Daniel Pulsipher Email & Phone Number

North Carolina, United States

By leading a team of scientist's and engineers in developing and improving reliable PECVD equipment and processes, multiple levels of enhanced environmental projection for electronic devices are realized.

Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

Leading, improving and developing plasma processes

Austin, Texas Area

I perform specific research projects on powders and surfaces as a consultant or contractor for companies wanting to improve their products mostly through the use of dry or vacuum processing and treatment techniques.

Pflugerville, Texas Area

• Improved laser powder bed additive manufacturing processes
• Produced and executed custom budgeted project proposals
• Developed/Diagnosed/Plasma treated 3D SLS powders
• Worked directly with customers in developing materials
• Directly tuned SLS printing parameter for printing new materials
• Optimized powders’ dry flow, melt flow, and T resistance

Austin, Texas Area

• Progressed from Research Scientist (2012) to Senor Research Scientist (2014)
• Developed lab and industrial scale plasma (PECVD) reactors and processes
• Created and tested new composite materials with functionalized additives
• Innovated from proof of concept experiments, to patents, and to products
• Successfully up-scaled a plasma process on down feathers with under 2 hr cycle times
• Helped develop and simultaneously operated 10 plasma reactors 10-20 feet in length.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Designed and implemented inductively-coupled plasma treatments to modify surfaces and dope nanostructured photovoltaic and photocatalytic materials.
• Executed in situ experiments to examine plasma-surface interactions of NHx species
• Investigated plasma pulsing effects on various species in ground and excited states
• Built and characterized photovoltaic and photocatalytic devices
• Refurbished a high vacuum Auger electron PHI 660 spectrometer
• Alligned and setup dye laser experiments

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Taught and refined labs for multiple semesters of Instrumental Analysis and Physical Chemistry Lab with duties including prelab lectures, instrument troubleshooting, and grading of formal lab reports
• Taught an undergraduate chemistry labs and recitations utilizing an improved teaching style which helps students think scientifically by utilizing a novel model, observe, reflect, and explain (MORE) class framework

• Performed capacitively-coupled plasma (PECVD), and coherent anti-stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS) experiments for thin film (2nd generation) photovoltaic materials (CuInS2 and a-SiH/NH) using MOCVD
• Set up and aligned HeNe, Nd:YAG, dye lasers, and doughnut laser for spectroscopy experiments
• Designed a liquid injection system for a low-pressure capacitively-coupled plasma reactor
• Operated and diagnosed vacuum systems, signal generators, oscilloscopes, and computer systems

Ph.D, Materials/Physical Chemistry

M.S., B.S., B.A., Chemistry And Physics

Associate; A.S, Chemistry