Yu Cao has over 15-year hands-on experience in semiconductor related fields. He is a details-oriented problem solver with “whatever it takes” attitude and willing to learn and challenge beyond past experience. He is a creative engineer/researcher with strong capabilities in technological summarizing and documenting: 4 books/book chapter, 7 filed patent applications, over 100 research papers/conference proceedings. He is also an active reviewer invited more than 100 times by many distinguished journals: Applied Physics Letter, Journal of Applied Physics, IEEE Electron Device Letters, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, IEEE Electronics Letters, Journal of Crystal Growth, Journal of Electronic Materials, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology, Electronics Letter, Surface and Interface Analysis, Micro&Nano Letters, Superlattices and Microstructures, etc.Specialties: - Cleanroom experience in semiconductor device fabrication.- MBE growth of III-nitride compound semiconductor materials.- MOCVD growth of III-V compound semiconductor materials using Aixtron and Veeco tools.- Semiconductor device modeling and simulation, including TCAD and Monte Carlo simulation. - Materials and electronic/optoelectronic devices characterization, such as AFM, XRD, SEM, TEM, SIMS, transport properties, PL, cryogenic measurements, IV, CV, etc.
Listed skills include Xrd, Afm, Powder X Ray Diffraction, Physics, and 15 others.