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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…
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…
Display Materials, Lamp Materials, Electronic Materials (Powders, Thin Films, Nano) and Solar Cells
Expert is a multidiscipliarian managing development & commercialisation from start-ups to sales in electronic displays, lamps & electronic materials. He has spent nearly a decade developing hot, cold & sintered cathodes for gas discharge lamps including use in signage, automotive…
Entrepreneurship, Startup Financing, Business Plan Development, Due Diligence, Cleantech, Energy Technologies, and Nanotechnology
Expert has started two early-stage cleantech companies over the past 10 years in the water treatment and building materials sectors, raising multiple rounds of venture financing and securing numerous government grants for both. He drove IP development, strategic partner identification…
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…
Semiconductor Devices, Testing and Product Engineering, Marketing and Administration
Expert has spent most of his career in the semiconductor device and process technology areas. His experience is wide, with exposure to germanium and silicon discrete to large scale silicon integrated devices in the sub-micron regime. An area that is…
Microelectronics Processing and Contamination Control, Cleanrooms, Particulates, Ultra High Purity
Expert has twenty years of research experience in semiconductor technology in major industrial laboratories. This, combined with his expertise gained by fifteen years managing microelectronics laboratories where he performed semiconductor fabrication research at two major universities (Minnesota and Arizona), makes…
Optoelectronics, Semiconductors, Microwaves
INTEGRATED OPTICS; FIBER OPTICS. Expert has spent a majority of his recent career in the area of integrated optics, including both optical integrated circuits and optical fibers. He designed and fabricated integrated optic devices in both III-V materials and lithium…