Punam Murkute, Ph.D

Dr. Punam Murkute has joined the team at Nanotech West Lab as a postdoctoral researcher. She brings with her a wealth of experience in semiconductor growth, characterization, and device development, having worked in these areas for over six years. Punam is highly skilled in a range of techniques, including ALD, PLD, sputtering, evaporation, IVT, electron microscopy, HRXRD, photoluminescence, and FTIR, and has spent over five years working in cleanroom environments.

At Ohio State, Dr. Murkute is sharing an appointment between Nanotech West and Prof. Sanjay Krishna’s research group, KIND Lab. Within the KIND Lab, Punam’s research will include infrared materials and structure development, device fabrication and device analysis. At Nanotech West, Punam will manage the Mid-Infrared Characterization and Analysis (MICA) Lab and also support the NTW users with training and materials characterization using techniques such as HRXRD, SEM, and others. Prior to joining the team, Punam served as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Notre Dame for two years, and before that spent a year and a half at the French material science laboratory LMGP, where she worked on spatial atomic layer deposition and in-situ FTIR setup and characterization.

Punam holds a Ph.D. in microelectronics from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, as well as M.S. and B.S. degrees in Physics from the University of Pune.