- Broad background in applied materials science, organic synthesis, theoretical quantum calculation for molecular design. - Flexible organic electronic devices (OFET, OLED, OPV) fabrication and characterization, metal oxide surface modification. - Expert in materials - light or electrical interactions. Interested in chemical, optical or electrical sensors. - Experience in process development for CVD, ALD tools. - My unique experiences in materials science, chemical synthesis, process development and tool engineering in semiconductor industry would be valuable for various fields in science and new technologies. I am also very interested in new ideas, new technologies and willing to join start-up businesses in the field. Please let me know if you think my expertise would help to bring new exciting ideas to new products!

Process Engineer @ Working on development of a new Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) tool. Developing new processes for a Plasma Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) tool. From July 2013 to Present (2 years 4 months) santa clara, californiaResearch Assistant @ Conducted research in organic electronic devices. Got involved in molecular design, materials synthesis and device fabrication. - Developed chemical annealing method for fabrication of polycrystalline organic thin films for application in organic solar cells and organic photodetectors. (2 pending patents) - Designed and synthesized new organic dyes for energy sensitization to fullerenes (C60) to broaden and improve absorption efficiency of the acceptor layer in organic solar cells. (2 submited patent disclosures) - Designed organic dyes that mimic the symmetry breaking charge transfer process in natural biological photosynthesis to improve charge separation efficiency in organic solar cells (1 submitted patent disclosure). - Modified metal oxide (ITO) surface with phosphonic acid self assembled monolayers to tune the energetics and hydrophobicity. Studied effects of surface modification on device's performance. Studied device physics of inverted small molecule organic solar cells to improve life time of the devices. From January 2009 to June 2013 (4 years 6 months) los angelesIntern @ Worked in Organic Electronics R&D department. - Developed new fabrication techniques and device structures for solution processed Organic Thin Film Transistor with high performance and high device-to-device uniformity. From June 2012 to August 2012 (3 months) SingaporeTeaching assistant @ Taught General Chemistry lab for 2 semesters. Taught seminars and lead discussions in Advance Inorganic Chemistry class for 1 semester. From August 2008 to May 2010 (1 year 10 months) Research Assistant @ - Studied solid state and gas phase structure and stability of metalo-complexes to evaluate the potential to be used as precursor for fabrication of GaAlN alloy by CVD. - Applied quantum chemistry calculation to investigate the thermodynamics of decomposition processes of the precursors under high temperature. - I am first author of 4 papers during my undergraduate research. From November 2004 to May 2008 (3 years 7 months) Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

PhD, Chemistry @ University of Southern California From 2008 to 2013 Diploma in Chemistry (equivalent to MS degree), Chemistry, 4.9 out of 5.0 @ Saint Petersburg State University From 2003 to 2008 Cong Trinh is skilled in: Organic Synthesis, Inorganic Synthesis, NMR, UV-Vis, MALDI-TOF, X-ray crystallography, XRD, X-ray Photoemission..., Atomic Force Microscopy..., Electrochemistry, Thermal Gravity..., Differential Scanning..., Liquid Chromatography..., Photophysics of Organic..., Mass Spectrometry, Chemical modification..., Quantum Calculation..., Organic Electronics, Organic Light Emitting..., Organic Field Effect..., Organic Photovoltaics..., Organometallic Chemistry, Chemistry, Powder X-ray Diffraction, Characterization, UV/Vis, Spectroscopy, Organic Chemistry, Thin Films, Inorganic Chemistry, AFM, CVD, Materials Science, Physics, R&D