* Scored 5 – Far Exceeds Expectations in Employee Performance Rating for Fiscal Year 2011. Only <5% of employees receive this top rating.* Indispensible member and major project owner of the Demo team that receives Team Achievements Award for Q3FY12 – to acknowledge the team accomplishment of earning new tool POs with very good price. * Independently owned and accomplished an important technical demo even within first 3 months after joining; helped the penetration of our core wafer inspection tool into one major Chip Manufacturing customer.* Led project in three technical demos of the new generation of wafer inspection tool. All these demos successfully won POs to the company.* Accomplished gap projects while providing technical support at two major Chip Manufacturer sites; impressed customer with technical excellence and hence secured potential of getting more POs.

Optical components design, fabrication and test* Designed a CMOS compatible, nano Ge-on-SOI photodetector with extremely small device capacitance* Developed a complete process flow for the nano Ge-on-SOI photodetector with self-aligned hetero-JFET structure* Fabricated the self-aligned photo-hetero-JFET transistor with gate length down to 100nm* Characterized the transient behavior of the nano phototransistors under near-infrared laser pulses* Modeled and simulated the phototransistor; identified the new gain mechanism different from that of all other traditional phototransistors