Faculty
Associate Professor
John Madden
John Madden and his team are investigating new and unusual electronic materials for application in solar cells, energy storage (batteries and supercapacitors), printable electronics and as artificial muscle. Materials include conducting polymers (for artificial muscle applied to drive medical devices, and for printable electronics), carbon nanotubes (ultrahigh stress artificial muscle), electrospun carbon nanofibres (energy storage), and photosynthetic reaction centres (photovoltaic devices).
Dr. Madden worked as a research scientist at MIT before joining UBC in 2002. He completed his PhD work in the BioInstrumentation Laboratory at MIT. His bachelor's degree is in Honours Physics, UBC and he has a master's degree in Biomedical Engineering, McGill.
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Courses
| EECE 300 |
Molecules to Mechanisms Forces, scaling, thermal, fluidic, and mechanical properties relevant to the design of emerging devices and systems whose basic structures are at micrometer and nanometer scales. |
| EECE 301 |
Topics in Nanotechnology and Microsystems Guest lectures and preparatory theory will highlight emerging devices and systems. Restricted to students admitted to the Nanotechnology and Microsystems Option in the Electrical Engineering. Course Objectives By the end of the course it is expected that students will be able to identify current research, trends, and applications in nanotechnology and Microsystems and understand fundamental concepts associated with these. |
| EECE 364 |
Electromagnetic Fields and Waves Maxwell's equations; plane waves in free space and lossy media; TEM transmission lines; polarization; reflection and refraction; waveguides; radiation; antennas. Textbook Engineering Electromagnetics, Hayt and Buck, 7th edition |
| EECE 401 |
Nanotechnology in Electronics Topics of special importance to understanding and designing electronic devices in which quantum effects and the discrete nature of matter become important. |
| EECE 571J |
Electrical Engineering Seminar and Special Problems - LIGHT HARVESTING |
| EECE 580 |
Emerging Electronic Materials and Devices The physics, fabrication and characterization of organic and carbon nanotube based capacitors, transistors, batteries, electrochromic windows, active displays, chemical sensors, photo-detectors, strain gauges, actuators and single molecule devices. |
Latest Publications
| 2010 |
Electromechanical coupling in polypyrrole sensors and actuators Journal Article | Sensors and Actuators A-Physical |
| 2010 |
Electro-stiffening in polypyrrole films: Dependence of Young's modulus on oxidation state, load and frequency Journal Article | SYNtheTIC METALS |
| 2010 |
Bond order effects in electromechanical actuation of armchair single-walled carbon nanotubes Journal Article | J Chem Phys |
| 2010 |
Exploration of Femtosecond Laser Micromachining for Polypyrrole Based Artificial Muscle Actuated Catheters Conference Paper |
| 2010 |
Polypyrrole Coated Carbon Nanofibers for Supercapacitor Electrodes Conference Paper |
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Contact
Office: KAIS 3042The University of British Columbia
3042 - 2332 Main Mall
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4
Canada
http://www.mina.ubc.ca/jmadden
