Zvonimir Bandić is the Research Staff Member in the Hitachi San Jose Research Center in San Jose, California. He received his BS in electrical engineering in 1994 from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and his MS (1995) and PhD (1999) in applied physics from Caltech, Pasadena, in the field of novel electronic devices based on wide bandgap semiconductors. He has held the position of research staff member at IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, from 1999 until 2002, where he pioneered the field of magnetic lithography, used for highly parallel magnetic recording of servo and formatting data on magnetic disks. In 2003 he became research staff member at the Hitachi San Jose Research Center. His current areas of research include design, nanofabrication and characterization of electronic and magnetic devices for applications in information storage.

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Applied Physics, June 1999
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Thesis: Novel Devices Employing Epitaxial Wide Bandgap
Semiconductors: Physics, Electronics and Materials Characterization
Advisor: Dr. Thomas C. McGill (tcm@ssdp.caltech.edu)

M.S., Applied Physics, June 1995
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

B.S., Electrical Engineering, June 1994
University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Thesis: Heterocrystalline and hexagonal superlattices

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Scientist January 2003-present
Hitachi Research, San Jose
• Patterned media: Nanofabrication and nanoimprinting lithography; electron beam lithography; data and servo format architecture of patterned media.
• Carbon nanotube transistors: E-beam lithographic fabrication of top gated carbon nanotube based transistors; low temperature physics of 1D electron Luttinger liquid behavior
• Polyimide MEMS nanostructures and magnetic lithography: Parallel magnetic recording using magnetic lithography; fabrication and scanning probes characterization of polymer based nanostructures.
Research Staff Member September 1999-December 2002
IBM Research, San Jose
• Magnetic lithography and nanofabrication: Magnetic media nanopatterning and MEMS magnetic nanostructures on plastic substrates; magnetic force microscopy.
• Patterned media: Ion beam lithography for pattered media fabrication; computer aided design of patterns in polar coordinates; e-beam lithography optimization
Postdoctoral Research Associate June 1999-September 1999
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Dr. T.C. McGill
• GaN bipolar devices: Fabrication and electronic and structural characterization of GaN based bipolar transistors and thyristors
• Structural and electronic nanoscale characterization of GaN: Electronic Force Microscopy of induced surface charges, contact potentials and surface states
Graduate Research Assistant Septembar 1995-June 1999
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Dr. T.C. McGill
• GaN based electronic devices: Fabrication and electronic and structural characterization of high voltage GaN Schottky rectifiers and pn junction diodes
• Structural and electronic nanoscale characterization of GaN: Electron beam induced current measurement of minority carrier transport properties in n and p-type GaN and correlation with structural properties measured by AFM
• ZnS based heterostructures: Optical characterization of ZnS/GaN heterostructures. High sulfur overpressure recrystallization process on ZnS thin films
• GaN/GaAs superlattices: Measurements of nanoscale structural properties of GaN/GaAs superlattices by X-ray diffraction and X-TEM; theoretical modeling of nitrogen segregation and interface broadening
Research Associate January 1994-June 1994
University of Belgrade, Dr. Zoran Ikonic
• (Zn,Cd)(S,Se) polytypes and AlN/SiC hexagonal superlattices: Electronic band structure calculation of II-VI chalcogenides polytypes and AlN/SiC superllattices using pseudopotential method
Research Associate June 1992-August 1992
University of Illinois at Chicago, Dr. Sivalingham Sivananthan
• HgCdTe thin films: Electronic characterization of HgCdTe thin films using variable temperature Hall measurements

SKILLS
• Project management: research and development of new technologies in magnetic recording industry; developed, demonstrated and implemented magnetic lithography technology for servowriting applications of hard disk drives.
• Devices and nanofabrication: extensive hands on experience with electron beam lithography (Leica VB6, RAITH on JEOL 6400), numerous contact and projection optical lithography tools; sputtering, ion beam deposition and evaporation; molecular beam epitaxy of III-V and II-VI materials; familiar with HVPE and MOVPE of nitrides; 10+ years scanning probe experience: AFM, MFM, STM; SEM imaging and SEM-based characterization (EBIC, EBIV); extensive optical and electrical characterization (PL, I-V).
• Software and simulation: 10+ years experience with MATLAB based simulation environement; extensive experience with mask design CAD (L-Edit, writing complex C macros in L-Edit, 5+ years experience with CATS); wrote simulation software for electronic band structure calculations for GaN and GaN based heterostructures.

Nanotechnology is not your microtechnology with a new prefix -- it is a 21st century challenge where fundamental knowledge of physics and chemistry is required to meet new engineering challenges that emerge on the nanoscale, before anybody had time to incorporate this knowledge in academic curriculum. It is a technological challeng so accelerated that research meets development on the fabrication line. Nanotechnology is here to stay, for a long time, to produce new computer and consumer electronics experiences, make new life-saving drugs and treatments, and improve people lifes at every step.