Grants and Contributions

By enabling deterministic, high-speed optical interconnects, Project NODE strengthens Canada’s leadership in quantum networking and supports the development of scalable quantum technologies.

Hapi delivers immediate resource navigation without requiring internet access. For Canada's defence, this addresses the strategic challenge of reliable communications in low-bandwidth environments, enabling personnel to securely locate logistics or mental health resources.

The global effort to develop scalable quantum networks requires platforms that combine long coherence times with strong and controllable coupling to photonic circuits—capabilities that existing atomic and solid-state systems can only partially provide. While warm/cold atomic gases and single-atom traps offer excellent coherence, they are difficult to integrate into compact photonic systems, and solid-state colour centres face challenges such as phonon sidebands, spectral diffusion, or the need for sub-Kelvin temperatures. Molecular systems, and lanthanide complexes in particular, offer a transformative opportunity: their local chemical environment can be precisely engineered to minimize decoherence, suppress non-radiative decay, and support both ensemble-based quantum memories and single?emitter qubits. Early demonstrations of long optical and spin coherence in lanthanide complexes highlight the strong potential of this emerging platform for quantum networking, sensing, and communication.

The firm will conduct a Defense Readiness assessment to explore the feasibility of deploying its digital therapeutics (DTx) platform to support mental health monitoring and treatment for Canadian Armed Forces members and veterans, leveraging a dual-use context of its technology.

The measurement of analyte concentration in aqueous media is typically performed by analytical laboratory methods, which are slow and costly. Applications such as indoor farming, including hydroponics, require a solution that can provide nutrient analyte measurements in real-time, on-site and in a cost-effective manner. Quantum materials, such as graphene and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) where the material is surface, combine quantum transport properties with sensitivity to surface chemistry ideally suited to sensing applications. Consequently, graphene and CNT sensors have enabled many improvements in sensor response. The Project is aimed at developing new concepts in graphene field effect transistor (FET) based sensors to simultaneously achieve the sensitivity, selectivity and stability required for applications such as controlled environment agriculture. This work leverages the expertise, experience and infrastructure of the applicants at McGill University, Université de Montréal, Cégep de SaintJérôme, and the NRC.

Defence Market Evaluation

The measurement of analyte concentration in aqueous media is typically performed by analytical laboratory methods, which are slow and costly. Applications such as indoor farming, including hydroponics, require a solution that can provide nutrient analyte measurements in real-time, on-site and in a cost-effective manner. Quantum materials, such as graphene and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) where the material is surface, combine quantum transport properties with sensitivity to surface chemistry ideally suited to sensing applications. Consequently, graphene and CNT sensors have enabled many improvements in sensor response. The Project is aimed at developing new concepts in graphene field effect transistor (FET) based sensors to simultaneously achieve the sensitivity, selectivity and stability required for applications such as controlled environment agriculture. This work leverages the expertise, experience and infrastructure of the applicants at McGill University, Université de Montréal, Cégep de SaintJérôme, and the NRC.

In parallel, the Project will train highly qualified personnel with expertise relevant to Canada’s quantum computing ecosystem.

Expected outcomes include prototype algorithms, open-source tools, research publications, and the training of highly qualified personnel, strengthening Canada’s leadership in quantum technologies and advanced system analysis.

Expansion of PolarGrid'sintelligent auto-routing orchestration software layer to include the ability to interface with Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation connectivity providers and provide output to a user in a different location than the input source.