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Petrochemical, Pulp & Paper, Distillation, Industrial Accident Investigation, Overpressure Investigation and OSHA Compliance
Expert has over 40 years' of engineering design in the Chemical Process and Pulp and Paper fields. He has held positions of Production Engineer, Technical Director, Quality Control Engineer, Process Engineering Department Head, Senior Engineer. His experience includes many years…
Materials Engineering, Metallurgy, Failure Analysis, Materials Selection, and Materials Design
Expert has a Ph.D in Industrial Metallurgy and Metallurgical and Materials Engineering -- specifically, in mechanical behavior and performance of metals and alloys -- from the University of Birmingham, England. His research interests include mechanical behavior of materials-microstructure-deformation processing relations,…
New Product Development, Lean, Six Sigma Blackbelt, Semiconductors/MEMS
Expert has had extensive process engineering experience with a variety of types of CVD reactors, including atmospheric, vacuum/thermal, and plasma enhanced. He has developed copper CVD precursors, developed low-stress/controlled stress dielectric films, and metal films. He wrote a book on…
Surface Engineering, Diamond like hard coating, material science, Medical device, hard disk
Most of Expert's scientific career has been devoted to the development of surface modification and thin film deposition technologies, including plasma nitriding, plasma carbonization, boriding, chromizing, cathodic arc, filtered cathodic arc, pulsed laser ablation, magnetron sputtering, pulsed mid-frequency dc magnetron…
Biomaterials, Medical Device Rapid Prototyping, and Laser Processing of Materials
Since their invention in the early 1960s, lasers have found many uses in the medical field. Most current medical applications of lasers involve use as a “universal scalpel” in minimally invasive surgeries, which offer little contact, little blood loss, shorter…
Thin Film Deposition, Chemical Mechanical Polishing, Semiconductor Process Integration
Expert has 10 years of experience developing consumable products and processes for application in chemical mechanical polishing. He holds approximately ten patents and patent applications on consumables and processes for chemical mechanical polishing. The expert has intimate knowledge of chemical…
Materials for Electronic Applications
Expert has successfully writen 2 proposals for EPA SBIR grants. The first was for a phase 1 program for the recovery and regeneration of spent etchants. This successful program was followed by a phase 2 proposal and award. That phase…
Thin Film Deposition, Specializing in Reactive Sputtering
Expert D. Expert has extensive experience in magnetron sputtering of aluminum and in the high-rate reactive sputtering of aluminum compounds such as aluminum oxide. He was the first to show that aluminum oxide with excellent film properties can be reactively…
Water Treatment, Corrosion By Waters, Boiler Water Treatment, Cooling Water Treatment, Demineralization, Reverse Osmosis, Clarifiers Cold Lime Softeners
Expert understands the chemical processes and had practical experience in the use of activated carbon in water and wastewater treatment to remove organic contaminants and chlorine. She has audited existing applications for conformance to industry standards for contaminant removal and…
Metal Finishing, Parts Cleaning, Electroplating, Electroforming
Expert has production experience with cyanide copper, pyrophosphate, and acid copper plating baths. He has worked in a laboratory environment with both the fluoroborate and alkaline non-cyanide baths. He has used these baths for PWB plating, wafer plating, electroforming, plating…