Current Areas of Research

• Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond materials- from nanocrystalline thin films for MEMS and electronics, to doped single crystal epilayers for advanced electronics. Deposition conditions, surface reactivity, precursor decomposition mechanism, precursor adsorption/desorption, and nature of
  different ligands are some of the factors studied for their influence on the aforementioned thin film properties.
  
  
• Surface studies of diamond.
  
  
• Infrared Reflection Absorption Spectroscopy (IRRAS) of Surface Species.
  
  
• Plasma Chemistry/Diagnostics.
  
  
• Spectroscopy of Transient and Reactive Species.
  
  
• Micro Raman, Photoluminence, and Cathodoluminescence Spectroscopy.
  
  
• Electronic properties and electron emission from wide band-gap materials
  
  
• Synthesis of precursors for chemical vapor deposition and spatially selective chemical vapor deposition.
  
  
• Fabrication of micro and nanostructures by chemical-assisted in-beam etching process
  
  
• MEMS and NEMS resonator and device fabrication.