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Research Staff

Chris Pearson

email: pear@umflint.edu

email: pear@umflint.edu

B.A. Physics, Hamline University, St. Paul MN, 1989
Ph.D Physics, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities MN, 1995

Where the USS Enterprise had Mr. Scott and Mr. LaForge, our lab has Chris.

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Graduate Students

Jessica Bickel

phone: (734) 936-2744
email: jebickel@umich.edu
 room: 2082 HH Dow
 Johns Hopkins University
  1. S. Materials Engineering, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, 2003.
    B.M. Oboe Performance, Johns Hopkins, 2004.

    Jessica is a native New Mexican having come to Ann Arbor via the East Coast. Currently she is working on understanding the effects of alloying on the surface structure of III-V alloys using ...more>>

Andy Deng Di

email: andydeng@umich.edu
 B.S. National Univ. of Singapore, MSE

Andy is working on design, patterning and nano-manufacturing microfluidic devices for hierarchical assembly of sub-micron and nano particles with FIB and semiconductor manufacturing techniques.

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Adam Duzik

email: aduzik@umich.edu
 B.S.E. Iowa State Univ., 5/2008

Adam is currently studying the surface morphology and reconstructions of GaAs modified by Bi surfactant layers and GaAsBi.  Adam utilizes a combination of experimental methods including molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), and atomic force microscopy (AFM) with theoretical density functional theory (DFT) calculations.

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Kevin Grossklaus

phone: 734-936-8250
email: kgrosskl@umich.edu
 room: 2204 HH Dow
 B.S. Purdue Univ., MSE
 M.S. Purdue Univ., MSE

Kevin is working on growth of strain relaxed and low-defect density III-V semiconductor heterostructures using modified substrates.  This involves 3-D patterning, 2-D patterning, and ion irradiation of III-V substrates by focused ion beam (FIB).  As part of that effort Kevin's work also includes the characterization of III-V films and ...more>>

Jennifer Lee

phone: (734) 647-9634
email: jenylee@umich.edu
 room: 2062 HH Dow
 Columbia University
  1. S. Materials Science and Engineering, Columbia University, New York NY, 2003

Jenny is currently working on understanding the growth of thin films of III-V films on InGaAs in order to better understand lateral composition modulation.

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Lee Sears

phone: (734) 647-9635
email: leesears@umich.edu
 room: 2076 HH Dow
 Dartmouth College
  1. A. Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH, 2003
    B.E. Materials Science and Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH, 2003

    Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Trey has bared the incredible winters of New Hampshire and Michigan to study interesting MBE growth strained InGaAs/GaAs(001) films.
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John Thomas

phone: 734-936-2744
email: johnct@umich.edu
 room: 2082 HH Dow
B.S. MIT, Physics

First-principles thermodynamic simulation of semiconductor alloys.

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Undergraduate Students

Chipo Mulaisho

email: mulaisc@umich.edu

Chipo is going to be a junior in Materials Science in the fall of 09. His primary focus is the characterization semiconductor surfaces through Atomic Force Microscopy and X-ray diffraction, maintaining the group website, and research on the efficacy of screencasts as a teaching tool.

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Alumni

Shannon Brooks-Lenhert

Shannon is working collaboratively with Picometrix an API company on the characterization of low temperature epitaxially grown materials used in terahertz systems.

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Aaron Dehne

email: adehne@umich.edu

Aaron focus included a little of everything from devising new methods to get sharp STM tips and plate BFM filaments, so they will not break in situ, to characterization and analysis of Quantum Dots made by patterning with a Focused Ion beam and then growth by MBE....more>>

Catalina Dorin

Catalina is currently working for intel at one of their divisions in Arizona.

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Inkyu Eu

Inkyu now works for Samsung at their Korea office.

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Mark Noordhoek

email: mjnoord@umich.edu

Mark was working on characterization and analysis of Quantum Dots made through patterning with the Focused Ion Beam and grown via MBE during his time at the University of Michigan. He is continuing his education at the University of Florida Graduate School.

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Benny Perez Rodriguez

email: perezb@umich.edu

Benny studied the stress evolution in various ternary III-Sb thin films for HEMT devices. Benny made great use of the TEMs and AFMs in EMAL as well the MOSS in our lab. He is currently working for Intel at one of their locations in Arizona.

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Alexandru Riposan

Paul Rudzinski

email: paulrudz@umich.edu

Paul was working to characterize Quantum Dots made through patterning with a Focused Ion Beam and growth with our MBE. He is currently a senior in Industrial Operations Engineering and is hoping to graduate after one more semester.

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