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Process Integration Manager

sgausepohl@albany.edu

Professional Background:

• Process Integration Manager, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany
• Technology Development Manager - NXP Semiconductors, Fishkill, NY 
• Process Integration Engineer - Philips Semiconductors, Fishkill, NY 
• Rapid Thermal Process Engineer - MiCRUS Semiconductor, Fishkill, NY

Education:

• Ph.D. (Solid State Physics), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
• M.A. (Physics), University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 
• B.A. (Physics), Drew University, Madison, NJ

Responsibilities:

Dr. Gausepohl manages the technology development requests for CNSE's 300mm wafer fab. His team controls the baseline process flow within the facility and drives the innovation to provide new offerings. This is accomplished through the collaboration of the Integration team with our Operations staff, Process Engineers, Faculty and Joint Development Partners.

Refereed Publications:

A. Scarpa, D. Ward, J. Dubois, L. Van Marwijk, S. Gausepohl, R. Campos, K..Y. Sim, A. Cacciato, R. Kho and M. Bolt, "Negative Bias Temperature Instability Cure by Design and Process Optimization", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol 53, 6, 1331, June 2006.

S. C. Gausepohl, Flux Penetration and Supercurrent Distributions in High-Tc Weak Links Doctoral Dissertation, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. 1997

S. C. Gausepohl, Mark Lee, W. Hank Mallison, and Stuart Berkowitz, "Supercurrent Distributions and Flux Penetration in YBa2Cu3O7-YBa2Co0.15Cu2.85O7-YBa2Cu3O7 Edge Junctions", JAP, 82, 2427, 1997.

E.B. McDaniel, S.C. Gausepohl, C.-T. Li, Mark Lee, J.W.P. Hsu, R.A. Rao and C.B. Eom,"Influence of SrTiO3 Bicrystal Microstructural Defects on YBa2Cu3O7 Grain-Boundary Josephson Junctions", Applied Physics Letters, 70, 1882, April 7, 1997.

C.B. Eom, R.A. Rao, Q. Gan, R.J. Cava, J.J. Krajewski, Y. Suzuki, S.C. Gausepohl, M. Lee, "Effect of Lattice Strain on Growth Mechanisms andElectrical Transport Behavior of Epitaxial CaRuO3 Thin Films,"Proc. Mater. Res. Soc. 474, 199 (1997).

R.A. Rao, Q. Gan, R.J. Cava, Y.Suzuki, S.C. Gausepohl, Mark Lee, C.B. Eom, "Strain Stabilized Metal-Insulator Transition in Epitaxial Thin Films of Metallic Oxide CaRuO3" , Appl. Phys. Letts, 70, 3035 (1997).

S. C. Gausepohl, Mark Lee and K. Char, "Supercurrent Distributions in YBa2Cu3O7-YBa2Co0.21Cu2.79O7-YBa2Cu3O7 Edge Josephson Junctions", Applied Physics Letters, 68, 2279, April 15, 1996.

S.C. Gausepohl, Mark Lee, R.Rao, C.B. Eom, "Hall Effect Sign Reversal in CaRuO3 and SrRuO3 Thin Films" , Phys. Rev. B Rapid Communication, 54, 8996 (1996).

S. C. Gausepohl, Mark Lee, L. Antognazza and K. Char, "Magnetoresistance Probe of Spatial Current Variations in High-Tc YBCO-SrRuO3-YBCO Josephson Junctions", Applied Physics Letters, 67, 1212, August 28, 1995.

S. C. Gausepohl, Mark Lee, K. Char, R. A. Rao and C. B. Eom, "Magnetoresistance properties of Thin Films of the Metallic Oxide Ferromagnet SrRuO3", Physical Review B, 52, 3459, August 1, 1995.

Mark Lee, S. C. Gausepohl and K. Char, "Absence of Proximity Coupling in Ultra-thin c-axis Oriented YBa2Cu3O7-Au Bilayers", Physica C, 235-240, 3301, December, 1994.

Conference Publications and Presentations:

"Half Integer Shapiro Steps in YBa2Cu3O7-YBa2Co0.21Cu2.79O7-YBa2Cu3O7 Ramp Edge Junctions" 1997 American Physical Society March Meeting: Kansas City, Missouri.

"Supercurrent Distributions in YBa2Cu3O7-YBa2Co0.21Cu2.79O7-YBa2Cu3O7 Edge Josephson Junctions" 1996 American Physical Society March Meeting: St. Louis, Missouri.

"The Spatial Distribution of the Critical Current Density in YBa2Cu3O7-YBa2Co0.21Cu2.79O7-YBa2Cu3O7 Edge Junctions" 1995 International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium; Charlottesville, Virginia.

"Flux Penetration in High Tc Josephson Junctions" October, 1995
Condensed Matter Seminar, University of Virginia; Charlottesville, Virginia.

"Magneto-Transport in SrRuO3 Thin Films and High Tc S-N-S Weak Links"
1995 American Physical Society March Meeting; San Jose, California.

"Magnetoresistance Measurements on SrRuO3 Thin Films" 1994 Meeting of the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society;
Newport News, Virginia