Data Analyst
Full-time
Sit with graphene process, thermal, and charge data until the measurement is the story — not the other way around.
The work between
a result and a product.
Most research stops at a paper. Most development starts at a product.
What we work on
Carbon, process, architecture. What those lines become is not published. It is owned.
Graphene electronics process
How a carbon lattice becomes a switch: bandgap, stack, channel, contacts. Whether that path can live next to CMOS — gain, noise, temperature — without pretending a device exists before the process does.
High-purity graphene & interfaces
Graphene as a working surface, not a powder you stir in. Ionic and electronic conductivity, mechanical stability, stress. Purity from 5N to 7N. CVD and thermal-expansion routes, with nanotubes and thin-film carbon beside them.
Space thermal & semiconductor process
Heat, etch, and lattice damage where gravity is not a given. Photoresist and RIE in microgravity. High-energy particles. Graphene-on-copper frames and ceramic–graphene insulation, modeled for Earth and orbit.
RF architecture research
Bands, beamforming, phased arrays. Copper and gallium alloys. Metamaterial response, measured rather than claimed. Architecture is the work. A radio is not.
How the work proceeds
A question is not a program until an experiment can refute it.
01
Hypotheses
What must be true of the stack, the geometry, the contact — before anyone talks about scale.
02
Capability
Who can actually run it: partners, foundries, material sources. Wishful capacity does not count.
03
Scope
Narrow the question until an experiment can embarrass it.
04
Material lock
One candidate, qualified. Purity, interfaces, process fit.
05
Simulation
Thermal, charge, radiative, structural — into models a CAD tool can use.
06
Fabrication path
Academic bench or commercial foundry. Chosen because it is real.
07
Characterization
Mobility, gain, noise, temperature, optical phase, RF. The data, not the hope.
08
IP
Write down what was done. File what can be defended. Pre-commercial.
Graphene phase modulation
Light does not have to be absorbed to be steered. Raise the Fermi level of a carbon sheet and the phase of what passes through it moves — efficiently, and across extraordinary bandwidth.
Electro-refraction
A voltage on graphene changes how it conducts, and therefore how it refracts, without asking the light to pay in loss.
Transparency regime
Past half the photon energy, Pauli blocking leaves the sheet transparent. Phase still shifts. Absorption does not return.
Interferometry
Place that shifter in a Mach–Zehnder and phase becomes a clean amplitude. A data stream, not a blur.
What we file
Patents in graphene, carbon systems, and process. Written to be developed. Not offered as a brochure.
- 01
Mobility of thermal and charge modeling and failure mechanism of CVD graphene in CMOS process integration
Graphene process behavior, written so a CAD tool can carry it.
- 02
Photoresist masking and exposure using high-energy beams in space and microgravity for semiconductor process migration to space
Masking and exposure when the floor is not Earth.
- 03
RIE process adaptation in space and microgravity environments
Reactive-ion etch without the assumptions of a terrestrial bay.
- 04
Lattice damage mechanism and preventive policy for IC process in space under high-energy particle exposure
What high-energy particles do to a process — and what we refuse to leave to chance.
- 05
Thermal and charge modeling and failure mechanism of ceramic–graphene high thermal conductivity insulation
From micro-assembly through PBCA: heat, charge, and failure in one model.
- 06
Graphene-on-copper sandwich frame thermal dynamics for HVAC on Earth and space-center orbit
A thermal sandwich that has to work in a building and over a pad.
Join AR&D
We hire people who can live with an unanswered measurement. Florida, Texas, and Virginia.
Program Analyst
Full-time
Keep IP and pre-commercial programs honest across Florida, Texas, and Virginia. Status without theater.
Executive Operations Coordinator
Full-time
The Bonita Springs office: calendar, travel, correspondence, and the follow-through that makes a decision real.
Administrative Assistant
Full-time
Scheduling, records, and the daily work of the administrative office in Bonita Springs.
Research & Operations Associate
Full-time
Experiments, materials, and documentation — so the program and the bench stay on the same clock.
Material Scientist — Carbon
Full-time
Graphene, nanotubes, thin-film carbon. Process, characterization, and results written tightly enough to file.
Material Scientist — Silicon
Full-time
Silicon process, CMOS, carbon-on-silicon — including the constraints of space and microgravity.
Program Manager
Full-time
Own a line of work from a scoped question to a delivered result, across sites.
careers@appliedresearchanddevelopment.com
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Contact
Administrative office
26381 South Tamiami Trail
Suite 300
Bonita Springs, FL 34134