Alumni: University of California, Berkeley ZhongSheng Luo PhD 2005 Hybrid integration of III V and Si materials and devices Technical Marketing Manager, Nanosys, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) Alex Chediak PhD 2004 Development of selective absorption filters for integrated fluorescence microsystems Professor, California Baptist University (Riverside, CA) Tao Su MS 2003 Analysis of piezoelectric flexural bending actuators Peter Radkowski III PhD 2003 Discrete state, object oriented simulation of coupled termoelectric transport Patent Examiner, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Vorrada Loryuenyong MS 2002 joint with Prof. Cheung, EECS Photo polymer Wafer Bonding for Transfer of GaN Heterostructures and Devices from Sapphire to Dissimilar Substrates" Jeremy Schroeder MS 2002 Assembly of Aluminum Nitride Thin film Bimorph Actuators by Pulsed Laser Lift off
Senior Research Associate, Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) Woong Choi PhD 2002 Ferroelectric field effect memory devices based on expitaxial oxide heterostructures Research Staff Member, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung Electronics (Seoul, South Korea) Pushkar Ranade PHD 2002 joint with Prof. King, EECS Advanced gate materials and processes for sub 70 nm CMOS technology Director, Process Development, SuVolta, Inc. (Los Gatos, CA) George Dougherty PhD 2002 joint with Prof. Pisano, ME Ultrasonic microdevices for integrated on chip biological sample processing Alberto Salleo PhD 2001 High power laser damage in fused silica Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, (Stanford, CA) Clifford Knollenberg MS 2001 joint with Prof. White, EECS Sputter deposition of piezoelectric lead zirconate titanate thin films for use in MEMS sensors and actuators Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) (Palo Alto, CA)
Ning Cheng PhD 2001 Epitaxial growth, structure and exchange bias properties in the Fe/PdMn (FM/AFM) system Nanoshift, LLC (Emeryville, CA) Anupama B. Kaul PhD 2000 joint with Prof. Van Duzer, EECS Engineering barrier materials in Nb and NbN Josephson junctions for high speed superconductor electronics Program Director, Directorate for Engineering, ECCS Division, National Science Foundation (Arlington, VA) Marisol Martin Gonzalez PostDoc 2000 Instituto de Microelectronica de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) Loucas Tsakalakos PhD 2000 Laser liftoff of epitaxial oxide films Senior Scientist and Project Leader, Micro and Nano Structures Technologies, GE Global Research (Niskayuna, NY) Joseph Behnke PhD 2000 Fabrication of thermoelectric wire matrix composites using electrodeposition SunPower Corporation, Principal Process Development Engineer (San Francisco Bay Area)
Chris Caylor PhD 2000 Synthesis and characterization of Skutterudite thin films and superlattice structures Director, Thermoelectric Systems, GMZ Energy, Inc. (Waltham, MA) Yaoxi Wu PhD 2000 joint with Prof. M. Lieberman, EECS A traveling wave driven, inductively coupled large area plasma source for flat panel processing Jacob Hernandez MS 1999 Deposition of carbon nitrides using pulsed laser ablation and microwave assisted chemical vapor deposition techniques Senior Manager, PVD Process Development, SoloPower (San Jose, CA) William Wong PhD 1999 joint with Prof. Cheung, EECS Integration of GaN thin films with dissimilar substrate materials by wafer bonding and laser lift off Professor, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) Rachel Lau MS 1998 The effect of printed circuit board surface morphologies on dielectric properties of thin film parylene
Prabhakar Bandaru PhD 1998 Chromium alloyed manganese bismuth thin films for blue wavelength magneto optical recording Professor, Dept of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego (La Jolla, CA) Jordana (Blacksberg) Bandaru MS 1997 Processing and properties of ferroelectric Ru/Pb La Zr Ti O/Ru capacitors for GBIT scale nonvolatile random access memory Senior Staff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, CA)