Centre for Emerging Device Technologies – Faculty of Engineering
A student picking up petri dish in CEDT clean room.

Centre for Emerging Device Technologies

The Centre for Emerging Device Technologies (CEDT) is an organization that facilitates study of the optical, electrical, mechanical and biological properties of semiconductors and related materials. The CEDT also promotes the development of devices technology based on these materials.

The centre’s focus has been on photonics and optical materials and devices, however, the approaches, applications and research areas are extremely diverse. We develop lasers, MEMS, detectors, waveguide devices and much more. Industrial collaborations take place frequently and new initiatives are always welcome.

About the Centre

The CEDT is made up of faculty members and graduate students from the various departments under both Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Sciences:

  • Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Materials Science & Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Chemistry & Chemical Biology
  • Physics & Astronomy
  • Geography & Earth Sciences
  • Civil Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
Our members

Facilities

  • John Hodgins Engineering Building

  • Tandem Accelerator Building

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Our labs

  • Nanofabrication Lab (JHE-A306)

    ISO Class 10000 cleanroom with micro- and nanofabrication tools.

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  • Organic Lab (JHE-A305)

    Micro- and large-scale organic chemical spray coating.

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  • Characterization Lab (JHE-A317)

    Characterization of optical properties of thin film materials.

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  • Compound Semiconductor Lab (TAB-110 and TAB-205)

    Deposition of III-V semiconductors and metal and dielectric thin films.

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  • Terahertz Range Integrated Measurement Laboratory (TRIM Lab) (JHE-A312)

    Electromagnetic testing facility in RF to THz range.

Events &updates

Summer Seminar Series

Daniel Zatko — 30 July
“Influence of Nanoparticle Surfaces on DNAzyme Recognition and Catalytic Activity“

Justin Hume — 23 July
“Bacteriophage-coated Microrobots for the Controlled Disruption of Bacterial Biofilms“

Emily McKinley — 16 July
“Sputtering Hafnium Oxide Ferroelectric Thin Films for Neuromorphic Computing“

CEDT updates

• We have added a Terahertz Lab to our facility! Please contact us for more details.

• The atomic layer deposition (ALD) system is up and running with TMA for Al2O3, BTBAS for SiO2. Please contact us for more details.

Atomic Layer Deposition System - PEALD (Arradiance GEMStar XT-DP)

Our collaborators

The CEDT has users from, and collaborates with, universities and industry partners across Canada and around the world. We always welcome new opportunities to collaborate for the advancement of research.

Optical Table (Newport RS2000 UCS) – Cleanroom

Our history

The CEDT was established in 1987 and originally named the Centre for Electrophotonic Materials and Devices.

Since 1989, development of the facility and research group has accelerated with the acquisition of cutting-edge equipment funded by various organizations, including :

    • Ontario Centre for Materials Research (OCMR)​

    • Canadian Institute for Telecommunications Research​

    • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)​

    • Bell-Northern Research​

    • Lumonics Inc.​

    • Ontario Photonics Consortium (OPC)​

    • EG&G Optoelectronics and Northern Telecom​ ​

The formation of the CEDT enabled McMaster to acquire facilities necessary for all significant aspects of optoelectronics research, including materials growth, characterization, device fabrication, and characterization.​

In 2005, the name of the Centre was changed to CEDT to better reflect the diversified range of research topics in which group members have become increasingly involved.

Contact theCEDT

Mailing address

JHE A315

McMaster University

1280 Main Street W

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

L8S 4L7

Mail Services

Office address

JHE A327

McMaster University

1280 Main Street W

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

L8S 1C7

Maps

People

Jon Bradley, Director

bradljd@mcmaster.ca

Doris Stevanovic, Research Engineer

stevanov@mcmaster.ca

Nebile Isik Goktas, Principal Research Engineer

isikgokn@mcmaster.ca