Graduates of Microelectronic Engineering and their Thesis Titles

Stephen Sudirgo, 2006, PhD, Microsystems Engineering
Quantum and Spin-Based Tunneling Devices for Memory Systems

Reinaldo Vega, 2006, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Schottky Field Effect Transistors and Schottky CMOS Circuitry

Michael Latham, 2006, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Fabrication and Characterization of NMOS Transistors on Strained Silicon

Jianming Zhou, 2006, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) Deposition, Patterning, and Schottky Contact Fabrication

Michael Aquilino, 2006, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Development of Deep Submicron CMOS Process for Fabrication of High Performance 0.25µm Transistors

Daniel Jaeger, 2006, BS-MS, Materials Science and Engineering
Investigation of Hafnium Based High-K Gate Dielectrics and Suppression of Interfacial Layers

Eric Woodard, 2006, BS-MS, Materials Science and Engineering
Low Temperature Dopant Activation and their Applications in Thin Film Silicon Devices

Robert Mulfinger, 2006, BS-MS, Materials Science and Engineering
Self Aligned Metal Gate Structures

Denis Baiko, 2006, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Design and Development of a Radiation Hardened Color Video Sensor Charge Injection Device Chip

Robert L. Saxer Jr., 2005, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Development and Characterization of High Performance Transistors on Glass

Lance Barron, 2005, BS-MS, Materials Science and Engineering
High-Reflectance, Sputter-Deposited Aluminum Alloy Thin Films for Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems

Jeffrey P. Clarkson, 2005, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Development of a Porous Silicon Flow-Through Field Effect Sensing System for Chemical and Biological Detection

Phu Do, 2005, BS-MS, Materials Science and Engineering
Development of NiSi Process

Cody Washburn, 2005, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Electrophoretic Deposition of Ferrite for On Chip Copper Planar Inductors

Zeki B. Gurcan, 2005, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
0.18µm High Performance CMOS Process Optimization for Manufacturability

Christopher T. Harvey, 2005, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Silicon-on-Insulator Waveguide Structures for Electro-optic Applications

Vinod D. Kulkarni, 2005, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Integration of Micromachined Thermal Shear Stress Sensors with Microchannels - Design, Fabrication and Testing

Joanna Kiljan, 2004, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Embedded Charge for Microswitch Applications

Branislav Curanovic, 2004, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Development of a Fully-Depleted Thin-Body FinFET Process

Jeffrey L. Perry, 2004, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Effect of Sputter Deposition Parameters on Stress in Tantalum Films with Applications to Chemical Mechanical Planarization of Copper

Stephen Sudirgo, 2003, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
The Integration of Si-Based Resonant Interband Tunnel Diodes with CMOS

Daniel B. Fullerton, 2003, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Process Development of a Novel Pseudo Two-Phase CCD Pixel

Keith Tabakman, 2003, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Concept, Design, Simulation, and Fabrication of an Ultra-Scalable Vertical MOSFET

Charles F. Faisst, Jr. 2002, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Modeling and Fabrication of Optically Resonant Periodic Structures

Kevin Munger, 2002, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Polysilicon Thermal Actuators Integrated with Photodetector Position Sensors

Anatoly Bourov, 2002, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Optical Properties of Materials for 157 nm Lithography

Suraj Bhaskaran, 1999, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Design of RIT's Sub-micron CMOS Process

Ian P. Livingston, 1998, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Fabrication of an Integrated Surface MEM Capacitive Pressure Sensor with On Chip Electronics

Keith Capasso, 1998, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Process Development and Reliability of Thin Gate Oxides

Robert J. Langley, 1997, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Design and Process Development of an Integrated Phosphor Field Emission Device

Michael S. Schippers, 1995, MS, Microelectronic Engineering
Process Design for Charge Injection Device based Imaging Array Fabrication