Dr. John Davies
Engineer, Glew EngineeringDr. Davies has more than twenty five years experience in the semiconductor industry and has held various engineering design and management positions.
Plasma Etching
His expertise includes Plasma Technology, Etching RF and Microwave Power, Equipment design, Material analysis, Project Management, Vacuum and low temperature technology, Mathematical methods, Magnetism, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Optical Spectroscopy, Interferometry and Lasers, and Equipment automation and control.
Semiconductor Industry
Dr. Davies is also the founder of T D Systems, a provider of a range of technical services to clients in the Semiconductor industry. Prior to this, he was a university faculty member for thirteen years. His professional experience includes, SEMI standards alignment, Complete equipment system or subsystem design and construction, from R&D through to full manufacturing, Technical troubleshooting - providing and implementing solutions to problems where a broad interdisciplinary approach and analysis is needed but detailed solutions are required. He has also provided technical and expert assistance on patent litigation issues.
Patents
Dr. Davies holds four U.S. Patents and is published in a variety of scientific and research publications. He has authored a book on Physics: Electricity and Electrons.
Dr. Davies is an Oxford graduate with a D. Phil. in Mathematical Physics.
Plasma Etching
Plasma Ashing, solar cell analysis
Dr. Alexander Glew
President, Glew Engineering
Dr. Alexander Glew has more than 20 years experience in the semiconductor and other industries. He founded Glew Engineering Consulting more than a dozen years ago. His practice at Glew
Engineering Consulting has included project turn-around, product design, semiconductor device analysis, semiconductor equipment design and analysis, laboratory analysis, IC tear downs, and market studies.
Semiconductor Equipment Expert
His career began by spending a decade at Applied Materials in various engineering roles. His roles included product development, project management, and supplier quality management. He was also a core technologist, one of 15 in the company, his area beging ultra high purity chemical systems.
Materials Science
He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University, and the B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley. His dissertation was in plasma CVD of diamond like carbon (DLC) and low k dielectrics.
Mechanical Engineering
He is a licensed professional engineer (P.E.) in California, in the mechanical engineering branch. He practices both mechanical engineering and materials science engineering. He also performs fiinite element analysis (FEA) using Autodesk Algor Simulation and Inventor.
Expert Witness
Dr. Glew is experienced in providing IP litigation support, including patents, trade secrets, and economic espionage. He has also testified in large scale industrial accidents, technology contracts, and arbitration. He has testified before the Federal District Court, Tokyo High Court, International Trade Commission, and in International Arbitration. His testimony has contributed to findings of patent infringement, patent invalidity, inequitable conduct, and responsibility for significant damages.
Patents
He holds three patents, one of which he prosecuted, in the fields of tungsten, chemical vapor deposition, and ultra high purity and high temperature valving.
Read on for more information on Dr. Glew as a Litigation Expert.
Dr. Martin Hammond
Engineer, Glew Engineering
Dr. Hammond has more than 30 years of industry experience as a scientist, development engineer, corporate executive, consultant and expert witness in the field of semiconductor manufacturing equipment and fabrication processes.
Materials Science
His expertise includes, Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD), Poly and Epi Silicon, Plasma Etch or Dry Etch, Exhaust Gas Treatment, and Materials Science. He has been recognized as a major contributor to the semiconductor industry.
Dr. Hammond's expertise extends beyond the purely technical to include executive marketing and strategic planning. His wide range of experience includes work for the aerospace industry in addition to the semiconductor industry.
Marketing of Semiconductor Equipment
Dr. Hammand is a highly regarded marketing expert in semiconductor equipment. He led technical marketing for what is now the largest equipment supplier in the industry.
Patents
Dr. Hammond holds five U.S. Patents and is widely published in the field of semiconductor process and equipment. His awards include: "SEMI Award" 1994 for outstanding contribution to SEMI industry and the "Walter C. Benzing" Award 1990 for most significant contribution to SEMI Association.
Dr. Hammond has testified in jury, non-jury, and arbitration litigation and pre-litigation negotiations.
Dr. Hammond earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science at Stanford University and M.S. and B.S. in Metallurgy from UC Berkeley.olysilicon
Epi Silicon, Epitaxial Silicon Deposition
Mr. Robert Ozarski
Engineer, Glew Engineering
Product Development Executive and Manager
Mr. Ozarski is a recognized senior executive with a diverse high tech background across product development, research, engineering, operations, product development process and business development functions.
HIGH VOLTAGE
In particular, Mr. Ozarski has a special and unique skillset in High Voltage Engineering and High Power Laser. He has over 35 years of experience and demonstrated ability to take products from concept to production rapidly. Mr. Ozarski's industry experience includes Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, ETEC Systems, Applied Materials, and CYMER, Inc. His expertise is in providing business processes ranging from product portfolio management, to sales and marketing, improving risk management, operational efficiency and quality. His professional experience includes, Product Development & Research, Production Ramp-up, Strategic planning, Business Processes, Mergers and Acquisitions, Product marketing and Startups.
Patents
Mr. Ozarski holds sixteen patents covering multiple disciplines, including characterization of semiconductor resist material, film thickness measurement, photoresist absorption measurement, wafer positioning, crystal orientation for frequency conversion of laser pulses, Excimer laser design and patent pending in medical equipment for laser eye surgery.
He earned both MSEE and BSEE degrees at Wayne State University, Detroit Michigan.
Dr. Martin Walker
Engineer, Glew Engineering
Expert Witness
Dr. Walker has testified in jury trials and arbitration involving software technology issues. He has been engaged as a "technology neutral" to assist in the resolution and adjudication of electronic 
discovery issues. Dr. Walker also has significant experience in giving deposition testimony and in preparing declarations and expert reports. Dr. Walker regularly works with attorneys to help articulate and manage the many technology issues that arise in complex litigation. He is particularly adept at explaining complex technology issues to lay audiences and, as such, has often been asked to present Markman tutorials and prepare demonstratives.
ASIC Design Engineer
Dr. Walker is a recognized expert with over 35-years of experience in design of integrated circuits, including analog, digital and RF/microwave circuits. His analog IC circuit design experience includes analog components such as PLLs, voltage regulators and linear systems. In the digital IC design Dr. Walker has experience at the circuit level, including such structures as ESD components, level shifters, sense amps, SDRAM circuits such as DDR sequencing circuits and On-Die Termination (ODT). His RF/Microwave design experience includes microwave components (such as amplifiers, oscillators, mixers and switches) as well as sub-systems (tuners, low-noise down converters, etc).
Electrical Engineer
Dr. Walker has over 25 years experience in electronic design automation (EDA) software systems, simulation and circuit design and modeling. He is a recognized expert in the field of EDA systems, simulation, and modeling. He also has experience with the design of digital and analog IC, with verilog and VHDL analysis, synthesis of digital ICs such as flash memory controllers, analyses and verification of metal interconnects and related process technology. He also has acquired expertise in the analysis of alleged source code copying. He has developed specialized analysis tools that help find the "needle" of copied code in the "haystack" of large source-code databases. He has identified existence of misappropriated code as well as helped to demonstrate the lack of evidence of misappropriation. During the course of his practice, Dr. Walker has analyzed such diverse code as EDA software, VoIP software, database schema, mail-list processing software, and stock-brokerage software. He is familiar with a wide variety of source-code repositories including CVS, RCS, Subversion, and Rational ClearCase.
Dr. Michael Watts
Engineer, Glew Engineering
lithography expert
Dr. Watts has spent over 30 years developing products that use or enable high resolution patterning. He is a photolithography expert,
and also has a range of experience that includes imprint, optical lithography, injection molding, inspection, and etch. He has assisted or directed teams developing products all the way from LCD backlights that utilize roll-to-roll processing to imprint systems and resist materials. He was one of the founding team at Molecular Imprints Inc, the worlds only VC funded imprint start up, and is a named inventor on all their basic patents.
Photolithography expert
His experience includes, technology assessment, requirements definition, design specification, prototype development, business development, market analysis, technology forecasting, process design, project management and statistical data analysis for startups' and large companies that need high resolution patterning or use semiconductor processes and equipment.
Patents
Dr. Watts has a total of 30+ patents, and has participated in eight cases as a designated expert, in depositions and as a testifying witness. He has experience with running prior art searches, analysis of claims, and has assisted in patent prosecution.
His awards include Nanotech 2005, ACE Award 2005 from EE Times, and a United States Display Consortium for flat panel inspection equipment.
He performed Postdoctoral research at the University of Massachusetts, specializing in ultra high modulus polymers. He earned his Ph.D. and BsC. at the University of Manchester, England, in Polymer Materials Science.