New Materials on View at HKUST

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[evdate 1997-09-16] For immediate release

16 September 1997

New Materials on View at HKUST

Just as information technology holds a key to our future, the key to the future of information technology lies in the novel properties of new materials being developed by today's materials scientists.

New semiconductors and other materials will allow electronic devices such as computer chips and magnetic recorders to become ever smaller, denser and faster until at last they leave electricity behind to run on light.

Promising opto-electronic materials are just one of the areas to be explored in a symposium on current research presented by the Advanced Materials Research Institute (AMRI) of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Other sessions of the symposium will focus on work with nanostructures--a microscopic world with unique properties of its own--and techniques and devices, including lasers, used in today's advanced materials research. Guided laboratory tours will conclude the symposium.

The AMRI Symposium will be conducted in the University's Exposition Hall on Tuesday, 23 September, and is being held in conjunction with the inaugural meeting of the Hong Kong Materials Research Society, which will take place in the same location on the preceding day.

Among the invited speakers at the Society's inaugural meeting are prominent materials scientists such as Prof Robert Chan of Northwestern University and Dr T. Suzuki of the Toyota Technological Institute in Japan. The speakers will cover a broad spectrum of leading-edge materials research in Hong Kong and abroad.

You are cordially invited to attend both these events: Event: Inaugural Meeting of the Hong Kong Materials Research Society Date: Monday, 22 September 1997 Time: 9 am-5 pm Venue: Exposition Hall, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Clear Water Bay, Kowloon

Language: English

Event: Advanced Materials Research Institute Symposium Date: Tuesday, 23 September 1997 Time: 9 am-5 pm Venue: Exposition Hall, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Clear Water Bay, Kowloon

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