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Helgi Skuli Skulason

September 5, 1983

+1.514.298.7566

helgiskuli@gmail.com

PhD Candidate in Electrical Engineering at McGill University.
Expected completion: Q1 2013.

Very, very short bio

Born and raised in Iceland. Trained for 10 years as a percussionist in jazz and classical music, had to delay my musical education as I started university. Delay is the keyword. Favorite instruments: Timpani and Vibraphone. Moved to Montreal in 2007 to pursue master and PhD degrees in engineering. Big fan of Formula 1 motor racing, been to every Canadian Grand Prix since 2008. Love travelling! Things I love about Montreal: festivals, multiculturalism, microbreweries and well educated population.

  • Travelling in San Francisco

  • Formula 1, Montreal

  • New Year's Eve, Iceland

Work Experience

2007 - present | McGill University

Research Assistant

  • ○ Caracterizing optical and electrical (DC - 110 GHz) properties of graphene.

  • ○ Fabricating graphene devices.

2005 - 2007 | University of Iceland

Summer Undergraduate Researcher

  • ○ Designed and fabricated a plasma asher using a commercial microwave oven for University of Iceland's cleanroom. See video.

  • ○ Measured thermal radiation of nanowire THz antennas. Published in Phys. Rev. B. 78, 085402 (2008).

  • ○ Assisted with nanometer circuit fabrication using Scanning Electron Microscopy and Electron Beam Lithography.

Education

McGill University (2007 - present)

  • ○ Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical Engineering
    (Expected Q1 2013)

  • ○ M.Eng. Electrical Engineering (2009)

University of Iceland (2003 - 2007)

  • ○ B.Sc. Electrical and Computer Engineering (2007)

  • ○ B.Sc. Physics (2007)

Teaching Experience

McGill University (2008 - 2011)

  • ○ 10 TA positions: tutorials, labs and grading

University of Iceland (2005 - 2006)

  • ○ 3 TA positions: tutorials, labs and grading

Skills

○ Extensive experience with high-precision RF measurements and calibrations up to 110 GHz.

○ Extensive experience with cleanroom fabrication: photolithography, thin film deposition, wet/dry etching and characterization tools such as SEM, EBL and AFM.

○ Extensive experience using Matlab, LabVIEW, LATEX, HTML, PHP, MySQL

○ Experience using ADS, HFSS, CST, Simulink, Java, C/C++, assembly languages, Spice.

Selected Publications and Presentations

○ H.S. Skulason, H.V. Nguyen, A. Guermoune, M. Siaj, C. Caloz, and T. Szkopek, “High-Frequency Coplanar Waveguide Graphene Circuit Components on Low-Loss Dielectric Substrates”, Graphene Technology: Production, Assembly and Applications, 12th International Conference on Science and Applications of Carbon Nanotubes, Cambridge, UK, 11-16 July (2011)

○ H.S. Skulason, V.-H. Nguyen, A. Guermoune, V. Sridharan, M. Siaj, C. Caloz, and T. Szkopek, “110 GHz measurement of large-area graphene integrated in low-loss microwave structures” Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 153504 (2011) Link

○ H.S. Skulason, P. E. Gaskell and T. Szkopek, “Optical reflection and transmission properties of exfoliated graphite from a graphene monolayer to several hundred graphene layers”, Nanotechnology 21, 295709 (2010) link

○ P.E. Gaskell, H.S. Skulason, C. Rodenchuk, and T. Szkopek, “Counting Graphene Layers on Glass via Optical Reflection Microscopy ”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 143101 (2009) link

○ H.S. Skulason and S. Ingvarsson, “Rafgasorbylgjuofn (e. Microwave Plasma Etcher)“, Natural Science Symposium in Reykjavik, March 3-4 (2006)

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Graphene Microwave Electronics

Projects include characterization of graphene as ultra-wideband resistors (DC to 110 GHz), magnetic and temperature characterization of graphene films for RF applications, faraday rotators, Salisbury screening and more. A multidisciplinary team lead by Profs. Thomas Szkopek (McGill University), Mohamed Siaj (UQAM) and Christophe Caloz (Ecole-Polytechnique).

Optical Properties of Graphene

Graphene - single layer to graphite - has been characterized in the visible spectrum. Detailed experimental and theoretical calculations Optical properties from one layer of graphene to graphite were calculated and measured.

Programs

Various LabVIEW software been designed and programmed since 2008 to control instruments and experiments such as hall measurement, semiconductor parameter analyzers, vector network analyzers etc.

Microwave-oven Plasma Asher

Project consisted of desiging and building a plasma asher from a modified commercial microwave oven and a homemade gas handling system. Designed to clean organic contaminants off a wide range of materials such as semiconductors, ceramics and metals. See video.

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+1.514.298.7566

helgiskuli@gmail.com

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Helgi Skuli Skulason,
McGill University,
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
3480 University Street, Room 609,
Montreal, H3A 2A7,
Canada