Raphaël Prentki

Research Scientist / Scientific Software Developer at Nanoacademic Technologies Inc.
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, CA
Languages
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • French Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Chinese (Mandarin) Elementary proficiency

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Experience

    • Canada
    • Nanotechnology Research
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Research Scientist / Scientific Software Developer
      • Feb 2022 - Present

    • Canada
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Teaching Assistant in Physics
      • Sep 2015 - Dec 2020

      • Performed various teaching duties (graded assignments, reports, and exams; answered students' questions in tutorials and office hours; etc.) for undergraduate-level and graduate-level classes on classical mechanics, electromagnetism, general relativity, quantum mechanics, and condensed matter physics • Taught several formal quantum mechanics lectures to around 80 students • Designed and oversaw a lab experiment on capacitors performed by around 1200 freshman students over two years • Performed various teaching duties (graded assignments, reports, and exams; answered students' questions in tutorials and office hours; etc.) for undergraduate-level and graduate-level classes on classical mechanics, electromagnetism, general relativity, quantum mechanics, and condensed matter physics • Taught several formal quantum mechanics lectures to around 80 students • Designed and oversaw a lab experiment on capacitors performed by around 1200 freshman students over two years

    • Hong Kong
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Doctoral Researcher in Electronic Engineering
      • Mar 2018 - Dec 2018

      • Modeled the current–voltage characteristics of two novel steep-slope transistors, the cold source field-effect transistor (CS-FET) and the Dirac-source field-effect transistor (DS-FET), using the Landauer–Büttiker model and the effective mass approximation, eventually resulting in three peer-reviewed publications • Simulated a p-doped Si/graphene/n-doped Si junction in a state-of-the-art atomistic quantum transport package based on the nonequilibrium Green's function formalism (NEGF) and density functional theory (DFT), Nanodcal, to assess this cold source junction’s performance in preparation for device fabrication • Trained for cleanroom nanofabrication; performed photolithography, epitaxy, and physical vapor deposition Show less

    • Canada
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Undergraduate Researcher in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
      • May 2014 - Apr 2015

      • Programmed a self-consistent Schrödinger–Poisson solver for electronic transport simulations of GaN/AlGaN nanowires solar cells• Performed finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations of THz photons trapped in dynamical optically-pumped cavities in silicon structures

    • Teaching Assistant in Mathematics
      • Jan 2014 - Apr 2015

      Graded students' assignments for courses on linear algebra for mathematics and physics majors

    • Switzerland
    • Research Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Undergraduate Researcher in Experimental Particle Physics
      • May 2013 - Sep 2013

      Programmed novel visualization functionalities for the Trigger Rate Presenter, a dynamic data acquisition software used to monitor the trigger system of the ATLAS particle detector on the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Programmed novel visualization functionalities for the Trigger Rate Presenter, a dynamic data acquisition software used to monitor the trigger system of the ATLAS particle detector on the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

Education

  • McGill University
    Ph.D. in Physics
    2017 - 2021
  • McGill University
    M.Sc. in Physics
    2015 - 2017
  • McGill University
    B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics (Honours)
    2012 - 2015

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