Experimental & Software Skills

Nanofabrications

• Well acquainted with the standard Clean Room (class 100) Nanofabrication process

• Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD)

• Focused Ion beam FIB: Strata 400S Dual- Beam

• Mask Aligner -Photolithography

• e-beam lithography

Thin Film Synthesis/Deposition

• DC magnetron sputtering,

• Physical Vapour deposition (Vacuum Evaporator),

• Electrochemical deposition ( Potentiostat/Galvanostat (Model- computerized Perkin Elmer VesaStat-II and 263A, EG&G Princeton Applied Research Model 362 and X-Y recorder based data acquisition), Voltammetric (Linear and Cyclic and Pulsed), Chronoamperometric, Chronopotentiometric Characterizations.

• Spray Pyrolysis,

• Bulk preparation by conventional solid state reaction, Planetary Ball Milling

Materials Characterization Techniques and Instruments

• X-ray diffractometer

• Scanning Electron Microscopy-SEM. Secondary and Back scattered electron imaging in high resolution mode and EDAX.

• Spectroscopic Ellipsometer (SE)

• UV-Vis-IR- Spectrophotometer

• DC electrical resistivity (300 K-10K) (linear four probe and Van der pauw geometry) for T_c and J_c measurements, using Keithley’s Constant Current Source (Model 224), Keithley (Model-2001- Multimeter), Nanovoltmeter (Model-7081 Solartron Schlumberger), Lock-in Amplifier (Stanford Research System Model - SR830)

• Microwave absorption recording and analysis using Microwave Vector Network Analyzer N5230A PNA L

• High Temperature Programmable Furnace

• TGA/DTA data analysis

• FTIR spectroscopy ,

• Lock-in Amplifier

• Impedance analyzer

• Ultrasonic Measurements: for Debye Temperatures

• Thermal Expansion measurements at low temperatures

• Optical microscopes, Thickness profile meters

Low temperature Instruments

• Dilution Refrigerator (1 mK)

• Operation and Maintenance of Close Cycle Refrigeration –Cryostats systems of APD and JANIS Products down to 10 K.

• Low temperature systems -liquid nitrogen temperatures.

Seismology

• Seismometers ( CMG 40T and Taurus 240T)

• Accelerometers

High Vacuum Systems

• Operation and maintenance of rotary (Edward, Hind HiVac), Turbo molecular pump and diffusion pumps.

• Helium leak detectors

Energy

• Sunshine recorder

• Pyranometer

• Oxygen Bomb Calorimeter

• Solar hot water systems, point and line Concentrators, dryers, Cookers

• Gasifiers

Earth Resistivity

Resistivity Setup for Underground Water Detection

Engines

Completed 1 Year ITI course "Diesel Mechanic" from Govt. ITI, Lonand. Assembling as well as troubleshooting of the Diesel engines.

• Operating system- Windows XP, Package- MS Office, Excel etc

• C- Programming

• Matlab,

• Python,

• Scilab

• Origin,

• Auto- CAD,

• design CAD,

• GPIB interface,

• Scientific workplace, lyx etc.

• Seisan