Our Technologies

Developing New Optical Materials & New Materials Morphologies

Our expanding facility offers a number of various damage parameters to match your requirements. We pride ourselves in offering a flexible informative service.

  • Contracts    

  • NSF SBIR 2004-7 Phase II: Ge-Free Strained Silicon Via Differential Thermal Coefficient of Expansion Bonding.
  • NSF SBIR 2003 Phase I: Ge-Free Strained Silicon Via dTCE Bonding Differential Thermal Coefficient of Expansion Bonding.
  • National Science Foundation 1995 SBIR Phase I: IR Ge-Glass Delivery Optics.
  • Patents
  • US Patent No. 6,514,836 Rona E. Belford, Feb 2003.
  • US Patent, No. 6,455,397 Rona E. Belford, Sept 2002.
  • UK Patent, GB 2 295 R E Belford and P C W Brehier, 1998.

 

  • Publications

  • Rona Belford and Sumant Sood, Microsystem Technologies: Vol. 15(3), 407 (2009).
  • R. E. Belford and S. Sood, Electrochem & Solid State Lts, Vol 10, (5) H145-H148, 2007.
  • Sumant Sood and Rona Belford, ECS Transactions, Vol. 3 (6), 99-106, (2006).
  • Jiang Myers, Rhonehouse, Myers, Belford and Hamlin SPIE, Vol. 2138, 1994.
  • Jiang, Myers, Belford, et al Adv. Solid  State Lasers, Tech. Dig., OSA, Washington DC, pp 329-331, 1994.
  • E Hajto, P J S Ewen, R E Belford and A E Owen, "Interference Grating Fabrication in Spin Coated As2S3 Films", Thin Solid Films, 200, pp.229-237, 1991.
  • R  E Belford and A E Owen, "Interfacial Aspects of Glass", Invited Chapter in Glasses  and  Glass-ceramics, Ch.9, pp.316-335, Ed. M H Lewis, Publ. Chap. & Hall, 1990.

    • Conference Presentations

    • Sumant Sood and Rona Belford, International Symposium on Semiconductor Wafer Bonding, Cancun Mexico, Oct/ Nov 2006.
    • S. Sood and R.E. Belford, 209th Electrochemical Society Meeting Denver, May 2006
    • Rona E Belford, “Strained Si Compliant Substrates”, invited paper, International Conference on Alternative Substrate Technology, Lake Tahoe Jan 2001.
    • S Jiang, J D Myers, R E Belford, et al,  Advanced Solid State Lasers Ninth Topical Meeting, Salt Lake City, USA,1994.
    • S Jiang, J D Myers, R E Belford and Scott Hamlin, "Laser and Thermal Performance of a New Erbium Doped Phosphate Laser Glass", OE/LASE'94 Los Angeles, Cal, USA, 1994.
    • R E Belford "Optical and Photodissolution Phenomena In IR Glasses", invited seminar given at the Dept. of Physics, University of South Carolina USA, 1993.
    • R E Belford and A E Owen "Application of Chalcogenide Glasses in IR Diffraction Optics" Gordon Research Conference at Tilton, New Hampshire USA 1992.
    • R E Belford "Novel Glasses for Sensor and Optical Thick-Film Devices” invited paper at The Solid Sensors Conference, University of Southampton, England, 1992.