Atom O. Watanabe is currently a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech. His major is Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) with the minor of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering (MSE). His research area is system-scale electronic packaging for RF and 5G applications.
Feel free to contact Atom with atom[at]gatech.edu!
Ph.D. Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) at GT 3D Systems Packaging Research Center
Supervisor: Prof. Rao R. Tummala
Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
Minor: Physics and Materials Science & Engineering (MSE)
School of Science and Technology, Department of Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics, Bachelor of Engineering
Supervisor: Professor Kohei M. Itoh
Finding Nano summer school: Nano-science, Research and Industry in Germany
Learned a comprehensive introduction to the current stage of development of nanotechnology, worked on a laboratory project where we fabricated and characterized carbon nanotube network temperature sensors, and visited local industries to obtain firsthand information in nanotechnology.
Package design SI/PI engineer.
Design and demonstration (D&D) of 3D glass packaging technologies for 5G/mm-wave applications. [Research]
5G ultra-low-loss interconnections with low-loss polymer, small through-glass vias, and minimized chip-to-antenna transmission line and via losses.
Research and Development (R&D) of innovative electromagnetic-interference (EMI) shielding materials and topologies with the highest shielding effectiveness. [Research]
5G antenna simulation, analysis, design and testing for cellular phone, IoT device, base station, car and other host platforms.
Investigated thermal expansion of modules in the detector of X-ray CT for the purpose of improvement of image quality to show patients.
Grew manganese germanide epitaxial layers on germanium by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), and studied their crystalline and magnetic properties for spintronic applications.
Design: HFSS, ADS, Sonnet, CAD, LaTeX, Mathematica, Numerical electromagnetic codes (NEC), MATLAB, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign.
Fabrication: Sputtering, Molecular beam epitaxy, Lithography, Semi-additive patterning (SAP) process, subtractive patterning, ENIG coating.
Characterization: Vector network analyzer (VNA), Probe station, Optical microscope, SEM, TEM, AFM.
Email: atom[at]gatech.edu