Derek Nowak
Vice President of Technical Operations at Molecular Vista, Inc.
- Role
- Adjunct Associate Professor at Portland State University
- Location
- San Jose, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Derek Nowak
Interests: Nanoplasmonic structures and their application to microscopy for sensitive high resolution optical spectroscopic information below the diffraction limit of optical light. Techniques include Raman, fluorescence, and photoluminescence spectroscopic signals. Further interests include microscope hardware design, through embedded processing combined with analog circuit design, and open source hardware design dissemination techniques.Specialties: Multiple types of scanning probe microscopy (traditional AFM and newer hybrid techniques), charge beam microscopes, multiphoton excitation techniques, general optical microscopy techniques, practical laser implementation (pulsed systems and diode based systems) and microscope hardware design and automation.Good working knowledge: Nanopositioning techniques (piezo amplifiers, piezo mechanical drive techniques, and piezo mechanical resonance considered design)
Experience
Adjunct Associate Professor
Dec 2011 — Present
Continuing collaborations with several groups working on scanning probe microscopes.
Education
Portland State University
Ph.D, Applied Physics
2005 — 2010
Northern Arizona University
B.S., Physics and Astronomy
2000 — 2001
Portland State University
M.S., Physics
2002 — 2005
Skills
- Nanomaterials
- Cad
- Machining
- Analog Circuit Design
- Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Microscopy
- Solidworks
- R&D
- Fluorescence Spectroscopy
- Basic Machining Skills (Cnc, End Mill, and Lathe)
- Fluorescence
- Physics
- Embedded Systems
- Thin Films
- 3d Cad
- Labview
- Nanofabrication
- Matlab
- Laser Optics
- Simulations
- Raman
- Materials Science
- Electron Microscopy
- Fib
- Optical Microscopy
- Optics
- Tem
- Afm
- Pcb Design
- Scanning Probe Microscopy
- Characterization
- Spectroscopy
- Finite Element Analysis
- Nanotechnology
- Experimentation
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