Researchers at McGill College and NS Nanotech Canada utilized a normal deep ultraviolet (DUV) optical lithography course of on a 4-inch wafter (left) to create a patterned masks (middle), enabling uniform progress of submicron-scale gallium-nitride (GaN)
Collaboration with McGill College will assist develop firm’s Canadian R&D operations
— Seth Coe-Sullivan, NS Nanotech CEO and Co-Founder
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA, October 26, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — NS Nanotech Canada right this moment introduced it has been awarded a two-year Alliance Grant from the Pure Sciences and Engineering Analysis Council of Canada (NSERC) for analysis into the event of nanoscale gentle emitting diodes (LEDs) and lasers. NSERC and NS Nanotech have dedicated a complete of $1 million (CAD) in funding and in-kind contributions. The corporate co-applied for the grant with McGill College Professor Songrui Zhao.
NS Nanotech scientists are collaborating with researchers in Prof. Zhao’s laboratory within the Division of Electrical and Pc Engineering at McGill College to manufacture a brand new era of nanoscale gallium-nitride (GaN) LEDs. Prof. Zhao, one of many world’s main nanoLED researchers, holds quite a few patents and is advancing the state-of-the-art in molecular beam epitaxy and different foundational applied sciences designed to allow orders-of-magnitude enhancements in prices and effectivity over right this moment’s LEDs.
“We admire this substantial assist from the Canadian authorities for the groundbreaking work initiated by Prof. Zhao and McGill College within the fast-moving worlds of nanotechnology, LEDs, and lasers,” mentioned Seth Coe-Sullivan, CEO and Co-Founding father of NS Nanotech. “Collectively we’re on a mission to develop the world’s first environment friendly sub-micron-scale nanoLEDs that can have the potential to disrupt the $120-billion international show market.”
NS Nanotech Canada’s lately established R&D Centre is leveraging unique licenses to a portfolio of groundbreaking patents owned by the College of Michigan and McGill College to develop the world’s first environment friendly sub-micron nanoLEDs and nano-lasers. Commercialization of the laboratory applied sciences will assist allow next-generation shows for televisions, cellphones, good watches, augmented-reality glasses, and different purposes together with disinfection with ultraviolet gentle.
In the summertime of 2023, the mixed group efficiently fabricated nanowires on semiconductor wafers, demonstrating the potential for progress of nanoscale LEDs utilizing normal business manufacturing processes. It was the primary time deep ultraviolet (DUV) optical lithography course of had been utilized to develop uniform GaN nanowires on an optically patterned substrate.
“Our collaboration with NS Nanotech’s R&D Centre is accelerating our laboratory work creating a wholly new method of making gentle emitting diodes by means of progress of nanostructures on semiconductor supplies,” mentioned Prof. Zhao. “The NSERC Alliance Grant will assist allow further breakthroughs that our mixed group expects to ship over the subsequent two years.”
The NSERC Alliance Grant is the newest milestone within the joint R&D program. Senior college students from Prof. Zhao’s laboratory and NS Nanotech scientists have been collaborating since early 2023 following incorporation of NS Nanotech Canada, Inc. In March, NS Nanotech acquired matching funding from McGill College’s I&P Partnership Program to assist its work with the scientists in Prof. Zhao’s laboratory. And in September, NS Nanotech Canada opened its first workplace adjoining to the McGill campus.
“McGill College and Montreal are rising as vital facilities of superior high-technology analysis, growth, and commercialization,” mentioned NS Nanotech Canada’s Chief Working Officer Derrick Wong. “Educational-industrial collaborations like ours will likely be an vital technique of guaranteeing that groundbreaking semiconductor applied sciences transfer efficiently ‘from lab-to-fab’ and into business markets.”
NSERC is a Canadian authorities funding group that helps Canada’s analysis neighborhood, together with universities, faculties, companies, and not-for-profits, with Alliance Grants designed to take away limitations to technological breakthroughs and present pathways to commercialization.
ABOUT NS NANOTECH
NS Nanotech, Inc., based in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2017, included NS Nanotech Canada in November 2022 to collaborate with McGill College scientists on nanoLED analysis. The corporate is creating the world’s first environment friendly sub-micron-scale nanoLEDs which have the potential to disrupt the $120-billion international show market. In Michigan, NS Nanotech collaborates with College of Michigan researchers and has a prototype manufacturing facility to develop nitride semiconductors for UVC disinfection purposes. It holds unique licenses to portfolios of nanoLED patents held by each McGill College and the College of Michigan.
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