Sr. Member of Technical Staff at Eustathia, LLC
Boise, Idaho Area
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- Sr. Member of Technical Staff at Eustathia, LLC
- Past
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- Wet Process Development Engineer at Micron Technology
- Postdoc at SEMATECH
- Postdoctoral Research Associate/Graduate Research Assiatant at The University of Arizona
- Staff Research Assistant at Los Alamos Laboratory
- Education
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- University of Arizona
- South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
- Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
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Vivek Kapila’s Summary
* PhD in Materials Science & Engineering with emphasis on both experimental and modeling & simulation research.
* 2+ years of process engineering experience (wet cleans) in world class SEMATECH clean rooms.
* 3 years of project management experience in project scope definition, resource allocation & training, monitoring, completion and documentation & reporting.
* 2 years of supplier/vendor management experience in supplier identification, selection, engagement, negotiation and evaluation.
* Internship at Los Alamos National Laboratories, NM.
* Over six years of experience in computer simulations of engineering problems.
* Authored/co-authored a book chapter in SPIE Handbook of nanotechnology and several papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings.
Vivek Kapila’s Specialties:
Surface and interfacial engineering, self-assembly, photomask cleaning, megasonic cleaning, computational materials science, process engineering.
Vivek Kapila’s Experience
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Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Eustathia, LLC
(Research industry)
March 2009 — Present (9 months)
* Research innovative ideas and technologies in the areas of surafce and interfacial engineering, acoustic metamaterials, multifunction materials, and biomedical imaging.
* As a Principal Investigator seek funding opportunities from federal and private sources and prepare grant proposals for commercialization of Eustathia developed IPs. -
Wet Process Development Engineer
Micron Technology
(Public Company; MU; Semiconductors industry)
September 2008 — October 2008 (2 months)
* BEOL cleans development and module owner.
* Trained on state of the art batch and single wafer cleaning tools.
* Trained on K-T's Problem Solving and Decision Making Methods -
Postdoc
SEMATECH
(Non-Profit; Semiconductors industry)
January 2006 — March 2008 (2 years 3 months)
* Used DoE methods to design and execute planned experiments, collected and analyzed daily production data and reported results for the evaluation of wet cleaning processes.
* Developed daily production plans, monitored and analyzed daily equipment performance, provided solutions for production, equipment, and process problems in the role of daily production in-charge.
* Developed and updated internal documentation, standard operating procedures, process specifications and safety documents related to wet chemical and physical cleaning processes.
* Identified yield and process performance improvement opportunities; recommended and implemented strategies to address the same.
* Interfaced with SEMATECH member companies, universities, and equipment suppliers for timely completion of projects.
* Designed & built first of its kind sonoluminescence cell and demonstrated the industry’s first known quantitative data on acoustic cavitation in a spin spray megasonic (MS) cleaning tool.
* Trained technicians on research grade tools, and developed an inventory tracking system leading to improved production efficiency.
* As a Task Force Team (TFT) member to helped MBDC to achieve world record single digit defect level on an EUV mask blank substrate. -
Postdoctoral Research Associate/Graduate Research Assiatant
The University of Arizona
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 1999 — December 2005 (6 years 5 months)
Postdoctoral Research Associate, 01/2005-12/2005
Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant, 08/1999-08/2004
* Demonstrated for the first time the significance of incident megasonic direction and determined critical angles for defect removal via acoustic streaming in megasonic cleaning.
* Conducted the first molecular dynamics (MD) simulation study showing the effects of process parameters (power, frequency, and dissolved gas) on acoustic cavitation during megasonic cleaning.
* Developed novel, environmentally benign, lower cost, water based hydrophobic alkylsilane monolayer films for minimization of stiction failure of MEMS devices.
* Developed duplex alkylsilane and tungsten oxide coatings for minimization of friction and stiction failure of MEMS devices.
* Characterized the coatings with ellipsometer, profilometer, contact angle analyzer to determine the coating thickness, uniformity, hydrophobicity etc. -
Staff Research Assistant
Los Alamos Laboratory
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)
2003 — 2003 (less than a year)
Vivek Kapila’s Education
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University of Arizona
PhD , Materials Science & Engineering , 1999 — 2004
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South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
MS , Materials Science & Engineering , 1997 — 1999
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Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
BE , Metallurgical Engineering , 1992 — 1996
