Skills:
SKILLS High Intensity Pulsed Laser Systems: Expert in the operation, design/building and maintenance of mode- locked oscillators, regenerative amplifiers and Chirped Pulse Amplification systems (CPA). Experience with a commercial (Coherent) Ti:sapphire pulsed system (10 Hz, 800 nm, 36 fs, 830 mJ) and a non-commercial Nd:YAG system (10 Hz, 1064 nm, 100 ps, 1 J). Adaptive Optical systems: Experienced in operating deformable mirror and wavefront sensor to optimize laser focus. Design and build an optical setup to generate modulated plasma waveguide with spatial light modulator and axicon. Experimental Diagnostic devices: Design and build single-shot autocorrelator, transverse interferometer with sub-picosecond resolution, spectral interferometer, electron/ion spectrometer, optical spectrometer. EUV Spectroscopy: Experienced in issues associated with generation and detection of electromagnetic radiation from 2 - 40 nm, including the use of sub-micrometer thickness metal filters and back-thinned vacuum CCD systems. Electrical characterization of Semiconductor devices: semiconductor parameter analyzer, L-I-V measurements Surface characterization: spectroscopic ellipsometry, atomic force microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, surface profiler Semiconductor processing: holographic lithography, mask aligner for photolithography, lift-off process, thermal evaporation deposition, sputtering deposition, wet-etching, reactive ion etching, thermal oxidation, thermal annealing, Electronics: Sub-nanosecond timing and synchronization of fast electro-optic switches Machining: a milling machine (CNC) and lathe Programming languages: Proficient in MATLAB, Mathematica and LabVIEW. Some experiences with VHDL, PSpice, Java, C++, knowledge of data structures