Project Development

Jihua Ma - Curriculum Vitae

Email: ***********@*****.*** phone: 617-***-****

Mailing Address: 151 Overland Rd. Unit 3 Waltham MA 02451

EDUCATION

2002~2009 Boston College Ph.D in Physics

Thesis project: Development and application of UHV Cryogenics Scannning tunneling microscopic system

1996~2001 Univ. of Sci & Tech. of China B.S. in Applied Physics

Thesis project: Development and test of Biological tissue rapid dehydration instrument (Biomedical engineering project)

WORKING EXPERIENCE

2009~present Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department of Physics at Boston College

2002~2009 Research Assistant

Department of Physics at Boston College

2002~2008 Teaching Assistant

Department of Physics at Boston College

(Courses include Foundation of Physics, Vibrations and Waves Laboratory, Modern Physics Laboratory, Contemporary Electronics Laboratory, Experiments in Physics, Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics.)

SKILLS

1: R&D, Instrumentation, CAD skills and System Engineering

Playing the leading role on design and development of the VT/LT UHV scanning tunneling microscopy system and affiliated instruments.

Excellent on Solidworks and AutoCAD, familiar with FEA in mechanical and thermal design.

Good at trouble-shooting procedure and instrument testing.

More than 4 years hands-on experience in machine shop and familiar with manufacturing procedure of scientific instruments.

Design and development of the vibration isolation systems and performing the low-noise electronics measurements.

(Refer to Home-made STM system in Physics Department at Boston College. Picture attached in page4)

2: Data analysis and C/C++ programming

Development of the data analysis software package for spectroscopic results acquired by STM system using Igor/C/C++ platform.

Theoretical modeling, numerical simulation, automation of data acquisition and analysis, especially on image data analysis.

Excellent on C/C++ and Igor programming. (10,000 lines of coding)

3: Labview and DSP electronics

Development of the electronics systems for STM data acquisition/controller and Labview program for motion control.

Working knowledge of High voltage power supply and transformers.

4: UHV and Thermal system (Cryogenic and Heating stage)

More than 6 years working experience on UHV systems such as design of UHV chambers, usage of Mass spectrometer detectors, vacuum pumps, etc.

More than 6 years working experience on cryogenics systems such as design of dewar, usage of low temperature thermometer, transfer cryogens, etc.

More than 6 years working experience on heating systems such as heating stage design, thermal insulation, infrared thermometer, thermocouples, etc.

5: Biomedical Engineering

Playing the important role on Research and development of the Biological tissue rapid dehydration instrument.

Working knowledge of biological background for R&D of scientific instruments/medical devices.

6: Experimental techniques in solid state physics

More than 7 years working experience on STM and ARPES experiment.

Working knowledge of XRD, SEM/TEM, NMR and neutron scattering systems.

More than 5 years working knowledge on mono-crystal Si, HOPG, ceramic crystal and thin film sample preparation and treatments.

7: Software’s and applications

Familiar with Windows, UNIX/Linux, Office and knowledge of a number of programming languages and applications including: Fortran, Perl, Matlab, Origin and Mathematica.

PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS

“Auto tracking and real time monitoring in MCU system”

International Conference on MCU and Embedded System in Beijing, 2001

“Photoemission Study on Core levels of NaxCoO2”

March meeting of the APS in Baltimore, MD 2006

“Coexistence of competing orders in real and momentum space in high Tc superconductor Bi2Sr2-xLaxCuO6+δ”

Physics Review Letter 101, 207***-****

“Coexistence of competing orders in real and momentum space in high Tc superconductor Bi2Sr2-xLaxCuO6+δ”

March meeting of the APS in Pittsburg, PA 2009

“Scanning tunneling Microscopy/Spectroscopy on optimal Ni-doped single crystal BaFe2As2e”

March meeting of the APS in Portland, OR 2010

“Scanning tunneling Microscopy/Spectroscopy on optimally Potassium doped single crystal BaFe2As2e”

March meeting of the APS in Dallas, TX 2011

REFERENCES

Ziqiang Wang, Professor, Department of Physics, Boston College,

617-***-**** Email address: ******@**.***

Hong Ding, Professor, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science,

(86-10-826*-**** Email address: *****@****.****.**.**

Shuheng Pan, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Houston, 713-***-**** Email address: ****@**.***

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