Program Schedule

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

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

Registration | Atrium

Epitaxy 2 | Room 224

Chair : Karen Kavanagh, Simon Fraser University

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

Photonics 2 | Room 224

Chair: Kaustubh Vyas, GenISys

Solar | Room 201

Chair: Alexandre Walker, National Research Council Canada

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

Keynote | Room 224

Chair : Karin Hinzer, University of Ottawa

Sensors 2 | Room 224

Chair: TBD

2:45 PM | Group photo (Atrium)

2:50-3:20 PM | Break (Room 122)

Free Access

Panel | Room 224

Moderator : Myriam Davidson, Stratford Intellectual Property

Poster Session 2

This poster session will feature posters on photonics, MEMS, low dimension, quantum, nano, organic semiconductors and additive manufacturing. Additional details will be provided soon.

Program Schedule

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

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

Registration | Atrium

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM | Registration

Epitaxy 2 | Room 224

8:30 AM | Trevor Blaikie (1), S. Stich (2), V. Sultanov (3), M. Chekhova (3), M.Belkin (2), Z. Wasilewski (1, 4, 5), “Optimizing AlGaAs Growth on Nonstandard Crystal Orientations for Quantum Optical Metasurfaces”

8:45 AM | Shyamaleeswari Dayanandan, M. C. Tam, S. Odinotski, S. Kokilathasan, S. R. Harrigan, F. Sfigakis, M. E. Reimer, Z. R. Wasilewski, “Lateral Grading in Be δ-doped InAlAs Charge Layer in SPADs”

9:00 AM | Ethan Diak, R. R. LaPierre, “A model of crystal phase and diameter oscillations in ultrathin Te-doped gallium phosphide nanowires “

9:15 AM | Chahinaz Khouloud Mahboub (1, 2), B. Mével (1, 2), I. E. Mokedem (1, 2), A. Turala (1, 2), R. En-Nadir (1, 2), A. Ali (1, 2), A. Chapotot (3), J. Cho (3), K. Dessein (3), A. Boucherif (1, 2), “RPCVD Growth of Detachable Ge p-n Nanomembranes on Mesoporous Ge Virtual Substrates”

9:30 AM (Invited) | Ghassan Jabbour, “Ultra-Thin Silicon Ribbons by Melt Spinning for Sustainable Semiconductor Manufacturing”

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

Photonics 2 | Room 224

10:30 AM | René St-Onge, W. M. Hassen, and J. J. Dubowski, “Ultrasmooth Surface of GaAs/AlGaAs Nanoheterostructures by Self-Assembly assisted Digital Photocorrosion”

10:45 AM | David Vlassov (1), S. Koelling (1), S. Assali (1), L. Luo (1), Y. Kim (2), D. Nam (3), and O. Moutanabbir (1), “Mid-infrared GeSn Nanolaser”

11:00 AM | Hesam Heydarian (1), A. Vishnuradhan (1), A. Rodríguez Escamilla (1), D. Girard (1), G. Killaire (1), A. Weck (1, 2), A. Gamouras (1, 3), J.-M. Ménard (1, 3), “Semiconductor Photonic Crystal Waveguides for Enhanced Nonlinear Terahertz Detection”

11:15 AM (Invited) | Di Liang, “Photonics at Peak Performance: High Figure-of-Merit Integrated Photonics for Next-Generation Computing”

11:35 AM | P. Pileh Chiha (1), J. Garcia-Echeverria (2), O. Oner (2), D. Musat (3), A. Mahsafar (3), M. T. Posner (2), D. R. Rolston (2), Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur (1), G. Cowan (3), N. J. Quitoriano (1), “Digital Photonics: Optical Logic Gates using Silicon Photonic Micro Rings”

Solar | Room 201

10:30 AM (Invited) | Ghada Koleilat, “Perovskite Heterostructures: From Crystal Engineering to Device Applications”

10:50 AM | K. Curvelo (1), M. Abedi (1), D. J. Arseneau (2), N. Azari (1), B. Hitti (2), R. F. Kiefl (2,3), D. Liu (4), G. D. Morris (2), D. Rios Parra (1), P. M. Woodward (4), M. Yakovlev (1), and S. R. Dunsiger (1,2), “Mimicking Hydrogen in Energy Harvesting Materials”

11:05 AM | Brieuc Mevel (1, 2), A. Turala (1, 2), A. Ayari (1, 2), G. Folaranmi (1, 2), A. Chapotot (3), J. Cho (3), N. Blal (1, 2), K. Dessein (3), A. Boucherif (1, 2), “Kerfless Transfer of Germanium Nanomembranes for III–V Solar Cell Fabrication via Stressor-Induced Detachment”

11:20 AM | G. Linh Lam, M. de Lafontaine, “Optimizing SiC Betavoltaic Cells under 3H Irradiation to Maximize Power Output”

11:35AM | Milad Fathabadi, M. F. Vafadar, S. Ni, Y. Zhao, J. Song, C. J. Li, and S. Zhao, “Sc-III-Nitride Nanowires with High Reducing Power for Semiconductor Photocatalysis”

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

Keynote | Room 224

1:00 PM | Stephane Martel, “Teledyne Evolution : From Sensing to Decision Support”

Sensors 2 | Room 224

1:30 PM (Invited) | Alberto Tosi, “CMOS and InGaAs/InP SPADs for Visible-SWIR Photon Counting”

1:50 PM | Arnob Ghosh, N. Anand, S. M, “On the Strategies for Enhancement of Light Extraction Efficiency for InGaN MQW Micro and Nano-LEDs”

2:05 PM | Alex W. Walker (1, 2), S. bin-Alam (1, 2), C. Storey (1), J. Lapointe (1), A. J. Springthorpe (1), O. Reshef (1), R. W. Boyd (2), K. Dolgaleva (2), O. J. Pitts (1), “Quantum-dot-based Extended Short-Wavelength Infrared Detectors Enhanced by Plasmonic Nanostructure Arrays”

2:20 PM (Invited) | Serge Charlebois, “Photon-to-Digital Converter for Photon Counting Applications: Fabrication, Performances and Perspectives”

2:45 PM | Group photo (Atrium)

2:50-3:20 PM | Break (Room 122)

Free Access

Panel | Room 224

3:20 PM | Strategic IP and Canadian Innovation

Poster Session 2

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