8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast: Hill Hall, MME Department, Room 300
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 am | Welcoming Remarks and Introduction | John Moore, ACSEL Director |
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 8:45 am | An Overview of Coating Technologies at SwRI | Ronghua WeiSwRI, San Antonio, TX |
| 9:15 am | Development of thin film sensors | Ralf Bandorf, Fraunhoffer Institute, Germany |
| 9:45 am | Effect of the nitriding layer on TiAlN die coating on H13 | Ricardo Torres, Ponticia Universidade Catolica do Paran (PUR),Brazil |
10:15 am Coffee Break
Tribological and Oxidation Resistant Coatings and Multilayer Thin Films
[Coordinator – Brajendra Mishra]
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 10:35 am | Modulated Pulse Power (MPP) Magnetron Sputtering in ACSEL at CS M | Jianliang Lin, Research Associate, ACSEL |
| 11:00 am | The potential for MPPIS? (New project) | Jun Wang, Associate Professor, HeFei University, PRC |
| 11:10 am | Multifunctional, Nanostructured Ti-B-C-Si-N Coatings | In-Wook Park, ACSEL |
| 11:35 am | Nanostructured Cr-B-Al-N Films for Aerospace Bearings | Chris Moerbe, ACSEL |
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch: Hill Hall, MME Department, Room 300
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 1:00 pm | Multi-layer Cr-Al-N and Ti-B-C-N tribological coatings | Jianliang Lin, Research Associate, ACSEL |
| 1:25 pm | Development of Cr-C-N Tribological Coatings | Zhili Wu, PhD student, ACSEL |
| 1:45 pm | Evaluation of metal targets for producing conducting films | Huiyao Wang, Research Associate, ACSEL |
| 2:05 pm | Interface Engineering using MPP and substrate biasing | Sterling Myers, PhD student |
Electronic and Functional Thin Films [Coordinator – Jianliang Lin]
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 2:15 pm | Pulsed DC & MPP Sputtered Aluminium Nitride thin films for ‘smart’ coating application | Masood Hashemi, PhD student, ACSEL |
2:35 pm Coffee Break
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 2:55 pm | PECVD growth of carbon nanotubes (CNT) and carbon nanofibers (CNF) | Huiyao Wang, Research Associate, ACSEL |
| 3:15 pm | Progress Towards Developing a High-Temperature Oxidation-Resistant Solar-Selective Coating | Cheryl Kennedy, PhD student & NREL |
| 3:40 pm | Thin film LiNbO3 sensors for ‘smart coating applications (New Project) | Ningyi Zhang, ACSEL |
| 3:50 pm | Shunt Imaging of Photovoltaic Devices | Nathan Call, PhD student ACSEL |
| 4:10 pm | Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Brushes for ‘Smart’ Surfaces: Control of Tribological Properties | Dan Knauss, Prof & head, Chemistry and Geochemistry, CSM |
| 4:35 pm | Catalyst Engineering Using Surface-Dopant Modification: Towards Intelligent Design of Catalyst Systems | Ryan O’Hayre, Assistant Prof of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, CSM |
5:00 pm Tour of ACSEL and MME Facilities
Dinner : 6:30 – 8:30 PM Friedhoff Hall, Green Building, CSM