Skills:
Laser Electro-Optics General nomenclature of the laser including laser safety, light and its properties, lasing action, optical cavities, modes of oscillation, and laser characteristics and classifications.Theory of light as a geometric ray. Applications of the laws of reflection and refraction from the mathematical, graphical, and experimental aspects. Mathematical and conceptual understanding of continuous wave lasers, including in depth descriptions of helium-neon, argon ion, neodymium, and carbon dioxide systems: pulsed lasers including ruby, neodymium, glass, transverse excited atmospheric molecular, semiconductor diode, diode pumping of solid-state lasers, and liquid dye systems. Emphasis on the operation and maintenance of these systems and the measurement of their output characteristics and data analysis. Principles and theory of light and it's wave nature including origin of light, it's spectral characteristics, radiometry, photometry, reflection, refraction, propagation of light, interference, diffraction, and polarization.Semiconductor Manufacturing Knowledge of vacuum principles and technology, pumping systems, gauging, leak detection, and safety practices. Planning, repairing, maintaining, and coating of various chemical depositions used as coatings in manufactured optics and semiconductors. Processes, materials and equipment used in the manufacturing of semiconductors, process yield analysis and troubleshooting.Nanotechnology Nanosciences terminology, current and futures uses, and the impact of nanotechnology on biology, solid-state manufacturing, material science, and chemistry. Nano scale materials characterization process. Emphasizing surface roughness, adhesion, scratch, wear, film thickness, surface potential, micro-nano indentation, and mapping of micro and nano materials. Characteristics of nano materials measurements, processes and analysis at micro and nano level, improvement techniques, repeatability, and reproducibility. Monitoring techniques such as residual gas analysis, optical emission spectroscopy, and end point detection using measurement tools such as Scanning Electron Microscopy(SEM), x-ray spectroscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), laser microscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIS), optical thin film measurements, ellipsometry, profilometry, and resistively/conductivity measurements. Completed a special lab project from the areas of data storage, millipede, micro-nano actuators, tribological issues, thin films, crystallography, manufacturing strategies, Micro Electronic Mechanical Systems (MEMS), and Nano-Electronic Mechanical Systems (NEMS) measurements. In depth knowledge of statistical process control (SPC) including tools, analysis and methods.