Grants and Contributions:

Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2018-2019).

This new collaboration between Aeponyx, a rapidly growing Canadian company that offers disruptivex000D
telecommunication technology, and the Université de Sherbrooke nanomaterial team, led by Professor Richardx000D
Arès will explore innovative ways to exploit the properties of a new kind of nano-composite material forx000D
integration within the company's products. Graphene-coated porous semiconductors are made of a variety ofx000D
semiconductors, whose mesoporous structures are obtained by an electrochemical process. The pore walls arex000D
coated with a graphene-like layer of a few atoms thick - a process that radically changes the properties of thex000D
host semiconductor, forming a composite. The electro-optical properties of the nanocomposites remainx000D
unknown. This project aims to measure these properties and explore the use of the nanocomposites in thex000D
context of the telecommunication applications. The target application will be to integrate the nanocompositex000D
within the current Aeponyx fabrication process for their optics platform that combines MEMS with passivex000D
silicon nitride waveguides. An eventual successful integration would mean that Aeponyx's product wouldx000D
become fully monolithic and be produced at radically reduced cost.x000D
The project will use the know-how developed at USherbrooke for both the nanocomposite synthesis and forx000D
semiconductor-based nanofabrication, along with Aeponyx's strong knowledge of the device fabricationx000D
challenges and related application.