Technology Skills and Tools Feedback Process

Analytical or scientific software

• Adept Scientific GRAMS
• BPM_CAD
• Finite element analysis FEA software
• Mathsoft Mathcad
• Pattern recognition software
• Photon Design FIMMPROP
• Photon Design PICWave
• SAS
• Spectroscopy software
• The MathWorks MATLAB
• Wolfram Research Mathematica

Computer aided design CAD software

• Apollo Photonics APSS
• Autodesk AutoCAD
• Computer-aided drafting or design software
• Dassault Systemes CATIA
• Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
• Optical Research Associates LightTools
• Optiwave OptiBPM
• Optiwave OptiFDTD
• Optiwave OptiSPICE
• Photon Design CrystalWave
• Photon Design FIMMWAVE
• Photon Design OmniSim
• Zemax

Data base user interface and query software

• Structure query language SQL

Development environment software

• C
• Formula translation/translator FORTRAN
• Go
• Microsoft .NET Framework
• Microsoft Visual Basic
• National Instruments LabVIEW

Electronic mail software

• Microsoft Outlook

Geographic information system

• ESRI ArcGIS software
• ESRI software
• QGIS

Map creation software

• Mapping software

Object or component oriented development software

• C#
• C++
• Oracle Java
• Perl
• Python

Office suite software

• Microsoft Office software

Operating system software

• Linux
• Shell script
• UNIX

Presentation software

• Microsoft PowerPoint

Process mapping and design software

• Microsoft Visio

Program testing software

• Debugging software

Spreadsheet software

• Microsoft Excel

Web page creation and editing software

• Facebook

Word processing software

• Microsoft Word

Bench refractometers or polarimeters

• Bench refractometers

Chromatographic detectors

• Photodetectors

Cryostats

Digital cameras

• Line scan cameras

Electron microscopes

• Microprobe stations
• Probe test stations

Flowmeters

• Flow meters

Fluorescent microscopes

• Confocal fluorescence microscopes
• Deconvolution fluorescence microscopes
• Total internal reflection fluorescence TIRF microscopes

Frequency counters or timer or dividers

• Photon counting systems

Fume hoods or cupboards

• Chemical hoods

Graphic recorders

• Digital panel meters

HEPA filtered enclosures

• Biosafety cabinets

Infrared imagers

• Infrared viewers
• Near infrared cameras

Interferometers

• Autocorrelators
• Optical spectrum analyzers
• Wavelength meters

Isolation glove boxes

Laboratory safety furnaces

• Oxidation furnaces

Laser beam analyzers

• Laser beam profilers

Laser fax machine

• Laser facsimile machines

Laser printers

Lasers

• Argon-ion lasers
• Extreme ultraviolet lasers
• Femtosecond lasers
• Laser tweezers
• Nitrogen lasers
• Single photon lasers
• Tunable diode lasers
• Tunable dye lasers

Level generators

• Pulse generators

Lux or light meter

• Photodiode array detectors
• Streak cameras

Optical choppers

Oscilloscopes

• Digital storage oscilloscopes DSO

Personal computers

Polarimeters

Power meters

• Optical power meters

Reflectometers

• Optical time domain reflectometers OTDR

Scanning electron microscopes

• Scanning electron microscopes SEM

Scanning light or spinning disk or laser scanning microscopes

• Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering CARS microscopes
• Near field scanning optical microscopes NSOM
• Raman microscopes

Scanning probe microscopes

• Atomic force microscopes AFM

Semiconductor process systems

• Contact lithography systems
• Electron beam lithography systems
• Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition PECVD systems
• Reactive ion etchers RIE
• Spin coaters
• Vacuum deposition systems

Semiconductor testers

• Semiconductor parameter analyzers

Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters

• Fluorescence lifetime spectrometers
• Spectrofluorimeters

Spectrometers

• Spectroscopes

Spectrophotometers

Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers

• Rapid thermal annealers RTA

Tumblers or polishers

• Chemical mechanical polishing CMP systems

Utility knives

• Optical fiber cleavers

Vibration testers

• Laser Doppler vibrometers

Voltage or current meters

• Current monitors

Xenon lamp

• Xenon arc lamps