Faculty
Professor
John Madden
Artificial muscle and application to medical devices, photosynthetic photovoltaics, super-capacitors, batteries, sensors, carbon nanotube devices.
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.
Research Areas
Research Groups
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. [4-0-0] This course is restricted to students in year>=2 with one of these specializations: IN ELEC, IN CPEN - OR- with one of these specializations: ****EECE |
| 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 Waves and propagation; Maxwell's equations; applications including transmission lines; impedance matching and Smith charts; reflection and refraction; waveguides and antennas. [3-1-1] Textbook Engineering Electromagnetics, Hayt and Buck, 7th edition Prerequisites EECE 261 - Engineering Electromagnetics |
| 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 480 |
Semiconductor Devices: Physics, Design and Analysis Physics of operation, and design and analysis of semiconductor devices of topical interest, e.g., solar cells, LEDs, high-speed MOSFETs, high-frequency HBTs, low-noise HEMTs. |
| 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
| 2012 |
Toward a Flow Following Ionic Conductivity and Temperature Sensor Package Journal Article | Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research |
| 2012 |
Microstructuring of Polypyrrole by Maskless Direct Femtosecond Laser Ablation Journal Article | Advanced materials (Weinheim) |
| 2011 |
Hair cell inspired mechanotransduction with a gel-supported, artificial lipid membrane Journal Article | SOFT MATTER |
| 2011 |
Study the effect of distribution of density of states on the subthreshold characteristics of an organic field-effect transistor (OFET) Journal Article | Journal of Computational Electronics |
| 2011 |
Torsional carbon nanotube artificial muscles Journal Article | Science |
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Contact
Office: KAIS 3042Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of British Columbia
3042 - 2332 Main Mall
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4
Canada
The University of British Columbia
3042 - 2332 Main Mall
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4
Canada
jmadden [at] ece [dot] ubc [dot] ca
(604) 827-5306
(604) 822-5949
Website:
http://www.mina.ubc.ca/jmadden
http://www.mina.ubc.ca/jmadden
