Electrical Assistant
Resume:
Wei Wei
Mail Stop ***-*, ***** Brookpark Road
Cleveland, OH 44135
Tel: 919-***-****
Email: *****@****.*** and ***.****@****.***
OBJECTIVE
Seeking a full time, process development position in semiconductor industry
EDUCATION
Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering GPA 3.8 2010
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Dissertation Title:
Electrical and Optical Properties of Gallium-Doped Magnesium Zinc Oxide
M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering GPA 3.8 2006
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
B.S. in Special Class for Gifted Young (Major in Physics) 2004
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Research Associate in Glenn Research Center, NASA 2010 - present
(Contracting through Case Western Reserve University)
Research Assistant in Department of MSE, North Carolina State University 2005 - 2009
Teach Assistant in Department of Physics, North Carolina State University 2004 - 2005
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Associate, NASA Glenn Research Center, 2010 – present
Designed a new high vacuum pulsed laser deposition system integrated with Reflection High
Energy Electron Diffraction (RHEED) for ultra-thin film growth with a accuracy of atomic layers
Developed atomic flat and titanium surface terminated strontium titanate single crystal by
chemical etching using buffered hydrofluoric acid
Developed lanthanum aluminate/strontium titanate (titanium terminated) heterostructrue to achieve
quasi two dimensional electron gas near interface
Designed and developed new methods to probe electron gas by photolithography, magnetron
sputtering and thermal evaporation of metals
Investigated high temperature stability of lanthanum aluminate/strontium titanate heterostructrue
to better understand effects of growth temperature on the fabricated heterostructrue
Developed strong collaborations with research groups from Case Western Reserve University and
Air Force Research Laboratory (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) to investigate optical and
thermal transport properties of lanthanum aluminate/strontium titanate heterostructrue
Research Assistant, North Carolina State University, 2005 – 2010
Developed bandgap engineered gallium-doped magnesium zinc oxide thin film as transparent
conductor
Investigated correlations of composition – processing – structure properties of gallium-doped
magnesium zinc oxide thin film
Demonstrated Mott insulator-metal transition to better understand fundamental electrical transport
properties in gallium-doped magnesium zinc oxide thin film
Demonstrated integration of gallium-doped magnesium zinc oxide with silicon substrate using
titanium nitride buffer film
Demonstrated ohmic contact between gallium-doped magnesium zinc oxide and titanium nitride
Developed strong collaborations within the research group and with other groups from Biomedical
Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Veterinary School to investigate magnetic and biomedical
applications of a variety of metal and oxide thin films and nanocomposites
Mentored two undergraduate students with their internship research in 2009
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Synthesis and process:
Thin film deposition using magnetron sputtering and pulsed laser deposition
Bulk sample preparation: solid state reaction technique and high temperature sintering
Characterization and instrumentation:
Structural: XRD, AFM, TEM
Electrical: four-probe resistivity measurement, Hall measurement, HP/Agilent 4155 semiconductor
parameter analyzer
Optical: photoluminescence spectroscopy, absorption/transmission spectroscopy, WYKO NT9100
profiler, ellipsometry
Chemical: XPS
Statistical analysis
Statistical Process Control (SPC), Design of Experiments (DOE) and JMP software experience
from graduate course projects
Computer proficiency
Windows, MS Office, Microcal Origin, Digital Micrograph, C programming
RELEVANT GRADUATE COURSES
Materials Science: Transmission Electron Microscopy, Electrical Optical and Magnetic
Properties of Materials, Thermodynamics, X-ray Diffraction, Material Science and Processing of
Semiconductor Devices, Phase Transformation and Kinetics
Electrical Engineering: Integrated Circuits Technology and Fabrication, Optical Properties of
Semiconductors
Physics: Properties of Surfaces and Interfaces, Classical Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
1. W. Wei and A. Sehirlioglu, High Temperature Stability of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heteroepitaxial
Interface (in preparation)
2. W. Wei and A. Sehirlioglu, Strain Relaxation Analysis of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterosture Using
Reciprocal Lattice Mapping, manuscript submitted to Physical Review Letters
3. W. Wei, S. Nori, C.M. Jin, J. Narayan, R. J. Narayan, D. Ponarin, A. Smirnov, Mott Transition in
Ga-doped MgxZn1-xO: A Direct Observation, Materials Science and Engineering: B 171, 25 (2010)
4. W. Wei, C. Jin, J. Narayan and R. J. Narayan, Optical and Electrical Properties of Gallium-
Doped MgxZn1-xO, Journal of Applied Physics, 107, 013510 (2010)
5. W. Wei, C. Jin, J. Narayan and R. J. Narayan, Optical and Electrical Properties of Bandgap
Engineered Gallium-Doped MgxZn1-xO Thin Films, Solid State Communication, 149, 1670 (2009)
6. C.M. Jin, S. Nori, W. Wei, R. Aggarwal, D. Kumar, R.J. Narayan, Pulsed Laser Deposition of
Nanoporous Cobalt Thin Films. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 8, 6043 (2008)
7. R.J. Narayan, R. Aggarwal, W. Wei, C.M. Jin, N.A. Monteiro-Riviere, R. Crombez, W.D. Shen,
Mechanical and Biological Properties of Nanoporous Carbon Membranes. Biomedical Materials,
3, 034107 (2008)
8. W. Wei, C. M. Jin and, R. J. Narayan, Growth Temperature-Controlled Optical Properties of
Textured MgxZn1-xO Thin Films, Journal of Electronic Materials, 38, 613 (2008)
9. C. M. Jin W. Wei and R. J. Narayan, Epitaxial Growth and Ohmic Contact in
MgxZn1 xO/TiN/Si(111) Heterostructures, Applied Physics Letters, 93, 251102 (2008)
10. J. Narayan, P.Pant, W. Wei, R.J. Narayan, J.D. Budai, Nanostructured GaN Nucleation Layer for
Light-Emitting Diodes, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 7(8), 2719 (2007)
11. W. Wei, A. Sethuraman, C.M. Jin, N.A. Monteiro-Riviere, R. J. Narayan, Biological Properties of
Carbon Nanotubes, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 7, 1284 (2007)
12. C.M. Jin, H. Zhou, W. Wei, R. Narayan, Three-dimensional Self-organization of Crystalline Gold
Nanoparticles in Amorphous Alumina, Applied Physics Letters, 89, 261103 (2006)
BOOK CHAPTERS
1. C.M. Jin, W. Wei and R.J. Narayan, Laser-Based Processing of Nanostructured Materials in
Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, American Scientific Publishers, 2010 (in press)
2. C.M. Jin and W. Wei, Wear in Biomedical Materials, Springer Science+Business Media, 2009
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
1. W. Wei and A. Sehirlioglu, High Temperature Stability of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterostructure, Mater.
Res. Soc. Symp. Proc, Spring 2011
2. W. Wei, C.M. Jin, R.J. Narayan and J. Narayan, Epitaxial p-NiO/n-MgxZn1-xO Heterojunction by
Pulsed Laser Deposition, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc, Fall 2009
3. W. Wei, C.M. Jin, S. Nori, R.J. Narayan and J. Narayan, Low Temperature Resistivity of Ga-
doped MgxZn1-xO, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc, Fall 2009
4. C.M. Jin, W. Wei, R.J. Narayan and J. Narayan, High-quality Epitaxial Zinc Oxide Thin Films
Grown on Noble Metal Buffer Layers Using Pulsed Laser Deposition, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp.
Proc, Fall 2009
5. W. Wei, C.M. Jin, A. Doraiswamy, R.J. Narayan and J. Narayan, Growth and Characterization
of Mg0.15Zn0.85O Thin Films by Pulsed Laser Deposition, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., Fall 2007
6. W. Wei, V. Bhosle, C. Jin, R. J. Narayan, Optical and Electrical Properties of Gallium-Doped
Mg0.15Zn0.85O Thin Films, Mater.Res.Soc.Symp.Proc, Fall 2007
7. C.M. Jin, H. Zhou, W. Wei and R. J. Narayan, Vertically Self-Organized Gold Nanoparticles in
Amorphous Alumina Matrices, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., Fall 2007
MEMBERSHIPS
Materials Research Society (MRS)
The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)
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