University of Waterloo Profile
Founded in 1957, the University of Waterloo is one of Canada’s leading comprehensive universities, with undergraduate and graduate programs in faculties of Applied Health Sciences, Arts, Engineering, Environment, Mathematics, and Science; and includes professional schools of Pharmacy, Optometry, Accounting and Architecture. The UW community also includes four federated university colleges: St. Jerome’s, Renison, St. Paul’s and Conrad Grebel; and associated research institutes, such as the Water Institute, Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology (WIN), the Quantum Nano Centre (QNC), and the Schlegel Institute for Aging.
In just half a century, the University of Waterloo, located at the heart of Canada's technology hub, has become one of Canada's leading comprehensive universities with 35,000 full- and part-time students in undergraduate and graduate programs. Waterloo, as home to the world's largest post-secondary co-operative education program, embraces its connections to the world and encourages enterprising partnerships in learning, research and discovery. In the next decade, the university is committed to building a better future for Canada and the world by championing innovation and collaboration to create solutions relevant to the needs of today and tomorrow. For more information about Waterloo, visit uwaterloo.ca.
A major challenge currently facing all educational institutions is increased enrolments at a time when tuition fees and operating grants are highly constrained.
Background - research
Dr. William Wong is Director of the Giga-to-Nanoelectronics (G2N) Laboratory at the University of
Waterloo. He is a renowned expert in microelectronics processing, with 93 publications (h-index of 23, 07/2016, ISI Web of Science), >80 issued patents, 37 invited talks, 17 invited papers, five book chapters, and one edited book in the areas of materials growth, heterogeneous integration, and printed large-area flexible electronics. Professor Wong invented the laser liftoff techniques that helped enable the $1B solid-state daytime-running lamps sector in the auto industry. His patents in this area have generated >$12M in licensing and royalty revenue over the past decade.
Background for this purchase
The UV Vis-NIR spectrophotometer is capable of measuring a broad absorption range (175 nm – 3300 nm) for photodetector and transistor devices. The UV-Vis-NIR is capable of absolute specular reflectance at any incident and reflectance angles along with transmission and scattered transmission measurements at multiple angles, allowing for true unbiased absorption characterization. The spectrophotometer has very high sensitivity for measuring low reflectance and very high absorbance (up to 10Abs) to analyze a wide range of materials. With the integration function, researchers can characterize samples in powder, liquid, and paste form. These unique capabilities make the tool a powerful instrument for furthering the understanding of materials growth studied in the proposal: §2.3. Flexible optoelectronic materials and processing in §2.4. Flexible sensor applications and systems.
This acquisition is made possible in partnership with the Canadian Foundation for Innovation:
This Request for Proposal is issued in concert with funding in part from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), and should follow all CFI Guidelines and Policies – please refer to Section 8.0 of the RFP document.
Questions regarding this Request for Proposal may be submitted (via email) to the RFP Contact Person as follows:
Christine Wagner, CPPB, CSCP, Senior Buyer - Procurement and Contract Services
200 University Avenue West
University of Waterloo, East Campus 2
Waterloo ON N2L 5Z5
Email: cpwagner@uwaterloo.ca or, procure@uwaterloo.ca
