Pim Cleassen - internship at University of Liverpool
Last spring I went to the University of Liverpool to conduct an experimental internship there. I researched whether a low temperature atmospheric pressure plasma could be used to deposit an acrylic acid polymer onto an Indium Arsenide avalanche photodiode. This polymer would function to pacify leakage currents inherent to this type of photodiode which is very useful in applications such as metrology, chemical sensing and space applications. To perform this I learned a lot about semiconductor and plasma physics.