Latest News from the Mattar Group

November 2007:

Applied Systems Engineering 1 kW travelling wave tube pulsed amplifier arrives

from Texas.  We look forward to incorporating it in our pulsed X- and P-band

spectrometers.

Molecular Specialties X-band loop-gap resonator arrives.  The loop-gap resonator

has a low Q factor and is an essential component to reduce the dead time of the

pulsed X-band spectrometer.

June 2007:

Mr. Jeremy Durelle starts a summer project on the calculation of magnetic

properties and singlet-triplet energy difference of some dithiazolyl diradicals.

May 2007:

Mr. Hisham Dokainish joins the group to do a Ph. D.  Mr. Dokainish has a B. Sc. in

Pharmacology.  He intends to study the interactions of Cu(II) ions with beta-Amyloids. 

April 2007:

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) renews Mattar's

operating grant for another five years.  It is the largest Discovery grant awarded in

the province of New Brunswick in 2007.

He was also awarded a $ 59,000 NSERC Equipment grant for the purchase of a

1kW microwave traveling wave tube amplifier for the pulsed electron paramagnetic

resonance spectrometer.

A new set of five computers are assembeled and used in parallel super computer

configuration for electronic structure calculations.  We have found that five computers in

parallel form the most efficient configuration for electronic structure and molecular

properties calculations.