Faculty

Dr. Ray LaPierre

Department Chair

solar cells (photovoltaics), photodetectors, quantum information processing (quantum computers)

Dr. Adrian Kitai

Associate Chair, Graduate

fundamental luminescent materials, new luminescent devices, new avalanche injection devices, optical fiber liquid crystal display technology

Dr. Andy Knights

Associate Chair, Undergraduate

silicon optical circuits; silicon integrated optics

Dr. Jonathan Bradley

Assistant Professor and Barber-Gennum Chair in IT

silicon photonics, integrated optics, lasers, photonic materials, optical communications, sensors, microphotonic systems

Dr. Adriaan Buijs

Professor

reactor core physics, reactor modelling, reactor design, Monte Carlo methods, data analysis

Dr. Dan Cassidy

Professor

Prof. Qiyin Fang

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Biophotonics

biophotonics, microscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy & imaging, intelligent sensing for point-of-care, aging-in-place, & environmental monitoring

Dr. Harold Haugen

Professor

Femtosecond Laser Ablation and Micromachining, Electron Microscopic Studies of Ytterbium-Doped Optical Fibres, Applications of THz Radiation

Dr. Rafael Kleiman

Professor

solar energy: photovoltaics and solar thermal, concentrator photovoltaics, solar testing and instrumentation, solar materials; silicon, III-V, hyperspectral imaging, device modelling, advanced light trapping, device fabrication

Dr. John Luxat

Professor and NSERC Industrial Research Chair

Nuclear Safety Analysis Methodology, Experimental Studies in Nuclear Safety Thermalhydraulics, Theoretical Modelling Studies in Nuclear Safety Thermalhydraulics

Dr. Peter Mascher

Professor

Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy; Point Defects in Materials; Thin Film Technology; Silicon Nanostructures; Silicon Photonics; Luminescence; Rare Earth Doping; PECVD; Optical Characterization; Ellipsometry

Dr. Matthew Minnick

Assistant Professor

MEMS; Robotics; Micromachining; Resonance; Fluid-Structure Interactions; FEM; Automation

Dr. Shinya Nagasaki

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Radioactive Waste Management

radioactive waste management, nuclear fuel cycle, safety assessment of repository and nuclear fuel cycle facilities, migration of actinides, fission products and heavy metals in geosphere and biosphere, nuclear technology in society, nuclear proliferation and security

Dr. Dave Novog

Professor and NSERC Industrial Research Chair

nuclear safety, reactor physics, thermalhydraulics, multiphysics reactor analysis, nuclear fuel and fuel cycles, severe accident modelling, emergency accident response and mitigation

Dr. John Preston

Professor

Pulsed Laser Deposition, Self-Assembly of Epitaxial Nanostructures, Photovoltaics

Dr. Leyla Soleymani

Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Miniaturized Biomedical Devices

biosensing, point-of-care diagnostics, lab-on-a-chip, DNA detection, health monitoring, nanofabrication, wrinkling, rapid prototyping

Dr. Ayse Turak

Assistant Professor

degradation at interfaces in organic electronics; classification of spatial order for 2D objects; modelling and tailoring of organic thin film morphology; nanoparticle synthesis; photovoltaics; surface and interface physics

Dr. Chang-qing Xu

Professor

bacterial sensors; biomedical lasers for diagnosis and treatment; periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN); PPLN related devices; lasers (solid, fiber, semiconductor); optical sensors and sub-systems; laser applications