Simon Fafard
R&D Engineering at Broadcom
Broadcom Semiconductor
Canada
Biography
Simon is currently a Hardware specialist at Broadcom Semiconductor ULC, Canada. Broadcom is a large public company that acquired Azastra in 2017. Simon has been focused on the design, epitaxy, and characterization of optoelectronic devices, including most recently at uSherbrooke, Azastra, and Broadcom. He received the 2017 CAP Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Industrial and Applied Physics. He has a Google Scholar h-index of 52, with about 250 publications, with over 11,000 citations, and he is the inventor of over 30 patents. He raised over $20M of private and venture capital funding and also obtained numerous research grants. He led Cyrium to become a manufacturer of one of the highest performance multijunction III-V solar cells and led Azastra to manufacture the highest performance phototransducer products. As an entrepreneur he cumulates over 25 years of experience in Optoelectronics and Photonics while developing and commercializing numerous devices and products in the industry at Azastra, Aton, Cyrium, Alcatel Optronics, Kymata, and also in research labs as a Professor at uSherbrooke, as a Senior Research Officer at National Research Council, as an Adjunct Professor in Physics at uOttawa, and at UCSB.
Research Interest
III-V devices, photovoltaic, quantum structures, epitaxy, optoelectronics