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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…
Data Storage Technology, Data Storage Industry, Hard Disk Drives, Optical Drives, Solid State Drives
Expert has extensive experience in the field of disk drives, including substantial contributions to a number of very innovative and successful products and processes. These have included some of the industry’s earliest magnetoresistive (“MR”) head drives, Maxtor’s first double-capacity drive,…
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…
Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Health, Hazardous Materials Management, Emergency Response
He championed the implementation of a variety of strategies to reduce workplace accidents and injuries. Strategies included establishment of on site workplace health and safety teams. These teams included both management and labor employees who worked together to identify safety…
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…
Materials for Electronic Applications
Expert has successfully writen 2 proposals for EPA SBIR grants. The first was for a phase 1 program for the recovery and regeneration of spent etchants. This successful program was followed by a phase 2 proposal and award. That phase…
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.…
Thin Film Deposition, Specializing in Reactive Sputtering
Expert D. Expert has extensive experience in magnetron sputtering of aluminum and in the high-rate reactive sputtering of aluminum compounds such as aluminum oxide. He was the first to show that aluminum oxide with excellent film properties can be reactively…
Optical Coating Design, Optical Coating Production, and Optical System Development
Expert has spent decades designing, developing, and producing optical thin films. He is noted for his understanding of design and producibility of optical coatings. He has worked with most optical vacuum physical vapor deposition (PVD) processes and a few chemical…