Awards
The Douglas R. Colton Medal for Research Excellence
Colton Medal
CMC Microsystems recognizes excellence in Canadian micro-nano research by Canada’s National Design Network through its annual Douglas R. Colton award. Established in honour of the founding president of CMC Microsystems, this award includes a medal and a monetary prize of $4,500.
Faculty, students or alumni who have successfully completed a Master’s or PhD degree in a Canadian university within the previous three calendar years are eligible for this award.
2022 Deadline: Friday, August 26
View the Nomination Guidelines
2021 Winner
Dr. Taleana Huff (University of Alberta)
Dr. Taleana Huff was awarded the 2021 Douglas R. Colton Medal for Research Excellence. For her Master’s degree and her PhD, Huff focused on “Atomic White-Out,” an error correction method for fabricating and patterning quantum dots. The technique gave Huff and the team the ability to successfully build atomic circuits, construct binary atomic wires and logic gates.
This circuitry, built atom by atom could provide a new basis for electronic devices that are far more energy efficient, faster, and smaller than what is available today.
TEXPO Student Competition and Exposition
Established by CMC Microsystems, TEXPO offers graduate students in Canada’s National Design Network a unique opportunity to demonstrate their novel applications of micro-nano technologies to industry representatives and academic peers.
Students are invited to take part in TEXPO and compete for a total of $12,500 in awards in four categories:
TEXPO 2022 Winners
Award for Excellence in Microsystems CAD Tools and Design Methodology Winner
Sponsor: COMSOL
Winner: Roberto Silva
Supervisor: Roman Genov
Organization: University of Toronto
Title: Coded-Exposure-Pixel (CEP) Camera for Scene-Adaptive Single-Shot HDR and 3D Imaging at Standard Video Rate
Award for Excellence in
Microsystems Fabrication
Sponsor: Teledyne MEMS
Winner: Amirhossein Omidvar
Supervisor: Edmond Cretu
Organization: University of British Columbia
Title: FlexCMUT, a Flexible Polymer-based Micromachined Ultrasound Array for Conformal Imaging
Award for Microsystems
Innovation by Women
Sponsor: GlobalFoundries
Winner: Sheida Gohardehi
Supervisor: Manoj Sachdev
Organization: University of Waterloo
Title: Dual-Driver Pixel Circuit and Associated Drivers for Low-Power OLEDoS Microdisplays
Brian L. Barge Award for
Excellence in Microsystems
Sponsor: CMC Microsystems
Winner: William Lemaire
Supervisor: Réjean Fontaine
Organization: Université de Sherbrooke
Title: Infrared-Powered Artificial Retina based on a 65- nm CMOS stimulator ASIC