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Expert Witness #238295
This expert has many years of photonics experience. This expert's academic focus was on modern optics, electromagnetic theory, communications theory, advanced mathematics, and the chemistry/physics of optical materials. This expert has a lifetime of research and development in the highly specialized area of optical data storage, processing/computing, and communications. This expert is a well-known expert in the field of optical data storage, holography, recording media, and optical disc replication processes and technology, and large high-resolution information displays. This expert's main areas of interest are photonics (components, imaging arrays, LEDs, and solar energy), materials physics, chemistry and processes, nanotechnology, control and positioning of light beams, MEMS and MOEMS and their integration into fully functional information processing systems, lasers, and flat panel displays (FPDs).
Much of this expert's early work was for government agencies. The major goal of this work was to use photonics technology for the rapid acquisition, processing, storage and communication of data vital to national defense and space flight. This expert shifted the main research focus to (1) consumer electronics applications of photonics (CD, DVD, flat panel displays, digital cameras, LEDs and HDTV and 3D TV); (2) replication of CD and DVD media (technology, materials, processes and systems); (3) digital image processing and capture (digital cameras), and (4) the impact of MEMS/Nanotech on data storage, processing, and communication design and performance.
This expert also has significant engineering, expert witness, product and business development, and sales & marketing management experience.
Start Integrated Optics Expert SearchExpert Witness #257934
This expert's multidisciplinary expertise and many years of broad technical experience cross-cuts fields of electrical engineering, optics, materials engineering, and physical sciences. From an electrical engineering perspective, this expert has extensive experience in solar cells, light-emitting diodes and displays, capacitors, memories, transistors, sensors, and circuits. This expert's materials background includes organic and inorganic semiconductors, metals, nanomaterials, biomaterials, thin-films, and material interfaces. This expert specializes in device physics, materials and thin-film processing, device fabrication, improving functional performance, analyzing failures, and understanding process-structure-property-performance relationships across material, component, device, and system levels. This expert's characterization tool skill-set includes a wide range of electrical, optical, microscopic, and spectroscopic techniques.
Prior to becoming a consultant, this expert was a university professor as head of the Nano Architectonics and Organic Electronics Laboratory, and also worked a National Laboratory. During this period, this expert developed new materials processing approaches and optical architectures to improve efficiency of thin-film solar cells. This expert's photovoltaic material expertise includes conjugated polymers/molecules, cadmium telluride, perovskite, and silicon material systems. This expert also made multiple contributions in the area of defect characterization in semiconductor thin-films. Other key works include projects on titania based memory devices, optical and bio(chemical) sensors, organic thin-film transistors, organic light-emitting displays, and photonic components such as waveguides, anti-reflection coatings, transparent electrodes, and plasmonic structures. For characterization purposes, this expert has extensively utilized a wide range of electrical, optical, microscopic, and spectroscopic techniques. During doctoral studies, this expert worked with materials such as organic semiconductors, quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, nanotemplates, and biomolecules on developing functional hybrids and embodiments pertinent to consumer electronics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology.
This expert has assisted clients in developing metrology solutions for opto-electronic thin-films, investigating performance bottlenecks in solar cells, and characterizing new synthetic materials for consumer electronic device applications. This expert has also consulted for edtech clients and has experience teaching courses on electric circuits, semiconductor materials and devices, flexible electronics, and energy systems. This expert has published 50 peer-reviewed research articles in top international journals and presented work in major international conferences. This expert has received several awards and honors, including the nationally prestigious US National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
Most of this expert's consulting work is non-litigation failure and design, however, this expert is currently working as the testifying expert on an unrelated solar matter. This expert has written expert reports.
Start Integrated Optics Expert SearchExpert Witness #237651
This expert's focus has been the development of advanced optical products, particularly designing and manufacturing of all major system components: displays, color management prisms, condenser and projection lenses, interface electronics, liquid crystal materials, light sources and non-imaging optics. This expert developed, managed, and licensed several high-tech products, including thin film photovoltaics, ablative imaging films, phase change memories, multi-chip modules, and superconducting materials. This expert became the founder and CEO of the first company to establish amorphous silicon, thin film transistor (TFT), active matrix LCD pilot production line. This expert has patent litigation testimony experience in district court of ITC matters for both Plaintiffs and Defendants.
Start Integrated Optics Expert SearchExpert Witness #234129
This expert is a Professor of Engineering where this expert instructs on and researches all aspects of optical communications systems and networks. In addition to being awarded two dozen U.S. patents for optics communications technologies, this expert has conducted research projects in these areas for industry leaders.
This expert received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, as well as a B.A. in Physics. This expert was a Postdoctoral Member of the Technical Staff at a telecommunications company. This expert has been a Visiting Professor at multiple universities. Additionally, this expert was Founder and CTO of a company that created a dispersion compensator product line which is presently deployed in many commercial 40-Gbit/s systems worldwide.
This expert specializes in: Optical Communications Systems, Signal Processing, and Switching and Networking. This expert has worked on communications and networking and has extensive experience with packet switching technologies, including routing, monitoring, and header processing and recognition. Much of this expert’s packet switching work has related to optical networking, but the issues are broader than just for optical networks. In addition to the above, this expert has worked on many issues concerning packet switching, including latency, contention and contention resolution, buffering, packet identification, cross-connects, add/drop switching, and protocol usage.
This expert has >1450 publications, including one book, 10 edited books, ~38 U.S. patents, ~45 keynotes/plenaries, ~23 book chapters, >400 refereed journal papers, and >300 invited papers/presentations. This expert’s awards in the field are too numerous to list.
This expert has extensive patent litigation experience.
Start Integrated Optics Expert SearchExpert Witness #253418
With many years' experience designing electronic, optical, and mixed-technology systems, and 43 US patents issued or pending, this expert has amassed a lot of expertise in a number of fields, including optics, optoelectronics, electro-optics, photonics (especially silicon photonics), analog electronics, optomechanics, optical and atomic force microscopy, semiconductor processing, signal processing, simulation, electromagnetics, due diligence, and the drafting and technical interpretation of patents.
This expert is an expert in the design, debug, and refinement of electrooptical and mixed-technology systems. A leading designer of ultrasensitive optoelectronics and other low noise analog circuitry, many of this expert’s designs have improved the state of the art by orders of magnitude in performance, in cost, or both. This expert has done groundbreaking work in thermal infrared imaging, in situ particle detection, computer input devices, simulation software, spectroscopy, atomic and magnetic force microscopy, solid immersion microscopy, heterodyne interferometry, trace metal detection, photolithography, laser scanning, plasmonics, and silicon photonics.
As a consultant, this expert does design, expert witness work (testifying and consulting in patent and trade secret cases), contract design engineering, debug, and system bring-up tasks, as well as training in ultrasensitive detection methods and front-end design. This expert holds 43 US patents and several foreign ones, and is thoroughly familiar with the patent process, both in prosecution (i.e. obtaining a patent) and litigation.
This expert has been a testifying expert in 25 cases to date. This expert’s reports and deposition were instrumental in a $2 billion suit. This expert has written dozens of expert reports, as well as testifying at six depositions. This expert has worked with both plaintiffs and defendants.
Start Integrated Optics Expert SearchExpert Witness #256989
This expert leads a highly successful consultancy and holds an MS in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in Electro-optics and Solid State Physics. This expert is a recognized expert in the flat panel industry specializing in R&D, engineering, marketing, and senior management. This expert has served in an executive level at start-up businesses within major corporations and start-up companies and has had extensive interaction with flat panel producers and customers.
This expert brings to the table many years of experience in display technology, particularly LCD technology, and has a strong background in optics. This expert has lead teams in the development of TFT LCDs, and has worked developing cell phone display pixel architectures. This expert served as Vice President of Engineering, where this expert was closely involved in TFT design, color filter architectures and LC driving modes.
This expert holds 83 issued US patents in various flat-panel related technologies including display design, display electronics, materials, algorithms, systems, RFID, and optics, with additional pending.
This expert has participated in SID Conferences and has been on paper review committees in the areas of LCD and TFT. This expert has also worked in LCD backlight technology, especially with LED backlighting. This expert is a Fellow of the Society for Information Display and currently consults in technology, business, and patent issues involving Flat Panel Display Technology.
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