Public News

• I passed my Qualifying Exam in January of 2007. My question dealt with Spinodal Decomposition of ferromagnetic materials.
• I show how to Orbital Weld at www.DoFlick.com. This website has been started by my friend Rama with his team in the hopes of revolutionizing the way science and engineering are taught in campusses worldwide-Orbital Weld. Thanks to Laurent Henn-Lecordier for being a patient trainer!
• Oct 2007: Our lab purchased the SOPRA SE5 Spectroscopic Ellipsometer. This will give us unprecedented advantage in characterizing combinatorial thin films.
• Jan 2008: The ALD TiN furnace is depositing thin films! The system is a viscous flow reactor equipped with a mass spec and QCM. We have used a bubbler configuration with TDMAT and NH3 as precursor gases. Experimental results are in the Reports page (glue.umd.edu authentication required)
• Jan 2008: I am in the Future Faculty Program-II
• May 2008: We win the Invention of the Year, 3rd prize for our invention "Laternal 2 terminal nanotube device"
• May 2008: I am done with courses!
• Sept 2008: Filed with the USPTO - "Laternal 2 terminal nanotube device"
• Oct 2008: I am heading to Honolulu, HI for the ECS PRiME'08 conference to present a paper entitled- "Controlled branching and reordering of pores during processing of anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) templates."
• Oct 2008: USPTO approval on "Semiconductor magnetic memory" (with Micron Technology Inc.)
• Oct 2008: BENEQ TFS-500 installation has begun ! This tool is being set up in the Fablab and our group is working closely with the Fablab staff to get it up and running. All process development recipes will be made by us. Already, Al₂O₃ and TiO₂ ALD films are up and running!
• Dec 2008: Heading to the ICMR-UCSB winter school in Bangalore, India on "Advanced carbon materials and functional oxides."