top of page

TECHNICAL SKILLS

My experience and area of expertise include the design, fabrication, and characterization of functional materials (2D materials and semiconductors) for electronic and optoelectronic devices.

Cleanroom Fabrication

  • Photolithography (Suss MJB3)

  • Electron-beam lithography (Vistec VB6, Crestec CABL, Zeiss EVO SEM + Raith)

  • E-beam/thermal evaporation

  • RF magnetron sputtering

  • Reactive ion etch (AMAT centura MXP)

  • Plasma etch

  • Wet chemical etch

  • Rapid thermal anneal (Ulvac Tech. MILA 3000)

  • Wire bonding (Westbond)

Design, Data Analysis, & Instrument Control

  • Python

  • Matlab

  • C++

  • IGOR Pro

  • Origin

  • AutoCAD

  • Solidworks

  • LabVIEW

  • Microsoft office

  • CorelDRAW

Materials Characterization

  • SEM (Philips XL30) with EDX

  • AFM (Park systems, Bruker, NT-MDT)

  • X-ray diffraction (Siemens D5000, Philip X'pert MRD)

  • Thin film analyzer (Filmetrics F40)

  • Cryogenic system and probe station (attoDRY2100, Quantum Design PPMS, Scientific Magnetics, Lakeshore CPX-VF, Janis)

​

Electrical and thermoelectrical inspection

  • Quasi-DC technique by SR830/860 lock-in amplifier

  • Probe station (Signatone) with HP4156B semiconductor parameter analyzer

  • 2-omega method for thermopower measurement

  • Keithley 2400, 2612B sourcemeters & 2000 multimeter

  • Keithley 6485 picoammeter, 6517A electrometer

  • SR570 and DL1211 current pre-amp

​

Optical characterization

  • Micro-Raman spectroscopy (Horiba LabRAM, Renishaw inVia)

  • UV-VIS spectrophotometer (Varian Cary 300 Bio)

  • VUV spectrophotometer

  • Fluorescence microscopy

  • Photoluminescence

  • Cathodoluminescence (Oxford MonoCL) equipped with SEM

  • Ellipsometry

​

Magnetic measurement

  • Magnetic circular dichroism (MCD), magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) 

  • Ecopia Hall effect measurement system

attoDRY_transportsetup1_edited.jpg
Anchor 2

Materials Growth

  • Transparent conducting oxide AZO by RF magnetron sputtering

  • Graphene and twisted bilayer graphene by thermal CVD

  • II-VI semiconducting nanomaterials such as zinc oxide and zinc sulfide by thermal CVD

​

CVDfurance_edited.jpg
Anchor 1
bottom of page