SCOTT D. SIFFERMAN

Professional and Technical Skills

• Semiconductor laser design and fabrication
• Semiconductor device fabrication processes (e.g., photolithography, chemical vapor deposition, reactive ion etching, inductively-coupled plasma etching, electron beam metal evaporation)
• Optoelectronic materials and device characterization (e.g., photoluminescence spectroscopy, electroluminescence, transmission/reflection spectroscopy, differential pump-probe transmission, Hall effect meaurements, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy)
• Optical test bench design and automation
• High-resolution X-ray diffractometry and reciprocal space mapping
• Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
• Circuit design and PCB layout
• CPLD design and testing
• Industrial and laboratory automation
• Real-time spectroscopy
• Machine vision
• Photonics system design (e.g., link budgets, SWaP)
• RF systems test bench design and automation