Robert Strittmatter Email & Phone Number

United States

El Segundo, California, United States

Researching new technologies and new markets for GaN.

El Segundo, Ca, Usa

Responsible for the reliability of Gallium Nitride (eGaN) discretes and IC's at EPC. Lead a talented team of individuals who conduct failure analysis, basic physics of failure experiments, test hardware/software development, and the full range of semiconductor reliability testing.

El Segundo, California

Responsible for a wide range of engineering and research roles at a start-up company manufacturing novel GaN power transistors.• Product reliability testing and failure analysis o Collection and statistical analysis of product reliability data o Electrical, optical and physical characterization of device failures (part delayer, SEM, FIB, TEM, EMMI/XIVA, AFM, super-resolution microscopy) o Product improvement thru process and epitaxial changes o Management of lab technicians o Reporting in papers and conferences• Test system design and implementation o Custom batch systems for automated reliability testing (HTGB, HTRB, HTOL, IOL) o Device parametric testing and wafer probing (curve tracing, capacitance-voltage, S-parameters) o Temperature and humidity test chambers o Underlying physics characterization of semiconductors (optical trap spectroscopy, time/frequency domain analyses, Raman)• Customer interface• Device modeling and simulation o Finite element analysis (FEA) for thermal, quasi-static and RF electrical modeling of devices o Semiconductor physics simulation (Silvaco)• Software development o Lab automated test control and data collection (Labview) o Software for product screening, yield analysis and assembly for use in production (VBA) o Machine vision for wafer level inspection and defect analysis (C++, MATLAB) o SPICE models for products (multiple platforms) o Design rule checker for 2D device layout o General data analysis (MATLAB)• Measurement systems analysis (calibration, gauge R&R, statistical process control)

Tucson, Arizona

Work experience covers a broad range of electro-optic systems development, primarily for DOD customers. Experience encompasses all phases of system development, from modeling and design to implementation and final testing. Extensive customer interface and business capture responsibilities. Served project management and technical oversight roles as well. Key accomplishments:• Managed development effort for III-V electro-absorption modulators o Served oversight and technical roles on all phases: epi-structure, device design, processing, packaging, and testing o Contributed novel design leading to record breaking area-bandwidth performance o Modulators became enabling technology leading to large follow-on program• Technical manager for novel IR focal plane array with photon counting sensitivity developed at DRS o Provided initial feasibility study and performance modeling to sell program o Consulted on ROIC design and layout, focal plane design, and off-board electronics design o Developed test plan, test setup, and data analysis software o Conducted successful proof-of-concept experiment in advance of FPA delivery• Designed and built control system (software/hardware) for fast steering optics as part of a femtosecond pulse “lightning gun” system• Authored radiometric and pointing calibration algorithms flying on OrbView 5 commercial imaging satellite• Developed control and automatic target recognition software for RAMICS (a Navy LIDAR marine mine-hunter) o Developed complex ocean optics simulator as a testbench for software• Provided system design concept and technical support for NASA time-gated Raman spectrometer

Pasadena, California

Research focused on high performance imaging technologies for space applications, including advanced CCD and CMOS imaging arrays for space science, and novel wide-bandgap materials for solar-blind UV focal plane arrays and photocathodes. Accomplishments:• Design, fabrication and characterization of air-stable high-efficiency photocathode using novel delta-doping technology in III-N semiconductors• Design and characterization of low dark current solar-blind imaging arrays

Pasadena, California

Research covered a wide range in semiconductor device physics, including MBE growth of III-N semiconductors, materials analysis, device modeling, lithography, and electro-optical testing. Accomplishments:• Developed family of novel high-performance piezoelectric strain sensors integrated in III-N semiconductor devices• Developed process technology enabling the first production of micro- and nano- electromechanical devices in the III-N family• Taught graduate-level device physics course• Growth, processing and characterization of AlGaN/GaN HFETS, GaN pn diodes, Schottky rectifiers, and thyristors

Tucson, Arizona

Responsible for development of embedded image processing and ATR algorithms for several marine LIDAR systems, such as Magic Lantern (mine hunter), Magic Lantern Adaptation, and April Showers (submarine hunter). Accomplishments: • Developed algorithms and graphical utilities to identify targets using cluster analysis in a multi-dimensional feature space• Embedded software for both control and sensor vision

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Semiconductor Physics

Thesis: "Development of MEMS in GaN" Advisor: Dr. Thomas McGill

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Physics And Mathematics

Double major in Physics and Mathematics, with an emphasis on Statistics