-Developed and used free-space optical setups for the characterization of quantum dot emitters and surface acoustic waves, using interferometry and spectroscopy techniques-Extensively experienced in a clean room environment: maskless and contact lithography, e-beam and thermal evaporation, DC and RF sputtering, and wet cleaning -Conducted experiments and optimized processes for fabricating Interdigitated transducers coupled to phononic crystal waveguides-Developed a custom process for deposition of ZnO thin film using DC and RF sputtering -Characterized and tested fabricated devices using XRD, AFM, SEM, profilometry, ellipsometry, and electrical measurement using a network analyzer-Automated data acquisition using LabVIEW, and data analysis with Matlab