| July 2011 - to date |
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IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
IBM Research at Albany Nanotech, Albany, NY
• Research Staff Member, Exploratory CMOS Device Integration for sub-10nm nodes
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| Sep. 2010-Jun. 2011 |
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MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories, Post-doctoral Associate
• Epitaxial Si/SiGe photovoltaics and solar cells: Design and Fabrication
• High hole mobility strained-Ge MOSFETs with High-K/Metal Gate
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| Jun. 2009 - Sep. 2009 |
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IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
• Summer Intern, Research on Photovoltaics: multi-crystalline silicon-based single junction and Hetero-junction solar cell fabrication and characterization
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| Sep. 2005 - Aug. 2010 |
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Research Assistant, Microsystems Technology Laboratories: Integrated Circuits Laboratory (ICL),
Technology Research Laboratory (TRL), Exploratory Materials Laboratory (EML), and Epi-Lab, MIT
• Extensive experience in design, fabrication, and technology development of various micro- and nano-electronic devices including transistors, diodes, solar cells, TFTs, etc.
• Fabrication of Si, strained-Si and strained Ge (SiGe) multi-gate and Gate-All-Around nanowire MOSFETs on insulator using a top-down technique
• Investigation of transport and carrier mobility in advanced heterostructures and nanowire transistors
• Experience on epitaxial growth of strained Silicon-Germanium heterostructures on bulk and insulator as well as selective epitaxy on patterned structures
• Collaboration on the steep subthreshold swing tunneling transistors
• Fabrication of short-channel strained Si/strained-Ge/strained-Si heterostructures on insulator p-MOSFETs
• C-V characterization of strained Si/strained Ge and strained-Ge capacitors with high-K/metal gate
• Developments of nano-lithography using Hydrogen Silsesquioxane by scanning-electron-beam-lithography
• Extensive experience on electron microscopy using SEM, Focused-Ion-Beam (FIB) and TEM
• Investigation of strain relaxation on nano-patterned strained-Si and Si/Ge heterostructures on Insulator
• Process and device simulation using Taurus-TSUPREM and Taurus-Device
• Worked and collaboration on design and fabrication of organic-based transistor memories
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| Sep. 2008 - Jan. 2009 |
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Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS), Harvard University
Worked on focused ion-beam tool for TEM sample preparation
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| Jan. 2006 - Now |
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Research assistant, Scanning Electron Beam Lithography (SEBL) Lab. at Research Laboratories of Electronics (RLE), MIT
Developed resolution-improved e-beam assisted nano-lithography techniques to create features with dimensions down to 10nm for aggressively scaled CMOS and nanowires
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| Jun. 2002- Aug. 2005 |
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Research assistant, Thin Film Lab., University of Tehran
• Worked on low temperature stress-assisted metal-induced crystallization of amorphous silicon on polymer and glass substrates
• Worked on fabrication of polycrystalline Si and Ge thin film transistors on glass by applying external mechanical stress and plasma-enhanced hydrogenation
• Worked on fabrication of porous and nano-crystalline Si
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| Nov. 2003- Nov. 2004 |
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Research assistant, Device Simulation Laboratory, University of Tehran
• Modeling and simulation of special effects and structures in SOI transistors by DESIS and GENESISe
• Studied the optimization techniques used in GENESISe process simulator
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| Dec. 2001-Aug. 2002 |
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Research assistant, Electronic I Lab, University of Tehran
Troubleshooting the experimental setups, preparing a tutorial, and devising a new set of experiments for this lab
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| Sep. 2007-Dec. 2007 |
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Teaching assistant (Physics of Microfabrication: Front End Processing), MIT
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| Jan. 2005- Jul. 2005 |
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Teaching assistant (Nanoelectronics), University of Tehran
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| Sep. 2004- Jan. 2005 |
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Teaching assistant (Quantum Mechanics), University of Tehran
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| Sep. 2004- Jan. 2005 |
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Teaching assistant (Physics of Electronics), University of Tehran
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| Feb. 2004-Jul. 2004 |
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Teaching assistant (Electronics I), University of Tehran
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| Feb. 2004-Jul. 2004 |
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Teaching assistant (Modern Physics), University of Tehran
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| Feb. 2003-Jul. 2003 |
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Teaching assistant (Electronics III), University of Tehran
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| Feb. 2003-Jul. 2003 |
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Teaching assistant (Electromagnetics), University of Tehran
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| Sep. 2002-Feb 2003 |
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Teaching assistant (Electronics II), University of Tehran
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| Aug. 2002-Oct. 2002 |
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Teaching assistant (Electronic I Lab), University of Tehran
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| Sep. 2001-Feb 2002 |
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Teaching assistant (Engineering Mathematics), University of Tehran
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| Aug. 2001-Oct. 2001 |
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Teaching assistant (Engineering Mathematics), University of Tehran
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| Feb. 2001-Jul. 2001 |
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Teaching assistant (Engineering Mathematics), University of Tehran
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