Research Skills Micro & nano-fabrication: Physical vapor deposition, PVD: OAD and GLAD techniques Chemical synthesis: PE-CVD, ALD, Hydrothermal etc. Ball milling Spin-coating Spray pyrolysis Photolithography Material processing: annealing, oxidation/ reduction, RIE (reactive ion etching) etc. Characterization techniques: X-ray diffraction (XRD) and texture (pole figure) UV-Visible-NIR spectroscopy Current-Voltage characterization: Digital and Analog Raman & Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy ToF -SIMS (time-of-flight -secondary ion mass spectrometry) Electron microscopy: SEM, TEM Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy Dynamic light scattering: size distribution analysis & Zeta potential Dye adsorption characterization: equilibrium adsorption and kinetics Linear and non-linear optical characterizations Organic dye degradation Solar-energy conversion and PEC characterizations: External quantum efficiency (EQE), current-voltage, cyclic voltammetry (CV), linear sweep voltammetry (LSV), chronoamperommettery, and incident photon-to-current conversion efficiency (IPCE%); solar water splitting: H2 and O2 generation
