St. Lawrence Chapter - Symposium

10th Symposium on Functional Coatings and Surface Engineering (FCSE 2024)

Location: Montréal, Canada (Polytechnique Montréal and Université de Montréal)
Date: June 2-6, 2024 (8:00AM - 8:00PM)
Contacts:  Ludvik Martinu, Jolanta E. Klemberg-Sapieha
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Symposium Topics

• Thin films with tailored optical, mechanical, tribological, electrical, thermal and other functional properties
• Vacuum and non-vacuum deposition processes, process control and diagnostics
• Plasma processes and plasma-surface interactions
• Thin film systems for passive and active optical filters with enhanced durability
• Modeling and predictive tools for processes and coating system performance
• Protective tribological coatings with enhanced wear, scratch, abrasion, erosion, oxidation and corrosion resistance, hydro- and icephobicity and other functionalities
• Characterization methods: microstructure, composition and functional properties
• Thin film materials and systems for optical, optoelectronic, aerospace, outer-space, energy-control, biomedical, micro-system, sensor, energy and other applications
• Residual stress in films and coatings – origin, assessment and mitigation
• Surface and interface engineering approaches for the control of adhesion, stress and environmental stability
• Life cycle analysis for surface engineering solutions

Program and Schedule

Short courses (full day) – Sunday, June 2, 2024

• Materials science and film growth
• Plasma processing of materials
• Mechanical, tribological and structural characteristics

• "Mechanical and tribological testing"
• "Optical characterization and reverse engineering - Spectroscopic ellipsometry"
• "Microstructural and compositional analyses"