Events

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January GGPF Dinner Lecture:

Tuesday, Jan. 15
Michael's at Shoreline
Mountain View

" IBM's latest Flat Panel Displays:
A Journey from Science to Technology"
Mahesh G. Samant
IBM Almaden Research Center,
San Jose

At the heart of a liquid crystal flat panel display
is a thin liquid crystal layer with molecules physically aligned along a particular direction. Today this alignment is magically achieved by "rubbing" of a polymer film which typically is a 500 Angstrom thick film of polyimide. The alignment of liquid crystals on a rubbed surface was discovered almost 100 years ago yet the alignment mechanism is not well understood. This lack of any understanding had made the further development of this technology very difficult. Using polarization-dependent, surface-sensitive, near-edge x-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) measurements we discovered what causes these liquid crystal molecules to align. This understanding allowed us to develop a novel non-contact alignment process. This new process uses ion beam irradiation to create alignment layer and is much cheaper and simpler. This process has been demonstrated to be commercially viable.

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PRACTICAL DETAILS

DATE: Tuesday, Jan. 15

Timing: 6 PM social hour
7 PM dinner
8 PM lecture

Cost: $30
half price students, retired, unemployed
free for just the lecture at 8PM
(but please let us know for headcount)

Deadline for registration: 5 PM, Friday, Jan. 11

If web-site registration is working, please register on the web:
https://ggpf.mystagingwebsite.com/
Otherwise, register by replying to this email or by contacting
Clayton Henderson
claytonh@us.ibm.com
408-256-6599
You should receive confirmation of your registration; if not, please contact us again.

PLEASE SPECIFY YOUR DINNER SELECTION, NAME, EMAIL ADDRESS,
AND AFFILIATION

Dinner choices: broiled salmon
chicken Florentine (stuffed with spinach)
grilled vegetable brochette (vegetarian)

Note that we must request that you be liable for your registration fee if you register and do not attend; cancellation is allowed up to the registration deadline.

DIRECTIONS:

From 101 in Mountain View, take the Shoreline Boulevard
Exit, turning toward the bay. Drive past the Shoreline Amphitheater and go straight ahead, entering into Shoreline Park. After a mile or so inside the park, a sign for Michael's will direct you to turn left into the parking lot for Michael's.
Address: 2960 N Shoreline Blvd.
Restaurant phone: 650-962-1014
(do not call restaurant for reservations)

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UPCOMING GGPF EVENTS:

Feb.7, Mountain View
GGPF Dinner Lecture topic tbd

March 11, Mountain View
"Electroactive Polymers: Artificial
Muscles and More"
Roy Kornbluh, SRI

April: tbd

May 30, SJSU
GGPF Spring Symposium / mark your calendars

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OTHER EVENTS of possible interest to the
GGPF audience:

DECEMBER

Dec. 17, San Jose
PTI short course
Intro to Optical MEMS for BioSensing and Communications http://www.pti-inc.com/mems.html

Dec. 18, Santa Clara
SPECIAL EVENT: organizational meeting to form
a Bay Area Thermal Analysis Society (BATAS).
For information, please contact:
Alex Tregub, Intel Corporation,
alexander.tregub@intel.com
408-653-9408

JANUARY 2002

Jan. 17, Mountain View
SouthBay AIChE meeting
"Design & Fabrication of Biomedical Microdevices"
Vadim Yuzhakov, Lifescan
http://www.aiche-norcal.org/
or contact Clayton Henderson, 408-256-6599,
claytonh@us.ibm.com

Jan. 19-25, San Jose
Photonics West 2002 / Optoelectronics 2002 http://spie.org/Conferences/Programs/02/pw/
Includes sessions on
Biomedical Optics
Optoelectronics
Electronic Imaging
and many engineering short courses, including
optoelectronics & MEMS packaging (SC400)
design of plastic optical systems (SC384)
photolithography for micro-optics (SC454)
structural adhesives for optical bonding (SC015)
biochips (SC259)
microfab techniques for microfluids & bioMEMS(SC437)
and several on microscopy and spectroscopy http://spie.org/Conferences/Programs/02/pw/ShortCourses.html

Jan. 20-24, Las Vegas
Annual IEEE International MEMS Conference http://mems.caltech.edu/mems2002.html

Jan. 26 - May 11, San Jose State University
Photonic & Optoelectronic Packaging (ENGR 297)
Saturday mornings, 9 AM - noon
Brief Description: photonic and optoelectronic
packaging for telecommunication and other electronic
products. Basics of optics & lasers, optoelectronic
materials, precision placement, alignment,
dimensional tolerancing, fiber coupling, thermal
management, polymers & adhesives for optoelectronics, soldering, solder metallurgy & relevant phase diagrams, practical aspects of soldering techniques, lid sealing, delidding, rework, hermeticity, measuring & characterizing performance & packaging effects, reliability requirements & evaluation techniques. Lecturers will come from both academia and industry.
Contact: Dr. Guna Selvaduray, (408) 924-3874, gunas@email.sjsu.edu

Jan. 30, details tbd.
Prof. Jean Frechet of UC Berkeley speaks at the
California Section ACS meeting. http://www.calacs.org/calendar/Calendar.html

FEBRUARY

Feb. 11-15
AVS 3rd International Conference on Microelectronics
& Interfaces
http://www.avs.org/icmi/call02/default.html

Feb. 13, tbd
Tentative ASM dinner meeting
"Micron Scale CAT Scanning"
http://www.asm-scv.org/

Feb. 19, Pleasanton
NorthBay AIChE meeting
"The Key for Alza's Success in the Development
of Biomedical Devices"
Howard B. Rosen, V.P. Strategic Planning,
Alza Corporation
http://www.aiche-norcal.org/meetings.html

Feb. 22, Stanford
The Fifth Flory Conference
in Macromolecular and Physical Chemistry
(still in planning stages) http://chemeng.stanford.edu/html/flory_conference.html

MARCH

date & location tbd
ACS Santa Clara Valley section
David Rakestraw will speak on sensors for
chemical and biological agents.
http://www.scvacs.org/

March 3-8
Microlithography 2002
http://spie.org/Conferences/Calls/02/ml/

March 12-14, San Jose
SEMI-THERM, the annual thermal management in
electronics symposium
http://www.thermengr.com (click on SEMI-THERM)

March 19 (details tba)
SouthBay AIChE meeting
Inhale speaker, Nazli Egilmiz, on the topic of
Pulmonary Drug Delivery http://www.aiche-norcal.org/meetings.html

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