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Samantha Cristoforetti
SOFTWARES
- Analysis and visualization of astronomical maps.
- Scientific computing.
- Data quick look.
- Data acquisition and device control.
- Data analysis.
- CAD design.
- Design of printed circuit board.
- Thermal and mechanical finite element analysis.
- Electromagnetic simulations (basic).
- Optical simulations.
OPERATIVE SYSTEMS
Windows and Linux.
SKILLS
- Setup, calibration and tests of (mechanical and optical) systems at cryogenic temperatures and under vacuum.
- Acquisition, data analysis and use of related instruments (cryogenics, vacuum techniques, electronics, optics and mechanics).
- Electrical and optical tests of bolometric detectors at 300mK, transition edge sensors at 100mK, use of double stage refrigerators, dilution refrigerators and pulse tube systems.
- Tuning SQUID amplifiers, use of the UBC’s Multi Channel Electronics (MCE).
- Use of radioactive and X-ray sources. Simple modeling of the interaction between high energetic particles and bolometric detectors.
- Realization of electric circuits and basic mechanical manufacturing (press drill, lathe and milling machine).
- Basic use of wire bonding machine, use of dicing saw.
- Study and simulations of real polarimeters. Study and analysis of systematic effects in half and quarter wave plates.
- Data analysis of balloons and satellites observations. Simulations of observations from balloon experiments.
CLEANROOM SKILLS
- Authorized user for class 10 and 100 (Federal Standard 209E) cleanrooms (Chalmers MC2 Göteborg and Princeton MNFL/ACEE).
- Nanofabrication process: spinning resist and baking, electron beam lithography (basic), laser writer, mask aligner, development, thin film metal deposition, and lift-off.
- Authorized user for the following tools (MNFL/ACEE): anneal furnace, atomic layer deposition, e-beam evaporator, ellipsometer, mask aligner, oxygen plasma, profilometer and scanning electron microscope (SEM). Laser writer: used many times.
- Processing Si wafers up to 6in diameter.
- Experience: fabrication of Cold-Electron Bolometers and templates for die bonding of the AdvACT readout components.