Engineer Assistant

Soo Kim

**** ***** ***** **. **** Amherst, NY *4051

Cell: 682-***-****, Email: *******@*****.***

1. OBJECTIVE

Experienced researcher and engineer in silicon and organic photovoltaic device in both lab scale and high-volume manufacturing under ISO 9001 certified. I have strong background in physics of semiconductor device and materials and have experience for developing the process by using FMEA, SPC, 5S, and DOE.

2. EDUCATION

Ph.D (BS to Ph.D) in Materials Sci. and Eng., Univ. of Texas at Arlington Dec. 2013

- Dissertation: Nano-morphology of polymer bulk-heterojunctions (BHJs) studied by time

resolved synchrotron X-ray scattering

3. WORK EXPERIENCE

i) Process development engineer (CVD, PVD), Panasonic Dec. 2017 – Present

- Development of optical and electrical properties of a-Si thin film – PECVD (AMAT), PVD.

- Device failure analysis using metrology techniques and set the countermeasures accordingly.

- Run DOE for process development and find root-cause of device failure, or quality concerns.

- Monitor SPC data and process parameters from equip. linked to MES via Minitab.

- Reliability test (UV and damp heat) and failure analysis for n-type HJT silicon solar cell.

- Qualification and validation of new equipment

ii) Process engineer (Wet), Mission Solar Energy May. 2014 – Jun. 2017

- Development of silicon surface cleaning and texturing process for n-type c-Si solar cell.

- Development of wet-assisted surface passivation process for n-type c-Si solar cell.

- Run DOE to resolve device failure or quality concerns.

- Device failure analysis and set the countermeasures depending on types of issues.

- Monitor SPC and process parameters from equip. linked MES via JMP.

- Experience with solar module reliability test (damp heat, UV, thermal cycling, etc).

iii) Research assistant, Univ. of Texas at Arlington Aug. 2008 – Dec. 2013

- Study of phase separation mechanism in bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic cell.

- Study of synthetic routes for hydrogenated a-Si solution.

- Fabrication of organic solar module to smart window application.

- Hands on experience with metrology tool and thin-film fabrication equipment.

4. SKILLS

i) Thin film deposition: PECVD (AMAT), PVD (Sputtering), Thermal evaporator, Spin coating

ii) Metrology tools: AFM, FTIR, Raman, XRD, TEM, SEM, PL, EL, Ellipsometer, Suns-Voc

lifetime measurement, SIMS

iii) Software: MS Power BI, MiniTab, JMP, Excel VBA, Python, MS office

4. HONORS & AWARDS

i) Awarded Synchrotron Beamtime at Advanced Photon Source (Beamline 12-1D-B) for

proposal, "A missing clue in the nano-morphology of thin-film polymer photovoltaic bulk

heterojunctions revealed by synchrotron X-ray scattering." Jul. 2011

ii) STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) Doctoral Research and Assistant

Fellowship, University of Texas at Arlington 2008 – 2013

5. PUBLICATIONS

i) K. Ryu, S. Kim, W.Kim, M. Shin, A. Cheng, Y.Shin, J Garcia, K. Quresh, J. Whittemore, A.

Kim, B. Kim, Mass production of Low-cost Screen-Printed Bifacial N-type Si Solar Cells with

BBr3- diffused Front Emitter and Ion-implanted Back Surface Field Photovoltaic Specialists

Conference (PVSC), 2016 43th IEEE 002***-******

ii) S. Kim, Y. N. Huang, F. Ameena, D. W. Hoffman, M. H.-C. Jin, K. K. Banger, D. A.

Scheiman, L. B. McMillon, J. S. McNatt, Semi-transparent photovoltaic device for smart

window application. Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2012 38th IEEE 003044 –

003047

iii) S. Kim, J.K Lee, M. H.-C. Jin, Thermally induced morphological changes in PAT/PCBM

bulk heterojunctions studied by time-resolved small- and wide-angle x-ray scattering.

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2012 38th IEEE 003044 – 003047

iv) S. Kim, C.-Y. Lee, and M. H.-C. Jin, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopic studies of

pristine polysilanes as precursor molecules for the solution deposition of amorphous silicon.

(Solar Energy Materials & Solar cells, 2012, 100, 61.)

6. REFERENCE

i) Name: Dr. Choongun Kim

Title: Professor

Firm: University of Texas at Arlington

Phone :817-***-****

Email: ********@***.***

ii) Name: Dr. Michael Jin

Title: Section Manager

Firm: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Phone: 240 - 228 - 7309

Email: *******.***@******.***

iii) Title: Sr. Process Development Engineer

Firm: Panasonic Solar North America

Phone: 716 - 346 - 0358

Email: ******.***@**.*********.***

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