13 May 2024
/ 15:00
- 17:00
CEST
EPIC Online Technology Meeting on Photonics for Thin Films Fabrication and Characterization
Online Event
Sponsor
Thin films are basically layers of material that are deposited on any surface, using complex chemical and physical deposition techniques, including gas-phase precursors and plasma process. They are widely used in different markets, such as optics, photovoltaics, telecom/datacom, consumer electronics, medical/healthcare or automotive. To support some of the present technological mega-trends and the last requirements of the different sectors, innovative thin-film materials have to be studied, developed and implemented. These new materials also require special developments for their fabrication and specific tools for the characterization of their physical and optical properties.
We invite coating and thin-film manufacturers, machine builders for coating manufacturing, the suppliers of characterization tools and all the end-users of special thin-films to join us to discuss the newest solutions in this field and where are the present challenges and needs.
Agenda
Speakers
Philippe Soussan is currently Strategic Development Director in charge of the specialty technology portfolio of imec, including photonics and optics.
From 2007 until 2011, he has led the group “Packaging, Microsystems and Hybrid Technology”. The group dealt with complex process integration using 3D interconnects, advanced packaging and micro-systems. In 2011, he became program manager for the smart system division of imec, which mission is to enable novel product in the field of More than Moore, such as sensors and specialty components. In 2019, he was promoted to technology director in the field of optical sensors and devices. Within his function, he is developing novel platforms for integrated photonics and opto-electronics and custom chip scale technology solutions for various markets' maturity.
His background’s expertise covers wafer technology integration in the field of multi-physics devices such as 3D interconnects, micro-fluidics, photonics and opto-electronics.
Program Director Sense & Actuate Business Unit
at imec
Founder & CEO
at ATLANT 3D
Dr. Ravi K. Saripalli leads the Light Communication Division at the Directed Energy Research Center, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE, specializing in Free Space Optical Communications and light-matter interaction, and backed by prestigious grants and impactful publications.
Senior Researcher
at TII
After graduating in Physics at the University of Bari, Marcello Binetti gained his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Essen in 2001 and joined the Fritz-Haber-Institut of the Max Planck Society as postdoc. He joined LayTec in 2004, where he gained a broad experience in semiconductor metrology product support and management, contributing to establish LayTec as a leading provider of effective metrology solutions both in research and production environments. From 2020 he is senior scientist for novel applications at LayTec’s.
Senior Scientist for Novel Applications
at LayTec
Israel Arnedo, (Telecommunication Engineer, MSc, and PhD) is professor at the Public University of Navarra (Spain) and Director at das-Nano company (Spain)
Director
at das-Nano
Sales Manager, Market Segment Semiconductor
at Bühler Group
Taras Lisouski (Head of Business Development) is the one of the founders of EssentOptics. Together with a team of metrology-passionate engineers he has established EssentOptics in 2009 to focus specifically on broadband spectral measurements of optical thin film coatings.
Head of Business Development
at EssentOptics
Attendees
- Ahmed Abumazwed , Staff Scientist, Photonics at CMC Microsystems
- Aivars Vembris , Senior Researcher at Institute of Solid State Physics of University of Latvia
- Alberto Rovera , Ph.D. student at Politecnico di Torino
- Aleksandr Baburin, Team Leader at bmstu
- Alessandro Fantoni , Professor at ISEL
- Alexander Telle , CEO of ACM Coatings at Acktar (ACM Coatings)
- Amir Ghadimi , CEO at Lightium
- André Schenk , Technical Marketing Manager at Evatec
- Andrei Andryieuski , CTO at LD4B, UAB
- Anh Tuan Vu , Principal Investigator at Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT
- Anna Dambrauskiene , CEO at EssentOptics
- Antanas Urbas , Chief Scientist at Workshop of Photonics
- Antonio Guardiani , Application Scientist at Single Quantum
- Antonio Teixeira , CSTO at PICadvanced
- Arnaud Crastes , Business Development Director at Teledyne imaging
- Audrey Le Lay , Sales & Marketing Director at Imagine Optic
- Barbara Patrizi , Researcher at CNR-INO
- Ben Standish , Director Business Development at Excelitas Technologies
- Braulio Gomez Saavedra, Senior Application Engineer at VPIphotonics
- Bríd Connolly , Strategic Applications Manager at Toppan Photomasks
- Brittany Hedrick , Senior Engineering Manager at Mosaic Microsystems
- Camly Doan , General Manager at CrayoNano
- Carla Rodrigues , Head of PIC at PICadvanced
- Carlos Bermudez , R&D Engineering Manager at Sensofar
- Caspar Clark , CEO at Helia Photonics
- Chris Hellwig, Product Manager at Carl Zeiss Spectroscopy
- Chris Tisse, CTO at EXOSENS
- Christelle Megier , Product Manager at Horiba
- Christian Schneider, Coating Engineer at asphericon
- Christian Vogl , Senior Engineering Manager at Sony DADC
- Cliff Jolliffe , Automation at PI (Physik Instrumente)
- Cyrill Bischof, Student at ETH Zürich
- Daniel Miles-Barrett , Chip Development Scientist at Oxford Nanopore Technologies
- Daniel Sa Pereira , Sales Manager, Market Segment Semiconductor at Bühler Group
- Daniel Segura , CTO at Mapsi Photonics
- David Rogers , Director at Nanovation
- Deimantė Purytė , Product Manager at Vildoma
- Diego Ormaechea , Application Engineer at Imagine Optic
- Dominique Bonnisseau , CEO at PHOTONIKBIZ
- Eduardo Alvear , System Engineer at Valeo
- Erkan Yavuz, Senior Chief Team Leader at Aselsan
- Fabien Divo, Innovation Manager at EssilorLuxottica
- Florian Sander , Operations Manager at XRnanotech
- Fran López, R&D Engineer at AINIA
- Francis Nedvidek , Consultant at Future Forward Innovation
- Francisco Gontad , Senior Researcher at AIMEN
- Freddy Tan , Scientist at Senseair
- Gabrielius Rimšelis , Market Development Manager at Optoman
- Gemma Garcia Mandayo , Main Researcher at Ceit
- Giulia Fiaschi , Coating Process Engineer at Tecnottica Consonni
- Golshan Coleiny , President at Fundamental Optical Solutions
- Gregory Toker , Managing Director at Amsys
- Guenther Lermann , Commercial Sales Manager at Coherent
- Hakan Alaboz , Researcher at HFU
- Henrik Fabricius , CTO at Delta Optical Thin Film
- Herman Högström , COO at SPECTROGON
- Hermann Oppermann , Group Manager at Fraunhofer IZM
- Hidenori Yoshioka, Manager at DNP
- Hiroki Kikuchi , Deputy Senior General Manager / Distinguished Engineer at Sony Semiconductor Solutions
- Ian Reilly , Managing Director at Vortex Optical Coatings
- Israel Arnedo , Director at das-Nano
- Ivy Garcez , Researcher at Embrapa
- Jaime Cuartero , Researcher at AIMEN
- Jarkko Heikkinen , Vice President of R&D at Inkron
- Jason Breslin , Head of UK at PI
- Jens Moeller, Head of Optics at Diehl Defence
- Jiangbo Zhu , Senior Photonics Engineer at Wave Photonics
- Joana Martins, Development Engineer at Fibersail
- Jörg Schmitz , Business Development at Specim
- Jose Antonio Ramos , Chief Research Officer at LASEA
- Joyce Yu , Senior Strategy Director at Hoya
- Juha Pietarinen , Chief Product Officer at OPTOFIDELITY
- Jukka Perento , Vice President Operations at Inkron
- Julius Puodžiūnas , Optician Technologist at EKSMA Optics
- Karim Honda , Business Coordinator Manager at Inkron
- Kevin Contreras , R&D Manager at V-Optics
- Kevin Knabe , Director of R&D at Vescent
- Kimmo Karaste , Senior Manager, Process Integration at PiBond
- Klemens Schueppert , Quantum Optics Engineer at Infineon Technologies
- Kurt Tiefenthaler , CEO at Artificial Sensing Instruments ASI
- Kyoungsik Yu , Professor at KAIST
- Laurent Dubost , R&D Manager at IREIS-HEF
- Lauren Fleming , Technical Specialist at Skylark Lasers
- Leh Woon Lim , Scientist at Institute of Microelectronics
- Logen Dilli , Account Manager at Integrated Mechanization Solutions
- Luis Coelho , Senior Researcher at INESC TEC
- Majid Sarhangi , Marketing Manager at Evatec
- Manele Chouiter , System Engineer at Valeo
- Marcel Marxer , Sales Engineer at RhySearch
- Marcello Binetti , Senior Scientist for Novel Applications at LayTec
- Marco Deluca , Head of Research Unit Thin Film Technologies at Silicon Austria Labs
- Maria de Fatima Domingues, Assistant Professor at Khalifa University
- Mariam Alkhateri, Associate Researcher at Technology Innovation Insitute (TII)
- Mario Mejias , Design Engineer at VLC Photonics
- Marius Gzelka , Head of Sales Department (Americas) at Altechna
- Marko Miletic , European Sales Director at EOI
- Markus Stolze , Global Business Development Manager Optics at Umicore Thin Film Products
- Martin Ettenberg , CEO at Princeton Infrared Technologies
- Martin Vanek , Optical Design Engineer at Valeo Detection Systems
- Mathieu Marmion , Lead Application Specialist at SPECIM, Spectral Imaging
- Matteo Verdi , Researcher at Kirana-Laser
- Matthieu Ayfre , Business Developer at AST innovations
- Maurangelo Petruzzella , CEO at MantiSpectra
- Melvyn Collins , Micromachining Sales Director at Oxford Lasers
- Mercedes Marin , Scientific Communications at UVM
- Michael Brückner, Manger Engineering at Optics Balzers Jena
- Miguel Almeida, Student at University of Porto
- Miguel del Cañizo , Founding Partner & CEO at Bullnet Capital
- Mihai Mureșan, Researcher at HiLASE
- Mike Ivanovski , COO at I-Photonics
- Nicholas Bustin, Senior Optical Design Engineer at Optos
- Nils Boysen , Project Manager R&D at Fraunhofer IMS
- Nimrod Gazit , Lead Integrated Photonics Researcher at Raicol
- Nuno Edgar Nunes Fernandes , Physics Engineer/ Business Development at Precision with Light
- Omar Kobayter , Digital Marketing Manager at Imagine Optic
- Otakar Kuchar , System Engineer at STRATOSYST
- Øystein Ivar Helle , Chief Scientific Officer at Chip NanoImaging
- Patrick Wu , Director of Nano Photonics at Huawei
- Paul Spoelstra , Global Advanced Manufacturing Lead at Marel Holding
- Pedro Medeiros , Photonic Engineer at Alcyon Photonics
- Peter Künzner , Entwicklungsingenieur at Thorlabs
- Philipp Dietrich , CEO at Keystone Photonics
- Philippe Soussan , Program Director Sense & Actuate Business Unit at imec
- Pierpasquale Tortora , Project Manager at The Swatch Group R&D division Asulab
- Pradeep Chakraborty , Editor at Pradeep's Techpoints
- Pragya Sah , Doctor of Philosophy at AMO
- Ralf Biertümpfel , Senior Application Manager at SCHOTT
- Ralph Mende, Director SCM at Envisics
- Raúl García , CEO at Microrelleus
- Ravikiran Saripalli , Senior Researcher at TII
- Reiner Goetzen , CEO at microTEC Gesellschaft fuer Mikrotechnologie
- Renato Turchetta , CEO at IMASENIC
- René Liebers , Business Development Manager at 3D-Micromac
- Roger Artigas , CTO at Sensofar
- Rolando Ferrini , Chief Regional Officer & Head of FEMTOprint Neuchâtel at FEMTOprint
- Rolf Eckert , Business Development Manager at Optotune
- Rongrong Xu , Head of Scientific Sales at Covesion
- Rosanna Gizzi , Sales Manager at Umicore
- Sachin G, Founder at Aviac
- Sanna Yliniemi , Technology Marketing Manager at Dispelix
- Santiago M Olaizola , Resercher at Ceit
- Sarah Hamdad , Researcher Optics and Optoelectronic at IMEC
- Séverine Maguis , Engineer at Orp
- Shunsuke Goto , Sales and Marketing Manager at VLC Photonics
- Simon Dubuis , CTO at NLOptics
- Sophie Lange , Business Development Engineer at EXFO
- Sreejesh Satheesh Kumar, Researcher at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena
- Stefaan Vandendriessche , Senior Director Laser Optics Business Group at Edmund Optics
- Stefano Prandoni , Director Sales Europe and USA at Bandwidth10
- Stephan Prinz , Senior Product Manager at DELO Industrie
- Stuart Allan , Technology Director at G&H | Artemis Optical
- Sudhanshu Dwivedi, Assistant Professor at SS Jain Subodh PG College, Jaipur, India
- Sweta Pathariya , Lab Manager at M19lab
- Syed Munir Azeem , Process Engineer at Silicon Austria Labs
- Tan Anh Khoa Ngo , Research Assistant at LNCMI-CNRS
- Tania Grandal, Researcher at AIMEN
- Taras Lisouski , Business Development at EssentOptics
- Thang Duy Dao , Staff Scientist at Silicon Austria Labs
- Tjalling de Boer , Sales Development Manager, EMEA at Coherent Corp
- Tobias Kaposi , Head of Business Development at Panacol-Elosol
- Tom Walschap , Solution Engineer at ams OSRAM
- Tomas Grigaitis , Head of Coating Department at Eksma Optics
- Umut Aydemir , Associate Professor at Uludağ Umiversity
- Valentina Einspieler , Division Head at DIOPTIC
- Valerie Lyttle , Marketing Executive at Yelo
- Venkatramani Ramaswamy , Market Segment Manager Automotive at GF Machining Solutions
- Vipul Patel , Principal Engineer at Cisco Systems
- Vladimir Pejovic , Researcher at imec
- William Renard , Sales & Business development Engineer at HORIBA
- William Wang, Technical Manager at ASMPT
- Yannick Galais , Sales Director at Luxinar
- Yoann Priol , Sales Manager at Phasic Corp
- Yuka Yamazaki , Lead Researcher at Nitto Deutschland
- Yuval Ofir , Independent Consultant
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