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Silicone/Silicon Processing and Applications, New Process Development
Expert has spent his career commercializing silicone/silicon products and developing new processes to make them. His experience has spanned applications of silicones in the personal care, automotive, construction, food and beverage, paper, and electronics industries. Although the bulk of Expert’s…
Materials, Formulations, Coatings & Process Research & Development
Expert has 36 years experience in coating, material, formulation, and process research & development. He has commercialized formulations for the first large capacity optical recording media, the Kodak 68100 LWR media. His novel and patented organic molecular glasses have seen…
Plasma Cleaning and Treatment, Plasma sources (Magnetron, Hollow cathode, DBD amd others), Medical devises, Metals, Polymers, Thin Film and Surface Technologies, Deposition by Sputtering
Expert is the president of a consulting firm. He has more than 20 years of experience in industrial research and development and more than 30 years experience in academia. He worked for BOC Coating Technology investigating and developing vacuum and…
Flexible Packaging Materials; Film Extrusion, Extrusion Lamination, Food Packaging, and Food Packaging Safety
Fellow, Society of Plastics Engineers Inductee, Packaging Hall of Fame Expert has spent over 35 years in the development and application of functional materials for a variety of packaging and non-packaging applications (process and platforms). He has developed various multi-layered…
Acute Wound Healing, Animal Models, Re-epithelization, Wound Infection, Burn Wound Healing, Bacteria
Expert and her mentor, David Taplin were the first to identify flower water as a potential source of hospital acquired bacterial infections. She also worked on and helped develop a medium that has a color indicator to detect dermatophytes. She…
IC, Nano, MEMS, Solar, Photovoltaic, Optical Process, Device, Equipment & Technology Development
Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD): Helped Applied Materials develop and improve an ALD deposition system by effecting parametric and design changes and cost effectively improving the ALD film analysis in 9 weeks. Developed patented metalnitride barrier layer technology. Integrated ALD into…
Magnetron Cathode Design, Magnetic Field Modeling, PVD, Sputtering, Ion Beam Etch, Vacuum Technology
Expert has developed and supported production thin film sputtering systems and processes since 1989. He has led the development and deployment of a production PVD cluster tool used by the IC, MEMS, and magnetic memory industries. He developed one of…
Product Development and Manufacturing Technology Transfer in Composite Materials for Industrial, Biotech and Medical Devices
Expert's principal expertise lies in conducting original research, development, and evaluation of alternative process capabilities, in support of new product development. His work has typically led to the establishment of new manufacturing platforms for a variety of material science-oriented businesses…
IC Substrate Manufacturing, Chemical Vapor Deposition, Phenomenological Thermodynamic Modeling
Expert owned the copper plating process module at Intel's Assembly Test Technology Development site for ~2 years, focusing on plating deposition process, plating solution chemistry, plating equipment and thickness uniformity control as pertaining to IC substrate manufacturing. He interfaced with…
Polymers and Biopolymers, Injection Molding, Fibers, Bottles, Packaging, Films, Lamination, Induction Sealing, M&A, Expert Witness & Other Applications
Expert is a creative and innovative polymer/bio-polymer scientist and manager with more than 50 US patents in the areas of spontaneously wettable fibers, polymer nanocomposites for high barrier packaging applications, engineering polymer blends, PLA based compositions, polyolefin-star based composites. His…