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Rungrot KITSOMBOONLOHA

Thai

Birth date: June 20, 1982             

Mobile:+510-206-4471

E-mail: rungrot@eecs.berkeley.edu or

                                rungrot.nano@gmail.com

SUMMARY & OBJECTIVE                                                                                                                             

My objective is to become a competent device engineer with the professional technical skills that could analyze complex problems and create innovative solutions. I commit to produce top-quality works and collaborate with team members to achieve organizational goals. I am looking forward to using my skills and background knowledge in electronics researches and industrial applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE                                      

                Organic Electronics Group at University of California, Berkeley

                Grad Student Researcher

·         Tin sulfide thin film solar cells for large area and low cost applications

·         Fully printed thin film transistor by gravure printing

·         Modeling of gravure printing

 

Center of Excellence in Nanotechnology at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

Research Associate, January 2007- 2009

·         Design and implement an ink-jet printer for microfabrication using nanoparticles (Master’s thesis)

·         Develop very high concentrated silver nanoparticle colloid of use as a conducting ink for ink jet application (Master’s thesis)

·         Design dipping machines for fabricating nanoparticle-based electronic deceives by layer-by-layer technique.

·         Trained on growing ZnO nanowires by hydrothermal process

 

Forth Corporation CO., LTD., Bangkok, Thailand

System Engineer (Part time), June 2006 – December 2007

·         Responsible for analysis and training access network technology and devices (especially IP technology), such as network processes, L2/L3 switches, passive optical network (PON), etc.

 

System Engineer, March 2004 – October 2005

·         Design main processor for large-size Private Brach eXchange (PBX) by using Motorola’s MPC852T chips

·         Design main processor for Digital Loop Carrier (DLC) by using soft-core processor (Microblaze) running on Xilinx’s Spartan3 FPGA chips

·         Responsible for new technology analysis such as signal integrity, VHDL programming, voice over IP (VoIP), Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), computer networking operations (especially L2 switches), etc.

 

EDUCATION                                                                                                                                                      

·         2009-Present             Graduate student in Electrical Engineering,

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

·         2006-2007                    Master of Engineering in Microelectronics (GPA=4.00),

                                        Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand

·         2000-2004                    Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics

(First class honor, GPA=3.93), 

KMITL, Bangkok, Thailand

 

ACEDEMIC REWARDS

1.       Tong Leong Lim Pre-Doctoral Prize, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 2011

2.       The second best presentation award for paper entitled "Direct writing growth of ZnO rods by Ink Jet Technique" at the "2nd Thailand Nanotechnology Conference 2008", Phuket, Thailand August 13-15, 2008

3.       Royal Thai Government Master Fellowship Awards (full study-cost fellowships), Thailand,  2006-2007

4.       Was selected in "the Best and the Brightest" Project  for visiting universities, private and government organizations, museums, and history monuments in USA supported by The Commission on Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Thailand, 2003

5.       Internship in Tokai University, Tokyo, Japan, 2003

 

PUBLICATIONS

International Journals

1.       Plasmon resonance tuning of gold and silver nanoparticle-insulator multilayered composite structures for optical filters.

Kitsomboonloha, R., Ngambenjawong, C., Mohammed, W. S., Chaudhari, M. B., Hornyak, G. L., & Dutta, J. (2011)

Micro & Nano Letters, 6(6), 342-344. IEE.

2.       Fully gravure and ink-jet printed high speed pBTTT organic thin film transistors.

de la Fuente Vornbrock, A., Sung, D., Kang, H., Kitsomboonloha, R., & Subramanian, V. (2010). Organic Electronics, 11(12), 2037-2044. doi:10.1016/j.orgel.2010.09.003

3.       Superhydrophobic surfaces using selected zinc oxide microrod growth on ink-jetted patterns

Myint, M. T. Z., Kitsomboonloha, R., Baruah, S., & Dutta, J. (2011).

Journal of colloid and interface science, 354(2), 810-5. doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2010.11.004

4.       Selective growth of zinc oxide nanorods on inkjet printed seed patterns

Rungrot Kitsomboonloha, Myo Tay Zar Myint, Sunandan Baruah, Vivek Subramanian and Joydeep Dutta (2009)

Journal of Crystal Growth, 311(8), 2352-2358. doi:10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2009.02.028

5.       Direct Synthesis of anisotropic metal particles by ink jet printing technique

Rungrot Kitsomboonloha, Tanmay Bera and Joydeep Dutta

Advanced Materials Research Vols. 55-57 in October 2008 pp 585-588

 

Papers in Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

1.       High-performance printed organic transistors: Advances in printing techniques and processes

Hongki Kang, Huai-Yuan Tseng, Rungrot Kitsomboonloha, and Vivek Subramanian, 2012 Flexible Electronics & Displays Conference & Exhibition, Phoenix, AZ, Feb 6-9, 2012.

2.       A New Candidate for High Performance Transparent Electronic Circuits: Sol-gel Based SnO2/ZrO2 Thin Film Transistors” (Late news paper)

Jaewon Jang, Rungrot Kitsomboonloha, and Vivek Subramanian

2009 International Electron Device Meeting

3.       Electrical Characterization of close-packed ZnSe Nanoparticle Films

Jaewon Jang, Rungrot Kitsomboonloha, Lakshmi Jagannathan, Hongki Kang and Vivek Subramanian

2010 MRS Fall Conference Meeting, Boston, USA

4.       Highly-scale gravure-printed pBTTT organic field-effect transistors: Device characteristics and Bias Stability Analysis (presentation)

Rungrot Kitsomboonloha, Alejandro de la Fuente and Vivek Subramanian

Large-area, Organic and Printed Electronics Convention, June 1-2, 2010 in Frankfurt, Germany

5.       A custom made ink-jet printer for patterned growth of zinc oxide nanorods (poster)

Rungrot Kitsomboonloha, Myo Tay Zar Myint, Sunandan Baruah and Joydeep Dutta

1st biannual NanoThailand Symposium (NTS), November 6-8, 2008 in Bangkok

6.       Synthesis of Silver nanoparticles for optical and bio-engineering applications (poster)

Tanmay Bera, Rungrot Kitsomboonloha and Joydeep Dutta

1st biannual NanoThailand Symposium (NTS), November 6-8, 2008 in Bangkok

7.       Liquid petroleum Gas Sensor using Zinc Oxide nanorods (presentation)

Niti Wimorat, Rungrot Kitsomboonloha and Joydeep Dutta

2nd Thailand Nanotechnology Conference 2008, 13-15 August, Phuket, Thailand

8.       Ink-jetting for patterned growth of Zinc Oxide Nanorods (presentation)

Rungrot Kitsomboonloha, Myo Tay Zar Myint, Sunandan Baruah and Joydeep Dutta

2nd Thailand Nanotechnology Conference 2008, 13-15 August, Phuket, Thailand

9.       Synthesis of Silver nanoparticles for optical and bio-engineering applications (presentation)

Tanmay Bera, Rungrot Kitsomboonloha and Joydeep Dutta

2nd Thailand Nanotechnology Conference 2008, 13-15 August, Phuket, Thailand

10.   Direct Synthesis of anisotropic metal particles by ink jet printing technique (presentation)

Rungrot Kitsomboonloha, Tanmay Bera and Joydeep Dutta

International Conference on Smart Materials-Smart/Inelligent Materials and Nano Technology & 2nd International Workshop on Functional Materials and Nanomaterials 2008, April 22-25, Chiang Mai, Thailand

11.   Custom-made Ink-Jet Printer for Printed electronics (presentation)

Sutin Pongrangsee, Rungrot Kitsomboonloha and Joydeep Dutta

International Conference on Smart Materials-Smart/Inelligent Materials and Nano Technology & 2nd International Workshop on Functional Materials and Nanomaterials 2008, April 22-25, Chiang Mai, Thailand

12.   Modification of commercial ink-jet printer for Electronics (Poster)

Rungrot Kitsomboonloha and Joydeep Dutta

1st Thailand Nanotechnology Conference 2008, 14-16 August, Chiang Mai, Thailand

 

 

OTHERS

             

LANGUAGES

Thai – Native,

English – Highly intermediate level (TOEFL iBT score 94)

INTERESTS

Internet, travel

OTHER SKILLS

Electronics and scientific measurements, MS offices, Electronic software (Protel, Spice, L-edit, Xilinx’s ISE & EDK)

                                              

REFERENCE                                                                                                                                                        

1.       Prof. Vivek Subramanian

University of California, Berkeley,

13 Sutardja Dai Hall, #1764

University of California

Berkeley, CA 94720-1764

 

2.       Dr. Joydeep Dutta FIoN, FSNN

Director, Center of Excellence in Nanotechnology

Associate Professor, Microelectronics

Associate Dean for New Development

School of Engineering & Technology

Asian Institute of Technology

P.O. Box 4, Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120 THAILAND

e-mail:joy@ait.ac.th;

Tel: Secy: +6625245617/ +6625246606; Dir.: +6625245680

FAX: +6625245617/ +6625245697

Webpage: http://www.set.ait.ac.th; http://www.nano.ait.ac.th/new