Michael Seas

Education

• B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (2016)
• M.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (2018)
• M.S. Materials, University of Santa Barbara (2020)

Bio

Michael joined the Palmstrom group in June 2018. Born and raised in Ohio, he moved to Wyoming to pursue a degree in chemical engineering. During that time, he competed as an NCAA student-athlete for 5 years on the Wyoming cross country and track teams. He went on to receive a master's degree in chemical engineering and his thesis work focused on laser irradiation of carbon films for scalable electronic materials. His work in the Palmstrom lab focused on using chemical beam epitaxy to create high mobility nanowire arrays for use in topological quantum computing. He also working on novel superconducting/semiconductor trilayers for mergemon qubits. Michael currently works at Raytheon in Santa Barbara.

Research

• Selective area growth (SAG) of low dimensional nanowire arrays
• Chemical beam epitaxy (CBE)
• Superconductor/semiconductor hybrid systems