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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…
Piezoelectric Film and Materials Manufacturing
Expert was involved in the startup of piezoelectric film and materials business. As a manufacturing engineer, he advanced the process from a lab type piecework operation to large-scale continuous manufacturing. As a key team member, Expert designed and developed equipment…
Landfill Optimization of Air-Space, Leachate and Gas Management, Environmental Assessment/Remediatio
Expert provides over 40 years experience involved in compliance, permitting, and assessing environmental impacts of landfills, wastewater treatment facilities and contaminated sites. He previously worked 23 years for a large waste company and most recently as the Director of New…
Plasma Processing
Expert is a recognized expert in plasma etching as encountered in microstructure fabrication (e.g., integrated circuits) and for over 30 years has been teaching a two-day technical training course entitled "Plama Etching and Reactive Ion Etching." He was employed at…
Surface Technology, Coatings, Thin Film Deposition, PVD, Physical Vapour Deposition, Sputtering, PLD
He studied materials science with a focus on thin film materials, focussing in his PhD on process equipment and design of room-temperature deposited coating. As post-doc, he was employed to scale up deposition process from laboratory to industrially useable process…
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…
Plating, Electronic Materials, Lab instrumentation and Environmental
He has over 36 years of industrial waste and waste water treatment experience. This includes the purification of well and city water for use in high purity rinsing applications. As a senior engineer, Expert was responsible for development of processes…
Structure-Property Relationships of Polymers, Polymer Composites and Polymer Nanocomposites
Expert has published numerous papers on surfactant and polymer adsorption at water-solid interfaces. A great deal of his work involves characterization and properties of amorphous polymers, especially polystyrene and its various derivatives. He earned B.S. and PhD degrees in Chemical…
Materials Science: Diamond Thin Film, Metallurgy, Coating Materials; Microwave and CVD Process
Technology transfer of skills, knowledge, technologies, processes, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing and facilities among governments or universities and other institutions to ensure that scientific and technological developments are accessible to a wider range of users who can then…
Advanced Materials, Surface Engineering, High-Temperature Coatings, Vacuum Technology and Analysis
Expert has over 30 years of leadership experience in advanced materials engineering, surface science, and vacuum-based technologies. As Vice-President of Research & Development at Surface Engineered Products Corp./Westaim, he spearheaded the invention and commercialization of high-temperature coatings for applications in…