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Materials R&D/Product Development, Gold Alloys, Electronics Packaging & Assembly, Polymer Science
Expert's has been actively involved in strategic planning or management decisions that affect the performance or direction of a company. His experience is mainly in R&D and product development. His specific tasks have included understanding customers mid and long term…
Wide Band-Gap Materials, Diamond and Diamond Film, Nuclear Materials, Radiation
Expert served as a science advisor on a strategic defense initiative project called CENTARUS with the Department of Energy (DOE). He holds an unclassified DOE patent on remotely driving a solid state laser with fluorescence generated by nuclear reactions. In…
Silicon: Processing, Defects, Devices, Silicon-on-Insulator, MEMS, Nanotechnology, and Semiconductors
Expert works in collaboration with Kayex, Adema, and other companies that grow Czochralski silicon. Expert has worked on radiation hardening of semiconductor devices since 1980. He has several patents on Rad Hardening of semiconductors. Most of his 30-year experience pertains…
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…
Semiconductor IC Process and Operations Engineering, Bipolar & CMOS, Si & SiGe, RF, MEMS, Solar
Developed short courses and trained product engineers on basic yield improvement methods using SPC(Statistical Process Control). Developed a seminar and trained design engineers for design for manufacturability. Trained engineers at foundries on use of basics of SPC and implementing them.…
Engineering and Physics of Photonics and Electronics Technology
A major part of his career has been engaged in the technology of compound semiconductors, especially from the III-V family of semiconductors (using elements from group III and group V of the periodic table), which are of great interest for…
Semiconductor Materials Characterization Thin Film Deposition
He has extensive experience, over 20 yrs, in the field of epitaxial deposition of III-V semiconductor materials for opto-electronic devices (InGaAsP/InGaAlAs/InP and AlGaAs/InGaP/GaAs based materials). This includes the growth of high-speed bipolar transitors, phototransistors, lasers, pin and avalanche high-speed photodetectors.…
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…
Materials and Controls
As the former Vice President of Materials and Controls at Texas Instruments, Expert has diversified experience in electronics corrosion prevention, metallurgy, and electronic ceramics and thermostatic bimetal discs. He led the development of unique processes for titanium aluminide thin foil…
Semiconductor Technology
Since 1960, Expert (pronounced rye-chowdree) has made extensive contributions to materials and semiconductor technology. During his early years with Westinghouse, he conducted pioneering work in the areas of silicon epitaxy, selective epitaxy, and polysilicon. He has made significant contributions in…