Tuesday, August 14

 

08h30

Opening Session: M. Meunier and J. Beauvais, Conference co-chairs

08h45-10h00

Session 1 : MEMS-1

08h45

 

Plenary talk: Applications of Bio-MEMS in Life Sciences DeRoij, Nico ( University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)

09h30

Invited talk: 91-Power MEMS: Will Silicon Revolutionize Portable Power? Fréchette, Luc (Université de Sherbrooke).

10h00-10h30

Break

10h30-12h00

Session 2 : MEMS-2

10h30

107-Radio Frequency Acoustic Band Gap Micro-Electrical-Mechanical Filter Design and Simulation Norris, Ryan (University of Waterloo); Hamel, John (University of Waterloo).

10h45

96-Direct-Write Microfabrication and Testing of Solid Oxide Micro Fuel Cells Kuhn, Melanie (École Polytechnique de Montréal); Napporn, Teko (École Polytechnique de Montréal); Meunier, Michel (École Polytechnique de Montréal); Vengallatore, Srikar (McGill University); Therriault, Daniel (École Polytechnique de Montréal).

11h00

34-Micromachined Electric Field Sensor With Low Actuation Voltage Using Thermal Actuators Wijeweera, Gayan (University of Manitoba); Bahreyni, Behraad (University of Cambridge); Shafai, Cyrus (University of Manitoba); Rajapakse, Athula (University of Manitoba).

11h15

32-Lateral Sorting of Microparticles using a Two-Phase Rectangular Electrokinetic Array Stanley, Kevin (Dalhousie University); Bligh, Matthew (Dalhousie University); Hubbard, Ted (Dalhousie University); Kujath, Marek (Dalhousie University).

11h30

144-Capacitive Micro-Accelerometer for Structural Health Monitoring Applications SONG, IN-HYOUK (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal); Pasco, Yann (Université de Sherbrooke); Peter, Yves-Alain (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal); Meunier, Michel (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal); Masson, Patrice (Université de Sherbrooke); Micheau, Philippe (Université de Sherbrooke).

11h45

10-Integration in MEMS Production Flow of In-line Process Monitoring by Elementary Test Vehicules DARDALHON, Muriel (DALSA Semiconductor); ROCHON, Stephane (DALSA Semiconductor).

12h00-13h30

Lunch Time

13h30-14h30

Tutorial - 1

13h30

46-A New “Spin” on Semiconductor Technology Hall, Kimberley (Dalhousie University).

14h30-15h30

Session 3 : Nanotechnology 1

14h30

 Invited talk: 22-Growth of Axial and Core-Shell Nanowire Heterostructures LaPierre, Ray (McMaster); Cornet, Dave (McMaster); Chen, Chen (McMaster).

15h00

38-Nanowire based single-electron transistor with wide operating temperature range Dubuc, Christian (University of Sherbrooke); Beauvais, Jacques (University of Sherbrooke); Drouin, Dominique (University of Sherbrooke).

15h15

3-Enhanced field-emission properties of electrochemically grown Au nanorods in porous AAO templates Banan Sadeghian, Ramin (Concordia University); Kahrizi, Mojtaba (Concordia University).

15h30-16h00

Break

16h00-18h30

Poster Session 1- Devices-microfab-MEMS-Photonics-Sensors

See the list of posters.

Wednesday, August 15

08h30-9h30

Tutorial - 2

08h30

 

Organic electronics  Silva, Carlos  (Université de Montréal)

 

09h30-10h00

Session 4 : Organic electronics and photonics 1

9h30

Invited talk: 132-Organic Electronic Devices: MESFETs Madden, John D. (University of British Columbia (UBC)); Takshi, Arash (University of British Columbia (UBC)); Dimopoulos, Alexandros (University of British Columbia (UBC)).

10h00-10h30

Break

10h30-12h30

Parallel Session 5 : Organics 2

Parallel Session 6 : Silicon devices and processing

10h30

44-Non-volatile Organic Memories Containing Self-assembled Gold Nanoparticles Wang, Hai Ping (Université de Montréal); Pigeon, Sebastien (OLA Display Corp.); Izquierdo, Ricardo (Université du Québec à  Montréal); Martel, Richard (Université de Montréal).

116-Effect of hydrogen and nitrogen on Photoluminescence of Silicon Rich Oxide López-Estopier, Rosa (INAOE); Aceves, Mariano (INAOE); Yu, Zhenrui (INAOE); Zuñiga, Carlos (INAOE); Falcony, Ciro (Cinvestav).

10h45

82-Study of Electrical Transport in Conjugated Polypyrrole Polymer Semiconductors Zhao, Jun Hui (University of Manitoba); Pillai, Rajesh Gopalakrishna (University of Manitoba); Freund, Michael S. (University of Manitoba); Thomson, Douglas J. (University of Manitoba).

86-Surface Recombination in Spherical Silicon Used for Photovoltaic Applications Cheng, Cherry (University of Waterloo); Gharghi, Majid (University of Waterloo); Sivoththaman, Siva (University of Waterloo).

11h00

70-High-performance pentacene transistors using self-assembled monolayers McDowell, Matthew (Dalhousie University); Hill, Ian (Dalhousie University); McDermott, Joseph (Princeton University); Bernasek, S. L. (Princeton University); Schwartz, Jeff (Princeton University).

137-Isotopic effects on defect complexes evolution and blistering in H/D implanted silicon Chicoine, Martin (Université de Montréal); Moutanabbir, Oussama (INRS-EMT); Terreault, Bernard (INRS-EMT); Simpson, Peter (University of Western Ontario); Schiettekatte, François (Université de Montréal).

11h15

122-High-frequency dielectric properties measurements of polymeric films using time-domain terahertz spectroscopy Allard, Jean-François (Sherbrooke); Savard, Serge (Sherbrooke); Spiegel, Judith (EMIC); Huynen, Isabelle (EMIC); Salissou, Yacoubou (Sherbrooke); Salem, Bassem (Sherbrooke); Béchamp Laganière, Xavier (Sherbrooke); Aimez, Vincent (Sherbrooke); Charlebois, Serge (Sherbrooke); Houde, Daniel (Sherbrooke); Morris, Denis (Sherbrooke).

100-The Effect of Water Vapor on the Post-Irradiated Surface Morphology of SiO2 and Si3N4 Insulators Observed by Atomic Force M Wu, You-Lin (National Chi Nan University); Lin, Jing-Jenn (Fortune Junior College of Technology and Commerce); Huang, Chiung-Yi (National Chi Nan University); Lin, Shi-Tin (National Chi Nan University).

11h30

101-Electronic properties of ladder-type heterofluorenes polymers Laprade, Jean Frédéric; Pesant, Simon; Dumont, Guillaume; Laflamme-Janssen, Jonathan; Côté, Michel.

149-A Chemical Sensor Design Using a Standard CMOS Process Cao, Kaijian (University of Manitoba); English, Joseph (University of Manitoba); Buchanan, Douglas (University of Manitoba); Freund, Michael (Univeristy of Manitoba).

11h45

30-High-contrast Organic Light Emitting Diodes For Portable Displays Py, Christophe (NRC/IMS); Poitras, Daniel (NRC/IMS); Kuo, Adonis (NRC/IMS); Estwick, Eric (NRC/IMS); Fukutani, Hiroshi (NRC/IMS); Tong, Xiaoshu (NRC/IMS).

68-Thermal Analysis of AlGaN/GaN HFET monolithic integration with CMOS on silicon substrates Chyurlia, Peter (Carleton University); Smy, Tom (Carleton University); Tarr, Garry (Carleton University); Bardwell, Jennifer (NRC-IMS).

12h00

98-First principles calculations of photophysical properties of semiconducting iridium complexes Terki, Rachida (Ecole polytechnique de Montréal); Simoneau, Louis-Philippe (Ecole polytechnique de Montréal); Rochefort, Alain (Ecole polytechnique de Montréal).

42-Charge-pumping characterization of SOI and vertical MOS structures Lukasiak, Lidia (Warsaw University of Technology); Gluszko, Grzegorz; Szostak, Slawomir; Raskin, Jean-Pierre; Olbrechts, Benoit; Gottlob, Heinrich; Lemme, Max; Gili, Enrico; Ashburn, Peter; Korwin-Pawlowski, Michael; Jakubowski, Andrzej.

12h15

66-Microfabrication of Aluminium on Plastics for Displays Frechette, Pascal (Silk Displays Inc.); Fong, Bell (Silk Displays Inc.); Shih, Ishiang (McGill University); MacNab, Finlay (McGill University); Li, Tom (Silk Displays Inc.); Andrews, Mark (McGill University).

148-Semiconductor innovation: the chip-packaging side Sylvestre, Julien (IBM Canada); Danovitch, David (IBM Canada).

12h30-14h00

Lunch Time

14h00-14h30

Session 7 : Nanocrystals

14h00

Invited talk: 111-Excitons in semiconductor nanocrystals and nanorod heterostructures Scholes, Gregory (University of Toronto).

14h30-15h30

Session 8 : Advanced materials and techniques

Session 9 : Semiconductor Processing

14h30

67-An amorphous to crystalline phase transition within silicon films grown by ultra-high-vacuum evaporation on silica: The impa Orapunt, Farida (University of Regina); Tay, Li-Lin (National Research Council of Canada); Lockwood, David (National Research Council of Canada); Baribeau, Jean-Marc (National Research Council of Canada); Noel, Mario (National Research Council of Canada); Zwinkels, Joanne (National Research Council of Canada); O'Leary, Stephen (University of Windsor).

80-Effect of Light Illumination on Etch Rates of Silicon Surfaces in Anisotropically Etched Concave Structures Stateikina, Irina (Concordia University); Kahrizi, Mojtaba (Concordia University); Landsberger, Leslie (Concordia University).

14h45

9-Contact characterizations of ZrN thin films obtained by reactive sputtering Pelleg, Joshua (Ben Gurion University of the Negev); Bibi, Asaf (Ben Gurion University of the Negev); Sinder, Michael (Ben Gurion University of the Negev).

110-Microelectronic devices based on indium oxide thin films Wang, Kai (University of Waterloo); Vygranenko, Yuriy (University of Waterloo); Nathan, Arokia (London Center for Nanotechnology).

15h00

16-Photoluminescence of Substitutional Carbon and Carbon Defects in Si1-x-yGexCy Epilayers on Si(100) Lockwood, David (National Research Council); Rowell, Nelson (National Research Council); Baribeau, Jean-Marc (National Research Council).

74-Effect of X-ray exposure on the resolution of selenium based X-ray imaging detectors Kabir, M. Zahangir (Concordia University); Mahmood, Shaikh (Concordia University); Manouchehri, Farzin (Concordia University); Devabhaktuni, Vijaya (Concordia University).

15h15

136-Experimental validation of a flux distribution model for gas injection in ultra high vacuum Isnard, Laurent (Université de Sherbrooke); Shaffer, Étienne (Université de Sherbrooke); Fortier Giroux, Benjamin (Université de Sherbrooke); Arès, Richard (Université de Sherbrooke).

94-Spectral total internal reflection silicon phase-sensitive microsensor Patskovsky, Sergiy (Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal); Song, In-Hyouk (Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal); Peter, Yves-Alain (Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal); Kabashin, Andrei (Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal); Meunier, Michel (Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal).

15h30-16h00

Break

16h00-18h30

Poster Session 2 - Film; modeling; nano; Organic-Wide-band-gap

See the list of posters.

Thursday, August 16

08h30

Plenary talk: (Title to come) Friend, Richard (University of Cambridge)

09h15-10h15

Session 10 : Quantum dots

09h15

62-Fabrication of quantum dots-based optical devices using a site-selective regrowth technique. Lapointe, Jean (NRC); Dalacu, Dan (NRC); Frederick, Simon (University of Ottawa); Kim, Danny (University of Toronto); Lefebvre, Jacques (NRC); Williams, Robin (NRC); McKinnon, Ross (NRC); Poole, Philip (NRC); Reimer, Mike (NRC); Aers, Geof (NRC).

09h30

71-Luminescence properties of single InAs/InP(001) quantum dots grown by solid source molecular beam epitaxy DUPUY, Emmanuel; PAUC, Nicolas; CHAUVIN, Nicolas; PATRIARCHE, Gilles; REGRENY, Philippe; SAINT-GIRONS, Guillaume; DROUIN, Dominique; AIMEZ, Vincent; BRU-CHEVALLIER, Catherine; GENDRY, Michel; MORRIS, Denis.

09h45

126-InAs/InP Quantum Dot Lasers emitting at 1.55 μm and applications Poole, Philip (Conseil National de Recherches du Canada); Raymond, Sylvain (Conseil National de Recherches du Canada); Pakulski, Greg (Conseil National de Recherches du Canada); Lu, Zhenguo (Conseil National de Recherches du Canada); Liu, Jiaren (Conseil National de Recherches du Canada); Barrios, Pedro (Conseil National de Recherches du Canada); Poitras, Daniel (Conseil National de Recherches du Canada).

10h00

134-Tight-Binding theory of a single InAs quantum dot on InP nanotemplate. Zielinski, Michal (IMS, NRC); Hawrylak, Pawel (IMS, NRC); Korkusinski, Marek (IMS, NRC).

10h15-10h30

Break

10h45-12h15

Session 11 : Photonics

10h45

49-Integrated optical spectrometer design in the high-index contrast silicon-on-insulator waveguide platform Janz, Siegfried; Cheben, Pavel; Schmid, Jens; Waldron, Phil; Xu, Dan-xia; Lamontagne, Boris; Lapointe, Jean; Delage, Andre; Densmore, Adam; Winnie, Ye; Post, Edith; Albert, Jacques.

11h00

57-Subwavelength Grating Structures in Silicon-on-Insulator Waveguides for Enhanced Light Coupling and Modification of Facet Re Schmid, Jens; Cheben, Pavel; Delage, Andre; Densmore, Adam; Janz, Siegfried; Lamontagne, Boris; Lapointe, Jean; Post, Edith; Waldron, Philip; Xu, Dan-Xia.

11h15

63-A comparative study of the quantum well intermixing effect in InGaAsP/InGaAs/InP heterostructures induced by irradiation wit Genest, Jonathan (Université de Sherbrooke); Béal, Romain (Université de Sherbrooke); Dubowski, Jan J. (Université de Sherbrooke); Aimez, Vincent (Université de Sherbrooke).

11h30

13-3D Optoelectronic Integration and Packaging Zhang, Sam (PerkinElmer Inc.).

11h45

Invited talk: (Title to come) Hall, Trevnor (University of Ottawa)

12h15-13h45

Lunch Time

13h45

Plenary talk: (Title to come) Marcus, Charles  (Havard University)

14h30-15h45

Session 12 : Nanotechnology 2

14h30

79-Luminescence from Si-nanoclusters formed in Si-rich oxide, nitride, and oxynitride thin films Roschuk, Tyler (McMaster University); Zalloum, Othman (McMaster University); Wojcik, Jacek (McMaster University); Zhang, Haiqiang (McMaster University); Mascher, Peter (McMaster University).

14h45

102-Mott-like transition in alkanedithiol-linked gold clusters Rochefort, Alain (École Polytechnique de Montréal); Movaghar, Bijan (École Polytechnique de Montréal).

15h00

61-Atomistic Modeling of Charge Transport in Semiconductor Nanostructures and Devices Guo, Hong (McGill University); Liu, Lei (McGill University); Waldron, Derek (McGill University).

15h15

50-Fabrication and characterization of isolated single silicon and germanium nanocrystals using AFM nanomanipulation and sub-10 Delample, Vincent (Sherbrooke University); Descamps, Armel (Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon (INL)); Baron, Thierry (Laboratoire des Technologies de la Microélectronique (LTM)); Descossas, Sébastien (Laboratoire des Technologies de la Microélectronique (LTM)); Souifi, Abdelkader (Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon (INL)); Drouin, Dominique (Sherbrooke University); Beauvais, Jacques (Sherbrooke University).

15h30

141-Growth and Characterization of Parallel Patterned Germanium Nano-Clusters on Silicon via Direct Pulsed Laser Deposition Nan Cojocaru, Cristian-Victor (INRS - EMT); Bernardi, Alessandro (ICMB - CSIC); Macleod, Jennifer (INRS - EMT); Harnagea, Catalin (INRS - EMT); Alonso, M. I. (ICMB - CSIC); Goñi, A. R. (ICMB - CSIC); Rosei, Federico (INRS - EMT).

15h45-16h15

Break

16h15-17h15

Session 13 : Semiconductor Devices

16h15

Invited talk: 92-Defect Engineering for Improved Semiconductor Devices Mooney, Patricia (Simon Fraser University).

16h45

Invited talk : 72-Non-contact parametric electrostatic excitation: device testing and imaging at frequencies above the mechanical resonance of a scanning probe cantilever Oliver, Derek (University of Manitoba).

17h15-18h00

Travel to Montreal Science Centre

18h00-19h45

Visit (on your own)

19h45-22h00

Banquet

22h00-22h30

Travel back to the hotel

Friday, August 17

8h30-9h45

Session 14 : Biosensors

08h30

Invited talk: 125-Quantum dots as luminescent labels for Protein Transport Measurements on Living Cells Wiseman, Paul (McGill University); Kolin, David (McGill University); Durisic, Nela (McGill University); Bachir, Alexia (McGill University).

9h00

104-Post-Processing of CMOS Chips for BioFET DNA Sensor Arrays Jiang, Weihong (National Research Council of Canada); Landheer, Dolf (National Research Council of Canada); Lopinski, Gregory (National Research Council of Canada); Rankin, Alasdair (Carleton University); Tait, Niall (Carleton University); Tarr, Garry (Carleton University); Shinwari, M. Waleed (McMaster University); Deen, M. Jamal (McMaster University).

09h15

20-Characterization of a photonic biosensing molecular architecture on gallium arsenide by XPS Marshall, Gregory (Université de Sherbrooke); Ding, Ximing (Université de Sherbrooke); Bensebaa, Farid (National Research Council of Canada); Dubowski, Jan (Université de Sherbrooke).

09h30

45-Integrated surface plasmon resonance coupled quantum well photoluminescence biosensor Lepage, Dominic (Université de Sherbrooke); Dubowski, Jan J. (Université de Sherbrooke).

09h45-10h15

Break

10h15-11h45

Session 15 : III-V semiconductor materials and devices

10h15

Invited talk: 59-First principles study of nitrogen-nitrogen interaction in GaAsN Cote, Michel (Departément de physique, Université de Montréal); Dumont, Guillaume (Departement de physique, Université de Montréal).

10h45

64-Unexpected valence band perturbations in GaAsN alloys Turcotte, Stéphane (École Polytechnique de Montréal); Larouche, Stéphane (École Polytechnique de Montréal); Beaudry, Jean-Nicolas (École Polytechnique de Montréal); Martinu, Ludvik (École Polytechnique de Montréal); Masut, Remo A. (École Polytechnique de Montréal); Desjardins, Patrick (École Polytechnique de Montréal); Leonelli, Richard (Université de Montréal).

11h00

25-Magnetic anisotropy in GaP with embedded MnP nanoclusters Lacroix, Christian (École Polytechnique de Montréal); Lambert-Milot, Samuel (École Polytechnique de Montréal); Desjardins, Patrick (École Polytechnique de Montréal); Masut, Remo (École Polytechnique de Montréal); Ménard, David (École Polytechnique de Montréal).

11h15

58-Towards Optical Manipulation and Resistive Readout of the GaAs Nuclear Spins Buset, Jonathan (McGill University); Mack, Andrew (McGill University); Laroche, Dominique (McGill University); Dean, Cory (McGill University); Lilly, M.P. (Sandia National Laboratories, Centre for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)); Reno, J.L. (Sandia National Laboratories, Centre for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)); Gervais, Guillaume (McGill University).

11h30

17-Passivation of GaAs Using Dielectric Thin Films Obtained by Polymer-Source CVD Process Oulachgar, El Hassane (Sherbrooke University); Aktik, Cetin (Sherbrooke University); Dostie, Starr (Bishop's University); Gujrathi, Subhash (Montreal University); Scarlete, Mihai (Bishop's University).

11h45

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