Harshan Nampoori has expertise in materials synthesis, analytical methods, testing instrumentation, data analysis, and new product development. He has experience with powder and coating synthesis using furnaces, polishing, and thin film deposition. He can characterize materials using techniques like XRD, spectroscopy, microscopy, XPS, and optical/electrical property measurements. Harshan also has skills in data acquisition, programming, design, process optimization, and building research infrastructure for validation. He has a strong track record of generating grants and communicating results.

1. What can I do for you?
Harshan Nampoori Ph.D.

2. Experience and Area’s of Expertise
What I have done,
And what I can do

3. Synthesis of Materials &Tools
Synthesis: Powder and thick coatings
High temperature furnaces, Mechanical Polishing, Wire
Bonding, Dicing, Inert atmosphere handling. Rapid
annealers
Chemical - metal-organic synthesis for coatings
Distillation and refluxing techniques
Thin films, Physical Vapor and Chemical coatings
process

4. Analytical Methods and Uses
X-ray analysis - Structural characterization
Spectrophotometry- UV vis, FTIR, Raman - For chemical and structure
Atomic Force microscope ( AFM) - Surface roughness and morphology
Electron Microscopy - Data Analysis and measurements ( SEM and TEM)-
Internal structure
XPS ( X-ray photo spectroscopy)- Chemical composition
Filmetrics - Optical testing Refractive index ( RI) measurements
Metricon, Hall measurements - RI, electronic property ( resistivity,
conductivity, defect concentration)
Magnetic (VSM,AGM) measurements - Magnetic profiles

5. Testing Instrumentation for material properties
Impedance analysis, Polarization (P-E) testing, Capacitance -
Voltage (C-V), Dielectric Frequency - Electrical properties
Oscilloscopes, Four point probe resistivity, Hall measurements -
Resistivity measurements - electrical properties
Magnetic property measurements ( VSM,AGM, SQUID, PPMS)-
material magnetic behavior
Optical measurements ( RI) - optical properties
Piezo electric measurements - Electrical -Stress properties
Lock - in techniques - Infra Red properties

6. Testing, Design and Data Analysis
Data acquisition and analysis
Lab view , Matlab , Tableau ( data analysis and plots)
Programming (python and fortran) - Data Analysis
Solid works/edge - Auto CAD - Design

7. Other
New product introduction , process optimization and making it reliable.
Lab scale to prototyping
Build research infrastructure for testing and validation.
Grant writing, Crucial in generating over $200k at College, few
MM$ (NEDO at Epiphotonics)
Process reliability - Making the process reliable and repeatable -
Knows what it takes.
Good communication skills, have presented to broad audiences and
Key Opinion Leaders, authored/more than 10 international
manuscripts and owns US patent.

8. Thank You