LAB2FAB
2019 WORKSHOP
INNOVATION FOR LIFE
November 4, 2019
Edmonton, Alberta
Innovation for Life
Thank you to all participants, speakers, and sponsors for making the 2019 LAB2FAB Workshop a success!
This event is part of NANOvember, three complementary events exploring the ecosystem of initiatives, resources, and research enabling innovation and technology for the future of living:
- This biennial workshop provides a platform for micro-nanotechnology fabrication and characterization centres and users to collaborate in overcoming R&D challenges and building capacity and expertise in Canada.
- This workshop will explore the state of the art in nanomedicine, the use of technology convergence, and the support needed to bring technologies to the marketplace.
- This training course motivates a methodological approach to Process Engineering using XperiDesk, with an overview of methods and best practices used in industry.Â
Program
Monday, November 4, 2019
NRC Nanotechnology Research Centre
7:45 – 8:45
Registration | Networking Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00
Opening Remarks
Andrew Fung, Technical Group Lead, CMC Microsystems and Workshop Chair
Andrew Myles, Director, Research and Development, NRC-NANO
9:00 - 10:00
Session 1: Emerging materials and processes
- Noteworthy processing capabilities are emerging in open-access facilities
- Expertise and services sought in facilities
- Most promising R&D opportunities that could benefit
Simon Doe, ANFF, The ANFF Network – an overnight success 10 years in the making
Dirk Ortloff, camLine. DoE in microfabrication using XperiDesk
Lukas Chrostowski, Professor, UBC, SiEPICfab: A Canadian Silicon Photonics Foundry
Session Chair: Mohamed Chaker, INRS
10:00 - 10:30
Group discussion
10:30 - 11:20
Networking Break | Facilities Tour
11:20 - 12:20
Session 2 : R&D Challenges: Stories from the trenches
- Past & current R&D problems
- Lessons learned
- Calls for collaborative solutions
Collin Twanow, Vice-President, Technology, Teledyne Micralyne, MEMS process platforms and design for manufacturing
Simon Wingar, Director of Research and Development, NRC-CPFC, Bringing R&D to commercialization: things that work, challenges still remaining, opportunities to be seized. The CPFC story.
Sven Achenbach, Professor, University of Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan, SyLMAND, High aspect ratio patterning of polymer and metal MEMS
Raafat Mansour, University of Waterloo, Post-Processing of CMOS-MEMS Devices and Potential Applications
Session Chair: Nathanael Sieb, Director of Operations and Administration, 4DLabs, Simon Fraser University
12:20 - 1:30
Lunch
1:30 - 2:30
Session 3: Making the Quantum Leap Together
- Key challenges to commercialization of quantum technologies
- Simulation software & impact on design of quantum devices
- Enhancing the yield and accessibility of quantum chips
- Needed infrastructure
Paul Barclay, Professor, University of Calgary, Manipulating light using diamond optomechanics
Mohammadreza Rezaee, Co-founder & CTO, Aurora Quantum Technologies, Challenges in starting a quantum company
Robert Wolkow, Professor, University of Alberta; CTO, Quantum Silicon, Atom-Defined Fabrication Comes of Age: Binary Logic and an Ising Simulator
Session Chair: Gordon Harling, President & CEO, CMC Microsystems
2:30 - 3:00
Group Discussion
3:00 - 3:45
Networking Break | Facilities Tour
3:45 - 4:45
Session 4: Panel Discussion: Collaborating in shared facilities
- Is a win-win possible?
- Industry and academic facilities – sharing tools & learning together
- Role of academic facilities in commercialization and scale-up
Yuebin Ning, Co-founder & VP, Norcada
Jane Fitzpatrick, Chief Operating Officer, ANFF
Justin Riemer, Assistant Deputy Minister for the Alberta Region, Western Economic Diversification Canada
Session Chair: Eric Flaim, nanoFAB, University of Alberta
5:30 - 8:00
NANOvember Welcome Reception
at the Matrix Hotel
10640 100 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T5J 3N8
Presentation of 2019 Douglas R. Colton Award for Research Excellence
Workshop Committee
Eric Flaim, Director, nanoFAB at University of Alberta
Andrew Fung, Client Technology Advisor at CMC Microsystems (programme chair)
Hooman Hosseinkhannazer, Vice President Business Development at Norcada
Nathanael Sieb, Director of Operations and Administration, 4D LABS at Simon Fraser University
Speakers
Sven Achenbach
Professor, University of Saskatchewan;
SyLMAND, Canadian Light Sourc.
Sven Achenbach (M’11) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. (1996) as well as the P.D. (2000) degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Following several Research Assistant positions and a research stipend at the National Research Center CNRS-LURE, Paris, France, he was a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Research Center Karlsruhe, Germany (2000 to 2003), focusing on deep X-ray lithography process technology. In 2003, he was awarded a tenured Research Scientist position at the Institute of Microstructure Technology in Karlsruhe. In 2005, he assumed an Associate Professorship in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, where he was promoted to Full Professor in 2009 and was appointed as a TR Labs Adjunct Scientist. His research interests include instrumentation and process development for polymer- and metal-based micro- and nano devices and applications such as RF-MEMS, optics, and micro/nano fluidics. In the past decade, he has conceptualized and developed the Synchrotron Laboratory for Micro and Nano Devices (SyLMAND), Canada’s deep X-ray lithography facility at the Canadian Light Source CLS, where he is a Beam Team Leader and Principal Investigator. He is the author of a book chapter, a patent, and more than 60 articles. Dr. Achenbach was the recipient of the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe “Excellent Young Scientists” award and tenured position (2003) and was appointed as the Canada Research Chair in Micro and Nano Device Fabrication (2005-2015).
Simon Doe
National Facility Manager
Australian National Fabrication Facility
(ANFF-SA)
Simon is currently both the National ANFF Manager and the Facility Manager for the South Australian node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility. Established under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy, the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) is a world-class micro and nanofabrication facility and provides academia and industry with access to more than 500 state-of-the-art micro/nanofabrication facilities spread across 21 Australian locations. For more than a decade, ANFF has been enabling research through a mixture of training, expert support and direct access. From proving principles to producing prototypes, the network is helping to bring about new generations of: medical devices, materials, electronics, photonics, and more. Prior to joining ANFF, Simon has worked in several industries across materials and welding engineering
Jane Fitzpatrick
Chief Operating Officer
Australian National Fabrication Facility
(ANFF-SA)
Dirk Ortloff
Department Manager
camLine
Dr. Dirk Ortloff works as a Product Manager XperiDesk for the camLine GmbH in Petershausen, Germany. The independent software vendor provides solutions in the area of production and development automation, data management, integration and statistical assessment (MES, SPC, OEE, PDES) for electronics, semiconductor and photovoltaics industries. Previously he co-founded Process Relations GmbH in 2007 where the original XperiDesk product had been developed. Dirk Ortloff is a specialist in Innovation Management Methodologies and supporting software systems. In 1995 he received his diploma in computer science from the University of Dortmund and undertook, next to his managerial engagements, a doctorate in 2006. His current focus is on improving innovation management through methods, techniques, and tools in several high-tech industries.
Mohammadreza Rezaee
Co-founder & CTO
Aurora Quantum Technologies
Mohammadreza received his Ph.D. in 2015 from University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2015. He is postdoctoral fellow at Max Planck – uOttawa Centre for extreme Quantum Photonics. Priror to that he was at the Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering and Physics Department at Texas A&M University, where he set up and operated a laboratory for quantum nanosensing. Prior to his doctorate work, he earned his BS in Atomic Physics from Shiraz University and his Master’s in Photonics from Shahid Beheshti University in Iran. In 2017, he started a quantum technology company in Toronto, Canada in pursuit of his dream of turning pure physics into high-technology products. He joined the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) and its quantum machine learning program to learn the fundamentals of business development and improve his entrepreneurial skills. He completed CDL’s program in 2018. As CEO and co-founder, he led his venture to participate in the Y Combinator startup accelerator program in the winter of 2019. Upon the completion of the prestigious accelerator program in Silicon Valley, he returned to Canada in order to further develop the core technologies of the startup. His mission is to accelerate the commercialization of quantum technologies. He is interested to find technological applications from his laboratory research. He is fascinated by the promises and power of quantum computation. He has established social groups and organized events raising awareness of quantum technologies while educating the public on their opportunities and threats. He loves nature and everything it has to offer. He hiked the Appalachian trails and camped around the Smoky Mountains for years. He loves kayaking, canoeing, and watersports in general. He has enjoyed many kayaking experiences in Tennessee and Kentucky over the years.
Robert Wolkow
Professor,
University of Alberta
Robert Wolkow is a Professor in the Department of Physics, iCORE Chair of Nanoscale Information and Communications Technology at the University of Alberta and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is also the Principal Research Officer and Nanoelectronics Program Coordinator at the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT), AITF Industrial Chair in Atom Scale Fabrication and CTO of Quantum Silicon Inc. He received his BSc from the University of Waterloo, his PhD from the University of Toronto and did postdoctoral work at the IBM TJ Watson Research Centre before becoming a staff scientist at Bell Laboratories. He has received multiple awards for outstanding achievement, most recently the ASTech Outstanding Leadership in Alberta technology 2015, Innovation Patent Award 2017, Innovation Makes Sense Spin Off Award 2015 and the Innovation Makes Sense Patent Award 2016.
Venue
NRC Nanotechnology Research Centre
11421 Saskatchewan Dr NW
Edmonton, AB T6G 2M9
The day will include tours of the general facility and microscopy facility at NRC’s Nanotechnology Research Centre, as well as tours of nanoFAB at University of Alberta. Please indicate tours you are interested in during registration. Space is limited; first come, first served!
Hotel
Matrix Hotel
10640-100 Ave
Edmonton, Alberta
T5J 3N8
Group rate: $149.00, Deluxe King, or double occupancy
Rates include complimentary wifi and breakfast from 06:30 to 09:00
To book at the group rate, please email: [email protected]
(available on a first come, first serve basis)
A Welcome Reception will be held at the Matrix on the evening of November 4th after Lab2Fab, and is open to all attendees of NANOvember. Please RSVP during registration if you will be joining us!
Map & Directions
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Edmonton Airport (YEG) to Matrix Hotel
There is a shuttle that departs every 60 minutes on the half hour for downtown locations (the Matrix Hotel). Upon arrival, proceed to the skyshuttle check-in desk on the Arrivals level near door 7.
For details, including fares, visit:Â https://flyeia.com/parking-transportation/skyshuttle/
The map shows travel by Edmonton Light Rail Transit (LRT). Click “More options” at the top left of the map to change travel method.