SACHIN MADHUKAR BET

sbet@mail.ucf.edu
Home address: 11400 Wagon road, Apt B, Orlando, Florida 32826. 
Ph:(Resi.) 407-737-6846 (Cell) 407-760-5319

Office Address: 292 CREOL, UCF, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando, Florida 32816. 
Ph: 407-823-6847 Fax: 407-823-6880

Objective:
Seeking a career in multidisciplinary research for process and product development.

Education:
University of Central Florida (UCF), Orlando FL
Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering
M S Materials Science and Engineering
Govt. College of Engineering, University of Pune, India
BE Metallurgical Engineering

Expertise:
Laser materials processing with Nd:YAG (1064 nm, 532 nm), Excimer (193 nm, 248 nm, 353 nm) and CO2 laser systems
Thin film solar cell fabrication and reliability research
Materials and device characterization
Process optimization, problem solving, project coordination and vendor dealing

Accolades:
1st Prize in student paper award contest at ICALEO 2006 conference organized by Laser Institute of America.
UCF Graduate research fellowship ($2000) for summer 2006
Honorable mention award at AVS Symposium 2005 student poster presentation competition
Best project award for undergraduate final year project at National Chemical Laboratories, Pune, India

Work Experience:

Laser Advanced Manufacturing, Materials and Micro-processing Laboratory (www.creol.ucf.edu) Orlando FL
Graduate research Assistant

Dissertation Research:

• Designed and fabricated White light emitting diodes in SiC using laser direct writing doping and metallization technique
• Invented new dopant materials in SiC
• Studied the dopant diffusion, defect generation, activation and defect level activation energy post laser doping.

Related Journal Publications:

[1]. Sachin Bet, Nathaniel Quick and Aravinda Kar, "Laser Doping of Chromium as a Double Acceptor in Silicon Carbide with Minimum Crystalline Damage and Maximum Ionized Dopants", Acta Materilia accepted Dec 2007.
[2]. Sachin Bet, Nathaniel Quick and Aravinda Kar, "Effect of Laser Field and Thermal Stress on Diffusion in Laser Doping of SiC", Acta Materilia, Vol. 55, pp. 6816-6824, 2007.
[3]. Sachin Bet, Nathaniel Quick and Aravinda Kar, "Laser-Doping of Chromium in 6H-SiC for White Light Emitting Diodes", accepted for publication in Journal of Laser Applications, March 26, 2007.
[4]. Sachin Bet, Nathaniel Quick and Aravinda Kar, "Laser-Doping of Silicon Carbide for p-n Junction and LED Fabrication", Physica Status Solidi (a), Vol. 204, Issue 4, pp. 1147-1157 , 2007.

Other Projects:

• Deposited thin crystalline silicon films on plastic substrates using silicon nanoparticle precursors and laser nanoforming.
• Deposited thin films of vanadium pentaoxide on silicon substrates using laser ablation technique
• Modified surface properties of coated polymeric substrates for improved corrosion and wear properties using laser.
• Laser drilling of Microvias (Thermal modeling)
• Laser scribing of thin film solar cells

Related Publications:

[1]. Sachin Bet and Aravinda Kar, "Thin film deposition on plastic substrates using silicon nanoparticles and laser nanoforming", Materials Science and Engineering B, Volume 130, pp 228-236, 2006.
[2]. Sachin Bet and Aravinda Kar, "Laser Deposition of Silicon Films using Nanoparticle Precursor", Journal of Electronic Materials, Volume 35, Issue 5, pp 993-1004, 2006.
[3]. Chong Zhang1, Sachin Bet1, Islam A.Salama2, Nathaniel R. Quick3 and Aravinda Kar1, "CO2 Laser Drilling of Microvias Using Diffractive Optics Techniques; I .Mathematical Modeling", Inter Pack 05, The ASME/Pacific Rim Technical Conference on Integration and Packaging of MEMS, NEMS and Electronic Systems, July 17-22 San Francisco, CA, 2005.

Patents

[1]. Sachin Bet and Aravinda Kar, "Deposition of Crystalline Layers on Polymer Substrates Using Nanoparticles and Laser Nanoforming", patent pending 2006.

Cabot Supermetals, Thin Films Business Division, (www.cabot-corp.com/tantalum) Columbus OH
Co-op/Intern

• Active involvement in R&D for Tantalum sputtering target production for semiconductor industries
• Performed studies related to sputter deposition and target grain structure orientation for effective target utilization.

Florida Solar Energy Center (http://fsec.ucf.edu) Cocoa, FL
Graduate Research Assistant

Master's Thesis Research:

• Fabricated thin film solar cells (CIGS) by DC and RF magnetron sputtering.
• Performed photovoltaic (PV) module durability and reliability research.
• Pioneered materialistic failure analysis of various types of cells and polymeric encapsulants
• Overcame the residual stresses on magnetron sputtered thin films for solar cells on glass and thin foil substrates.
• Developed and executed acceleration testing of thin film PV modules under high voltage bias in hot and humid conditions.

Related Publications:

[1]. N. G. Dhere, V. S. Gade, A. A. Kadam, A. H. Jahagirdar, S. S. Kulkarni and S. M. Bet, "Development of CIGS2 thin film solar cells", Materials Science and Engineering B, Volume 116, Issue 3, pp 303-309, 2005.
[2]. Neelkanth G. Dhere, Ankur A. Kadam, Sachin S. Kulkarni, Sachin M. Bet and Anant H. Jahagirdar, "Large Area CIGS2 Thin Film Solar Cells On Foils: Nucleus Of A Pilot Plant", Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Volume 77, Issue 6, pp 697, 2004.
[3]. Neelkanth G. Dhere, Sachin M. Bet and Harshad P. Patil, "High Voltage Bias Testing Of Thin Film PV Modules" at World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC-3), Osaka international convention center, Osaka, Japan, May 12-16, 2003.
[4]. Neelkanth G. Dhere, Harshad P. Patil, Sachin M. Bet, Anil U. Pai, Vinaykumar V. Hadagali and Upendra S. Avachat, "Investigation of Degradation Aspects of Field Deployed Photovoltaic Modules", Prov. NCPV program review meeting, Denver, Colorado, March 24-26, 2003.

Clean Room Fabrication Experience (Department of Electrical Engineering)

• Fabricated resistors, capacitors, MOSFETS and BJTs (Wet processing)

Metallurgical Services Pvt. Ltd. (NABL accreidated laboratory), Mumbai, India Metallurgical Engineer-Microstructure division

• Performed destructive as well as non-destructive testing of various ferrous and non-ferrous samples
• Hands on experience on microscopic sample preparation and analysis

Affiliations:
Student Member of AVS, MRS, IEEE, SID,TMS, SPIE, ASTM and LEOS
Life Member of Delta Epsilon Iota Engineering Honor Society

References:
Available upon request