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/

Branda, Neil

Organic materials, molecular switches, photochromism and electrochromism, photodynamic therapy, optoelectronic devices.

www.sfu.ca/chemistry/faculty/branda.html

Broun, David

Scanning Hall-probe microscopy. Fabrication of low-noise Hall probes. Microwave spectroscopy of unconventional superconductors. Low temperature experiments down to 0.02 K. Nanostructuring high Tc and other complex materials.

www.sfu.ca/physics/faculty/broun.html

Choi, Byoung-Chul

Magnetic spin dynamics in materials and structures at the nanoscale. Extremely fast (picosecond) lasers to study nanometer-sized magnets.

web.uvic.ca/~bchoi/

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

Crozier, Daryl

Molecular beam epitaxy. Magnetic nanostructures on semiconductor substrates. Synchrotron radiation techniques of XAFS, X-ray standing wave and surface X-ray diffraction. X-ray magnetic circular dichroism to probe the sub-nanosecond time response of magnetic moments in ferrimagnets.

www.sfu.ca/physics/faculty/crozier.html

Dost, Sadik

Growth of high-quality, bulk-crystal semiconductors from the liquid phase. Interest in the scientific/technical challenges of improving yield and reproducibility.

www.me.uvic.ca/Faculty/SDres.html

Folk, Joshua

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

www.physics.ubc.ca/~jfolk

Gates, Byron

Chemical routes to creating nanostructured materials and manipulating surface chemistries. Simple approaches for the fabrication of nanostructured materials. Electronic and optoelectronic properties of nanostructures and nanostructured materials. Nanostructures as probes for imaging complex biological systems.

www.sfu.ca/chemistry/faculty/gates/index.htm

Heinrich, Bret

Magnetic nanostructures, molecular beam epitaxy, interfacial effects, RF magnetic spectroscopy, spin dynamics, magneto-optics, spintronics.

www.sfu.ca/physics/faculty/heinrich.html

Herring, Rodney

Characterization of nanostructures using electron microscopy. Invented electron holography to characterize nanostructures used in electronic and magnetic devices. Electron holography to measure the properties of materials for the development of nanostructures. Bulk and surface plasmon characterization.

www.me.uvic.ca/Faculty/RHres.html

Hill, Ross

Development of new methods for thin film deposition and patterning, preparation of new materials with modulated composition and new methods for lithography. Magnetic materials, dielectric materials, and amorphous materials.

www2.sfu.ca/chemistry/faculty/hill/

Karim, Karim

Large-area thin-film electronics, applications, medical X-ray imaging, flexible display technology, and high-efficiency solar cells. Large area crystalline silicon technology for imaging, CMOS active-pixel sensors. Photon-counting circuits.

www.ensc.sfu.ca/people/faculty/karim.html

MacFarlane, Andrew

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

bnmr.triumf.ca/

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/

Moffitt, Matthew

Self-assembly of composite building blocks based on block copolymers and quantum dots. Non-lithographic routes to patterning of quantum dots in polymer systems.

www.chemistry.uvic.ca/moffitt/moffitt.htm

Mooney, Patricia

Defect studies in semiconductors. Origin and effects on the properties of materials and their atomic structure.

www.sfu.ca/physics/faculty/mooney.html

Nojeh, Alireza

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

www.ece.ubc.ca/~anojeh/

Papadopoulos, Chris

Nanotechnology, nanoelectronics, carbon nanotubes, molecular devices, nanofabrication. Synthesis and properties.

www.ece.uvic.ca/faculty/cpapadopoulos.shtml

Pulfrey, David

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

www.ece.ubc.ca/~pulfrey

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

Steeves, Geoff

Developing new instruments and techniques for investigating nanoscale dynamical phenomena on picosecond time-scales.

ww.phys.uvic.ca/gsteeves

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

van Veggel , Frank

Luminescent nanoparticles for telecommunications, optical amplifiers, displays, and LEDs, Biomedical applications, optical biolabels and MRI applications. Nanoparticles based on Ln3+ ions, gallium nitride, or quantum dots.

www.chemistry.uvic.ca/fvv.html

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

Watkins, Simon

Semiconductor crystal growth, nanostructures, semiconductor devices.

www.sfu.ca/physics/people/faculty/watkins/profile.html

Young, Jeff

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

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

Yu, Hogan

DNA chips, ultrahigh density microarrays. Modification of semiconductor materials (hybrid organic/inorganic). Molecular electronics. Superhydrophobicity and self-cleaning surfaces.

www.sfu.ca/chemistry/faculty/yu.html