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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!

The Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Research Group has achieved a world‑record milestone in terahertz laser technology, demonstrating a compact and portable terahertz quantum cascade laser (THz QCL) capable of operating at unprecedented high temperatures — a development that could transform how terahertz radiation is used outside the lab.

The breakthrough was accomplished in collaboration with Professor Qing Hu’s research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

"Many authorities in the field didn't believe these devices could work outside a laboratory environment or anywhere close to room temperature,” said Zbig Wasilewski, a physicist and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Waterloo and a principal investigator at Transformative Quantum Technologies. “Our combined expertise just changed this paradigm.”

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!