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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…
Semiconductor Transistor & BEOL Technology (Logic,Memory,CIS,Power device) & Photovoltaic Technology
Expert is an expert in the Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) and Chemical Vapor Deposition Reactor design areas. His PhD work was on Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition of GaAs, which involved the design and construction of an Atmospheric Pressure Chemical…
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…
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.…
Optical Instruments, Inertial Instruments, Laser and Fiber Optic Gyros, Thin Film Coating
Over 41 years of experience in fiber optics sensors and fiber optic devices for telecommunication networks. The experience includes all phases of product development from conceptual design to prototyping, design-to-cost, production planning, and transition to production. Has nine patents and…
Thin Film Solar Cell Testing; Semiconductor Optoelectronic Device Measurement and Analysis
Expert has been involved in research and development of amorphous silicon (a-Si) thin film solar cells for 20 years; in this time he has authored or co-authored over 30 papers. He has guided the optimization of device performance from three…
Adhesive Consulting, Formulating, & Research in Structural, PSA, Hot Melt, Epoxy, Urethane, & Wood
Expert D. Expert has done adhesive failure analysis projects in connection with establishing cause in litigation cases or in research and production problems. For example, a wood millwork manufacturer claimed an adhesive was faulty, resulting in customer loss and damages.…
Web Coating Technology
Expert has spent over 28 years in the web coating industry. He has experience in wax coating, hot melt, solvent coating, solventless coating, and emulsion coating on a wide variety of webs, from light weight films and foils to SBS…
Photonics, Semiconductors
COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL; III-V SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIAL. Expert (prefers Ave) began his work on compound semiconductors in the early days of their development. He did some of the pioneering work on photoeffects, electrical and thermal transport, and scattering in GaAs as…