Susquehanna Valley Section

May 2005 Meeting

The three hundred fifty-seventh meeting of the Section will be held on Wednesday, May 4, 2005 at Bloomsburg University in Room 408 of the Kehr Union Building. The dinner will begin at 6:00 p.m., awards will follow at 7:00 p.m., and the keynote address will begin at 7:30 p.m.

Dinner: A dinner will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the ballroom (Room 408) of the Kehr Union Building. The dinner will be buffet style with a number of main courses as well as sides and desserts. The cost will be $19 per person. Please RSVP to Bev Mizanty (570-348-6265; mizanty@es.marywood.edu) by April 29^th, 2005.

See directions below.

Large CVD-Grown Diamond Crystals: Changing the Way the World Uses Diamonds

Diamond is one of the most amazing crystalline materials, having extreme properties such as hardness, thermal conductivity, breakdown voltage, velocity of sound, hardness, index of refraction, and optical transmission. Impurities can also be added to diamond to make it semiconducting. Because of the high cost and variable properties of natural diamond, it has not been possible to take advantage of most of these properties in practical devices. It is now possible to grow diamond crystals by the Chemical Vapor Deposition method (CVD) which are large enough for semiconductor, optical, mechanical, medical, gem, and many other applications. The talk will describe CVD diamond growth and new applications of large diamond crystals.

Dr. Robert Linares received his B.S. (Chemistry) and M.B.A. (Marketing) from Farleigh Dickinson and a Ph.D. (Materials Science) from Rutgers University. He began his career at Bell Telephone Labs conducting research on solid state lasers and magnetic materials. He spent several years at Perkin Elmer, Allied Chemical and MACOM doing research and manufacturing development in the field of lasers, non-linear optics, fluorescence spectroscopy, magnetic films, and gallium arsenide semiconductors. He started two companies, the first Spectrum Technology which produced GaAs semiconductor wafers and the second, Apollo Diamond which produces diamond crystals. He has published over 100 papers in technical and industrial journals and holds many key patents. His current company, Apollo Diamond has been written about in Nature, Wired, and Newsweek. Present position: Chairman of the Board and Chief Technical Officer.

Directions:
East of Bloomsburg: Use I-80 west to Exit 236A south.
West of Bloomsburg: Use I-80 east to Exit 236 south.
South of Bloomsburg:
From Central Pennsylvania, take Routes 11 and 15 north to the Town of Bloomsburg. Heading north on Main Street, you'll see Carver Hall directly ahead, and you'll arrive on the western end of the campus
From southeast Pennsylvania, take Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-476) to I-80 west (Pocono Exit) to Exit 236A south.
North of Bloomsburg:
From the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area, take I-81 south to I-80 west to Exit 236A south.
From the Williamsport area, take I-180 south to I-80 east to Exit 236.

From Exit 236 on I-80, take Route 487 south and follow signs to campus, approximately one mile. You'll arrive on the eastern end of campus. The first sign on the left will be at Buckingham Maintenance Center; the second sign on the left will lead up a steep entry and onto campus facing Centennial Hall.

Parking
Attendees can park anywhere on campus after 5:00 p.m., except in the metered parking on Second St. (meters are active until 2 a.m.). It is suggested that attendees may find it convenient to park in the parking garage on the corner of Penn St. and Second St.

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