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Leo W.M. Lau

Leo W.M. Lau
BSc (CUHK); PhD (British Columbia)


Education

  1. PDF, Department of Electrical Engineering, U. British Columbia, 1982-1983
  2. PhD, Department of Chemistry, U. British Columbia, 1978-1982
  3. BSc, Department of Chemistry, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1972-1976

Professional and Honorary Qualifications

  1. Licensed 1997, Professional Engineer, Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario
  2. Appointed 1996, Honorary Professor, Department of Applied Physics, Beijing Technical University
  3. Appointed 1996, Honorary Professor, Department Physics, Lanzhou University
  4. Appointed 1992, Honorary Professor, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Position

  1. 1998-present, Chairman, Department of Physics, CUHK
  2. 1997-present, Professor of Materials Science, Department of Physics, CUHK
  3. 1997-present, Adjunct Professor, Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, UWO
  4. 1990-present, Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics, UWO
  5. 1996-1997, Professor, Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, UWO
  6. 1995-1996, Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, UWO
  7. 1993-1995, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, UWO
  8. 1986-1993, Senior Research Scientist, SSW (as the Leader of the electronic materials research program at SSW)
  9. 1985-1993, Adjunct Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, UWO
  10. 1985-1986, Assistant Director, SSW, UWO
  11. 1983-1984, Research Scientist, Surface Science Western(SSW), U. Western Ontario(UWO)

Patent

  1. "Apparatus and Method for Nucleation and Deposition of Diamond using Hot-filament DC plasma", US Patent#102-034-P, filed in June 1997.

Research Interests

  1. Low energy ion beam research
  2. Process development for electronic device fabrication
  3. Surface analysis and failure analysis
  4. Synthesis and applications of diamond and other hard coatings
  5. Development and evaluation of new cutting tools

Recent Representative Publications

  1. L.J. Huang, K. Rajesh, W.M. Lau, X.Z. Wu, D. Landheer, J.-M. Baribeau and S. Ingrey,
    "Si/Ge heterostructure on sulphur passivated GaAs(110)", Appl. Phys. Lett. 71, 237-239(1997).

  2. J.Q. Sun, I. Bello, S. Bederka, W.M. Lau, and Z. Lin,
    "A novel vacuum process for OH addition to polystyrene, polyethylene, and Teflon", J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A14, 1382-6(1996).

  3. R.W.M Kwok and W.M. Lau,
    "Surface charge spectroscopy and its applications", Prog. Surf. Sci. 50, 357-376(1995).

  4. S.T. Lee, W.M. Lau, L.J. Huang, Z. Ren and F. Qin,
    "Diamond growth by ion implantation of diamond", Diamond and Related Materials, 4, 1353-1359(1995).

  5. L.J. Huang, W.M. Lau, H.T. Tang, I.V. Mitchell, W.N. Lennard, P.J. Schultz, and M. Kasrai,
    "Near surface structure of low energy Ar+ bombarded Si(100)", Phys. Rev. B50, 18453-18468(1994).