A technology innovation with potential applications in biomedical, diagnostic and optical imaging took a top prize for a Waterloo Engineering master’s student at a contest in Montreal this week sponsored by CMC Microsystems.
Yunzhe Li, who is supervised by electrical and computer engineering professors Karim Karim and Peter Levine, won a $3,000 award at the TEXPO Graduate Student Competition and Exposition at Innovation 360, Canada's largest annual gathering of micro-nano innovators.
Yunzhe Li, right, receives his TEXPO award from Guy Hamel of Teledyne DALSA.
Li’s project – dubbed “Moonlight imaging with hybrid amorphous-selenium/CMOS photodetectors” – claimed the Teledyne DALSA Componentware/CAD Award, one of four decided by judges from academia and industry.
Mahdi Olfat, a Waterloo Engineering master’s student supervised by electrical and computer engineering professor Raafat Mansour, received an honourable mention in another category for a project called “Implementation and mechatronic integration of a single chip atomic force microscope array.”