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CPM Seminar
Kevin Robbie Queen's University Controlling the structure of materials on a nanometer size scale allows many of the materials' properties to be engineered to produce a desired response. Optical, chemical, biological, magnetic, mechanical etc. responses are all tailorable when nanometer-scale control of fabrication is possible. Unfortunately there are no techniques that allow direct engineering of material structure, and indirect methods must be used. Glancing angle deposition (GLAD) employs a modified thin film deposition process to allow significant control over the structure of porous thin film materials on the scale of 10s of nanometers. An introduction to GLAD will be presented with a discussion of a selection of functional materials that have been fabricated with the technique. Future directions and possibilities for this research will also be discussed.
Wednesday, March 7th 2001, 15:30 |