Electronic Displays Consulting Physicist and Materials Scientist Including RF Electronics, Integrated Circuits and Optical Disks

Technical Consultant #898

Consulting on electronic material including electronic displays, RF electronics, optical disks and semiconductors.
Materials for LCD displays and related optical displays.
Material research and development for integrated circuits and optical disks
Rapid prototyping and testing of electronic devices.
Technology and enterprise development.

Consultant, 1998 - Present

Materials processing and device design projects include porous materials, semiconductor memories, and rapid prototyping technique.
Advise clients on materials selection, process flow and costs, device design, market estimates, project organization and financing.

Director of Cathode Development,Candescent Technologies Corp., San Jose, CA, 1993 - 1998

Developed the technical plan, recruited the team, built the first prototype and established proto-manufacturing capabilities for the first low cost, uniform, focusable, field emission cathode.
One of the original Candescent designers - led groups to improve display performance and yield.
Established the design and design-documentation departments. Individual contributions in the development of unique or "enabling" thin and thick film materials.

Independent Consultant, 1991 - 1993

Materials analysis and design, technical marketing contracts in x-ray diffraction, semiconductor process equipment, and sol-gel thin films.

Visiting Professor, Stanford University, Department of Materials Science and San Francisco State University, Department of Physics

Developed sought-after courses in solid state chemistry and integrated circuit processing. Taught undergraduate courses in electricity and magnetism.

Director, Materials R&D and Head, Technical Marketing, Conductus, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, 1988 - 1991

Built the laboratory and recruited the technical staff in Conductus' first two years of operation. (Conductus founded to commercialize superconductor electronics.)
Established manufacturing capability for high-Tc superconductor thin films.
Developed techniques for controlling thin film epitaxy, part of patented technologies for high-Tc Josephson Junctions.
Developed marketing plans for high-Tc infrared sensors and SQUID magnetometers.
Organized a team that demonstrated record sensitivity in an infrared sensor.

Research Associate, Stanford University, Center for Materials Research, 1986 - 1988

Directed graduate student research and wrote grant proposals.
Discovered and patented a new superconductor (Y2Ba4Cu8O20v).
Developed thin film characterization techniques to optimize superconductor properties.

Independent Consultant, 1986 - 1988

Research Staff Member, IBM Corporation, Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, 1983 - 1986

Visiting Scientist, Max-Planck-Institute Fuer Festokoerperforschung, Stuttgart, W. Germany, 1981 - 1983

Developed bi-crystal techniques for detecting electron traps in polycrystalline silicon. Fellow, Alexandervon Humbodt Stuflung.

Graduate Research Assistant, Stanford University, Integrated Circuits Laboratory, 1977 - 1981

Characterized dopant segregation at the Si-SO2interface using Auger Sputter Profiling.

Over 40 publications and conference presentations covering thin films, phase transformations, and characterization technique. Emphasis on applications for displays, IC processing, optical recording, and high temperature superconductivity.
Inventor or co-inventor on 9 patents and applications.

Ph.D., Materials Science, Stanford University, Electronic materials, crystal growth, surface physics, and integrated circuit processing
M.S., Materials Science, Stanford University
B.A., Physics, Science, Cornell University