IEEE Santa Clara Valley CPMT Society Chapter

"Putting Thin Copper on Flexible Materials" -- Alex N. Beavers, Jr., Ph.D., Executive Director, Ventures and Licenses, SRI International

• Buffet dinner served at 6:00 PM ($20 if reserved by Jan. 11); $10 for fulltime students and currently unemployed engineers; $5 more at the door; vegetarian available)

• Presentation (no cost) at 6:45 PM

  Please register in advance for this event, using our IEEE Council's DoubleKnot registration site.

  You may register yourself, plus others from your company/institution, for both dinner and presentation, or for only the presentation. You may make an on-line payment for the dinner, or arrange to pay at the door.

PLEASE RESERVE IN ADVANCE --
• For dinner and/or meeting: at the Doubleknot link above.
• Please reserve for "presentation-only", even if not attending the dinner. We want to assure we have enough seating.
Biltmore Hotel

• 2151 Laurelwood Rd (Fwy 101 at Montague Expressway), Santa Clara, (408) 346-4620 -- click map at right.

  
  

  OVERVIEW:

      A novel approach for metalizing patterns and entire surfaces of flexible substrates is being commercialized by Averatek Corporation. Emerging from the labs of SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute), this new approach is a non-vacuum process that eliminates the need for expensive vacuum deposition, eliminates several expensive process steps normally associated with conventional copper-coating techniques, and produces superior adhesion without the need for a tie coat. All of the process steps can be single or double sided, and have been implemented with a roll-to-roll manufacturing process. This discussion will include current and future applications.

  Speaker Biography:
  

      Alex Beavers is a high-technology executive and entrepreneur who also has served on the Boards of several high-tech venture-backed companies including being Chairman of Averatek Corporation. At SRI International he is responsible for the commercialization of advanced materials, clean technologies, and medical devices. Prior to SRI, Alex was CEO of Thomson Industries, a Managing Partner in the consulting business at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an executive with the Computer Aided Systems Group of Schlumberger, and an executive with the Industrial Automation Group of General Electric. Alex's academic background includes a BSEE (Vanderbilt University), an MSEE and a PhDEE (University of Houston), and an MBA (Boston University).

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