SmallTech Team Profile

Geetha brings her broad experience in physics, materials science and instrumentation to SmallTech Consulting. Her research experience includes synthesis of multifunctional nanomaterials for photovoltaic and flexible LED applications using various growth techniques such as sol-gel, CVD, and self assembly. Device fabrication and Testing, Materials Characterization of nanoscale and bulk materials by various tools. She is an expert in AFM and probe microscopies. Research areas include Flexible Electronics, Organic Photovoltaics, Spintronics, Nanomaterial based devices, probe Microscopy and Instrumentation.

Geetha received her M.Sc. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T), Madras, India and her Ph.D. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Science (I.I.Sc.), Bangalore, India, where she also did her Post Doctorate work, and was a Visiting Scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY.

Geetha has substantial academic, research, and management experience. She has been a Sr. Research Scientist at Santa Clara University, a Sr. Research Scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA, and has served as Adjunct Professor at Santa Clara University, where she taught a graduate course on Electromagnetic Field Theory for two quarters. At NASA she was the group lead for the Molecular Electronics Project from 2001-4 and the nano-satellite project in 2006-8, cooordinating with scientists from varying backgrounds such as Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace as well as with members of the academia. She executed project management responsibilities and has systems engineering experience. She also actively participates as the executive committee member of IEEE SF Bay Area Nanotechnology Council and organizes two conferences each year. Geetha has chaired IEEE Nano conferences in “Nanotech Enabled Energy Generation”, taught many courses in SCU, SJSU and other Silicon Valley organizations on emerging research areas, including “Flexible Electronics and Plastic Green Technologies” and “Nanotechnology”, volunteers as a judge for bay area K6-12 science fairs, and is a referee for various physics and materials science journals (JAP, Nanoletters, APL etc) and NASA SBIR, STTR. She has published, invented, and been recognized for her technical achievements.