Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Design skills
Modeling skills
Fabrication and characterization skills (2 years of experience)
Activities as Principal Investigator of Research Projects
Websites
Timeline
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Hodjat Hajian

Dublin

Summary

Experienced researcher with post-PhD expertise in photonic and electronic design, fabrication, and characterization. Seeking to leverage knowledge in product development at an innovative company.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Research Fellow

School of Physics and CRANN, Trinity College Dublin
Dublin
12.2022 - 12.2024

Researcher

Nanotechnology Research Center (NANOTAM), Bilkent University
Ankara
05.2017 - 11.2022

Postdoctoral Researcher

NANOTAM
05.2015 - 05.2017

Education

Ph.D. - Solid State Physics

University of Tabriz
Tabriz
03.2014

M.Sc. - Solid State Physics

University of Tabriz
Tabriz
07.2009

B.Sc. - Solid State Physics

Shahrood University of Technology
Shahrood
09.2006

Design skills

Programming

  • MATLAB
  • Python
  • Optimization
  • Inverse Design
  • Data Analysis with Python (NumPy, Pandas, and SciPy libraries)
  • Machine Learning (Scikit-learn)

Simulation

  • MEEP
  • MPB
  • Lumerical/FDTD
  • Lumerical/MODE
  • Zemax
  • COMSOL
  • Silvaco

Modeling skills

  • Photonic crystals
  • Inverse design of optical components
  • Metamaterials and phased-array metasurfaces (dielectric, plasmonic, phononic)
  • 2D Materials’ optics
  • Integrated photonics (Waveguides, ring resonators, directional couplers, and Mach-Zehnder modulators)
  • Quantum light-matter interactions
  • Heat transfer (HEMTs and optical devices)
  • Physics of semiconductors
  • Electronic characteristics of Diodes, BJTs, MOSFETs, and FinFETs

Fabrication and characterization skills (2 years of experience)

  • Thin film deposition techniques using thermal evaporation, e-beam evaporation, ALD (atomic layer deposition) and CVD (chemical vapor deposition) methods
  • Spectroscopic and R/T measurements using V-VASE ellipsometer
  • T/R measurements using FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy)
  • SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy) and EBL (Electron Beam Lithography)

Activities as Principal Investigator of Research Projects

  • 2019-01-01, 2023-01-01, Infrared optical modulators and polaritonic waveguides based on metasurfaces composed of hybrid anisotropic van der Waals heterostructures, T
  • BİTAK

Timeline

Research Fellow

School of Physics and CRANN, Trinity College Dublin
12.2022 - 12.2024

Researcher

Nanotechnology Research Center (NANOTAM), Bilkent University
05.2017 - 11.2022

Postdoctoral Researcher

NANOTAM
05.2015 - 05.2017

Ph.D. - Solid State Physics

University of Tabriz

M.Sc. - Solid State Physics

University of Tabriz

B.Sc. - Solid State Physics

Shahrood University of Technology
Hodjat Hajian