Events

Seminars 2004

20 February 2004

Molecular controlled electronic devices. It is all a matter of contacts?
David Cahen

19 March 2004

Spintronics with New Magnets - Or No Magnets at All
Ulrich Zuelicke

16 April 2004

Perfect Lensing Lithography: Imaging the Near-Field.
David Melville, PhD student with Richard Blaikie, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Canterbury University
Kinetics vs. Thermodynamics: A balancing act in the growth of nanoscale surface islands
Shelley Scott, PhD Student with Simon Brown, Physics, University of Canterbury

21 May 2004

What are Sculptured Thin Films?
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, CATMAS-Computational & Theoretical Material Sciences Group, Pennsylvania State University

18 June 2004

This videoconference seminar was a meeting of the institute

16 July2004

The surface chemistry of ruthenium and titanium oxide single crystals. The Role of surface defects
Hicham Idriss, Department of Chemistry, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

20 August 2004

Laser forces and single molecules on nanoparticles.
Dr Pablo Etchegoin, Victoria University of Wellington

17 September 2004

Fabrication, characterisation and manipulation of molecular layers on carbon surfaces using electrochemistry and atomic force microscopy.
Dr Alison Downard, School of Chemistry, University of Canterbury

15 October 2004

Stretching Single Biopolymers
Dr Bill Williams, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University

19 November 2004

Laser spectroscopy as a probe of materials science
Dr Roger Reeves, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury