Virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR) systems have burgeoned over the last couple of years with applications in healthcare, gaming, telepresence, and skills training, to name a few. Within the skills training sector, for example, police/law enforcement training is an important application domain which has seen increased adoption worldwide. In Canada, Public Safety and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have invested millions of dollars to set up state-of-the-art VR/MR facilities to train the next generation of law enforcement agents.

The manufacture of “smart devices” requires a large number of connected, low-cost embedded digital systems that are typically electronically connected on circuit boards. Our project develops a system to integrate functional materials directly into these boards which can provide or extend the capabilities of devices with functionalities such as memory, batteries or sensors. We develop a deposition system that directly structures these functional materials in a roll-to-roll system with improved characteristics as compared to requiring discrete extra components.

Les mesures d’impact social ont gagné en popularité au cours des dernières années notamment auprès des organismes à but non lucratif qui cherchent de plus en plus à cerner les effets de leurs efforts. Il existe cependant peu de modèles et d’outils existants qui visent à mieux comprendre l’impact d’initiatives qui concernent les changements de mentalité. Cette recherche-action explorera cette thématique précise dans le but de développer des outils appropriés pour un projet d’escouade en égalité mené par un OSBL de l’Estrie.

Afin que les acteurs du milieu environnemental estrien, de même que les citoyennes et citoyens, puissent faire face plus efficacement aux enjeux liés aux changements climatiques et à la perte de biodiversité, il importe de mieux utiliser les données dont nous disposons actuellement. Plusieurs organismes et groupes produisent des données à propos de différents enjeux environnementaux. Or, il est difficile d’avoir une vue d’ensemble sur la situation environnementale estrienne lorsque les données sont éparses et difficilement accessibles.

The proposed project aims to construct a robust and versatile roll-to-roll (R2R) magnetron sputtering system for thin film deposition. That system will favor the production of thin films of different materials with tailored properties and functionality onto flexible substrates in a single step. This will be made through a system composed of different stations with different targets and masks inside the process chamber, without the need for any hand manipulation during the manufacturing or any post-processing deposition.

The project brings together Canadian industrial and academic partners who are members of the UNESCO chair “Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion Saving and Storage)” established since 2014 by INRS. This project will allow Pi-Sol Technologies, our industrial partner to develop cost-effective free-standing hybrid nanostructured multifunctional catalysts with high performance and durability for sustainable energy applications, including Zin-Air batteries markets.

Le Petit Bonheur de St-Camille Inc est un organisme culturel estrien ayant pour mission « d’animer un espace intergénérationnel de rencontres à vocation communautaire et culturelle et contribuer, par ses actions, au dynamisme légendaire de Saint-Camille » (ptitbonheur.org). Pour sa part, Les Concerts de la Chapelle « visent à offrir en milieu rural des événements mettant en valeur la musique de concert à l’intention des mélomanes avisés tout autant que des personnes non initiées à ce genre » (https://lesconcertsdelachapelle.com).

Since the onset of the digital age, the need to process tremendous amounts of data has become of critical importance for healthcare, financial, and government sectors. This has made information processing tasks increasingly complex, and thus far, there exists no realistic platform that can meet the stringent requirements of the computation industry, e.g., in terms of power and speed. A potential solution are systems that can enable parallel processing of data.

Quantum technologies (QTs) such as quantum computing, information processing, and sensing will characterize next generation lives. For this reason, many efforts have been spent to implement quantum platforms for integrated, affordable, and reproducible QTs. Quantum photonics provides an ideal framework to achieve this goal. In this project, we will deliver an integrated quantum photonic platform capable of generating complex entangled states based on few photons simultaneously entangled in high-dimensional time and frequency modes.

The next generation of smart Internet services requires a high level of data protection for sensitive information exchanged (e.g., bank transactions, defense operations). The forthcoming advent of accessible quantum computation will put at risk any classical encryption protocols. Unbreakable data protection, against cyberattacks or unauthorized access, can be guaranteed by quantum encryption protocols, such as the quantum key distribution (QKD) technique.