Michel Meunier

Professional affiliations :

Projects in progress :

Laser micro-engineering of materials: Micro-electronic applications
• Laser restructuring of micro-electronic circuits: Optimization, characterization and modeling     (Collaboration with LTRIM Technologies)

Laser nano-engineering of materials
• Laser-assisted fabrication of nanoparticles and quantum dots
• Laser nano-structured thin films
• Laser fabrication of nanoporous materials

Ultra-fast laser processes
• Digital simulations of laser-material interaction
• 3D micro-machining by femtosecond laser
• Fabrication of photonic devices by femtosecond laser

Micro-systems
• Development of solid electrolyte micro-batteries (Collaboration with Hydro-Québec)
• Micro-electro-mechanical micro-systems for aerospace (Collaboration with Bombardier)

Biomedical applications
• Optical biosensors (Surface Plasmon Resonance)
• Biomedical applications of nanoparticles and quantum dots (cancer bio-imaging and treatment)

Interests :

Femtosecond engineering: Micro/nano-machining of materials, temporal shaping of laser pulses, digital simulation of laser-matter interaction.

Biomedical nanotechnology: Fabrication and characterization of nanodrugs, of gold/silver alloy nanoparticles and of plasmonic and magnetic nanomaterials.

Plasmonic nanobiosensors: Nanoplasmonics, phase-sensitive plasmonic biosensors, plasmon-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, applications for gas detection, for DNA, virus and cancer biodetection.

Laser nanosurgery: Femtosecond laser-assisted surgery in living cells, plasmon-enhanced laser-assisted nanosurgery. Laser-assisted cell transfection. Theory and simulation. Application to cancer treatment.

Research team :

Research Scientist
Sergiy Patskovsky

Postdoctoral Fellow
Morteza Kafshgari
William Wang
Ariel Wilson

PhD Students
Leonidas Agiotis
Cécile Darviot
Isabelle Largilière
Mengjiao Qi
Duc Hoa Tran
Lu Wang
Jennyfer Zapata

Master's Students
Kurt Eberling
Paule Valiquette-Marcoux
Aurey Nsamela

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