Here are a few interesting projects I have worked on over the years...
A lot of them were done as part of projects or reports required for classes I have taken.
Final paper written at the end of a MEMS Fabrication course where I designed, fabricated and tested a thermally-actuated 2-D micromirror.
Fall 2018
A first fabrication attempt of an AlGaN/GaN HEMT on Si substrate at RIT.
I came up with a relatively simple process flow and went through a first run of fabrication over the course of my senior year towards an enhancement-mode device.
Spring 2019
Final paper with associated MATLAB code written for Physics of Nanostructures course. Feel free to use the code to calculate energy levels for different quantum well shapes and conditions! Well shapes include square, linear-triangular, v-shaped triangular, full harmonic and half-harmonic oscillators.
Fall 2019
A quick term paper to summarize the results a few papers showed in regards to Ohmic contacts to GaN. This was a summary of a few papers compiled together and written for a SiGe and SOI Devices course. The main goal in me writing this paper was to delve deeper and provide ideas and an increased understanding towards better HEMT devices based off of results I had originally obtained for Senior Design.
Spring 2019
A final term paper summarizing the design, crystal growth, fabrication and performance metrics of the highest efficiency multi-junction solar cell reported in literature to-date at the time of writing.
Spring 2022
Nitrogen (N) ion implantation conditions (dose and energy) into p-type, Mg-doped GaN was optimized through simulation with the goal of producing a box profile with a ~500nm depth. N ion implantation within p-GaN results in compensation. This method is used to produce guard rings for electric field management within vertical GaN power devices.
Spring 2023
A term project optimizing an intended mask design for 193 nm immersion lithography. Numerical aperture (NA), light coherence, phase-shift masking and optical proximity correction were explored through Athena Silvaco simulations to achieve the intended feature dimensions and feature shape. The resist profile amd exposure dose conditions were also optimized via Silvaco simulations.
Spring 2023