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Metal Alloy Welding, Stainless Steel, and Nickel Alloy Properties
Expert has extensive experience with the specification and application of nickel and stainless alloys in the high temperature areas of gas (both aero and industrial/marine) and steam turbines including compressors, combustion, and turbine components. He has worked closely with designers,…
Adhesion Bonding, Plastic Surface Treatments, Plastics Decorating, Finishing, Coating, Laser Marking
Expert has extensive experience diagnosing adhesion problems and implementing cost effective solutions for bonding/ joining like and dissimilar materials. He received a US patent for a bonding process which yields superior adhesion strength forces for commercial and military products. His…
Vacuum Processes, Optical Multilayer Thin Films, Ophthalmic Lenses, Photochromic Dyes, Diamond film
THIN FILM, HIGH VACUUM, THIN-FILM DEPOSITION PROCESS. Expert has expertise in many aspects of thin film deposition processes including physical vapor deposition, rf and dc magnetron sputtering, ion beam sputtering, ion-assisted deposition, and chemical vapor deposition (CVD). He developed an…
Electronic Reliability & On-Chip ESD Protection
Expert currently works on predicting the electric breakdown of silicon dioxide gate dielectric. He is knowledgeable of the electric breakdown characteristics of silicon and air. Additionally, he has studied the effects of electric field on the reliability of semiconductor devices.…
Materials Processing and Manufacturing
Recent work in Expert's group has shown that high velocity sheet metal forming can dramatically improve material formability (the amount of stretch available without tearing) and wrinkling can be greatly suppressed. Electromagnetic forming is a very convenient way of flexibly…
Adhesives
Expert has developed, manufactured, marketed, and sold polymeric additives (polyamides) which are formulated into PVC plastisols/organosols to promote adhesion of the PVC coating to various substrates. Expert also has PVC formulating experience required to design products which are used as…
Automotive Diagnostics
AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR. Expert has specialized experience in managing the development and distribution of PC-based serial tools and automotive diagnostic software. He produced a 10 year strategic plan to provide the next generation of service tools for future vehicle electrical systems.…
Power Electronics, Controls and System Design
Expert has experience as a design engineer in the field of power conversion. He has designed conventional PWM inverters for motor drives as well as developed prototype resonant DC link converters. He has designed driver circuits for bipolar transistors, IGBTs…
Wood Science, Wood Chemistry, Wood Coatings, Recycling
Expert has been involved in research in weathering of wood for the past 20 years. He studies wood discoloration, surface oxidation, and surface protections. He uses electron spin resonance to characterize free radicals (formation, termination) and mechanisms of weathering. He…
Automotive Engineering Materials
METAL MATRIX COMPOSITE APPLICATION. Expert has expertise in the many aspects of incorporating metal matrix composites into mechanical devices. He has been involved in the design, fabrication, machining, joining, and evaluation process for automotive applications. In particular, Expert has extensive…