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September 17, 2009
August 27, 2009
July 23, 2009
June 25, 2009
May 21, 2009
April 23, 2009
March 26, 2009
February 26, 2009
January 22, 2009
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| Date: |
September 17, 2009 |
| Time: |
5:00-5:30PM - Refreshments
5:30-6:30PM - Seminar
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| Location: |
Sematech
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Room F-C
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| Topic: |
Developing Next Generation of Microelectronic and Nanotechnology Engineers
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| Description: |
The semiconductor industry has experienced exceptional double-digit growth
over the past 25 years, fueled by strong demand in end-use markets such as
computing, communications, consumer appliances, and industrial applications
driven by the Moore’s law. The industry has already announced its readiness
for the 32nm node in production. The curricula developed by the Rochester
Institute of Technology (RIT) have kept pace with the rapid advancements
sharing 27 of the 44 years of the Moore’s Law and have contributed significantly
in generating workforce and research for this growing high tech industry. This talk
will describe our unique undergraduate and graduate programs in Microelectronic and
Microsystems Engineering for paving and driving the Technology Roadmap. To
generate the pipeline, we have developed a unique program for K-12 teachers that will
be described. Specific research thrusts will also be presented.
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| Speaker: |
Professor Santosh Kurinec
EDS Distinguished Speaker
Department of Microelectronic Engineering
Kate Gleason College of Engineering
Rochester Institute of Technology
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| Speaker Bio: |
Santosh K. Kurinec is a Professor and Department Head of Microelectronic
Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and Visiting Scholar at
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, New York. She received Ph.D degree in Physics
from University of Delhi, India. She came to the US to participate in the Alternative
Energy Technology program funded by the USAID during the eighties. Prior to joining RIT
in 1988, she was Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Florida State
University/Florida A & M University College of Engineering in Tallahassee, FL.
She worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Materials
Science and Engineering at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL from 1985-1986
where she researched on thin metal film composites. Her current research activities
include advanced integrated circuit materials and processes, photovoltaics, III-V on
Si, tunnel devices, and magnetic thin films. She received the RIT Trustee Scholarship
Award in 2008 and was honored as the Engineer of the Year finalist by the Rochester
Engineering Society in 2008. She has been actively engaged in outreach for promoting
engineering education. She is a Senior Member of IEEE, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions
on Education and an IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer.
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| Date: |
August 27, 2009 |
| Time: |
6:00-7:30pm - Seminar |
| Location: |
Sematech
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Room F-C
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| Topic: |
Modeling and Characterization of Smart LSMO Ferromagnetic Thin-Film Tunable Resistance
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| Description: |
This presentation will addresses the potential use of the (La0.67, Sr0.33)MnO3 (LSMO) ferromagnetic thin-film materials
as microwave tunable enabling technology. The knowledge of the electroactive and magnetoactive properties of these materials is essential for modeling
and design of novel microwave devices.
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| Speaker: |
Dr. Mahmoud Al Ahmad
The University of Texas at Dallas
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| Speaker Bio: |
Dr. Mahmoud Al Ahmad (al-ahmad.mahmoud@ieee.org) was born in Jenin, Palestine, in 1976. He received his BA. degree in electrical engineering from Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine, in 1999 and both the M.Sc. and the Dr.-Ing. degrees in microwave engineering from Technische Universitaet Mnuechen, Munich, Germany, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. Dr. Al Ahmad was working at Siemens Corporate Technology/Munich, towards his Ph.D. degree involving the design and fabrication of wide tunable passive microwave components for Software Defined Radio, combining two ceramic technologies; low temperature co-fired ceramics (LTCC) and piezoelectric actuation (PZT) technologies. He has demonstrated the largest continuous tunable ceramics band pass filter. In 2005 he has joined the Institut d'Electronique de Microélectonique et de Nanotechnologie (IEMN) at Lille/France as post doc. fellowship. He has been engaged in barium strontium titanate tunable capacitor loss compensation using active negative circuit techniques. He has designed and fabricated the highest operational-frequency in tunable voltage controlled oscillator barium strontium titanate (BST) thin film based. In September 2006 he worked as research scientist at the Laboratoire d’Analyse et d’Architectures des Systèmes at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (LAAS-CNRS) in Toulouse France. He was involved the design and fabrication of tunable active/passive microwave components for the next wireless generations. His research interests include the design and the fabrication of integrated millimeter-wave and microwave circuits based on barium strontium titanate (BST); piezoelectric material (PZT), ferromagnetic material (LSMO) thin films and Carbon nanotubes / nanowires technologies. Moreover he is engaged in the characterization of bulk and thin material characterization for microwave applications employing microwave techniques. Currently, he works as a research scientist at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is engaged in the design of organic diode matrix, material characterization for electron device applications. He is also a member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society.
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| Date: |
July 23, 2009 |
| Time: |
6:00-7:30pm - Seminar |
| Location: |
Sematech
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Room F-C
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| Topic: |
Panel Discussion on "Career Transitions" |
| Description: |
Helps you to identify your strengths and competitive advantages, to identify where you s
hould focus your efforts, and to understand what to expect during a career transition.
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| Speakers: |
Leslie Martinich
Sylvia A. Stern
Doug Russell
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| Speaker Bios: |
Leslie Martinich is the founder of Competitive Focus and the Vice President Publications of
the IEEE Technology Management Council. She has motivated successful technology teams for
over 20 years at IBM, Compaq, Novell, and several startup companies. She led successful
joint technology development efforts with Sun and Intel, and consulted with numerous small
and large companies, including 3M, H-P, and Lek Pharmaceuticals on projects in the Americas,
Europe and Asia. She lectures at international conferences and executive education programs
on topics in technology and technology management such as "Driving Technological Innovation"
and "Commercializing and Managing Innovation. She is co-founder and lead faculty for the
Engineering Leadership Institute (University of Texas Center for Lifelong Engineering Education).
Sylvia Stern is an image and communication strategist. She is skilled in assessing a situation and
then laying out a creative, effective and practical plan to help her clients achieve success. She
spent the greater part of her business career at IBM where she held executive positions in equal
opportunity, management development, corporate recruiting and manufacturing. Sylvia has spent the
last eighteen years putting her years of experience in management, communication and human resources
to work. She has worked with powerhouse corporations such as Dell, Radio Shack and Lockheed, multiple
universities including the University of Texas, highly recognized non-profit organizations such as the
United Way, as well as a vast array of private clients.
Sylvia has a B.A. in Communications and a Masters degree in Psychology. She is a native Texan.
Doug Russell has 25 years of hands-on experience inside complex engineering project development and
manufacturing teams for Intel Corporation, Motorola, Inc, Freescale Semiconductor, Crane Corporation’s
Signal Technology Division and the US Department of Defense. Through painful experience,
he developed significant team building and leadership expertise, ranging from project engineer to
senior program manager to Director of Programs, for technical teams within semiconductor microprocessor
design teams in baseband wireless, Power PC and ultra mobile PC areas; complex development projects
in C4I, Warrior Systems and wireless tactical communications systems; encryption development and
production projects; and a communications project for the US Space Shuttle program.
He holds an MBA from Duke University's prestigious Fuqua School of Business and a BS in Electrical
and Computer Engineering from Clemson University. He is also a member of Eta Kappa Nu,
the Electrical Engineering Honor Society, and has his PMP certification. Mr. Russell has
taught at Motorola and Intel Universities, has published articles inside Motorola and Intel,
including co-authoring an article for the prestigious Intel Technology Journal. He also has presented
at the Program Management Institute’s Risk Management Symposium, the American Society of Engineering
Manager’s conference, and various PMI, IEEE, and VISTAGE chapters.
Doug started Executive Team Leadership, LLC , an executive and individual coaching firm in February 2008.
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| Date: |
June 25, 2009 |
| Time: |
6:00-7:30pm - Seminar |
| Location: |
Sematech
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Room F-C
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| Topic: |
TSV Stress Characterization |
| Description: |
Thuy Dao will present an overview of TSV manufacturing, methods to measure TSV stress, and present TSV stress data based on different sizes and layouts.
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| Speaker: |
Thuy Dao
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| Speaker Bio: |
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| Slides: |
Thuy Dao's Slides (pdf) |
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| Date: |
May 21, 2009 |
| Time: |
6:00-7:30pm - Seminar |
| Location: |
Sematech
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Room F-C
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| Topic: |
ESD Protection Design for CMOS Mixed-Voltage I/O Circuits |
| Description: |
To improve circuit operating speed and performance, the device dimension of MOSFET has been shrunk in the advanced CMOS integrated circuits (ICs). With the scaled-down device dimension and thin gate oxide in the advanced nanoscale CMOS technology, the power supply voltage of normal circuit operation is also scaled down to reduce the power consumption and to meet the gate-oxide reliability. However, most microelectronic systems nowadays still consist of the semiconductor chips fabricated in different CMOS technologies. Therefore, the microelectronic systems often require the I/O interface circuits between semiconductor chips or sub-systems which have different power supply voltages. With the different power supply voltages in a microelectronic system, chip-to-chip I/O circuits must be designed to avoid electrical overstress across the gate oxide, to avoid hot-carrier degradation on the output devices, and to prevent the undesired leakage current paths between the chips. Therefore, some advanced mixed-voltage I/O circuits had been developed to handle the I/O signals of higher voltage level but only realized with low-voltage CMOS devices. However, except the different voltage levels of I/O signals in the mixed-voltage I/O circuits, such mixed-voltage I/O circuits connected to the bonding pad in CMOS ICs are still requested to meet the electrostatic discharge (ESD) specifications in IC industry. For safe production of CMOS ICs, the ESD robustness for commercial IC products was traditionally requested to sustain ESD levels of ±2kV in the test standard of Human Body Model (HBM). How to design the on-chip ESD protection circuits to effectively protect the mixed-voltage I/O circuits realized by the nanoscale CMOS devices with thin gate oxide is a quite difficult challenge. Such on-chip ESD protection circuits for mixed-voltage I/O circuits should meet the gate-oxide reliability constraints and prevent the undesired leakage current paths during normal circuit operating condition. Under ESD zapping condition, the ESD protection circuit should be quickly triggered on to discharge ESD current. In this tutorial, a brief introduction to the mixed-voltage I/O circuits will be shown, and then an overview on the ESD protection designs for mixed-voltage I/O circuits without using the additional thick gate-oxide process is presented. Some advanced ESD protection designs by using high-voltage-tolerant power-rail ESD clamp circuits to protect mixed-voltage I/O circuits will be demonstrated with silicon verification in nanoscale CMOS technology. ESD protection for CMOS ICs is not only the process issue but also highly dependent to the design issue. On-chip ESD protection design is an important topic that the circuit designers need to watch.
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| Speaker: |
Professor Morris (Ming-Dou) Ker
IEEE Fellow Dept. of Electronic Engineering, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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| Speaker Bio: |
Morris (Ming-Dou) Ker received the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of
Electronics, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1993.
He was ever worked as the Department Manager in the VLSI Design
Division of the Computer and Communication Research Laboratories
(CCL), Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan. Since
2004, he has been a Full Professor in the Department of Electronics
Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan. He also served as
the Director of Master Degree Program in the College of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science, National Chiao-Tung University; as well as the Associate
Executive Director of National Science and Technology Program on System-on-Chip (NSoC),
Taiwan. In 2008, he was rotated to I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, as Chair Professor and
Vice President. In the field of reliability and quality design for circuits and systems in CMOS
technology, he has published over 350 technical papers in international journals and conferences.
He has proposed many inventions to improve reliability and quality of integrated circuits, which
have been granted with 136 U.S. patents and 143 Taiwan patents. His current research interests
include reliability and quality design for nanoelectronics and gigascale systems, high-speed and
mixed-voltage I/O interface circuits, on-glass circuits for system-on-panel applications, and
biomimetic circuits and systems for intelligent prosthesis. Prof. Ker had been invited to teach or
to consult reliability and quality design for integrated circuits by hundreds of design houses and
semiconductor companies in the worldwide IC Industry.
Prof. Ker has served as member of the Technical Program Committee and Session Chair of
numerous international conferences. He was selected as the Distinguished Lecturer in IEEE Circuits and Systems Society for 2006-2007, and in IEEE Electron Devices Society since 2008.
He ever served as Associate Editor in IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems. He was the President of
Foundation in Taiwan ESD Association. In 2005, one of his patents on ESD protection design
was awarded with the National Invention Award in Taiwan. In 2008, Prof. Ker was elevated as an
IEEE Fellow with the citation of “for contributions to electrostatic protection in integrated
circuits, and performance optimization of VLSI micro-systems”. In 2009, Prof. Ker was
awarded as one of the top ten Distinguished Inventors in Taiwan, and also selected as one of top
hundred Distinguished Inventors in China.
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| Date: |
April 23, 2009 |
| Time: |
6:00-7:30pm - Seminar |
| Location: |
Sematech
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Room F-C
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| Topic: |
Energy Harvesting Materials and Devices |
| Description: |
In this presentation, the current research activities and recent results
in organic photovoltaics and piezoelectrics will be reviewed. Organic electronics are attractive because of
the potential for low-cost and large-area manufacturing that can be achieved on flexible substrates.
Yet, there are still formidable challenges that stand in the way of commercialization these devices.
The physics, processing, and device characterization of these cells will be reviewed. In addition,
energy harvesting from naturally-occurring and man-made vibrations via the piezoelectric effect will be discussed.
Unlike solar energy, the piezoelectric energy harvesting approach is targeted only to low-power applications such
as self-powered sensors in remote areas and difficult to access applications, where battery replacement
is difficult to do.
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| Speaker: |
Dr. Husam Alshareef
University of Texas at Dallas |
| Speaker Bio: |
Dr. Husam Alshareef is a Research Professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at UT Dallas.
He holds a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from North Carolina State University.
Following graduation from NC State (in 1996), he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Sandia National Laboratory
for two years. He then joined Micron technology, where he worked on various aspects of DRAM device fabrication.
Dr. Alshareef joined Texas Instruments in 2001, where he worked on process development and integration.
The author of more than 120 articles, he has over 45 issued patents. His research interests are in electronic
materials and devices, including inorganic and organic semiconductors, photovoltaics, and functional materials.
His current research is funded by NSF, ARL, Texas Instruments, Texas Micropower, and the II-VI foundation, among
others. He won numerous awards including the United Nations Undergraduate Fellowship, the Seth Sprague Physics
Award, the U.S. Department of Education Electronic Materials Fellowship, the Sematech Corporate Excellence Award,
and two of Dr. Alshareef's papers on ferroelectrics were cited among the 100 most influential in ferroelectric
thin films in the period 1991-2001. Dr. Alshareef is a senior member of the IEEE.
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| Date: |
March 26, 2009 |
| Time: |
6:00-7:30pm - Seminar |
| Location: |
Sematech
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Room F-C
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| Topic: |
What's Driving the Semiconductor Industry? |
| Description: |
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| Speaker: |
Shelly Van Dyke
Strategist & Market Analyst, Corporate Strategy, Freescale Seniconductor |
| Speaker Bio: |
Shelly Van Dyke is currently the Market & Economic Analyst in the Corporate Strategy team at Freescale
Semiconductor, Inc., where she provides strategic, market & economic analysis, working with contributors
from across Freescale businesses and throughout the industry. She has more than 22 years experience in
the semiconductor industry, including positions in business and manufacturing strategy, technology licensing,
multiple process and device engineering and management positions in wafer fabrication, and quality.
Shelly holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas, and a
Master's in Business Administration from Regis University.
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| Slides: |
Shelly Van Dyke's Slides (ppt) |
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| Date: |
February 26, 2009 |
| Time: |
6:00-7:30pm - Seminar |
| Location: |
Sematech
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Room F-C
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| Topic: |
Lattice Vibrations in Amorphous Thin Films: A Path to Nanocomposite based Energy Conversion?
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| Description: |
In this presentation we will discuss how the anomalous low temperature lattice vibrations of glassy materials manifest themselves in thin amorphous films. We will demonstrate that the universal anomalous lattice vibrations remain intact in these films down to thicknesses corresponding to two monolayers. We will also show that it is possible to create similar lattice vibrations in metallic thin films that are polycrystalline in nature. With these results in mind, we will ask the question of whether the surfaces of reduced dimensionality structures can be manipulated to produce a thermal conductivity that is below that expected from diffuse scattering of phonons at surfaces. If so, this could provide a path to artificially created solids with the optimum electronic and thermal properties required for efficient, thermoelectric based, solid state energy conversion.
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Professor Bruce White
Binghamton University, NY |
| Speaker Bio: |
Bruce White received the B.S. in physics with Distinguished Independent Study from Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY in 1990 and received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in solid state physics from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in 1993 and 1995, respectively. In 1995, he joined the Advanced Materials Group in the Materials Research and Strategic Technologies Laboratory, Motorola, Austin, TX, where he focused on development of advanced memory technologies using ferroelectric materials and high permittivity dielectrics. As Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff and manager of the Advanced CMOS Research at Freescale Semiconductor (formerly the semiconductor products sector of Motorola), Austin, TX, he led a group focused on the development of advanced memory, logic, and passive devices. In particular, work in this group focused on the development of nanocrystal based memories, novel double gated MOSFETs for low power CMOS applications, and development of a novel gate dielectric and metal gate technology for advanced CMOS devices. In 2007, under the Empire Innovation program, Dr. White returned to his undergraduate institution as an Associate Professor of Physics and Materials Science. Here, his research focuses on the utilization of concepts in nanotechnology to develop new energy generation and information processing electron devices. Dr. White has over 70 publications on various subjects including advanced nonvolatile memories, advanced logic devices, high dielectric constant materials, low temperature lattice vibrations of thin amorphous films, thermal and elastic properties of cometary ice, and solid state reactions in metal thin film diffusion couples. He holds twenty two U.S. patents.
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| Slides: |
Bruce White's Slides (pdf) |
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| Date: |
January 22, 2009 |
| Time: |
6:00-7:30pm - Seminar |
| Location: |
Sematech
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Room F-C
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| Topic: |
Organic-Inorganic Based Flexible Electronics
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| Description: |
There is currently significant interest in organic electronic materials and their applications. In the first part of this talk, recent results of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), Organic Thin Film Transistor and Schottky Diodes are reviewed. In the second part, the integration scheme used to achieve flexible CMOS by combining nMOS (a-Si:H) with pMOS (Pentacene) thin film transistors on a plastic substrate is discussed. Dr. Manuel Quevedo-Lopez will focus on describing the impact of materials issues such as molecule type (small molecule vs polymer), electrode material, barrier, and encapsulation scheme on the properties of the resulting flexible devices.
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Dr. Manuel Quevedo-Lopez
University of Texas at Dallas |
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Manuel Quevedo-Lopez received a Ph.D. degree from the University of North Texas in 2002. He worked at Texas Instruments's Silicon Technology Development as Member of the Technical Staff from 2002 to 2007. In 2007 He joined the Materials Science Department at the University of Texas at Dallas as Research Professor where his research is focused in organic and inorganic materials and devices for flexible electronics. Dr. Quevedo is also member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Nanoholdings LLC and Research Director for Military Tech LLC. Dr. Quevedo-Lopez is author or co-author of more than 70 publications in peer reviewed journals and holds 8 US patents with 8 more pending
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| Slides: |
Manuel Quevedo's Slides (pdf) |
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