BC Nanotech Researchers & Capabilities

Surname, First Name, Institution

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Branda, Neil

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

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

Brolo, Alexandre

Development of new surface spectroscopic methods, study of optical and spectroscopic properties of metallic nanostructures, development of new substrates for nano optics and plasmonics, study of nanostructured electrochemical interfaces, development of sensors based on surface plasmon resonance, and characterization of modified electrodes.

www.chemistry.uvic.ca/brolo/brolo.html

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

Gordon, Reuven

Nanoplasmonics and nanophotonics. Devices based on these properties.

www.ece.uvic.ca/~rgordon

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

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

Kwok, Harry

Semiconductor devices and applications. Organic material replacements for silicon. Development of tools for the study of decay in materials. The study and detection of malignant lymph nodes, and the development of various sensors. Polymer device modeling.

www.ece.uvic.ca/~hlkwok/

Lane, Pierre

Biophotonics for early detection of disease using biomedical optics, confocal microscopy, spectroscopy, fluorescence, optical signal and image processing. Optical fiber communications, spatial light modulation. Digital signal and image processing.

www.bccrc.ca/ci/people_plane.html

Leach, Gary

Surface and interface chemistry, nonlinear optical spectroscopy, scanning probe microscopy. New techniques of imaging using nanocrystals, and layered structures that involve nanocrystals.

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

MacAulay, Calum

Cancer detection and treatment. Biomedical imaging, biomedical optics, tissue spectroscopy, quantitative cytology, quantitative histology, confocal microscopy, genomic analysis and its linkage to nanophotonics. Genetic links to cancer. Nanophotonic engineered contrast agents used to molecularly label target cells.

www.bccrc.ca/ci/people_cmacaula.html

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

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/

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

Morris, Paul

Short-term protection of wood during harvesting, transport and storage, and long-term durability in service. Treatments to enhance decay, termite and UV resistance. Test methods for evaluating durability.

www.forintek.ca

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/

Paci, Irina

New theoretical models and methods for understanding surface self-assembly and the dynamic properties of molecular materials. Coupled multi-scale simulations of materials. Assembly dynamics.

www.chemistry.uvic.ca/ip.html

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/

Sinton, David

Microfluidics, nanofluidics, optofluidics, surface effects, electrokinetics, fundamental numerical modeling, microfabrication.

www.me.uvic.ca/~dsinton

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

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

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