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Karthikeyan Shanmugasundaram

Indian, 29, Doctorate in Electrical Engineering at Penn State. Interested in product design and concept development startups.

Headline: Engineer
Work status: Full-Time Student
Industries: Cleantech, Financial, Nanotech, Retail, Travel
Skills: Business, C/C++, Computer Engineering, Design, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Languages and Platforms, Leadership, Management, Product design, Windows applications
Interested in: Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding team mates, Investing in projects, Joining a startup, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Starting a company, Trading services
Schools: Pennsylvania State University

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA Department of Electrical Engineering
Position: Graduate Research Assistant
Time period: January 2002 - Present
Description: Fabricated and tested the world’s first MIST DEPOSITED OLED and Quantum Dot LED.

Employer: Pennsylvania State University, University Park Department of Electrical Engineering
Position: Graduate Teaching Assistant
Time period: August 2005 - December 2006
Description: Taught the laboratory part of a micro fabrication course to a group of 60 students.

Employer: Karthik Electric Controls, Coimbatore, India
Position: Engineering Trainee
Time period: May 2000 - July 2001
Description: Assisted in the design and production of controllers for machine tools using industrial computers.

EDUCATION

University: Pennsylvania State University

University: Pennsylvania State University

PUBLICATIONS

Articles: Journals (7/7)
1. “Deep Lateral AHF Methanol Etching for MEMS Release Processes”, accepted for publication, SPIE Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS and MOEMS.
2. “Mist-Fabrication of Light Emitting Diodes with Colloidal Nanocrystal Quantum Dots”, Applied Physics Letters, 92, 023111 (2008).
3. “Studies of Solution Processed Metal Oxides on Silicon”, Microelectronic Engineering, v-84 n 9-10, INFOS 2007, pp 2294 – 2297 (2007).
4. “Studies of Hf (Si, O) dielectrics for metal-oxide-semiconductor applications”, Thin Solid Films, v 515, n 7-8, p 3802-3805 (2007).
5. “Silicon Surface Treatments in Advanced MOS Gate processing”, Microelectronic Engineering, 72 (4) pp 130- 135 (2004).
6. “Mist Deposition in Semiconductor Device Manufacturing”, Semiconductor International, pp. 75-80, Nov 1, (2004).
7. "Cleaning of Si Surfaces by Lamp Illumination", Solid State Phenomena, Vol. 92, pp.195-199 (2003).
Conference Proceedings (8/11)
1. “Mist Deposition of Organic Semiconductors”, ECS Fall Meeting 2007.
2. “Formation of Ultra Thin Quantum Dot Films by Mist Deposition”, ECS Fall Meeting 2007.
3. “Interactions of Sapphire Surfaces with Cleaning Solutions”, ECS Fall Meeting 2007.
4. “Mist Deposition in TFT Technology”, in ECS Fall Meeting 2006, Thin Film Transistors Symposium.
5. “Effect of Silicon Surface Conditioning on Film Formation Using Mist Deposition”, in Cleaning Technology in Semiconductor Device Manufacturing IX, ECS Transactions, 1, 3, 105 (2005).
6. “Characteristics of Hf (Si, O) Gate Dielectrics as a Function of Hf Content”, Intern. Symposium on Advanced Gate Stack, Source/Drain and Channel Engineering for Si-based CMOS: New Materials, Processes, and Equipment Symposium, Electrochem Soc. Proc. Vol. 2005-05, 2005
7. “Reversing of Silicon Surface Aging by Lamp Cleaning”, Proc. Eighth International Symposium on Cleaning Technology in Semiconductor Device Manufacturing, Electrochem Soc. Proc. Vol. PV 2003-26, 2004, pp. 108-115.
8. “Study of the Effect of Silicon Surface Treatments on Equivalent Oxide Thickness in High-k Dielectric MOS Gate Stacks”, Proc. Eighth International Symposium on Cleaning Technology in Semiconductor Device Manufacturing, Electrochem Soc. Proc. Vol. PV 2003-26, 2004, pp. 78-85
Patents
1. “Mist Fabrication of Nanocrystal Based Light Emitting Devices and Their Arrays with Shadow Masks”, PSU Invention Disclosure Number 2007-3308 (Patent Pending).

INFORMATION

Awards: Student Travel Grant, Electrochemical Society Conference, Orlando, Oct 2003
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