Engineer Process

Ping Zhou

Palo Alto,

CA *****

*******@*****.***

(650) 714-

**** (cell)

PROFILE

Process Engineer with extensive knowledge of thin film design and coating

processes. Design and perform analysis and characterization on

both film and process, determine process controls

and measurement techniques. Knowledgeable with a variety of measurement

equipment and tools. Experience with a broad range of applicable

materials.

EXPERIENCE

Process Engineer, Stion Corporation, San Jose, CA 95119 Aug.,

2008- Jan., 2013

Designed, coordinated and executed experiments for the solar optical thin

film devices on glass substrates.

- Developed optical thin film design and coating processes for large

area sputtering system.

- Drove new multilayer thin film process development and film

characterization.

- Optimized vacuum process with DOE process tools and Statistical data

analysis.

- Implemented thin film measurement using SEM, XRD and 4pt probe.

- Well understood the relationship between materials structure, process,

properties, performance

and reliability to improve quality, yield and efficiencies.

- Developed optical thin films for solar devices by PVD sputtering.

Research Engineer, Hansen Physics Lab., Stanford University

Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle (STEP), Stanford/NASA program,

1998 - 2007

An experiment to test the equivalence principle, the foundation of

Einstein's theory of General Relativity.

Developed, manufactured, and tested thin film coatings and semiconductor

devices for accelerometer.

- Developed the multi-layer metal thin films for capacitance electrodes

by PVD sputtering.

- Made key contribution in the design and fabrication of the spaceflight

hardware

- Created prototypes for STEP accelerometer

- Made semiconductor devices using metal and dielectric thin films by

PVD, PECVD and CVD thin film deposition.

Gravity Probe-B (GP-B), Stanford/NASA program 1990 - 2004

The Gravity Probe B Spacecraft was successfully launched in 2004. This

experiment tests two predictions of the Einstein's theory of General

Relativity, the geodetic and frame dragging effects, by measuring the

precession of four gyroscopes in Earth orbit.

Developed and implemented multi-layer thin film process and metrology for

GP-B gyroscopes.

- Developed and established multilayer metal thin film for the gyroscope,

which improved performance by two orders of magnitude. This effort

enabled the GP-B gyroscopes in the spacecraft instrument performed well

during the science data collection of more than one year

In Earth orbit.

- Performed thin film measurement for multi-layer thin films to meet

the gyroscope requirements.

- Manufactured development and flying gyroscopes by PVD deposition.

EDUCATION

Equivalent to PhD

Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305

University of Sciences and Technology, China

BS, Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China

AWARDS

- Outstanding Researcher in the World approved by INS, USA in 1993 for

immigration

- Group Achievement Award for successful delivery and flight of Gravity

Probe B, presented by

NASA 2005

Over 40 PUBLICATIONS

US citizen.

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