Vice-President of Applied Quantum Technologies, Inc. and Visiting Research Scientist at Duke University
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
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- Vice-President and Co-Founder at Applied Quantum Technologies
- Past
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- Research Scientist at Duke University
- Engineer-Scientist 3 at Boeing Satellite Development center
- Cashier at Target
- Education
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- University of California, San Diego
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Felix Lu’s Summary
As co-Founder and vice-president of Applied Quantum Technologies, and a visiting research scientist at Duke University, I have the opportunity of being involved with several different projects and levels. On the business side, I am consistently involved in both administration of several SBIR/STTR contracts and the product and process development. As we grow in the next few years, bigger challenges such as managing more funds and personel will become more significant. It has been and I'm sure it will continue to be, an important first hand experience to go through. On the more scientific side, exciting developments such as band gap engineering of a wafer fused heterojuction and MEMS device optimization with applications in the quantum information sciences, biomedical engineering, and telecommunications areas continue to engage my interest and scientific development. Over the next several years, I hope to help grow Applied Quantum Technologies to include 2-5 additional employees and have several commercial products in development; and turn academic discoveries into practical commercial products.
My Ph.D. was in materials science from the University of California at San Diego. The thesis topic was on the electrical characterization of exfoliated (ion cut) films using thermal and mechanical methods to fabricate transistors for flat panel display applications. I had some experience with the design, simulation, fabrication and characterization of multilayer III-V low-loss optical waveguides. After all this, I worked for about 1.5 years at the Boeing Satellite development center in El Segundo, CA, working on reliability studies of SiGe and III-V HBTs and HEMTs for satellite electronics. Most recently, (as of Feb 2008) I worked at Duke University in the Dept of ECE as a research scientist with Professor Jungsang Kim.
Felix Lu’s Specialties:
silicon and III-V material and device characterization, processing for electronic and photonic applications.
silicon hydrophilic plasma activated wafer bonding
silicon to InGaAs wafer fusion
ion cutting of silicon films onto glass
SOI substrate fabrication and characterization for MOSFET fabrication.
source and drain doping
Felix Lu’s Experience
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Vice-President and Co-Founder
Applied Quantum Technologies
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Research industry)
August 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)
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Research Scientist
Duke University
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
August 2005 — February 2008 (2 years 7 months)
Activities include:
Teaching EE course (intro to microelectronics)
MEMS device/system optimization and development
III-V to Si wafer fusion interface study
Wafer bonding/fusion study on the effects of wafer orientation.
Business administration of Phase I and II STTR grant from the Army Research Office -
Engineer-Scientist 3
Boeing Satellite Development center
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)
April 2004 — July 2005 (1 year 4 months)
Device Reliability studies for future satellite electronics. Work with IBM, Triquint and other companies for device and material characterization and confirmation of device ilmits.
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Cashier
Target
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Consumer Services industry)
April 1990 — February 1991 (11 months)
Front Cashier at Target Store.
Felix Lu’s Education
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University of California, San Diego
PhD , Materials Science and Engineering , 1998 — 2004
- Activities and Societies:
- Research on III-V optical waveguides, including design, processing, simulation and characterization.
Si MOSFET design, processing and characterization on custom procesed SOI wafers.
Ion-cut (SmartCut(TM)) process and Si on Glass processing and characterization.
Hydrophilic Si wafer bonding with plasma activation
Additional Information
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Felix Lu’s Interests:
Travel and exploration, new and unfamiliar cultural experiences; alpine skiing, stained glass window fabrication, piano playing, canoeing down gentle streams; organized indoor 6-man volleyball, paintball.
