THIN FILM CENTRE

Frank Placido presented a paper on plasma-assisted e-beam deposition at SPIE Photonics, San-Diego, Aug 2006

Frank Placido presented an invited paper "Thin film coatings for Flexible Displays"

Wunmi presented a paper on her recent work::-

O.Ademosu, A.A. Ogwu, J.McLean, M. Corrigan and F. Placido , “Electrochemical corrosion of chemically etched and mechanically polished nitinol wires in Hanks and Saline solution”, presented at the International Conference on Surfaces, Coatings and Nanostructured Materials, nanoSMat2005, Aveiro, Portugal-7-9 September (2005)

Abraham Ogwu and Thomas Hellwig attended the annual "Windows and Domes Technologies" conference in Florida, in April 2005 and presented two papers:-

1. A.A. Ogwu, T. Hellwig, D. Haddow, S. Doherty, F. Placido, K. Moellman, “Electrochemical investigation of the stability and corrosion restistance of Boron Phosphide films prepared by PECVD”, Windows and Domes Technologies iX, Ed Tustison R.W., SPIE Vol 5786, p130-136,  (2005)
2. A.A. Ogwu, T. Hellwig, D. Haddow, S. Doherty, F. Placido, K. Moellman, “Surface characterization and surface energy measurements on Boron Phosphide films prepared by PECVD, Windows and Domes Technologies iX, Ed Tustison R.W., SPIE Vol 5786, p365-372, (2005)

Frank Placido and Ozlem Duyar presented a paper at the meeting of COST527 in Antalya, Turkey in Oct 2004

F. Placido, S. Moh, O. Duyar and HZ Durosoy, “Complex Optical Filters by Microwave-assisted DC Magnetron Sputtering”, in Plasma Polymers and Related Materials, ed M. Mutlu, Hacettepe University Press, 68-74, (2005)

Frank Placido and Ozlem Duyar attended the meeting of COST527 in Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain in June 2004 and presented a poster on their work.

The Thin Film Centre was well represented at the annual IOP meeting of the "Plasmas, Surfaces and Thin Films" group in June 2004:

• Frank Placido presented a paper entitled "Nanostructure enhancement using caesium-enhanced negative ion magnetron source" at the IOP meeting "Plasmas, Surfaces and Thin Films" in London in June 2004.
• A poster entitled "Multilayer Optical Filters on Polyester Substrates" was shown by O. Duyar, S. Moh and F. Placido
• A poster entitled "Characterisation of Thin Film Optical Constants using a Modified Farouhi-Bloomer Dispersion Relation" was shown by Andrei Voronov and Frank Placido
• A poster entitled "NTC Thin Films: Suitable Candidates for Micro-bolometers" was shown by Shigeng Song and Frank Placido

• Placido F. and Voronov A., “Characterisation of Thin Metal Films of Niobium and Zirconium”, 45th Annual Technical Conference Proceedings of the Society of Vacuum Coaters, 266, (2002)
• Voronov A. and Placido F., “Transparent, conductive ITO for Telecommunication Wavelengths”, 45th Annual Technical Conference Proceedings of the Society of Vacuum Coaters, 603, (2002)

• "Omnidirectional reflection from Fibonacci quasi-periodic one-dimensional photonic crystal" David Lusk, Ibrahim Abdulhalim, Frank Placido Optics Communications 198 (1 November 2001) 273-279
• "Transparent, conductive ITO for telecom wavelengths" Andrei Voronov and Frank Placido