Pacific Centre for Advanced Materials and Microstructures

太平洋先进材料和微结构中心(PCAMM)http://www.sfu.ca/physics/PCAMM/是一个合作组织，由位于西蒙·弗雷泽大学科学中心和不列颠哥伦比亚大学先进材料与工艺工程实验室(AMPEL)大楼的材料研究主要设备组成。PCAMM的主要目标是优化两所大学之间的能力，并实现足够多的设施，使其用户能够开发新的光学、电子和磁性设备，并为材料科学和工程的许多其他领域做出贡献。PCAMM成立于1996年，由表面科学和外延生长方面的互补专业知识和设备组成。它在其核心基础上稳步加强和扩大，使其现在能够全面解决与先进材料和微结构有关的具有最高科学和实际重要性的广泛问题。这一设施得到了2001年CFI奖(总计830万美元)的极大推动，从2002年开始增加了一系列新设备。2004年CFI授予SFU电子材料和设备新实验室(4D Labs)，以及UBC的Ampel扩建，极大地促进了这一设施的发展。PCAMM严重依赖经验丰富的操作和维护人员的持续存在，以及次要设备的升级。后者提供了这一重大区域机制需要多边金融机构支持的关键原因。

The Pacific Centre for Advanced Materials and Microstructures (PCAMM) http://www.sfu.ca/physics/PCAMM/ is a collaborative organization consisting of key major equipment items for materials research located in the Science Centre at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and in the Advanced Materials & Process Engineering Laboratory (AMPEL) building at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The primary goal of PCAMM is to optimize capabilities between the two universities, and to achieve a critical mass of facilities to enable its users to develop new optical, electronic and magnetic devices, and to contribute to many other areas of materials science and engineering. PCAMM was formulated in 1996 from complementary expertise and equipment in surface science and epitaxial growth. It has steadily strengthened and broadened from its core base so that it can now comprehensively address wide-ranging problems of the highest scientific and practical importance associated with advanced materials and microstructures. This facility was greatly boosted by a CFI award in 2001 ($8.3M total) from which a range of new equipment items were added beginning in 2002.  There was additional growth in 2004 with the CFI award of a new laboratory for electronic materials and devices at SFU (4D Labs) and the expansion of AMPEL at UBC.  PCAMM depends critically on the continuing presence of experienced personnel for operation and maintenance as well as upgrades of minor equpiment. The latter provides the crucial reason why MFA support is required for this major regional facility.