Semiconductor Spotlight - August

2024 Colton Medal

CMC Microsystems recognizes excellence in Canadian micro-nano research through its annual Douglas R. Colton award. Established in honour of the founding president of CMC Microsystems, this award includes a medal and a monetary prize of $4,500.

Faculty, students or alumni who have successfully completed a Master’s or PhD degree in a Canadian university within the previous three calendar years are eligible for this award.?Nomination Deadline Sept 20

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AI & Quantum Technology

The government of Québec has just launched a call for innovation projects in artificial intelligence and quantum technologies (collaborative industrial research and support for entrepreneurship). The information is available?here(French only).Important note: there are three submission dates; October 15, 2024, and April 15, 2025.

Networking?Event Calendar

• IEEE Quantum Week 2024 | Sept?15-20
• TEXPO 2024 | Sept 26
• CHIPS Month Canada | Oct 7- Nov 7
• Canadian Semiconductor Symposium | Oct 9-10
• CRAFT Research Symposium | ?Oct 12
• MicroTAS 2024 | Oct?13-17
• IEEE 10th World Forum on Internet of Things | Nov 10-13
• 28th World Micromachine Summit | Summer 2025

Training, Workshops & Webinars

• Ansys 2024 R2: Ansys Digital Twin What's New?| Sept 5
• Ansys 2024 R2: Ansys optiSLang What's New?| Sept 10
• Passive Silicon Photonics Fabrication 2024?| Sept 10
• Simulating Plasmonics and Metamaterials?| Sept 12
• Battery Modeling with COMSOL Mulitphysics?| Sept 17
• Equation-Based Modeling with COMSOL Multiphysics?| Sept 18
• Modeling and Simulation of MEMS Devices?| Sept 19
• SwiftMoteEC: A wireless IoT platform for electrochemical sensing applications?| Sept 25
• Real-Time Video Surveillance and Anomaly Detection?| Sept 26
• Introduction to COMSOL Multiphysics?|?Oct 15-18
• CFD Modelling in COMSOL Multiphysics?|?Oct 15-18
• Pasqal – CMC Virtual Workshop and Hackathon on Quantum Computing with Neutral Atoms?| Oct 28

Upcoming Fabrication Deadlines

GlobalFoundries

12LP FinFET, 45nm CMOS RFE,?45SPCLO, 45nm CMOS RFSOI, BiCMOS 90nm SiGe 9HP?

TSMC???

65nm CMOS GP,? .13μm CMOS, .18μm?CMOS,? .18μm?CMOS BCD

Applied NanoTools

NanoSOI Fabrication Process, Silicon Nitride Fabrication Process

Science

PiezoMUMPs

3IT

Electronic Sensor Platform

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