Gopikrishnan G M

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Gopikrishnan G M
Position Process Scientist
Room Number 1109B
Phone (805) 893-5223
E-Mail gopimeena@ucsb.edu

About

Gopikrishnan Gopalakrishnan Meena graduated with his Ph.D in 2021 from the Applied Optics research group of Prof. Holger Schmidt as UCSC. He worked on creating various photonic platforms integrated with microfluidics for clinical diagnostics application. His Ph.D work was done in collaboration with Prof. Aaron Hawkin’s Semiconductor Devices and Microfabrication lab at BYU and has been published in more than 10 journal papers with 5 first author ships. From 2021 till 2024 he worked at ULL Technologies as a senior research scientist overseeing the development of various novel photonics platforms using SiN and worked on active-passive device integration.

Current Work

Gopi is the process scientist at the UCSB Nanofab. He is involved in developing new fabrication processes aimed at end product quality improvement, reliability & repeatability. He also does research on novel processes beneficial for the Nanofab users. He provides advice on tool operating and fabrication procedures for optimal tool performance, utilization and improved uptime. Adidtionaly, he executes the “remote fabrication jobs” for the external/internal customers and provides engineering guidance and help design experiments for users on various processing related issues. His work is spread across various dry etching, vacuum deposition, lithography, metrology and packaging tools in the Nanofab.

Tools

Gopi is the supervisor for the following tools:

  • Gopi currently does not supervise any tools but welcomes processing related queries from lab users.

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