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Nanofab Accelerator Program

Nanofab Accelerator Program

We are pleased to announce that QMI’s Advanced Nanofabrication Facility (ANF) has just officially launched its Nanofab Accelerator Program in partnership with the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP). The program will provide eligible SMEs (small or medium-sized businesses) with specialized nanofabrication services, including but not limited to, maskless photolithography, 100kV […]

Flexible Polymer-based Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers (polyCMUTs): Fabrication and Characterization

Flexible Polymer-based Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers (polyCMUTs): Fabrication and Characterization

Amirhossein Omidvar, Carlos D Gerardo, Robert Rohling, Edmond Cretu, Antony J Hodgson   Conventional ultrasound (US) probes are rigid. The rigidity has several drawbacks including acoustic energy loss and artifacts (due to interface mismatch between skin and probe), patient discomfort, limited field of view, and operator dependency. Many of these problems could potentially be addressed […]

Virtual 3D of the SBQMI/AMPEL ANF Cleanrooms

Virtual 3D of the SBQMI/AMPEL ANF Cleanrooms

Main Nanofab Cleanrooms consisting of: ISO 5 (class 100) yellow room ISO 6 (class 1000) yellow room ISO 6 (class 1000) white room           Electron Beam Lithography Cleanroom ISO 7 (class 10000) white room JEOL JBX-8100FX 100kV Electron Beam Lithography System               Packaging/Workhorse Processes Room […]