Spotlight on CMC Microsystems

CMC’s internal technical teams support microelectronics, micromechanical sensors (MEMS), photonics, optics and system integration. These are the underlying technologies enabling biomedical devices, autonomous cars, wearable technology, remote health diagnostics, 5G networks, AI-driven data processing, and quantum computing, as examples.

CMC provides royalty-free example designs, design tools to modify and simulate them, and low-cost access to fabrication services to build them, enabling researchers across Canada to lead technology innovation in these areas. Electronic and photonic sensors are finding their way into handheld and mobile devices for point-of-care medical testing, environmental monitoring, and structural monitoring. Getting maximum performance from these sensors requires careful design.

CMC offers access to over 40 university-based fabrication facilities across Canada and the technical know-how to help researchers transfer their knowledge into innovations. Researchers can use industrial-grade software provided by CMC to design their microsystems and use CMC-brokered access to commercial fabrication facilities to build prototypes.

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