Tutorial
Sunday 7 September 2008
An optional tutorial session will be held on the afternoon of 7 September 2008. There is a fee of €50 + VAT for the tutorial session, which permits access to both tutorials. Please book via the registration form.
16:00 - Diamond growth
Matthias Schreck, University of Augsburg, Germany
The tutorial will provide an introduction into low pressure diamond growth by chemical vapour deposition. The following topics will be covered:
- Different techniques of low pressure growth
- Microwave plasma activation: basic mechanisms in the plasma, practical aspects of operation, reactor geometries
- Gas phase reactions and growth species
- Elementary steps at the growth surface
- Nucleation techniques: seeding vs. bias enhanced nucleation
- Modification of the growth by impurities in the gas phase
- Texture formation in polycrystalline films
- Structural defects and their control
- Nanocrystalline growth
- High growth rate regime
- Homoepitaxy
- Heteroepitaxy
17:50 - Bio functionalisation of diamond surfaces
Jose Garrido, TU Munchen, Germany
- Introduction
- Diamond materials
- Functionalization of diamond surfaces
Surface termination
Photochemical, electrochemical and chemical methods
- Biomolecules (proteins and DNA) on diamond surfaces
Specific versus non specific adsorption
Covalent grafting
Complex systems: cells on diamond
- Applications
Amperometric biosensors
Enzyme-Field Effect Transistors
DNA-Field Effect Transistors
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