NRC Institute for Microstructural Sciences (NRC-IMS)

Eligibility Criteria

• Canadian industry;
• universities;
• government.

Summary

The Institute has four major programs:

• Optical Communications;
• Multimedia Components;
• Wireless Communication;
• Exploratory Research.

What kind of services are available?
The Institute provides access to special facilities and expertise where equivalent services are not available from Canadian industry.

Client services are available in the following areas:

• characterization of surfaces and interfaces and thin films including depth profiling;
• compositional and structural electrical and optical characterization of semiconductor structures and devices;
• design and fabrication of optical thin films;
• electron ion beam lithography;
• prototype electronic and optoelectronic device fabrication;
• custom epitaxial growth on GaAs, InP and III-V semiconductors;
• computer simulation for design of optical multilayer systems, semiconductor wave guides, and quantum well lasers;
• acoustics testing.

Note: NRC-IMS services are provided on a cost recovery basis.

Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland & Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon Contact(s):
See National Contact.