   Structure and Optical Properties of MBE Grown GaNAs Thin Films,

M. Adamcyk, B. J. Ruck, J. H. Schmid, S. Tixier, T. Tiedje, UBC;

V. Fink, M. Jeffries, D. Karaiskaj, K. L. Kavanagh, M. Thewalt, SFU;

J. Trodahl, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ

 

 

10:20   Coffee Break

 

Chair: Bret Heinrich

 

10:40   Superconducting Qubits,

            Tim Duty, D-Wave Systems

 

11:00   Interface Scattering in the Magnetoresistance of Au/Fe/Au/Fe/GaAs(001),

A.    Enders, T.L. Monchesky, K. Myrtle, R. Urban, B. Heinrich, SFU;

B.      X.-G. Zhang, W. H. Butler, Oak Ridge;

C.      J. Kirschner, MPI, Halle, Germany

 

11:20   Background Free Technique for Investigating Leaky Photonic Modes,

W. J. Mandeville, V. Pacradouni, A. Cowan, J. F. Young, UBC;

S. R. Johnson, ASU

11:40   Nanotechnology, Applications of 2-D Materials,

Sharon L. Blair, Lightyear

12:00   Lunch and Poster Session

 

Chair: Ross Hill

 

2:00     Fuel Cell Research at the NRC – the National Fuel Cell Research

            and Innovation Initiative,

            Terrance Y.H. Wong, Fuel Cell Technology Centre, NRC

 

2:20     Polymer Metallization Calorimetry,
Richard Murdey, Youngku Sohn, J. Todd Stuckless, UBC

 

2:40     TiO2 Photocatalytic Coatings,

            Mehrdad Keshmiri, Tom Troczynski, UBC

 

3:00     Interfacial Chemistry at Aluminum Alloys,

W.H. Kok, M. Kono, M. Lee, R. Li, K.A.R. Mitchell, X. Sun,

D.     Susac, K.C. Wong, Department of Chemistry & AMPEL, UBC

 

3:20    PCAMM Business Meeting

 

 

Posters

 

I. Polymers, Coatings, Membranes

 

1. Synthesis and Characterization of Poly(2-Alkyl-9,10-Anthrylene Vinylene),

Ruth Müllner, Berthold Winkler, Franz Stelzer, Institute for Chemistry and Technology of Organic Materials, Technic University Graz, Austria;

Günther Leising, Institute for Solid State Physics, Technic University Graz, Austria;

 Julian Williams,  White Knight Technology, GB

 

2. Development of Novel Chemically Bonded Sol-Gel Ceramic Coatings,

Quanzu Yang, Tom Troczynski, Department of Metals and Materials Engineering, UBC

 

3. Electrochemical Characterization of Ethylenetetrafluoroethylene-

    g-Polystyrenesulfonic Acid Solid Polymer Electrolytes,  

C. Chuy, V.I. Basura, E. Simon, S. Holdcroft,  Department of Chemistry, SFU

 

4. Study of the Interfacial Region Between New Proton Exchange Polymers

   (PEM) and Pt Catalyst in a Gas Diffusion Electrode,

Titichai Navessin, SFU

 

5. Encapsulation of Electroluminescent Polymers in Porous Alumina,

Keri Kwong, Katja Rademacher, Andras G. Pattantyus-Abraham, Michael O. Wolf,

Department of Chemistry, UBC

 

6. Proton Conductivity of Solid Polymer Electrolyte Membranes Using A.C.

    Impedance Spectroscopy,

Jennifer Schmeisser, Vesna Basura, Steven Holdcroft, Dept. of Chemistry, SFU;

Paul Beattie, Ballard Power Systems, Burnaby, BC

 

7. Use of Self-Assembled Lipid Monolayers on Hg to Investigate Drug-Lipid

    Interaction,
Robin Stoodley, Dan Bizzotto, Department of Chemistry, UBC;

Kishor Wasan, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC

8. Potential Induced Adsorption/Desorption of Octadecanol(C18OH) at a

    Au(111) Electrode Surface,

 Jeff Shepherd, Yanguo Yang, Dan Bizzotto, Department of Chemistry, UBC

 

II. Mechanical Properties

 

9. Influence of Densification on the Mechanical Properties of SiO₂-Films,

S.Enders,  Surface Technology/Tribology Group, Innovation Centre, NRC;

P.Grau,  Department of Physics, M.-Luther University, Halle, Germany

 

10. Characterisation of the Palladium-Modified Thermal Oxidation-Treated Titanium,

P.-Y. Qi, X.Y. Li, H. Dong, T. Bell, School of Metallurgy and Materials, The University of Birmingham, UK

 

11. A Model for Evaluating Coating-Substrate Adhesion,

Y. Xie, H.M. Hawthorne, Surface Technology/Tribology Group, Innovation Centre, NRC

 

12. In-Situ Determination of Reinforcement Stress in Metal Matrix Composites,
Partha Ganguly, Warren J. Poole, Metals and Materials Engineering Department, UBC

 

 

III. Electronic and Optical Properties

 

13. Time-Resolve Ultrafast Photoluminescence of MEH-PPV Film Using
Nonlinear Optics Techniques,
Dong Feng Qi, Jeff Young,   Department of Physics & Astronomy, UBC;
Andras Pattantyus, Katja Rademacher, Micheal Wolf, Department of Chemistry, UBC

 

14. Epitaxial III-V Doping Staircase Structures for Scanning Spreading
Resistance Measurement Calibration,
R. P. Lu, K. L. Kavanagh, Department of Electrical Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego and SFU

 

 

 

15. Growth, Structure, Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Fe/MgO/Fe(001) Structures,

R. Urban, T. L. Monchesky, A. Enders, J. F. Cochran, B. Heinrich, M. Klaua, D. Ullmann, J. Kirschner, R. Schaefer, Department of Physics, SFU

 

16. P-type Carbon Doping of GaSb,
R. Wiersma, J.A.H. Stotz, O.J. Pitts, M.L.W. Thewalt, S.P. Watkins,
Department of Physics, SFU

 

17. Second Harmonic Generation in Planar Photonic Crystal Waveguides,
A. R. Cowan, Jeff F. Young, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC

 

18. Optical Band Gap Measurements of GaNAs,
Martin Adamcyk, Ben Ruck, Eric Strohm, Tom Tiedje,

Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC

 

19. Photoluminescence in Isotopically Enriched Silicon,

Denis Karaiskaj, Department of Physics, SFU

 

20. Photoconductivity Measurements of Optical Absorption and Recombination

Lifetime in Dilute GaNAs Alloys,

E. Strohm, M. Adamcyk, B. Ruck, T. Tiedje, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC

 

 

IV. Structural Characterization

 

21. Alpha Particle Spectroscopy as Applied to Textured Etch Processes,
C. Kaiser, J.F. Young, T. Tiedje, Y. Levy, K. Chen, UBC;

B. Woods, SFU;

I. Kelson, Tel Aviv University

 

22. Soft X-ray Speckle in Magnetic Scattering from Antiferromagnetic Domains

on LaFeO3 Surfaces,
Arman Rahmim, Sebastien Tixier, T. Tiedje, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC;

S. Eisebitt, FZ Juelich, Germany

 

23. Tensor LEED Analysis for the Pt(111)-(3x3)-Ag,I Surface Structure,

M. Saidy, K.A.R. Mitchell, Department of Chemistry & AMPEL, UBC;

M. Labayen, D.A. Harrington, Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria

 

24. Asymmetric Structural and Electrical Properties of GaAsSb/InP,

V. Fink, E. Chevalier, O. Pitts, C. Dale, M. W. Dvorak, C.R. Bolognesi, S.P. Watkins,

K.L. Kavanagh, Department of Physics, SFU;

S. Hummel, N. Moll, Electronics Research Laboratory, Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto, CA

 

 

 

V. Microstructure and Properties

 

25. On Study of Seeding Effects on Microstructure and Properties of Fast-Setting

Calcium Phosphate Cements,

Quanzu Yang, Dean-Mo Liu, Tom Troczynski, Department of Metals and Materials Engineering, UBC

 

26. Modeling of the Recovery and Recrystallization Behavior of Advanced Sheet

Metals During Continuous Annealing,

Johnson Go, Metals and Materials Engineering Department, UBC

 

27. The Study of Ferrite/Austenite Two Phase Region for a Fe-C-Mn-Si Multi-Phase
Steel Using Neutron Diffraction Technique,

Jin Huang, Metals and Materials Engineering Department, UBC

 

28. Freckle Formation in Superalloys,

P. Auburtin, S. L. Cockcroft, A. Mitchell, T. Wang, AMPEL, UBC

 

29. In-Situ Thermal Chlorine Etching and Molecular-Beam-Epitaxial Regrowth on GaAs and Al{x}Ga{1-x}As, J.H. Schmid, M. Adamcyk, A. Cowan, J. Mackenzie, R. Mar, B.J. Ruck, T. Tiedje, J.F. Young, AMPEL, Physics and Astronomy, UBC