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12.09.11 Tassadit Amrane is representing Canada at the NAMIS autumn school in France/Switzerland, September 12th-16th 2011.

29.03.11 In order to better reflect its activities the laboratory changes name and becomes the Microphotonics Laboratory.

23.03.11 Francis Vanier receives a NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (PhD).

21.01.11 The micro and nano systems laboratory receives, in partnership, a CFI and Québec government Leaders Opportunity Fund grant - 478 143 $ for a new laboratory for advanced control of microsystems.

09.12.10 Dr. Pablo Bianucci receives a CIHR Fellowship and will join the lab in June 2011.

01.12.10 Congratulations to Annabelle Gascon for successfully presenting her Master thesis.

17.10.10 Antoine Leblanc-Hotte and Kazem Zandi are representing Canada at the NAMIS autumn school in Tokyo, October 17th-23rd 2010.

22.06.10 Professor Yves-Alain Peter receives a NSERC «Discovery Accelerator» supplement.

27.05.10 Yves-Alain Peter is elevated to the grade of OSA Senior Member (Optical Society of America).

28.04.10 Francis Vanier and Samir Saïdi's optical microcavity photograph is 5th at "La preuve par l'image" contest. The micrograph was the subject of a national league improv match and a family game at Eureka! Festival.

12.04.10 The micro and nano systems laboratory receives, in partnership, a FQRNT equip grant - 168 526 $ over three years for the development of chalcogenide glass photonic devices.

21.04.10 Three students from the micro and nano systems laboratory receive a fellowship from FQRNT in the frame of the international internship program. The students will spend 4 months at Imperial College London (Tassadit Amrane), and EPFL (Alexandre Poulin and Alireza Hajhosseini Mesgar).

16.04.10 Congratulations to Sacha Bergeron for successfully presenting his Master thesis.

08.04.10 Mathieu Auger and Antoine Leblanc-Hotte receive an "Arthur Yelon and John Low Brebner" fellowship from the Thin Film Physics and Technology Research Center (TFRL).

03.03.10 Antoine Leblanc-Hotte and Joseph André Bélanger receive an Undergraduate Student Research Award from NSERC.

23.10.09 Our optical accelerometer for micro satellites is highlighted in Génial magazine.

15.08.09 Francis Vanier receives a FQRNT Master scholarship.

26-27.06.09 The micro and nano systems laboratory organises the 7th NAMIS workshop at Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal.

18.06.09 The micro and nano systems laboratory receives, in partnership, two CFI and Québec government grants - 3 950 656 $ for a design, assembly and test platform of microsystems, and 2 725 474 $ for smart coatings fabrication and characterization tools.

10.06.09 Alexandre Poulin and Francis Vanier will be representing Canada at the NAMIS autumn school in Toulouse, September 13th-19th 2009.

04.05.09 Catherine Cadieux is laureate of Chapeau, les filles! Excelle Science 2009.

30.04.09 Yves-Alain Peter is elected to the Academic Council.

22.04.09 The RQMP receives a FQRNT funding of 5 400 000 $ over six years.

08.04.09 Francis Vanier and Antoine Leblanc-Hotte receive an Undergraduate Student Research Award from ReSMiQ.

07.04.09 Catherine Cadieux receives an "Arthur Yelon and John Low Brebner" fellowship from the Thin Film Physics and Technology Research Center (TFRL).

31.03.09 Raphaël St-Gelais receives an Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (PhD).

24.03.09 The TFRL receives an NSERC major resources support grant of 141 000 $ to run its central facilities.

02.03.09 Catherine Cadieux, Francis Vanier and Alexandre Poulin receive an Undergraduate Student Research Award from NSERC.

02.10.08 The micro and nano systems laboratory receives an NSERC strategic grant - 543 100 $ over three years for the development of a label free high sensitivity detection system of bacteria using functionalized optical microcavities with bacteriophages.

22.08.08 Yves-Alain Peter is the new Deputy Director of the TFRL and member of the RQMP executive committee.

21.07.08 Annabelle Gascon and Raphaël St-Gelais will be representing Canada at the NAMIS autumn school in Tokyo, September 28th to October 4th 2008.

14.07.08 Congratulations to Jonathan Masson for successfully presenting his Master thesis.

11.06.08 Julien Carrier receives an Undergraduate Student Research Award from ReSMiQ.

27.05.08 A team of 6 entrepreneurs (2 economists, 1 jurist and 3 engineers from the micro and nano systems laboratory) are on the short list of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation competition.

09.05.08 Julien Carrier receives an Undergraduate Student Research Award from NSERC.

28.04.08 Congratulations to Fatou Binetou Koné for successfully presenting her Master thesis.

22.04.08 The ReSMiQ receives a FQRNT funding of 2 475 000 $ over six years.

04.04.08 The TFRL receives an NSERC major resources support grant of 247 000 $ to run its central facilities.

01.04.08 Annabelle Gascon receives an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship.

12.03.08 Patrick Daoust receives an Undergraduate Student Research Award from NSERC.

28.09.07 The TFRL receives a NanoQuébec funding of 3 450 000 $ over six years to run its central facilities.

03.09.07 Sacha Bergeron, Alireza Hajhosseini Mesgar and Jonathan Masson will be representing Canada at the NAMIS autumn school in Tokyo, October 1st to 5th 2007.

03.05.07 Yves-Alain Peter is promoted to the grade of Associate Professor.

12.04.07 The micro and nano systems laboratory receives a FQRNT equip grant - 181 244 $ over three years for the development of a new class of optical microcavities for applications in bio-chemical sensing, and nonlinear optics.

10.04.07 Francis Vanier and Jean-Philippe Coutu receive an "Arthur Yelon and John Low Brebner" fellowship from the Thin Film Physics and Technology Research Center (TFRL).

30.03.07 Alexandre Poulin, Francis Vanier and Jean-Philippe Coutu receive an Undergraduate Student Research Award from NSERC.

21.02.07 Yves-Alain Peter is elevated to the grade of Senior Member in the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).

18.12.06 Congratulations to Mohamad Hajj Hassan for successfully presenting his Master thesis.

11.12.06 The micro and nano systems laboratory receives an NSERC strategic grant - 515 000 $ over three years for the development of an enhanced optical multianalyte detection lab on chip for point-of-care diagnostic.

11.12.06 The micro and nano systems laboratory receives, in partnership, an NSERC strategic grant - 415 500 $ over three years for the development of a miniaturized Si-based plasmonics platform for gas detection.

27.11.06 The micro and nano systems laboratory receives, in partnership, a major CFI and Québec government grant - 20,3 millions $ for the development of novel nanomaterials and microsystems for biomedical applications.

27.03.06 Professor Yves-Alain Peter receives a CFI and Québec government Leaders Opportunity Fund grant - 374 000 $ for a new advanced testing laboratory for optical micro and nano electro mechanical systems.