FUNCTIONAL THIN FILMS

2013 PROGRAMME | Thursday 17th October 2013, Ricoh Arena Coventry

MEETING HISTORY:  2012  |  2011

10:15     Welcome & Introduction:
Dr Glen West, Manchester Metropolitan University

SESSION 1 | Characterisation of Functional Thin Films

Chair: Dr Glen West

10:20     INVITED: A Mass Spectrometry Method for Water Vapour Transmission Rate (WVTR) testing to 10-6 gm/m2/day, utilising D2O
Stephen Swann, VG Scienta

10:50    The electrical characterisation of TCO thin films
Dr Eric Don, Semimetrics

11:10     WVTR – limitations of current methods and advancements resulting in increased sensitivity
Andreas Roos, Mocon/RDM Test Equipment

11:30     COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 2 | Industrial Processing

Chair: Dr Glen West

11:50    INVITED: Roll-to-roll vacuum processing of organic thin film transistors
Dr Hazel Assender, University of Oxford

12:20     Pulsed value feedback control for large area effusion cells for vapour delivery in solar and OLED industrial
Dr Dermot Monaghan, Gencoa Ltd.

12:40    Poster Session in the Exhibition Halls (Author in attendance from 12.30pm to 1.30pm), lunch break and visit to the exhibition

13:30     IOP Vacuum Group Poster Prize presentation in Exhibition Hall

SESSION 3 | Materials and Applications

Chair: Dr Mark Baker

14:10    INVITED: MOCVD of ultra-thin CdTe photovoltaics and the effects of CdCl2 activation treatment
Dr Andy Clayton, Glyndwr University

14:40     Laser processing for functional materials
Prof Wayne Cranton, Nottingham Trent University

15:00     Functional P-type and N-type semiconductor thin films for the use in P-N junction diodes grown by closed field magnetron sputtering
Ziad Banyamin, Manchester Trent University

15:20     Droplet epitaxy for GaAs quantum dots and InAs nanowires
Dr Qiandong Zhuang, Lancaster University

15:40     Alternative, in plane, patterned route to roll-to-roll solar cells and other electronic devices
Dr Phil Butler, BIG Solar Ltd.

16:30     END OF MEETING