Frank Berisford

Process Engineer, CAO

Contact

301 Sparkman Drive
Optics Building
Room 103
Huntsville, AL 35899
Campus Map

256.824.2981
frank.berisford@uah.edu

Biography

Frank received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2002. He learned the basics of microfabrication, metrology, and cleanroom use during his time as a participant in the university's co-operative education program. In 2021 he received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering, also from The University of Alabama in Huntsville. His research topic during his graduate education was the design and analysis of gradient index diffractive optics.


Education

  • M.S. Electrical Engineering, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2021
  • B.S. Electrical Engineering, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2002

Expertise

  • Photolithography
  • Thin films
  • Plasma and wet processing
  • Metrology including SEM with EDX, interferometry, and contact surface profiling
  • Certified Zeiss Calypso CMM operation

Recent Publications

  • “Electromagnetic Characterization of Micro-structured Ferrite Materials: Coarse and Fine Composites of Barium and Strontium in SU-8 Photoresist” L. Chao, S. Olusegun, F. Berisford, M.N. Afsar, K.A. Korolev and J.D.Williams 12th Joint MMM/Intermag Conference January 2013