Innovation Enhancement Grants - Entry Level

Today's microelectronics industry pushes miniaturization to its limits and faces important challenges. An_x000D_ alternative is to use light to control and transfer information, like in fiber-optics telecommunication._x000D_ Nanophotonics - the science that studies the interactions of light with matter on the nanometric scale - is at the_x000D_ heart of on-chip optical devices to interface and replace traditional electronics. Nanophotonic quantum dot_x000D_ lasers and resonators are key technologies to build photonic integrated circuits. Applied research in_x000D_ nanophotonics at the Cégep de l'Outaouais will focus on adapting these technologies - initially developed for_x000D_ telecommunications applications - to biomedical instrumentation, with possible applications in photodynamic_x000D_ therapy and biosensing (parallel DNA sequencing, real-time pathogen detection, ...). This researc