Research Interests:

• Physics of semiconductor devices 

• Micro & nano- fabrications for environmental, energy,  sensing, and RRAM applications

• Structural, optical, and electronic properties of metal and metal oxides

• Heterogeneous photocatalysis

• Plasmonics

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Research Skills:

Some example baseline reports can be found on Georgia Tech's Cleanroom webpage, link below.

 Metal/ Oxide Thin Films Fabrication, Si and SiO2 Etch, and Equipment Baseline Reports

Micro & nano-fabrication:

• Physical vapor deposition, PVD: OAD and GLAD techniques

• Chemical synthesis: PE-CVD, ALD, Hydrothermal, etc.

• Ball milling

• Spin-coating

• Spray pyrolysis

• Photolithography

• Material processing: annealing, oxidation/ reduction, RIE (reactive ion etching) etc.

 Characterization techniques:

• X-ray diffraction (XRD) and texture (pole figure)

• UV-Visible-NIR spectroscopy

• Current-Voltage characterization: Digital and Analog

• Raman & Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)

• X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

• ToF -SIMS (time-of-flight -secondary ion mass spectrometry)

• Electron microscopy: SEM, TEM

• Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy

• Dynamic light scattering: size distribution analysis & Zeta potential

• Dye adsorption characterization: equilibrium adsorption and kinetics

• Linear and non-linear optical characterizations

• Organic dye degradation

• Solar-energy conversion and PEC characterizations: External quantum efficiency (EQE), current-voltage, cyclic voltammetry (CV), linear sweep voltammetry (LSV), chronoamperometry, and  incident photon-to-current conversion efficiency (IPCE%); solar water splitting: H2 and O2 generation