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Canada Research Chair in Hybrid Optoelectronic Materials and Devices ABOUT THE CHAIR The Canada Research Chair in Hybrid Optoelectronic Materials and Devices was launched in October 2012 in an effort to create a new research thrust at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) combining nanotechnologies, electronic materials, and energy. The Chair was created following Sylvain G. Cloutier’s arrival at ÉTS; at the time, the researcher had already acquired 10 years of intensive research experience in this emerging field. In the past 15 years, nanotechnologies have revolutionized the way we think about materials by providing us with a direct way of engineering their most fundamental properties by controlling their structure at the nanoscale. As the greatest technological leaps have almost always been due to fundamental breakthroughs in material properties, the prospect of gaining a better understanding of, and greater control over, these properties gives rise to great expectations. In accordance with this new paradigm, nanotechnologies have already transformed our lives by providing new generations of nano-engineered materials with astonishing mechanical properties. Now, the scientific community is demonstrating that the same revolution will occur with optoelectronic materials. We do not fully realize the importance of these materials in today’s world. Modern communications, computers, batteries, solar cells, and biomedical sensors are all limited by the cost and the fundamental properties of the optoelectronic materials at their core. The Chair’s primary objective is to develop an entirely new class of low-cost hybrid nano-engineered optoelectronic materials and integrate them within relatively simple device architectures. We are focusing mainly on light sources and solar cells. In the quest for sustainability, we need to find inexpensive and more efficient lighting sources since lighting consumes over 20% of energy output worldwide. Meanwhile, more effective and inexpensive means of harvesting solar energy may provide a sustainable alternative for powering remote areas or simply reduce our dependence on environmentally unfriendly energy sources. Sylvain G. Cloutier and his collaborators have already made significant progress in the development of lowercost and better optoelectronic materials through nanoscale engineering. They have also shown that these materials can be used in real-life applications to achieve better performance-to-cost ratios. Along the way, they have also developed new fabrication and characterization tools to study optoelectronic materials. They are planning to pursue these efforts and use this Chair to position the ÉTS as a leader in this rapidly emerging field. RESEARCH FOCUS Controlled nano-fabrication • Better controlled synthetic routes • Large scale top-down and bottom-up fabrication at low cost Characterization of structural and optoelectronic properties • Development of more precise tools • Contact-free 3D micro-spectroscopy techniques • In operando analysis Device integration • Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) • Photovoltaic devices / solar cells • Sensors FUTURE BENEFITS Research conducted by the Chair will result in: •A new class of better and lower-cost optoelectronic materials •L ow cost LEDs, sensors, and solar cells for a wide range of applications This research has the potential of transforming the way we think about electronic materials and how we use them by providing us with a better understanding of, and control over, their properties through nanoscale engineering. CHAIRHOLDER Sylvain G. Cloutier has been a professor at École de technologie supérieure since 2011. He specializes in nanotechnologies and optoelectronic materials and devices. After earning his Ph. D. at Brown University in 2006, he became a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware before joining ÉTS. He has authored or co-authored over 70 published articles in international journals and presented findings at numerous conferences. PARTNERS In 2006, Sylvain G. Cloutier won the Outstanding Thesis Award from the Division of Engineering at Brown University. In 2009, he garnered the prestigious Young Faculty Award from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. He is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Delaware and editorial board member for Semiconductor Science & Technology. 1 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) 1 Le Centre d’optique, photonique et laser (COPL) 1 Le Centre québécois sur les matériaux fonctionnels (CQMF) 1 NanoQAM (UQAM) 1 Consortium for Research and Innovation in Aerospace in Québec (CRIAQ) 1 L’Institut national de recherche scientifique – Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications (INRS-EMT) Professor Cloutier has led over 14 major research projects in the U.S. and Canada. He also regularly acts as an examiner for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT) as well as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE) in the United States. CONTACT Professor Sylvain G. Cloutier, Ph. D. Phone: 514 396-8897 E-mail: [email protected] Web: crc-nomads.etsmtl.ca Department of Electrical Engineering École de technologie supérieure 1100 Notre-Dame Street West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 1K3 ÉTS is a member of the Université du Québec network