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Benjamin D. Myers

SEM Facility Manager
NUANCE Center - Northwestern University
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Rm 1112A Cook Hall

Tel: (847) 491-3439
Fax: (847) 491-5429
Email: b-myers3@northwestern.edu

 
 

Educational Background and Work Experience

I've been working full time at NU as a Scanning Electron Microscopist in the NUANCE (www.nuance.northwestern.edu) facility since August, 2002. Last fall, I began part-time study toward a M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering in Professor Dravid's research group. I graduated with a B.S. in Materials Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. During my study at UIUC, I concentrated in polymeric materials and worked on a project developing self-healing composite materials (http://www.autonomic.uiuc.edu/).

After graduation, I accepted a position with Motorola, Inc. in their Semiconductor Products Sector. The first year of my employment at Motorola was spent in the Manufacturing Engineering Rotation Program, where I gained experience in several different areas of semiconductor processing including PVD, photolithography and MEMS processes. After the rotation program, I accepted a permanent position as a Process Engineer in the metals group at CS-1, Motorola's gallium-arsenide lab/fab.

 

 
  Research Projects:  
 

 

My general research focus is related to nanofabrication techniques. In particular, I'm interested in novel focused electron beam techniques, including both lithographic processes and electron beam induced decomposition. Currently, I'm working with our new FEI Quanta FEG ESEM (that's field emission gun environmental scanning electron microscope) to investigate the feasibility of doing electron beam lithography on insulating substrates at environmental pressures to reduce charging effects. Also, I have a lot of interest in music recording and technology, so I'm starting work on a new project (unrelated to my thesis) designing new microphones for music recording applications.

 

 
 

Links of Interest

Electron Beam Lithography

http://www.nnf.cornell.edu/spiebook/toc.htm

Self-healing composites

http://www.autonomic.uiuc.edu/files/MikeKessler.pdf

My music

http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Castrato/
http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Jacknife_Nippit/

 

 

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