Administration
Silvia Antoneanu received her Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca in 2015 and is currently attending a course on “Library and Information Studies” at the University of Vienna. Silvia held an administrative position at Lidl Romania and, since moving to Vienna, she has worked at the Library of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) and at Bank Austria, where she provided administrative support in data collection. Silvia is currently employed as project administration support at the Institute for Microelectronics. She joined the CDL for SDS Memory and Logic in January 2020 and was supporting the team members with administrative tasks. Silvia left the SDS team on November 30th, 2020.
Eva Cvetkovic was born in Trinec, Czech Republic. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Business Financing from the Private College of Economic Studies Znojmo in 2016. Eva held an office assistant position at the Municipal Office Krhovice from 2008 until 2012 after which she was employed as a receptionist at Westside Soccer Arena in Vienna until 2016. Eva joined the Institute for Microelectronics in January 2021, where she was supporting the team members with administrative tasks. Eva left the Institute for Microelectronics and the SDS team on February 11th, 2021.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Markus Kampl was born in Vienna, Austria in 1988. He studied electrical engineering at the TU Wien, where he joined the Institute for Microelectronics in October 2012. He received the degree of Diplomingenieur and the PhD in November 2015, respectively April 2019. He was with the CDL for Single-Defect Spectroscopy from January 2019 until November 2022. He now joined the team of our project partner Global TCAD Solutions.
Bernhard Stampfer was born in Hall, Austria in 1989. He studied at the Technische Universität Wien where he received the Bachelor’s degree (BSc) in Electrical Engineering (2013), a Diplomingenieur degree (Dipl.-Ing., MSc equivalent) in Microelectronics and Photonics (2016), and the Doctoral degree (Dr.techn., PhD equivalent) in 2020. His research interests include device reliability with a special focus on measuring and modeling of charge trapping of oxide and interface traps in Si transistors and more recent devices employing 2D materials (TDDS, noise, and CV measurements). Recently, he analyzed RTN signals in nanoscale MoS2 transistors at cryogenic temperatures in great detail. He joined the CDL for Single-Defect Spectroscopy in January 2019 where he will primarily work on the characterization and modeling of noise in Si transistors.
PhD Students
Aleksandr Vasilev was born in Republic of Mordovia, Russia in 1990. In 2011 he obtained the Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Nanoelectronics from Chuvash State University and the Master’s degree in Solar Heterostructure Photovoltaics at Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI” in Russia in 2013. He joined the CDL for Single-Defect Spectroscopy in October 2019 where he will primarily work on defect-centric modeling of reliability issues in SiC devices. He left the CDL for SDS in August 2023 and joined the Industry partner Infineon.
Jakob Daniel Michl was born in Freistadt, Austria. He received his MSc degree in Physics from the University of Vienna in 2018. Jakob worked at the Institute for Microelectronics from January 2019 until August 2022 and joined the CDL for Single-Defect Spectroscopy from 2021 until August 2022. Jakob Michl received his PhD in August 2022 (PhD Thesis – Charge Trapping and Variability in CMOS Technologies at Cryogenic Temperatures).
Christian Schleich started an engineering career as a service engineer and technical support engineer at EVGroup, a semiconductor equipment supplier, directly after graduating from technical high school (HTL) in 2006. He studied electrical engineering at TU Wien, where he received his BSc degree in 2017 and his MSc. degree in 2019. He joined the CDL for Single-Defect Spectroscopy in 2019 and received PhD in August 2022 (PhD Thesis – Modeling of Defect Related Reliability Phenomena in SiC Power-MOSFETs). After his PhD he joined the team of our project partner Global TCAD Solutions.
Dominic Waldhör was born in Linz, Austria in 1992. He studied at the TU Wien where he received a BSc degree in electrical engineering and a Diplomingenieur degree in Microelectronics and Photonics in 2018. He joined the Institute for Microelectronics in October 2018 as a PhD student and the CDL for Single-Defect Spectroscopy in January 2019. His research focused on the ab initio simulation of oxide defects in semiconductor devices.
Arash Abbasi was born in 1989 in Kermanshah, Iran. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Islamic Azad University in 2011. He received a Master of Science degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Putra Malaysia in 2015, where he worked on radio frequency integrated circuits. After working for four consecutive years in Symmid Corporation as a senior analog designer in the area of IC design he joined the CDL for Single-Defect Spectroscopy in February 2019 and his work focused on the characterization and modeling of noise in Si technology. Arash left the Institute for Microelectronics and the SDS team on September 30th, 2019.
Undergraduate Students
Robert Stella (Bachelor’s Thesis – Solving the van Roosbroeck system in C++), September 2022.