Brian Layer Email & Phone Number

Milpitas, California, Us

Milpitas, California, Us

Santa Clara, California, Us

SEM Tool Owner in the Intel development fab, worked with vendor engineers and Intel integrators to provide inline defect imaging during 10nm process development. Responsible for 24/7 support of 10+ tools in a production environment. Ensured data quality while maximizing throughput by writing recipes and developing new SEM features throughout development and transfer to high-volume manufacturing.

College Park, Md, Us

-Studied the physics of soft X-ray/ extreme ultraviolet generation (~2 - 40 nm) in laser-produced plasmas arising from the interaction between ultra-intense femtosecond laser pulses and clustered gas targets in a vacuum using a state-of-the-art 25 terawatt peak power Ti:sapphire laser system-Pioneered multiple techniques for making structured plasma waveguides capable of guiding ultra-intense laser pulses and pursued their applications in high harmonic generation, terahertz generation and direct laser acceleration of charged particles-Led the design, construction and operation of experiments from scratch in a new lab space-Managed and trained a group of five graduate students and two undergraduate students-Designed and constructed a vacuum system that accommodates the non-traditional requirements resulting from the final stage of a laser system being in vacuum while operating with a high gas load in the viscous flow regime-Devised a nozzle design for solenoid-actuated gas valves that makes elongated clustered gas targets of sufficient stability and uniformity for laser-plasma production, overcoming a major experimental obstacle-Designed, constructed and calibrated a 2 - 20 nm grazing incidence flat-field spectrometer that operates under vacuum and uses a Hitachi VLS (variable line spacing) diffraction grating