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