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
Software Tools
- MATLAB
- Origin
- NI LabVIEW
- Altium Designer
- Altera Quartus II
- Mathematica
- Advanced Design System (ADS)
- MathCad
- Mentor Graphics Design Manager and Design Architect