Driving cathode development in the context of active materials, coatings, additives, conductive agents, and solid state electrolyte compatibility; creating new cathode electrode solutions to advance our IP; oversee 4 direct reports from Research Technician to Scientist III level; frequent presentations and reports to internal and external stakeholders; advanced method development including EIS, XRD, and a variety of analytical and electrochemical test methods

cell design and optimization; synthesis of cathode coatings; scale up of synthesis processes; development and implementation of advanced analytical methods for quantification and characterization, including XRD, dQ dV, EIS; overseeing day to day and long term project goals of one direct report (Scientist I), in charge of an external collaborator account, including presenting to, preparing reports for, and running cell testing; coordination with legal team on provisional patent regarding my… Show more cell design and optimization; synthesis of cathode coatings; scale up of synthesis processes; development and implementation of advanced analytical methods for quantification and characterization, including XRD, dQ dV, EIS; overseeing day to day and long term project goals of one direct report (Scientist I), in charge of an external collaborator account, including presenting to, preparing reports for, and running cell testing; coordination with legal team on provisional patent regarding my cathode active material additive work; biweekly presentations to team leaders and upper management Show less

solid state electrolyte optimization via various synthesis methods; characterization and quantification via analytical techniques such as XRD, FTIR, XPS, and others; novel materials design and analysis; coordinating with research and production teams; development of new manufacturing processes to facilitate scale up; advanced method development for analytical instrumentation

interfacing with customers to understand their application needs and designing custom spectrometer solutions around these; investigation of and experimentation for innovative optical solutions for enhanced Raman spectroscopy; biweekly progress reports to management; coordination with Production and Electrical Engineering teams; assessment and purchasing of equipment

maintaining, enhancing, and troubleshooting: acid and alkaline etching of Cu for PCB fabrication, resistor formation and quantification, laser direct imaging resolution and reproducibility, Cu, Ni, Au electroplating, electroless copper plating, panel fusion bonding; kaizen events, coordination with Design and Quality teams; R&D presentations to upper management biweekly, weekly reports to direct manager, assessing new instrumentation for purchase; experiment design to advance etching and… Show more maintaining, enhancing, and troubleshooting: acid and alkaline etching of Cu for PCB fabrication, resistor formation and quantification, laser direct imaging resolution and reproducibility, Cu, Ni, Au electroplating, electroless copper plating, panel fusion bonding; kaizen events, coordination with Design and Quality teams; R&D presentations to upper management biweekly, weekly reports to direct manager, assessing new instrumentation for purchase; experiment design to advance etching and plating capabilities Show less

planning and implementation of experiments to investigate the charge transfer mechanisms in quantum dot solar cell devices, in charge of research budget, data analysis, collaboration with other PIs

calibration assignments for photolithography equipment, thesis research-based experiments using ebeam lithography, wafer preparation techniques, XeF2 etching, analysis via Dektak, biweekly meetings with director and other 3 fellows to discuss lab work, issues, plans for upcoming experiments

set up of ES125 Volume Resistivity equipment, creating an SOP, enhancing conductivity of polymer blends via additives, e.g. carbon nanotubes and ferrous particles, running a Gage R&R with another lab technician, part failure analysis via methods such as DSC and SEM, presentations to upper management