Standard Membranes
Membrane devices
Silicon nitride, silicon carbide and silicon membrane windows on silicon frames - square, round, porous and tomography formats - for electron and X-ray microscopy.
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Norcada
QuantumSemiconductors & PhotonicsEdmonton, AB
Designs and manufactures MEMS and photonic devices from its Edmonton cleanroom - silicon nitride membrane windows for electron and X-ray microscopy, nanopore devices, DFB lasers and quantum resonators.
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About
Source: norcada.comNorcada describes itself as “a leading nano-MEMS and photonics product company specializing in the development and manufacturing of advanced microscopy solutions, sensor technology, precision photonics, and vacuum components.” Its published range covers MEMS chips and holders for electron and X-ray microscopy, thin film membrane devices and tomography sample holders, quantum sensors and resonators, semiconductor distributed feedback lasers from 1.3 to 3.7 microns, terahertz optics and electro-optical components, sample preparation solutions and flowcells, and sub-10 nm solid-state nanopore platforms. The company states it has over two decades of expertise in these areas.
Sells a line of quantum devices, describing itself as the only commercially available platform for quantum resonators on the market, spanning string and trampoline resonators. ca.linkedin.com
Received a $32,000 CanExport SME agreement from the Government of Canada for export market development, covering April 2025 to March 2026. search.open.canada.ca
Products & Services
Company site: norcada.comProducts Norcada publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.
NanoPore and NanoPore-Ready Products
Nanopore devices
SiNx windows on 3 mm to 10 mm silicon frames with membrane thickness from 12 nm to 500 nm and pore diameters from 5 nm to 2000 nm, with noise-reducing SiO2 underlayers and hydrophilic top-layer coatings.
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High-Q membrane devices
High-Q silicon nitride membranes for cavity optomechanical systems, in NX (200 um frame), QX (500 um frame) and TX (1000 um frame) series, using 1.0 GPa high-tensile-stress stoichiometric Si3N4 with nitride thickness from 30 nm to 200 nm.
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Government support actually received. Unpublished amounts are left out.
CanExport SME - export market development
Technology Focus
Company site: norcada.comTerms the company uses about its own work.
MEMSSilicon nitride membranesSolid-state nanoporesDFB lasersElectron microscopy consumablesTerahertz optics
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