A brief list of research outputs to which I contributed, sorted by year.

Publications

2026

  1. Thériault, P.-L., Humeniuk, H. V., He, Z., Juteau, G., Malinge, A., Perepichka, D. F., & Kéna-Cohen, S. (2026). Molecular Engineering for Enhanced Second-Order Nonlinear Response in Spontaneously-Oriented Evaporated Organic Films. Advanced Optical Materials, e02212.

2024

  1. Thériault, P.-L., Malinge, A., Humeniuk, H. V., Bourbonnais-Sureault, D., Juteau, G., Martel, R., Perepichka, D. F., & Kéna-Cohen, S. (2024). Spontaneously-Oriented Evaporated Organic Semiconductor Thin Films for Second-Order Nonlinear Photonics. ACS Photonics. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsphotonics.4c01190

Preprints

2026

  1. Malinge, A., Thériault, P.-L., & Kéna-Cohen, S. (2026). Why Are Verdazyl Radicals Non-Emissive? An Experimental and Computational Study. ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:2601.05390.

2025

  1. He, Z., Liu, C., Yu, T., Xu, J., Thériault, P.-L., Gohari, M. H., Ruchlin, C., Che, Y., Titi, H. M., Kéna-Cohen, S., & Perepichka, D. F. (2025). Merocyanine-linked ZwitterIonic Covalent Organic Frameworks. ChemRxiv. https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-k0r7h

Conference presentations

2025

  1. Tebchrany, N., Theriault, P.-L., Poveda-Hospital, S., Kena-Cohen, S., & Peter, Y.-A. (2025). Characterization of Ge2Sb2Se5 Towards Integrated Nonlinear Photonics. 2025 International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN), 1–2.
  2. Theriault, P.-L., & Kena-Cohen, S. (2025). Second and third order optical nonlinearity characterization in thin films. 2025 Quantamole Alliance Consortium Annual Meeting, 1–2.
  3. Theriault, P.-L., & Kena-Cohen, S. (2025). Fundamental-Mode Phase-Matching for Nonlinear Optics in Spontaneously-Oriented Organic Films Waveguides . Frontiers in Optics 2025, 1–2.
  4. Thériault, P.-L., Humeniuk, H. V., Juteau, G., Zhechang, H., Perepichka, D. F., & Kéna-Cohen, S. (2025, May 20). Enhanced Second-Order Nonlinearity in Vapor-Deposited Organic Thin Films for Integrated Photonics. Photonics North 2025.
  5. Electro-optic modulation on low-loss hybrid Si3N4/ScAlN platform. (2025, May 4). 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Long Beach, Ca, USA.

2024

  1. Theriault, P.-L. (2024, March 26). Self-Aligned Evaporated Organic Thin Films for Second-Order Nonlinear Photonics. 2024 RQMP Light-Matter Axis Yearly Meeting (Montreal Canada).
  2. Liu, J., Liu, S., Al-Hallak, A.-R., Theriault, P.-L., Wu, Y., Kena-Cohen, S., Kira, M., Soltani, M., Zhang, Z., & Mi, Z. (2024). High-Q microring resonator on hybrid Si 3 N 4/ScAlN platform. 2024 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), 1–2.

2023

  1. Theriault, P.-L., & Stephane, K.-C. (2023, June 12). Evaporated small organic molecules thin films for second-order nonlinear photonics. Photonics North 2023, Montréal, Qc, Canada.
  2. Theriault, P.-L. (2023, January 17). Cascaded nonlinear processes for stronger optical nonlinearities. Transdisciplinary Institute for Quantum Information CONFETI Student Conference 2023, Bromont, Qc, Canada.
  3. Liu, J., Theriault, P.-L., Wu, W., Wen, Q., Kena-Cohen, S., Kira, M., & Mi, Z. (2023). Ferroelectric AlScN as an Extreme Nonlinear Quantum Material beyond LiNbO3. Quantum 2.0, QW3B–5.
  4. Liu, J., Theriault, P.-L., Liu, S., Wang, D., Wu, W., Wen, Q., Zhang, Z., Soltani, M., Kira, M., Kena-Cohen, S., & others. (2023). Second-order optical nonlinearities in ferroelectric ScAlN for quantum photonics. 2023 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), 1–2.

2022

  1. Haeberle, L., Dhavamani, A., Theriault, P.-L., Arnold, M. S., & Stephane, K.-C. (2022, July 24). Optical Nonlinearity of (6,5) CNTs in the Weak and Strong-Coupling Regimes. 8th Workshop on Nanotube Optics and Nanospectroscopy (20220, Madisoon, Wi, USA.).
  2. Theriault, P.-L. (2022, February 22). Squeezed Light Generation Using Spontaneous Wave Mixing Processes. Transdisciplinary Institute for Quantum Information CONFETI Student Conference 2022, Bromont, Qc, Canada.

Conferences posters

2022

  1. Haeberle, L., Dhavamani, A., Theriault, P.-L., Arnold, M., Kira, M., & Kena-Cohen, S. (2022, August 7). Optical Nonlinearity of (6,5) CNTs in the Weak and Strong-Coupling Regimes. 11th International Conference on Spontaneous Coherence in Excitonic Systems 2022 , Burlington, Vt,USA.

2021

  1. Theriault, P.-L., Jiang, W., Abitha, D., Haeberle, L., Arnold, M., Kira, M., & Kena-Cohen, S. (2021, November 29). Non-Perturbative Nonlinear Optical Properties of Single Chirality Carbon Nanotube Thin Films Near the Exciton Resonance. Material Research Society Fall Meeting 2021, Boston, Ma,USA.