BC Nanotech Researchers & Capabilities

Surname, First Name, Institution

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Affleck, Ian

Electrical conduction properties of semiconductor quantum dots. Single-electron transistors in the Coulomb blockade regime. Many-body interactions between quantum dot and conduction electrons. Properties of junctions in quantum wires and in Josephson junctions made from quantum wires.

www.physics.ubc.ca/~iaffleck/

Barth Johannes, UBC

The study of functional molecules and supramolecular architectures at the nanoscale. Temperature-controlled scanning tunneling microscopy. Molecular engineering of low-dimensional materials exploiting controlled self-assembly and positioning of individual molecules or nano-objects at surfaces. Novel bottom-up fabrication techniques.

www.chem.ubc.ca/personnel/faculty/barth/index.shtml

Berciu, Mona

Hybrid diluted magnetic semiconductors, nanomagnets, and/or superconductors heterostructures, tailoring spin-polarized electronic states at room temperature. Mesoscopic fluctuations in the longitudinal and Hall conductivity of two-dimensional electron systems. Electron transport in mesoscopic structures.

www.physics.ubc.ca/~berciu/

Burt, Helen

Drug delivery systems using nanostructures, synthesis of new biomaterials, and characterization of solids.

www.pharmacy.ubc.ca/faculty_staff/faculty/pharm_bio/pharm_bio_helen_burt.html

Chiao, Mu

MEMS and nanotechnology for biomedical applications. Engineering device-based drug delivery systems, microoptical systems for biology, small portable power sources.

www.mech.ubc.ca/facstaff/chiao.shtml

Chrostowski, Lukas

Nanofabricated lasers including vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs). High-speed modulation. Optical properties and device applications of photonic crystals, sub-wavelength gratings, perfect lensing in plasmons, quantum dots, optoelectronics, optical MEMS, bioMEMS.

www.ece.ubc.ca/~lukasc

Cretu, Edmond

MEMS, NEMS, adaptive microsystems, unified modeling and simulation of multi-domain systems. Micro-instrumentation systems, sensors and actuators. Bio-medical applications of microstructures, nonlinear signal processing and analysis of complex systems, fractal/constructal theory and chaotic systems.

www.ece.ubc.ca/~edmondc

Folk, Joshua

Semiconductor and molecular nanoelectronics, quantum information processing, spintronics, cryogenic techniques.

www.physics.ubc.ca/~jfolk

Li, Hongbin

AFM related technology, protein engineering, polymer science.

www.chem.ubc.ca/personnel/faculty/hongbin/index.shtml

MacFarlane, Andrew

Electronic and magnetic properties of solids, in the bulk, near a surface and in heterostructures.

bnmr.triumf.ca/

MacLachlan, Mark

Synthetic approaches to nanostructures. Combining organic and inorganic chemistry to develop macrocycles, nanotubes, 3-D frameworks and extended structures that contain metals.

www.chem.ubc.ca/personnel/faculty/maclachlan/index.shtml

Madden, John

CNTs, saturatable absorbers, CNT electronics, optical properties. Conducting polymers as artificial muscle. Designing molecules that undergo large shape changes. Organic electronics, polymer electronics.

mm.ece.ubc.ca/

Marziali, Andre

Nanosensor development for single-molecule DNA and protein sensing. Organic and synthetic nanopores for single-molecule detection, synthetic nanopore membranes for instrument applications. Synthetic nanopore and nanopore array fabrication.

www.physics.ubc.ca/~andre/

Michal, Carl

Studying materials such as spider silk, nanocomposites, polyproles. Solid state NMR for monolayer studies.

www.physics.ubc.ca/~michal

Mitchell, Keith

Surface analysis using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and scanning auger microscopy (SAM) with nanometer resolution.

www.chem.ubc.ca/personnel/faculty/mitchell/index.shtml

Murray, Daniel

Acoustic phonons in nanostructures, inelastic light scattering from nanostructures.

www.geocities.com/cofrest/

Nojeh, Alireza

Nanostructures (especially carbon nanotubes), controlled nanofabrication, electron emission phenomena, electron microscopy, modeling and simulation of nanoscale systems.

www.ece.ubc.ca/~anojeh/

Plotkin, Steven

Theoretical biomolecular physics, applying analytical and computational tools to problems in biophysics, Protein folding. Nanopore translocation. Left-right symmetry breaking in morphogenesis.

www.physics.ubc.ca/~steve

Pulfrey, David

Development of software tools for the design, analysis, and performance-prediction of nanoscale transistors and sensors.

www.ece.ubc.ca/~pulfrey

Rottler, Joerg

Soft condensed matter and computational physics. Far-from-equilibrium dynamics and mechanical properties of noncrystalline (glassy) solids. Electrostatic effects in complex fluids and biomolecular systems, development of fast algorithms for Coulombic interactions. Stochastic growth phenomena, kinetic processes and microstructural evolution. Polymer physics, computational approaches to modeling materials on different length scales.

www.physics.ubc.ca/~jrottler/

Servati, Peyman

One-dimensional semiconductor nanowires, ballistic gate-all-around NW transistors, NW and nanotube optoelectronic devices, morphology engineered NWs. Organic nanocomposite transistors and solar cells, flexible plastic electronics and displays, elastic circuits, electronic transport in NWs and nanostructured materials, inkjet printed electronics, nanostructured materials for bioelectrodes and biosensors, molecule-based magnetic materials, nanomagnetism, conducting polymers, molecular wires, synthetic chemistry.

www.ece.ubc.ca/~peymans/

Stamp, Philip

Condensed matter theory. General field theory, statistical physics. Quantum magnetism, magnetic qubits, topological excitations, spin glasses, decoherence in magnetic system. General theory of decoherence in solid-state systems, connections to string theory. Theory of quantum Information processing, and quantum glasses. Molecular magnets, quantum nanomagnetism, spintronics. Legal issues related to nanoscience.

www.physics.ubc.ca/~berciu/PHILIP/index.html

Stoeber, Boris

Microelectromechanical systems, micro fluidics. Flow control concepts for microfluidic devices (microvalves, micropumps, micromixers), complex microflows (multi-phase microflow phenomena, thermally responsive fluids, microflow instabilities, microflow characterization methods). Micro-optical devices and sensors for biological and environmental applications. Integrated microsystems for biomedical applications. Micro needles.

batman.mech.ubc.ca/~stoeber/

Takahata, Kenichi

Micromachined sensors and actuators, Microelectromechanical systems, Implantable microdevices, Wireless sensing and control in the micro/nano domain. Microfabrication techniques, 3-D micro/nanomachining methods, Microelectrodischarge machining and control.

www.ece.ubc.ca/~takahata/

Tang, Shuo

Instrumentation development, optical tissue imaging, ultra fast lasers, biomedical applications.

www.ece.ubc.ca/tiki-index.php?page=Faculty+And+Staff

Tiedje, Tom

Epitaxial crystal growth using in-situ optical monitoring and kinetic Monte Carlo modeling. Growth of novel semiconductor materials (e.g. dilute nitrides of the form GaAsN and GaAsBi) and their electronic and optical properties. Fabrication of light-emitting devices (superluminescent sources for optical coherence tomography). Epitaxial oxide thin-film growth for laser applications. Coherent soft X-ray scattering as a method for determining structure of random systems.

www.physics.ubc.ca/mbelab

Troczynski, Tom

Engineering ceramics, coatings, biomaterials, sensors, hydrogen technologies and other applications.

ceramics.mmat.ubc.ca

Walus, Konrad

New computing paradigms including quantum-dot cellular automata, modeling and testing of nanoelectronic devices, carbon based electronics including carbon nanotube and graphene devices, inkjet printing of novel electronic and biological materials and devices.

www.ece.ubc.ca/~konradw

Wang, Alexander

Theoretical chemistry studies of complex systems, zeolites, enzymes, biosystems, nanotubes, molecular adsorption for chemical sensors. Nanocrystals.

www.chem.ubc.ca/faculty/wang

Wang, Rizhi

Biomaterials, processing of polymer and ceramic composites for biomedical applications, surface modifications of biomedical implants including orthopaedic implants, nanomechanical characterization of materials.

www.orthosurgery.ubc.ca/faculty_bios/wang.html

Wasan, Kishor

Lipid-based drug delivery, lipoprotein-drug interactions, cholesterol and lipid metabolism.

www.wasanlab.ubc.ca

Wolf, Mike

Conducting polymers, metal-metal particles, and chemical sensors. Making materials for molecular electronics. Hybrid devices (solar cells, light emitting devices based on organic materials).

www.chem.ubc.ca/faculty/wolf/group/index.html

Young, Jeff

Quantum electronics. Developing nano-optical devices and integrating them into semiconductor nanostructures.

www.physics.ubc.ca/~young/young.html