04.24.15
Thin Film Electronics ASA (Thinfilm) announced that Dr. Raj B Apte has joined Thinfilm’s Technical Advisory Council. In this role, Dr. Apte will collaborate with other council members and Thinfilm’s executive team to leverage the latest technological advances in printed electronics and further strengthen Thinfilm’s position as an innovator and market leader.
Dr. Apte is presently a rapid evaluator for Google, where he invents and evaluates potential highpayoff projects (aka Moonshots) for significant investments by Google. Prior to his current role, Dr. Apte spent two decades at PARC, a Xerox company, as a principal scientist and area manager.
While at PARC, he oversaw much of the group’s poly-silicon research initiatives and managed projects focused on imaging technology, large area array testing, oxide (IGZO) semiconductors, novel back-plane design, and laser recrystallization. Dr. Apte is widely published and has 43 issued patents to his credit.
“Raj has deep expertise in the development of low-temperature poly-silicon processes, which relates directly to Thinfilm’s printed NFC OpenSense and sensor label products,” said Christer Karlsson, Thinfilm’s CTO. “As we continue to enhance Thinfilm’s poly-silicon technology and scale the related manufacturing processes, Raj’s years of experience in this arena will be of tremendous benefit. We are very excited to have him join the Technical Advisory Council and look forward to his contributions.”
Dr. Apte is presently a rapid evaluator for Google, where he invents and evaluates potential highpayoff projects (aka Moonshots) for significant investments by Google. Prior to his current role, Dr. Apte spent two decades at PARC, a Xerox company, as a principal scientist and area manager.
While at PARC, he oversaw much of the group’s poly-silicon research initiatives and managed projects focused on imaging technology, large area array testing, oxide (IGZO) semiconductors, novel back-plane design, and laser recrystallization. Dr. Apte is widely published and has 43 issued patents to his credit.
“Raj has deep expertise in the development of low-temperature poly-silicon processes, which relates directly to Thinfilm’s printed NFC OpenSense and sensor label products,” said Christer Karlsson, Thinfilm’s CTO. “As we continue to enhance Thinfilm’s poly-silicon technology and scale the related manufacturing processes, Raj’s years of experience in this arena will be of tremendous benefit. We are very excited to have him join the Technical Advisory Council and look forward to his contributions.”