$1.3M Award Winning Team

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Gregor Weihs, Hamed Majedi and team mates win NSERC-NRC-BDC Nanotechnology Special Opportunity Competition for Nanostructured Single and Entangled Photon Sources for Quantum Information Processing

NSERC is pleased to announce the results of the special nanotechnology funding opportunity offered under a new cross-agency collaboration involving NSERC, the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC). The initiative is designed to foster large-scale, technology-driven partnerships encompassing university researchers, NRC scientists, and commercial interests.

NSERC-funded researchers in the NSERC-NRC-BDC Nanotechnology funding competition
Principal Investigator
Institution
Co-applicants		 Project Title
Industry Partners		 Full Award for 3 years

Hughes, Stephen
Queen's University
with:

  • Majedi, Hamed
  • Stotz, James
  • van Veggel, Frank
  • Weihs, Gregor
  • Young, Jeff

Nanostructured Single and Entangled Photon Sources for Quantum Information Processing

  • D-Wave Systems Inc.
  • Lumerical Solutions Inc.
  • OptoElectronic Components
  • Research in Motion Ltd.
 $1,365,510