About

I'm a Technology development process engineer at Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, USA. I work on development of next generation transistors, which are used in microprocessors.

I completed my Ph.D. in Lane Department (Electrical Engineering) at West Virginia University, USA. My research interests include Semiconductor physics, Nano-fabrication, Photonic and Plasmonic nanostructures, Biosensors, Device physics, Electrochemistry, Solar energy, FDTD simulations, Signal processing and Machine learning.

Skills

Fabrication Tools

  • Reactive Ion Etching (Trion Technology Minilock III RIE)
  • Sputter deposition (CVC 610DC Magnetron sputtering station)
  • Spin coating (Laurel technologies 400 spinner)
  • UV Lithography (Suss Microtech MA6 Aligner)
  • Flood exposure (OAI UV Flood exposure)
  • Gold Wire Bonder (West Bond 74776E)
  • Rapid Thermal Processing (AnnealSys AS-Micro RTA)
  • Oxygen Plasma Asher (March PX-250 Plasma Asher)
  • E-beam evaporation (BOC Temescal BJD- 2000, Kurt J Lekser LAB18)

Characterization tools

  • Scanning Electron Microscope (JEOL JSM-7600F SEM)
  • Stylus Profilometer (Tencor Alpha-Step 200)
  • Optical spectrum analyzer (Ocean optics USB 4000)
  • Lock-in amplifier (SR 850)
  • Raman spectrum analyzer (iRaman plus B&W Tek)
  • Current-Voltage(I-V)
  • Atomic Force Microscope (Nanoscope, AFM)
  • Hall effect measurements, Capacitance-Voltage(C-V)
  • Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy (DLTS)
  • Surface Photo Voltage (SPV)

Education

West Virginia University (WVU) – Morgantown, WV, USA

Research: Developing plasmonic nanostructures for bio-sensing and light management applications.

Advisor: Nianqiang Wu

West Virginia University (WVU) – Morgantown, WV, USA

Research: Improving GaN LED performance by analyzing MOCVD grown GaN defects using transient spectroscopies (CV and DLTS).

Advisor: Lawrence Hornak

Andhra University (AU) – Visakhapatnam, A.P, India

Electronics and Communication Engineering

Experience

Process Engineer 2017-2018

• Experience working on Front End Dry Etch process tools to meet 14nm/10nm/7nm technology process specifications
• Owned disposition of etch parametric trends, tool station monitors, adaptive process control (APC), statistical process control system (SPC), and process control system (PCS).
• Developed and optimized process conditions to obtain defect free parametrics
• Investigated equipment failures to diagnose faulty operations and made appropriate maintenance recommendations. Documented and incorporated learnings into procedures to proactively address future equipment issue

Graduate Research Assistant 2017-2018

Developed a novel fabrication process using NSL to fabricate large area gold coated Silicon nano ring array plasmonic substrate for Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS).

Project Intern 2017-2018

Hands on experience on vacuum and low temperature systems. Experienced in analyzing the C-V and DLTS signals for quantifying doping concentration, activation energy of traps, and traps concentration of group III-V semiconductors. Maintained communication between growth and characterization groups for GaN purity feedback.

Publications

1. Kasani, Sujan, Peng Zheng, and Nianqiang Wu. "Tailoring optical properties of a large-area plasmonic gold nanoring array pattern." The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 122.25 (2017): 13443-13449. (Invited)

2. Zheng, Peng, Sujan Kasani (co-first author), and Nianqiang Wu. "Converting plasmonic light scattering to confined light absorption and creating plexcitons by coupling a gold nano-pyramid array onto a silica–gold film." Nanoscale Horizons 4.2 (2019): 516-525.

3. Kasani, Sujan, Kathrine Curtin, and Nianqiang Wu. "A review of 2D and 3D plasmonic nanostructure array patterns: fabrication, light management and sensing applications." Nanophotonics (2019) (Invited)

4. Kasani, Sujan, et al. "Tunable Visible-Light Surface Plasmon Resonance of Molybdenum Oxide Thin Films Fabricated by E-beam Evaporation." ACS Applied Electronic Materials (2019).

5. Yang, Hui, Kasani, Sujan et al. "Metal–organic framework coated titanium dioxide nanorod array p–n heterojunction photoanode for solar water-splitting." Nano Research 12.3 (2019): 643-650.

6. Gao, Xuefei, Zheng, Peng, Kasani, Sujan et.al. "Based surface-enhanced Raman scattering lateral flow strip for detection of neuron-specific enolase in blood plasma." Analytical chemistry 89.18 (2017): 10104-10110.

7. Zheng, Peng, Kasani, Sujan et al. "Detection of nitrite with a surface-enhanced Raman scattering sensor based on silver nanopyramid array." Analytica chimica acta 1040 (2018): 158-165.

8. Zheng, Peng, Kasani, Sujan et al. "Origin of strong and narrow localized surface plasmon resonance of copper nanocubes." Nano Research 12.1 (2019): 63-68.

9. Zheng, Peng, Kasani, Sujan and Nianqiang Wu “Near-Infrared Fluorenscent Detection of Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein in Blood Plasma Based on Gold Nano-pyramid Array”. Analytica Chimica Acta. (under review)

10. Yang, Hui, Kasani, Sujan et.al. “Chemical Interaction and Enhanced Interfacial Ion Transport in Ceramic Nanofiber-Polymer Composite Electrolyte for All-Solid-State Lithium Metal Battery”. Advanced Energy Materials. (under review)

Conferences

1. Strong Coupling under Gap Plasmon Mode in a Film-Gold Nanopyramid Array Structure. Sujan Kasani and Nianqiang Wu. Materials Research Society, 2018.

2. Plasmonic nano-ring array for Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering. Sujan Kasani, Peng Zheng, Nianqiang Wu; ACMAE symposium, West Virginia University, April 20, 2018.

3. Optimizing a long range highly ordered plasmonic nanoarray pattern for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering, Sujan Kasani, Peng Zheng, Nianqiang Wu; Electrochemical Society Conference, 2017.

4. Tunable localized surface plasmon resonance in transition metal oxide nanostructures. Sujan Kasani and Nianqiang Wu, Nanostructured Materials and Nano Chemistry, 2018.

5. Gap mode 3D nano structure supporting strong coupling regime for improving optoelectronic device performance. Sujan Kasani, Peng Zheng and Nianqiang Wu, Nanotechnology and Expo, 2018.

6. Plasmonic Nanostructures for Early Disease Detection and Precision Cancer Therapeutics, Kathrine Curtin, Sujan Kasani, Nianqiang Wu; Electrochemical Society Conference, 2019.

7. Fabrication of Hierarchical Nanostructures for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Biosensors, Kathrine Curtin, Sujan Kasani, Nianqiang Wu; Electrochemical Society Conference, 2017.

8. A Paper-Based Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Test Strip for Protein Biomarker Detection by Xuefei Gao, Peng Zheng, Sujan Kasani, Nianqiang Wu, Electrochemical Society Conference, 2017.

9. Monitoring Contaminants in Aquatic Environment with Portable Sensors, Peng Zheng, Xuefei Gao, Sujan Kasani, Nianqiang Wu, West Virginia University Institute of Water Security and Science Spring Symposium, 2017.

10. Fabrication of Hierarchical Nanostructures for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Biosensors Kathrine Curtin, Sujan Kasani, Peng Zheng, Nianqiang Wu, Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, West Virginia University, July 28, 2016.

Contact

sujankasani@gmail.com

Hillsboro OR 97006