Sonali Das Email & Phone Number

 Research and education professional in Optics/ Integrated Photonics/ Nanotechnology/ Solar Cells/ MEMS with• 12+ years of hands-on experience in design, modelling, simulation, fabrication, and measurement of light trapping schemes for solar cells and MEMS based devices such as RF MEMS tunable filters, phase shifters including metamaterial geometries. • 3+ years of hands-on experience in design, modelling, simulation, fabrication, and measurement of optoelectronic neuromorphic synaptic devices.• 12+ years of hands-on experience in MATLAB.• 10+ years of hands-on experience in Lumerical FDTD Solutions and Lumerical DEVICE.• Hands-on experience in other engineering design and simulation tools in the field of optics and photonics, RF and microwave including HFSS, COMSOL Multiphysics, Zeland IE3D, CST Microwave Studio, Advanced Design System, CoventorWare, Solidworks, LabVIEW, AutoCAD, Origin, Mathematica, L-Edit.• 10+ years of hands-on experience in micro-nano fabrication technologies including cleanroom environment (PECVD, LPCVD, ALD, Lithography, Etching Systems, E-beam Evaporators, Sputtering Systems).• 5+ years of hands-on experience in crystalline silicon (approx. 180 μm thick) solar cell fabrication line. • 4+ years of hands-on experience in fabrication of heterojunction based flexible crystalline solar cells (approx. 10 - 20 μm thin) using thin film amorphous silicon, 2D materials like graphene, MoS2, WSe2 etc.• 8+ years of experience in material, optical and electrical characterization systems (Vector Network Analyzer with probe station, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Raman/Photoluminescence spectroscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, UV-Vis Spectroscopy, Photovoltaic Characterization for Reflectance, Transmittance, Quantum Efficiency, Solar current-voltage characteristics). Co-inventor of 2 US patents Co-authored 1 book chapter, 21 research articles in peer reviewed International journals and 29 publications in International Conferences.  Recipient of the prestigious Bhaskara Fellowship Award sponsored by Indo-US Science and Technology Forum.