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Expert in Electronic Ceramics and Glasses
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He has been broadly active in the ceramic and glass issues of glass-to-metal sealing, thick film processing, and ceramic packaging. He has most recently focused on low dielectric constant packaging materials, A1N-compatible thick film systems, and glass feed-through technologies. He teaches courses and offers short seminars on these topics.
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He has had 30 years of industrial and university experience in all areas of glass. These include sheet, tubing, electronic, frit, glass-to-metal sealing, lamps, optical coatings, composition design, manufacture, and failure/fracture analysis. He has especially studied glass as the controlling minor phase in seals, thick film materials, high alumina ceramics, and sintering.
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He has had broad applications experience with glass and ceramic metallization and coating techniques. These include ion plating, plasma spraying, sol-gel optical coatings, pyrolytic coatings, CVD, thick film, and resinate coatings. A view towards joining applications has accompanied most of this work. He also has had extensive experience with SnO2 and In2O3 coating technologies, including sol-gel deposition.
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He has 20 years experience in glass-to-metal sealing and bonding. He has worked with thick film bonding to glasses and substrates.
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He has worked for four years investigating thick film binding to aluminum nitride for substrate applications. He has some knowledge of aluminum nitride processing, sintering, and hot pressing.
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He has 30 years of experience processing ceramics from porcelains to theoretical dense ceramic arc tubes as well as glass processing. He has been a professor for four years teaching ceramic processing and ceramic materials properties. These are very broad topics for which he has specific and broad experience. Some product types include electrical porcelains, aluminum oxide arc tubes, enamels, and lamp glasses.
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With 15 years of development experience in ceramic-to-metal sealing, he has applied his knowledge to areas such as lamps and electrical packaging (aluminum oxide metallizations, aluminum bonding, and glass solder-sealing).
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He developed and patented glass-ceramic line insulators, lightning arresters, and bushing compositions. He also developed glass-ceramic enamels and substrate compositions.
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He managed and participated in research that developed sol-gel materials for a broad range of applications including optical coatings, ceramic powders (patent), and corrosion barriers.
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He has had experience in materials selection, material failure analysis, sealing, and metallization of ceramic packages. These include aluminum oxide, aluminum nitride, metal packages, and green tapes. Currently, he is active in high thermal conductivity materials, AlN, diamond films, BeO, and low dielectric constant packaging.
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Expert has over 10 years of experience and has published on the topic of transparent conductive thin films. He works almost exclusively with indium oxide or tin oxide and their mixtures (ITO coatings). The coating techniques he has used include sputtering and sol-gel. He is familiar with coatings for energy-efficient low emissivity windows.
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He has conducted three major long-ranged technological forecasts (T.F.) of lamps, lighting, and E-beam welding. He has also conducted many limited forecasts, such as his recently published forecast of diamond film deposition rates. He points out that T.F. has been an invaluable tool for strategic planning, research investment, and feasibility assessment. Presently, he is assessing the replacement timeframe of GaAs for Si devices.
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Consults on ceramic compositions for Mo-Mn bonding and porcelain soldering.
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Deign reviews of suitability of glass in application and recommendations.
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Enamels, glazes, metallic films.
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Guidance provided in glass basics and theory tailored to non-materials scientists.
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Recommendations of materials choices for ceramic and glass parts of lamp sources.
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Recommendations of alternatives to lead glasses for lamps and thick film applications and electrical applications.
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Recommendations of ceramic and glass materials for hermetic and nonhermetic applications, feedthroughs and ceramic packaging.
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Show Secondary and Basic Areas of Expertise | Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Saint Louis, Missouri;
Columbia, Missouri;
Saint Charles, Missouri;
Saint Peters, Missouri;
Florissant, Missouri;
and Springfield, Illinois.
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1966
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Ph.D.
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Ceramic Engineering
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Rutgers University
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1962
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B.S.
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Ceramic Engineering
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Rutgers University
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1989 to
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(Undisclosed University)
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Ceramic Engineering
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Professor
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1989 to 1991
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(Undisclosed University)
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Ceramic Engineering
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Chairman
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1967 to 1989
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Westinghouse
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Research and Development Center
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1965 to 1967
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PPG Industries
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Associations/Societies
Expert is a member of the American Ceramic Society, the International Society of Hybrid Microelectronics, and the IEEE Components Hybrid Manufacturing Technology.
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Awards/Recognition
Expert received the George Westinghouse Signature of Excellence Award in 1988 and the NASA Certificate of Recognition in 1981.
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Publications and Patents Summary
Expert is the author of over 100 internal reports, 12 issued patents, and 30 publications in the open literature.
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Selected Publications and Publishers
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- Electronic Materials Handbook (Chapter), McGraw-Hill
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- The Journal of the American Ceramic Society
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- International Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering, Electronic Materials and Processes Conf.
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- Ceramic Bulletin
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- Electrical Overstress and Electrostatic Discharge Symposium
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| Selected Consulting Examples: |
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Expert has performed glass seal design for an aerospace corporation.
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He developed dielectric coatings for transformers.
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He developed sol-gel optical coatings and equipment for fusion lenses.
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He has designed electrically conducting coatings for novel geometry ceramics for lamps and lighting.
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Expert is a regular on-site consultant for Fortune 500 companies on glass-to-metal seal designs and manufacturing.
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1981 to 1981
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Germany
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Expert was involved in a technical interchange with a lamp producer.
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1981 to 1981
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England
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Expert was involved in a technical interchange with a lamp producer.
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1982 to 1982
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Switzerland
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He conducted an assessment of the Swiss watch industry technology.
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1981 to 1981
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Japan
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He lead the technology exchange delegation for his employer.
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| Additional Skills and Services: |
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Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection Expert has experience in locating vendors of glass preforms, specialty glasses, general glasses, and glass analyses. He also has access to personal contacts to aid in vendor location.
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