Affiliations

Current affiliations

• Position

  Sr. Research Engineer

  Company

  Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials Inc

  Further information

Interests

Interfacial phenomena, surfactants, process research, mathematical modeling, micro-scale fluid and contact mechanics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), transport phenomena, chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) and electro-CMP of semiconductors, electrochemical engineering, smart materials/polymers and characterization, process diagnostics techniques, reaction kinetics, polymer thermodynamics, nonlinear optimization, microscopy visualization and analysis, electrical/ acoustic impedance based NDE, rheometry, tensiometry, hazard identification and analysis

Projects

Selected Projects/ Programs That I Led/ Directed
1. Surfactants and Interfacial Flows

2. Fluid flow through micro texture of polishing pad in CMP process

3. Surfactant kinetics at fluid-fluid interfaces

4. Surface modifications using surfactants

5. Surfactant induced spreading on hydrophobic surfaces

6. Characterization of Reaction Kinetics in CMP- Use of various concepts in Reaction Engineering and Electrochemistry

7. Applications with smart materials and their characterization

8. Process Research and Technology Development

9. Microscopic Imaging and Analysis

10. Electrical and Acoustic Impedance based NDE