Research Skills
As a professional researcher, I have extensive experience in the following fields:
Passionate about highly efficient and stable semiconductor materials for the design of cost-effective flexible and wearable sensor device for health, and environmental monitoring, and energy storage applications.
Conducting experiments, analyzing the material characterizations of thin films, surfaces, and interfaces.
Design and development of MEMS based smart sensing technologies (SAW/Chemiresitive) for real-time room temperature toxic gas sensing and photonic devices (Photodetectors).
Development of III-nitride semiconductors for UV-Vis photodetector and energy storage applications.
Fabrication and characterization functional oxide thin films and 2D materials, nanomaterials, MOF and metal oxide hybrid heterostructures for electronics, and energy harvesting and -storage applications.
My research interests encompass the following interconnected areas: (but not limited to)
Surface acoustic wave device fabrication
Sensors design
Wearable, wireless and flexible sensors device fabrication
Bioelectronics, Hydrogels & Microfluidics
Synthesis and characterization of MOS, and MOF
III-V semiconductors
2D materials
Energy storage applications
H2 production
Photonics/solar cells
Technical Skills
Hardware
Research Area of Interest: 2D Materials, III-V nitride semiconductors, Gas sensors, UV photodetectors, Photoelectrochemical cell water splitting, Electrocatalysis, Energy storage applications.
Hands on Experience: Design and fabrication of piezoelectric SAW, chemiresistive gas sensors, CH instrument, XRD – both powder and thin film (Rigaku), Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD), Sputtering, Thermal & E-beam evaporation, UV spectroscopy, Optical lithography, Wet etching, Optical photolithography, Wet etching, Hydrothermal, MBE (Beginners), Gas sensing unit (Capable of making a whole gas sensing system setup).
Data acquisition: National Instruments systems, Network analyzer, Oscilloscope, Keithley source meter.
Material characterization: Scanning electron microscopy, AFM (Bruker), Dektak profilometry, Parameter analyzer (Keysight), X-ray Spectroscopy, Photoluminescence, Raman, UV-Visible, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Network analyzer, Oscilloscope, Keithley source meter, Transmission Electron Microscopy (Beginners).
Software
Data analysis: Origin, X’pert High Score, Image-J, MATLAB, Python
Software’s: C-Language, Python, Machine learning (Beginners), LabVIEW (Beginners), 3D Max, Blender, COMSOL Multiphysics (beginners)
Research Experience
Research Assistance on R&D Projects
02/2021–02/2023
Topic: Hierarchical V-groove InN/In2O3 core shell decorated 2D g-C3N4 quantum dots for the effective room temperature NO2 sub-ppm gas sensing application (Funded by National Research Foundation of Korea)
03/2019–08/2020
Topic: Fabrication of langasite based surface acoustic wave (SAW) transducers for the efficient gas sensing applications (Funded by National Research Foundation of Korea)
02/2017–12/2018
Topic: Microstructural and Supercapacitive Performance of Nickel Oxide (NiO) Thin Films Prepared by RF Magnetron Sputtering (Funded by Thin films & Vacuum technology laboratory, SVU)
Tecahing Experience
Teaching Assistant
05/2018–02/2019
Introduction to Solid State Physics (PHY 102), Physics of Semiconductor Devices (PHY 302), Nanomaterials
and Devices (PHY 306), at Sai Degree College (YVU). Responsibilities included assisting students with the use of experimental apparatus and teaching experimental procedures to under graduate students.
Supervision Experience
2020–2022
Detection of toxic NO2 gas at RT using InN/In2O3 core shell nanorods, Master’s Project, CNU
2022–Present
CuO@AlN based SAW senor for high performance NH3 gas detection at RT, Master’s Project, CNU.