SUMMARY OF TECHNICAL BACKGROUND * As a Chemist / Materials scientist /engineer with over 30 years of higher education and experience in creation of novel electronic materials (bulk, film, and single crystal), devices and their characterizations (structural, transport, thermal, surface, electrochemical, spectroscopic, magnetic, and mechanical), energy and environmental research using several advanced techniques. * Drive various equipment/processd evelopment for semiconductor processing (RTP, CVD, PVD, ALD, MDP, Etch, Epitaxy, Gate, Display, etc.) as well as various platforms. * Initiated in early stage of Applied Materials panetrations in the field of Energy technologies/products (ex Photovoltaics, Battery, Solid State Lighting, Supercapacitor, Fuel Cells, High Temperature Superconductors, 3D printing, C-fiber, polymer composites, etc. * Managed, demonstrated a broad understanding and hands-on experience of industrial development of semiconductor equipments & products. * A proven ability to lead technology development teams to develop non-volatile memories processes, integration, and product management. Strengths include defining the problems, developing alternatives and implementing solutions, result oriented, self-motivated and creative with excellent interpersonal and team building skills. * A strong record of effectiveness in solving complex problems, providing innovative solutions to improve device and performance. * Strong written and communication skills, wrote several technical proposals, reports, invited talks, papers, technical presentations, and customer interactions. * Technical consultant to AMAT venture * As a technical expert in acquisition team for Applied Film, Alzanau, Germany EXPERIENCE SUMMARY WITH BUs * RF Sesnsors and photonics technology: Piezoelectric sensors for IOTs applications. * Memory Technology development: Cluster tool integration for PZT-based FeRAM based non-volatile memory processes, integration, and product management for Texas Instruments. * CMP projects: Nanoparticles (core-shell) formation of abrasive materials/slurry for CMP applications * DSM projects: Flexstar ALD based metal oxides development for Micron capacitor project. Directed selective dielectric deposition on dielectric by metal (Cu) blocking using SAM formation * Energy Storage: Porous silicon formation for Li ion battery anode, materials development for fuel cell, Li-battery, CNT, Graphene, 2THMDS, OLED, conducting polymers & composites, hydrogen storage and display applications * Venture: As a technical expert for AMAT venture for projects selection and evaluation * Display (AKT) projects: Single source precursor for synthesis for GaAs film and its characterization for back-plane TFT applications. High mobility backplane based TCO and IZGO development with AKT. * Thin film solar: Low temperature processing in solar cell materials (amorphous & microcrystalline silicon, Cu (In, Ga) Se2, GaAs, and Q dots based II - VI, Solid state dye sensitized solar cell (SS-DSSC) materials. Experties in photovoltaic materials process development, extensive characterization, device fabrication, and e-tests * FEP: Strained epitaxial silicon at low temperature, low & high K dielectrics, SiN, SiON materials * PVD: Developed AlN, LiNbO3, BST, PZT, SBT dielectrics for DRAM/NVM using pulsed DC source. * Customers Interaction: Micron DRAM project for Micron using Flexstar ALD based HfO2 and Al2O3 and laminated film process development on customer device wafers, metrology established for multistacked films, TI for FeRAM projects, Intel, STI-Leti, IMEC * External research program: Applied Materials representative in ERM / ITRS and NanoManufacturing Sciences (NMS) / SRC as a technical expert, and mentor, wrote sub-chapter of ERM / ITRS 2007/8/9. * University collaboration: drove R&D and collabarotion work at UCL, UU, Stanford, Clemenson, UNC, Princeton, MIT, IISc, IITB, University of Southempton and othes * Operational: Session chair and symposium organizer, invited talk in Materials Research Society (MRS)-2005, 2006, 2007. Session chair in SRC Techon 2009, invited talk in E-MRS and IMEC.
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