Primary Investigator
Dr. Ngwe Zin
Dr. Zin is a director and principal investigator of Rutgers Nanofabrication CORE Facility (NCF). He is also a graduate faculty of ECE at Rutgers. As a PI of NCF, Dr. Zin manages/leads the operations, upgrade, installation, commissioning, and maintenance of Micro/Nanofabrication equipment and instruments, and facility abatements. He also teaches microelectronic fundamentals, devices processing and characterization, and silicon photovoltaic in classes and state-of-the-art nanofabrication cleanroom. Besides, he supervises postdocs, PhD/Master/undegraduate students. His current research interest includes, not limited to, Photovoltaics, Micro/Nanofabrication, Novel Materials, Simulation, Characterization, Fabrication of Semiconductor Devices and High-Tech Manufacturing. Dr. Zin supervises postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students. Dr. Zin received multiple research grants with the total award value of $1.8M to date.
Engineering and Research Staff members
Dr. Henry Wang
Dr. Wang is the lab coordinator of NCF. Dr. Wang conducts training for new users, undertakes the maintenance and safe operations of equipment/instruments, facility abatements, inventory tracking, installation of new equipment, decommissioning of old equipment, training of new users and lab demonstrations.
Dr. Rahul Sharma
Dr. Sharma is the postdoc staff member of NCF. Dr. Sharma's research interests lie in 2D materials, c-Si solar cell fabrication, MEMS, Microfabrication, Graphene-FET for sensing, and radiation shielding composites. Dr. Sharma also trains new users, and undertakes the operations of equipment/instruments.
Undergraduate Students
Mr. Jinam Modasiya (Summer 2023-2024)
Jinam is a senior of ECE undergraduate program and works under Dr. Zin’s supervision to investigate surface clean, surface passivation, characterization and metallization of Photovoltaic materials and devices.
Miss. Malvika Chainani (beginning Fall 2023)
Malvika from Morris Hills High School, through Gifted and Talented Program, will undertake an independent study in the field of Micro/Nanofabrication under the supervision of Dr. Zin.