Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Languages
Timeline
Generic

Detcho Jean Noalick Aboa

Bowling Green,United

Summary

4+ years of hands-on experience in growth and characterization of thin films for optoelectronic applications. Experience in MOCVD growth process and spectroscopic techniques to elucidate materials properties. Data collection and analysis. Troubleshooting and collaboratively fixing laboratory instruments.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Graduate Research Assistant

Bowling Green State University
01.2020 - 12.2023
  • Performing DOE on growth parameters of MOCVD to optimize film growth rate, surface topography, point defects and electrical transport properties
  • Routinely operating and maintaining vertical shower-head MOCVD system, high vacuum system, Cryogenic Thermally Stimulated Emission Spectrometry
  • Preparing substrates, growing, annealing and polishing InGaO thin films
  • Performing electrical characterization of thin films and single crystals using Van der Pauw method and Hall effect characterization techniques
  • Performing UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy, Thermoluminescence Spectroscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, X-Ray Diffraction spectroscopy to investigate optical, emission, surface topography and structural properties of InGaO thin films

Graduate Teaching Assistant

08.2019 - 12.2023
  • Taught General Chemistry I, General Chemistry II, Organic labs, introductory Physics labs to first and second year undergraduate students
  • Graded exams, prepared lectures as substitute for professors, set-up lab experiments, explained experimental procedures

Education

PhD - Photochemical Sciences

Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH
12.2023

Master’s - Chemistry

East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, TN
12.2019

Bachelor’s - Chemistry

East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, TN
12.2017

Skills

  • OriginPro, Microsoft Office
  • Optical spectroscopy using UV-Vis absorption spectroscopy, XRD, AFM, FTIR, Thermoluminescence
  • I-V linearity check, and using four-probe method of hall effect system to obtain resistivities, carrier concentration, sheet resistance, mobilities and carrier type
  • Sample preparation by ultrasonic bath, thermal annealing, optical polishing, sand blasting and solvent cleaning
  • Working knowledge of MATLAB, SEM, TEM, EDS

Accomplishments

    Participated in the Eastman-NETSACS Student Research Symposium

    International Merit Scholarship for Bachelor

    Presidential Scholarship for Masters

Languages

French
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Graduate Research Assistant

Bowling Green State University
01.2020 - 12.2023

Graduate Teaching Assistant

08.2019 - 12.2023

PhD - Photochemical Sciences

Bowling Green State University

Master’s - Chemistry

East Tennessee State University

Bachelor’s - Chemistry

East Tennessee State University
Detcho Jean Noalick Aboa