Nanointegration for sustainable photonics solutions

该DG提案建立在uSherbrooke积累的专业知识基础上，为硅器件上的光电子集成开发改进的结构，以及为下一代太阳能供应开发高效光伏电池。我们制造先进纳米结构的能力为我们实现这一技术目标提供了一个解决方案工具箱。这项工作与该领域的行业领导者（加拿大和国外）以及从事这些设备系统部署方面的其他大学团体密切联系。 因此，我们是加拿大一项重大计划的一部分，该计划在聚光器光伏（CPV）领域提供全球领导地位，我们的研究人员与其他学者和行业参与者建立了一系列令人兴奋的联系，为这项工作产生的HQP的职业发展提供了宝贵的机会。我们很幸运，这一行业兴趣的出现发生在我们为发光二极管（LED）和高性能晶体管开发技术的经验提供适用于行业的解决方案的融合，以应对硅上光电子以及新太阳能市场的相关挑战。 我们提出的方法旨在将多个功能集成到单个衬底上的低成本工艺，以及实现更具成本效益和可靠的光伏器件，我们预计开发的技术也将可用于其他设备环境，例如生物传感和生物医学领域的应用。 拟议的器件开发将利用与uSherbrooke的先进外延组、渥太华的SUNLab组的密切关系，并将通过培训与位于Bromont的新MiQro创新合作中心相关的器件技术方面的经验丰富的研究生，帮助加拿大在国际舞台上定位。（投资3.82亿元，兴建世界级的创新中心，引领下一代电子产品的商业化）。

This DG proposal builds on expertise accumulated at uSherbrooke to develop improved structures for optoelectronics integration on silicon devices, as well as for high efficiency photovoltaic cells for the next generation of solar energy supplies. Our ability to make advanced nanostructures provides a toolbox of solutions that we can bring to bear on this technology objective. The work connects closely with industry leaders in the domain (both in Canada and abroad) as well as with other university groups engaged in system deployment aspects of these devices. As a result, we are part of a major Canadian initiative offering global leadership in the topic of Concentrator PhotoVoltaics (CPV) and our researchers enjoy a stimulating range of connections with other academics and industry players, providing valuable opportunities for career development of the HQP generated by this work. We are fortunate that the emergence of this industry interest occurs at a time when our experience with technologies developed for Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) and high performance transistors offers a convergence of solutions applicable to industry for the related challenges of optoelectronics on silicon as well as the new solar power marketplace. Our proposed approach aims at lower-cost processes for integrating multiple functions onto a single substrate, and as well as enabling more cost effective and reliable photovoltaic devices, we anticipate that the techniques developed will also be usable in other device contexts, such as applications in the biosensing and biomedical arenas. The device development proposed will take advantage of a very close relationship with the advanced epitaxy group at uSherbrooke, the SUNLab group in Ottawa and will help to position Canada on the international scene by training experienced graduate students in device technology relevant to the new MiQro Innovation Collaboration Centre at Bromont, (a $382M investment to build a world-class innovation centre leading to the commercialization of electronic products of the next generation).