Nitin Varshney Email & Phone Number

Boise, Id, Us

Florida, United States

• Cumulative experience of countless hours for 6 years with the instruments including FIB-SEMs, Nanofab, X-Ray machines, PHEMOS , Nano-probing and others for various research projects.• Worked and contributed on more than 50+ projects ( research as well as sponsored) in collaboration with DoD, DARPA, NSF, NIST and various other government agencies/private semiconductor companies.• Current responsibilities include training graduate students, government engineers and employees on different failure analysis and physical inspection instruments capabilities.• Contributor for developing and teaching lectures for Physical Inspection/Failure Analysis tools ,Advanced Packaging and Heterogeneous Integration at University of Florida, government programs and multiple conferences.

San Diego, California

Worked with FIB-SEMs for circuit editing and I-V characterization• Cumulative experience of over 250 hours on mechanical sample preparationand with TESCAN/ Zeiss FIB-SEMs for preparing numerous samples for IC circuitediting and deposition.• Cumulative experience of over 100 hours performing the micro-probing forI/V characterization on different IC technology nodes samples.

San Diego, California

Design, Synthesis and Characterization of mixed transition metal oxides in advanced lithium ion batteries * Development of mixed transition metal oxides as high energy density electrode materials in Li-ion batteries and their characterization using in situ X-Ray Diffraction and in situ electrochemistry enabled TEM.*Optimization of some high energy density oxides because of their low cost and low toxicity.

Singapore

-Worked on simulating the process flow for fabricating a 40nm SRAM cell using Coventor.- Designed the layout using the in-house layout editor in Coventor and performed device parameter calculations in Matlab to guide my design towards the specified threshold voltage values.- Incorporated the use of HKMG stack with a gate last approach in the final process flow.

Singapore

Worked on the preparation of diverse TEM samples and their characterizations in Nanoscience And Nanotechnology Institute (NUSSNI) At The National University Of Singapore*Cumulative experience of over 250 hours on a FEI quanta 3D FEG Ga+ FIB – SEM, preparing numerous samples including some semiconductor ones as well for TEM and APT.*Cumulative experience of over 200 hours on the preparation of TEM samples like Tantalum Doped TiO2 samples, VO2 (A)/VO2 Is(B)/STO samples for the STEM measurements and their characterization.

Singapore

Preparation of diverse TEM samples and their characterization• Cumulative experience of over 250 hours on a FEI quanta 3D FEG Ga FIB – SEM, preparing numerous samples for TEM and APT.• Cumulative experience of over 200 hours on the preparation of TEM samples for defect localization and their characterization on various defected IC packaging samples.

Canberra, Australia

The project involved the Development of Disposable Micro Stir Bars by photodegradable organic encapsulation of Nanoparticles.•Synthesized iron oxide nanoparticles using Flame Spray Pyrolysis Reactor (FSP) and the alignment of the Nanoparticles were performed along with their encapsulation.•Performed X-Ray Diffraction with Bucker D2 Phaser diffractometer, followed by BET analysis.•Post analyzed the samples using Eclipse E200 optical microscope and then TEM was performed using Hitachi 7100.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Studied Grain growth Kinetics of nanocrystalline Nickel using IN SITU X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) technique*Prepared the samples for high resolution SEM and TEM analysis followed by DSC to identify the grain growth activation energy and temperature.*Cumulative experience of over 150 hours on PANalytical Empyrean X-Ray Diffractometer to identify the grain growth kinetics of nanocrystalline nickel.

Singapore

The project involved the testing of Functionalization of Graphene as a Drug Delivery Vehicle •Functionalized graphene oxide with Poly L- Lysine using KOH and Edc.nhs•Performed FTIR, TGA and finally the Cyto- toxicity analysis to check the high cell mortality of functionalized GO.

Linkoping, Sweden

Worked on the development of nano structured scaffolds for proteins immobilization•Developed gold nanorods directly grown on silicon wafer which were incubated with proteins for immobilization.•40 fold increases was found in the current generation using gold nanorods as nanoscaffold.

Roorkee

Synthesis of Ni-P coated tetrapod-shaped ZnO nano-microstructures for ultra-wide bandwidth electromagnetic wave absorbing materials *Fabricated Ni-P-ZnO nano-microstructures by flame transport synthesis of ZnO followed by its electroless Ni-P coating to realize a core-shell structured magnetic-dielectric composite electromagnetic wave absorber. *Optimized chemical bath chemistry to ensure uniform coating. Characterized resulting nanostructures by SEM, XRD and TEM.

Roorkee

Extraction of important metals from electronic waste and its Management*In this project, elements like Cu, Ag and Au were extracted from the electronic waste like PCB (printed circuit boards) and also found measures to control the pollution caused, due to emission of different gases during the disposal of this waste. *Using gas chromatography, we tried to find a combination of adsorbents so as to control the harmful emissions during disposal of E-waste.

Roorkee

Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes(CNTs) *The project involved the synthesis of Graphene with large grain size on Cu substrate by APCVD method. *Studied the effect of different substrates (including some alloys) on the grain size of the graphene and then converting them to cylindrical CNTs and then compared their magnetic properties for different applications.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Materials Science And Engineering

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Metallurgical And Materials Engineering

High School, Science And Technology