Program Schedule

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

The program is preliminary and may be subject to minor changes.

Registration | Atrium

Tutorial | Room 224

Chair: Boris Lamontagne, National Research Council Canada

Welcome Remarks | Room 224

Photonics 1 (Modeling) | Room 224

Chair : Ksenia Dolgaleva, University of Ottawa

10:00-10:30 AM | Break (Room 122)

Epitaxy 1 | Room 224

Chair: Sharif Sadaf, Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Quantum and Nano 1 | Room 201

Chair: TBD

12:00-1:00 PM | Lunch (Room 122)

Overview of Exhibitors and Sponsors | Room 224

Electronics | Room 224

Chair : TBD

3:00-3:30 PM | Break (Room 117)

Sensors 1 | Room 224

Chair : Ross Cheriton, National Research Council Canada

Low Dimension | Room 201

Chair: TBD

Poster Session 1

This poster session will feature posters on epitaxy, materials, characterization, electronics, sensors and solar. Additional details will be provided soon.

Program Schedule

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

The program is preliminary and may be subject to minor changes.

Registration | Atrium

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM | Registration

Tutorial | Room 224

8:30 - 9:00 AM (Tutorial) | Ahmad Atieh, System Characterization of Photonic Integrated Circuits Is a Must for Commercial Deployment

Welcome Remarks | Room 224

9:00 - 9:10 AM | Karin Hinzer (1) and Boris Lamontagne (2)

Photonics 1 (Modeling) | Room 224

9:10 AM | Jose E. Ruiz (1,2), C. Rodriguez (3), T. M. Diallo (3), M. S. Rouifed (3), M. J. Gour (1,2), G. Hamon (1,2), “Multi-junction Edge-Emitting Laser Optimization via Genetic Algorithms”

9:25 AM | D. Paige Wilson (1), M. Mohsin (2), M. Rahim (2), Y. Grinberg (3), K. Hinzer (1), “Design of Novel Aperiodic Semiconductor Distributed Feedback Laser Gratings Using Neural Networks”

9:40 AM | Gavin P. Forcade, R. Millett, K. Prosyk, and I. Woods, “Intervalence Band Absorption in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers”

10:00-10:30 AM | Break (Room 122)

Epitaxy 1 | Room 224

10:30 AM (Invited) | Fabrice Semond, “GaN on Silicon by Molecular Beam Epitaxy: Challenges and Opportunities”

10:50 AM | Melissa J. Radford (1,2), M. F. Vafadar (1), P. Daoust (3), D. Lister (2), O. Moutanabbir (3), K. L. Kavanagh (2), S. Zhao (1), “Crack-free Thick Epitaxial AlN Grown on Si (111)”

11:05 AM | Nicolas Rotaru, P. Daoust, S. Keolling, P. Del Vecchio, E. Rahier, M. Atalla, S. Singh and O. Moutanabbir, “Direct Bandgap GeSn/Ge Quantum Well on Silicon”

11:20 AM | David Lister, M. Radford, C. Kim, K. A. Kavanagh, S. Watkins, “Cubic GaN by Selective Area Growth: A Polarity Constraint and a Strain-Gated Nucleation Model”

11:35 AM (Invited) | Songrui Zhao, “Surface-emitting Epitaxial Nanowire Photonic Crystal Ultraviolet Lasers”

Quantum and Nano 1 | Room 201

10:30 AM | Olivier Romain, J. Rivard, A. Morel, D. Leclerc, and E. Dupont-Ferrier, “Spin Qubit Measurement Using Multimode RF Reflectometry”

11:00 AM (Invited) | Shabir Barzanjeh, “Towards Hybrid Integrated Quantum Circuits”

11:20 AM | Paramita Bhattacharyya (1), E.Z. Vavaroutsos (1, 2), M. Chesaux (1), D. Deligiannis (1), “Effects of deposition parameters and capping on the superconductivity and crystallographic structure of ultra-thin NbN films fabricated using magnetron sputtering at a low temperature”

11:35 AM | Ahmed Elbaroudy, F. Sfigakis, E. A. Bergeron, F. Thompson, Y. Shi, and J. Baugh, “Gate-Tunable Supercurrent and High Interface Transparency in Ex-Situ Nb/InAs Heterostructures”

12:00-1:00 PM | Lunch (Room 122)

Overview of Exhibitors and Sponsors | Room 224

1:00 PM | TBD

Electronics | Room 224

1:20 PM (Plenary) | Emmanuel Ollier, “Advances in Semiconductors and Heterogeneous Integration for Computing, Photonics and Quantum Technologies”.

1:50 PM (Invited) | Raafat Mansour, “The Phase Change Material (PCM) Technology and Its Applications to Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Reconfigurable Devices”

2:10 PM | Ella Lewis (1), R. Fang (1), D. Xu (1), J. Alant (1), R. Griffin (2), L. Wei (1), “RF GaN HEMT Compact Modelling with High-Temperature Effects for Extreme Environment Applications”

2:25 PM (Invited) | Kai Ha | Infineon GaN Technology & Reliability

3:00-3:30 PM | Break (Room 117)

Sensors 1 | Room 224

3:30 PM (Invited) | Xin Yi, “High-sensitivity avalanche photodiode detectors for the SWIR application”

3:50 PM | Artur Turala (1), F. Vachon (1), S. Parent (2), C.M. Pepin (1), N. Roy (1), T. Rossignol (1), K. Deslandes (1), S. Martel (2), J.-F. Pratte (1), S.A. Charlebois (1), “Die-Level 3D Integration Platform for Rapid Prototyping of Custom Photon-to-Digital Converters”

4:05 PM | Jérémy Bélec, M. Atalla, G. Daligou, O. Moutanabbir, “Development of a monolithically integrated silicon single-photon avalanche diode for the e-SWIR domain”

4:20 PM (Invited) | Jayshri Sabarinathan, “Integrated Photonics with Opto Mechanical Phase Tuning for Optical Satellite Communication Payloads”

4:40 PM | Elahe Parham (1), H.S. Becotte (1), and J. Lapointe (1,2), “Revealing Buried Waveguide Defects in Stacked Photonic Chips via Through-Silicon Imaging“

Low Dimension | Room 201

3:30 PM | Mohammad Fazel Vafadar (1), M. Radford (1), K. L. kavanagh (2), S. Zhao (1), “Emission Wavelength Control of InGaN Quantum Discs by Molecular Beam Epitaxy”

3:45 PM (Invited) | Madisen Holbrook, “Advancing 2D TMD Quality Through Atomic-Scale Defect Characterization and Control”

4:05 PM | Clarissa White, J. Huo, R. R. LaPierre, “Pitch-dependent Bragg Tuning in Corrugated Nanowires”

4:20 PM | Kannan Udaya Mohanan (1), I. Kymissis (2), C. Kim (1), “Energy-Efficient and Variability-Resilient Spiking Neural Networks using Graphene Memristors”

4:35 PM | Kim A. Owen (1,2), G. Wilbur (3), K. C. Hall (3), P. J. Poole (1), A. Gamouras (1, 2), D. B. Northeast (1), R. L. Williams (1), D. Dalacu (1, 2), “Coherent Excitation of Nanowire Quantum Dots using Notch- Filtered Adiabatic Rapid Passage”

Poster Session 1

5:00-6:00 PM | Room : Atrium