Biography

Leader of the Porous Materials Researc Area at the Łukasiewicz - Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics
Ph.D. (ITE, 2013), D.Sc. (ITE, 2018), Post-doc (MIT, 2018-2019)

My specific field of interest is in the development of nanoscale functional thin film materials and their integration with devices for electronics, optoelectronics, energy storage and sensors. The two main areas of work concern: dense thin film materials with various degrees of nanoscale complexity (epitaxial, polycrystalline, inclusion-in-matrix, amorphous, etc) as well as porous crystalline thin film materials. A strong feedback between the parameters of the material fabrication process, material properties and desired device performance, enabled through tailoring complementary characterization techniques is one of the key aspects of my work.

With over a decade of experience in both the development of oxide films as well as nitride structure processing in the clean-room microelectronic laboratories at the Institute of Electron Technology, aided by a postdoctoral stay at the Chemistry Department of Massachussets Institute of Technology, currently I am focusing on enhancing the capabilities of nitride-based opto/electronic devices by using application-tailored oxide electrodes, disrupting the energy storage devices for harsh environments and developing new types of biochemical and gas sensors.

Some of my biggest achievements and points for ongoing development include:
- the research on band-gap engineering of sputter deposited, Al-doped ZnMgO and the development of a blue-violet-transparent electrode for GaN-based LEDs based on that material, which enabled increased irradiated power by 250% when compared to a conventional metallic electrode and by 148% when compared to a non bandgap-engineered ZnO:Al
- the development of porous black Zn and white ZnO thin films by sputter deposition with post-deposition oxidation - the only nanostructured porous films deposited by magnetron sputtering and controlling it to achieve a wide array of morphologies.
- the development of state-of-the art transparent supercapacitors based on the porous ZnO, decorated with MnO2 nanoparticles achieving a specific capacitance of 2.6 mF/cm2 with a transparency of 86% for a full device.
- the development of state-of-the art high power supercapacitor electrodes made using highly conductive Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs)
- the development of porous electrodes for a room-temperature NO2 sensor, detecting 2 ppm gas without any heating.

Apart from the main topics I am also involved in the processing technology of III-N devices, in particular GaN-based HEMTs. My experience concerns mostly ohmic contact formation, patterning and reliability issues. Additionally, I am investigating inkjet printing of oxide functional materials and functional integration of 3D printed parts with electronic/sensing devices.

I was awarded several scholarships, including: Scholarship of the French Government (BFG, 2018), Ministry of Science and Education's Award for Exceptional Young Scientists (2015), Regional Mazovian Ph. D. scholarships (2011, 2009). I have been constantly ranked as one of the top young scientists at the Institute of Electron Technology.

I have significant project experience on both national, EU and US levels with several PI positions in projects.

As of November 2021, coauthor of 77 peer-reviewed publications (h-index = 14), including 46 in ISI-indexed journals and 17 conference proceedings. Given 2 seminars, coauthor of over 90 conference presentations including 8 invited talks at international and national conferences on semiconductor physics and technology.
Coauthor of 7 Polish patents, 1 Polish patent application and 1 US patent application.