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Advanced Materials Synthesis and Characterization  Laboratory

 

 

 

JEOL 6400F Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope with EDX

JEOL 5300 Scanning Electron Microscope

Physical Properties Measurement System (PPMS) Quantum design

Scintag Pad V x-ray diffractometer with Cu and Cr x-ray tubes

Pulsed Laser Deposition System with PVD deposition chamber and TUI-Thinfilmstar Excimer Laser

A complete solid state materials synthesis laboratory  with high temperature Lindberg tube furnaces and high pressure Carver pellet presser.

Rigaku AFC5S single crystal (4-circle) diffractometer

HMS-3000 Hall Effect Measurement System.

Capacitance  and electrical resistivity (4-pt probe) measurement systems

Denton Desk IV Vacuum Coater

 Laboratory and group pictures

 

 

 

Grants and Awards:

 

 

 

SHU-NJSGC Summer Undergraduate Student Research Fellowships Grant $30,000 (2016-2017)

The synthesis and Characterization of Solar Cells with Organic Contacts (TUBITAK),  The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey $19,178 (2016-2017)

National Science Foundation (Co-PI with Lopez), "Partial Organizational Support For The 4th Summer Institute On Complex Plasmas To Be Held July 30th to August 8th, 2014 At Seton Hall University In South Orange, New Jersey". $7000 (2014-2015).

 SHU-NJSGC Summer Undergraduate Student Research Fellowships Grant $19200 (2014-2015)

National Science Foundation (Co-PI with Lopez), "Partial Organizational Support for the 4th Summer Institute on Complex Plasmas. conference to be held July 30th - Aug 8, 2012 at Seton Hall in New Jersey" $9700 (2012-2013).

SEMATECH-CNSE  "EXAFS Modeling and Analysis of Advanced Substrates, Dielectrics and Contacts" $50,000 (2010-12)

Department of Defense- Army Research Office (Co-PI  with Lopez), "Partial Support for the 3rd Summer Institute" $6600 (2012-2013)

National Science Foundation (Co-PI with Lopez), "Partial Organizational Support for the 3rd Summer Institute on Complex Plasmas. conference to be held July 30th - Aug 8, 2012 at Seton Hall in New Jersey" $9700 (2012-2013).

Department of Energy (Co-PI with Lopez) "Organizational Support for the 3rd Summer Institute on Complex Plasmas" $7900 (2012-2013).

New Jersey Space Grant Consortium Fellowship Grant $4000, (2012).

New Jersey Space Grant Consortium Fellowship Grant $8000, (2011).

New Jersey Space Grant Consortium Fellowship Grant $6000, (2010).

SHU University Research Council Grant "High Efficiency Solar Cells for Future Energy Solutions: Synthesis and Electrical Characterization"  $6000 (2009)

Higher Education Commission Visiting Scholar Grant "Pulsed Laser Deposition and Electrical and Structural Characterization of Transition Metal Oxides" $6700 (2008)

SHU University Research Council Grant "Pulsed Laser Deposition and Structural and Electrical Characterization of Colossal Magnetoresistive Materials" $6000 (2008)

SHU Teaching Learning and Technology Center Summer Fellowship "Electrical Characterization of Semiconductor Thin-Films Using LABVIEW Software Interface"  $4000 (2008)

Research Corporation-Cottrell College Science Award ($40,574) "Pulsed Laser Deposition and Structural and Electrical Characterization of High-k Dielectric Films for the Replacement of SiO2 in CMOS Gate Region"

National Science Foundation (NSF-MRI Grant) ($383,208)  "To Acquire a Thin Film Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD)".  {Single crystal thin films of colossal magneto-resistive (CMR) and high-k dielectric materials are deposited by PLD (see the complete list of materials of interest listed below).}

SHU Teaching Learning and Technology Center Summer Fellowship "Synthesis and Characterization of Thin Films of Gate Dielectric Materials" $4000 (2007)

SHU Provost's Challenge Award "Probing the Clustering Problem in Impurity Doped Semiconductor Materials" $4500 (2007)

SHU Provost's Challenge Award "Advanced Synthesis and Characterization of High-k Gate Dielectric Thin Films for Future Semiconductor Devices" $4500 (2006)

SHU -TLTC SEED Grant $3,000 (2005)

University Research Council Grant $4,000 (2004)

SHU-TLTC SEED Grant $3,000 (2004)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

NEW:   JAN-April2018- First XAFS Experiments on HfZrO at the NSLS-II 6-BM NIST Beamlines in  Collaboration with IBM

X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAFS) analysis of the materials of interest below are being performed at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)  

Beamlines X23A2, X19A, X18B, and U7A

Materials of Interest  

Strongly correlated systems and superconductors  

Perovskites (transition metal oxides)

 

Colossal magnetoresistivity (CMR) La(Ca,Sr)MnO systems

 

Pulsed laser deposition  of thin films of CMR materials

 

Local structrual characterization by XAFS.

 

Pulsed laser deposition of transition metal oxides and layered high-Tc superconductors

 

Pressure related superconducting properties of YBa2Cu3O6+d

 

Semiconductors  

High-k dielectrics

  1. HfZrO for Ferroelectric Properties (IBM and NIST collaboration) -Starting 2018

  2. Pulsed laser deposition of high-k dielectric thin films with varying stoichiometry of the transition metal oxides on silicon substrates.  High-k dielectric thin films on (HfO2, ZrO2) on germanium substrate.

  3. Contact materials (NiSi) for High-k gate dielectrics (SEMATECH)

  4. Local structural characterization  of Y, Zr and Hf oxides (in collaboration with NIST, EAG, and SEMATECH)

  Photovoltaic Thin films (CdTe, CIGS, CdTe with polymer contacts

  1.  CdTe and CdTe thin films with polymer contacts.

  2. CIGS based thin films

  3. Patterned 3-D CdTe/CdS, CdeTe/CdSe thin films with  NIST)

  • Dopant Activation in Semiconductors (Past)

    1. (in collaboration with  Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, EAG, and NIST, FBK Labs, DART Project,)

    2. As clustering in ion implanted silicon wafers B activation in silicon (Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates).

    3. B trapping mechanism in C doped SiGe HBT's (in collaboration with Agere Systems and Sandia National Lab.)  

    4. Sb precipitation and clustering (in collaboration with Stanford University)  

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