News

The University of Waterloo’s Transformative Quantum Technologies (TQT) program continues to advance cutting-edge quantum research through its Quantum Quest Seed Fund (QQSF), which recently awarded funding to eight new research projects across the university.

Among the funded initiatives is a project led by Dr. Zbig Wasilewski, Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, in collaboration with Dr. Michael Reimer. Titled Metasurfaces for high-efficiency parametric downconversion and complex quantum state generation, the project aims to advance quantum computing, quantum sensing, and quantum communication through the development of new quantum optical metasurfaces.

Congratulations, Bohdan!

Congratulations, Dr. Shi!

Chris Deimert, a PhD Candidate in ECE in the QNC-MBE Group, has just successfully defended his doctoral thesis with Category 1! Because of his great research and outstanding thesis, Chris was also nominated for the Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award. The title of Chris's thesis is Growth of graded quantum wells for THz polaritonics.

Congratulations, Dr. Deimert!

Ida Sadeghi, a PhD Candidate in ECE in the QNC-MBE Group, has just successfully defended her doctoral thesis with Category 1! The title of Ida's thesis is Realization of atomically smooth defect free InGaAs/InAlAs superlattice on InP(111) substrate by molecular beam epitaxy.

Congratulations, Dr. Sadeghi!

Bohdan Khromets and Trevor Blaikie, MSc students in the QNC-MBE Group, have been awarded WIN Nanofellowships in the 2020-2021 competition. The criteria considered for the awardees included their academic performance, publications and presentations, quality and relevance of the proposal to nanotechnology and etc. This fellowship is valued at $10 000.

Congratulations, Bohdan and Trevor!

Congratulations, Ahmed!

Man Chun Alan Tam, a PhD Candidate in ECE in the QNC-MBE Group, has just successfully defended his doctoral thesis with Category 1! The title of Alan's thesis is Molecular Beam Epitaxial Growth Optimization for Next Generation Optoelectronic Devices Based on III-V Semiconductors.

Congratulations, Dr. Tam!

Professor Zbig Wasilewski, the Principal Investigator (PI) of the QNC-MBE group, has been awarded the MBE Innovator Award at the 35th North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (NAMBE 2019) in Ketchum, USA. The MBE Innovator Award is to recognize individuals whose innovative work has significantly advanced the field of MBE. Prof. Wasilewski was honored

Ida Sadeghi and Peyton Shi, PhD students in the QNC-MBE group, won the Best Student Poster Awards at the 19th Canadian Semiconductor Science and Technology Conference held at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada.

Congratulations, Ida and Peyton!