Modular quantum efficiency devices

Quantum efficiency (QE) test equipment becomes abundantly important in numerous applications such as solar cells devices, charge-coupled devices (CCD), photodetectors, both in visible range and in infra-red (IR) spectral range. Although QE tests are becoming prevalent, every application has specific requirements to the excitation source, photovoltaic devices or instrument geometries. Sciencetech Inc. is a global designer and manufacturer of optical spectroscopic instrumentation, for industry and academia. This project will focus on developing modular QE test system, with possibility to exchange different components and extended detection capability in short-wave (SWIR) range. A postdoctoral researcher, working in collaboration between Western and Sciencetech, will use her expertise in growth of the multilayer thin film structures at Western to test new developed structures and to incorporate them into SWIR detector technologies at Sciencetech. She will work on developing a scalable visible-to SWIR device directly integrated on silicon platform. This technology provides a potential for lower cost and larger size QE systems operating in a broader wavelength range.

Faculty Supervisor:

Lyudmila Goncharova

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Partner:

Sciencetech Inc

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of Western Ontario; Western University

Program: