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Specialty Optical Fiber from Draw Tower to Sterile Product
Specialty fiber optics (ASF, polyimide, Hard Polymer) and silica capillary draw including the sole laser power delivery optical fiber that is NASA certified for space flight, and fiber optic devices derived therefrom including LOI, spectroscopy and laser surgery including FDA…
Nanotechnology, Biomaterials, Sol-gel Sciences, Optics, Biotechnology, Glass, Ceramics, Spectroscopy
Expert is a specialist of sol-gel chemistry. He developed a new non-aqueous method for sol-gel glass coating to obtain transparent films for integrated optics and photonics using polysiloxane materials. The aim was to obtain low-softening temperature glasses to permit facile…
Optical and Photonic Design and Engineering
He has extensive experience designing optical systems for astigmatic coherent laser beams. He is familiar with techniques for laboratory measurements of beam properties and can use real beam profiles as inputs to beam propagation analysis and the design of corrective…
Electrical Connectors
Expert has applied his physics background to generate a fundamental understanding of temperature generation and material transport in electrical contact spots (a-spots) in bulk electrical interfaces. Over 25 years, his research showed that 1) Sintering effects occur in a-spots even…
Synthesis and Characterization of Ceramic Powders and Single Crystals
Expert has used microencapsulation as a method to prepare multicomponent ceramic powders containing two to five components. He developed (and is in the process of patenting) the first dry microencapsulation process that also can be used as a granulation method.…
Material Analysis/Spectroscopy
During the past 15 years, Expert's research has become increasingly oriented toward vibrational spectroscopy, particularly Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. In the early 1980s, he developed modern step-scan FT-IR instrumentation for photoacoustic and photothermal spectroscopy of surfaces and opaque or…