Announcements
In 2011 SmallTech Consulting added even more depth and diversity to its full-service capabilities, with the addition of several talented new consultants as well as the continued professional development of our entire team.
September 2011
SmallTech Consulting joins the MEMS Industry Group.
August 2011
Benjamin Chui joins SmallTech Consulting's Extended Team.
Dr. Benjamin Chui has broad experience in MEMS and Nanotechnology including MEMS-related background research, design, layout, and fabrication, with a focus on device prototyping and process development. Ben graduated from Stanford University in 1998 with a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering under Prof. Tom Kenny. He has subsequently worked in various settings including a optical MEMS startup company, IBM Almaden Research Center, and the Institute of Microtechnology in Neuchatel, Switzerland. He has strong expertise in developing AFM cantilevers and has extensive processing experience at the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility, prototyping a wide range of microdevices for electrical, optical, fluidic, medical and atomic-level sensing applications. Dr. Chui has published one book and numerous papers on MEMS-related subjects. He has been a MEMS consultant since 2005, specializing in design, layout and prototyping.
June 2011
Lauren Palmateer joins SmallTech Consulting's Extended Team.
Dr. Lauren Palmateer's areas of expertise include Flat Panel Displays as in the LCDs displays and ereaders, touchscreens, display electronic packaging, biophysics and strategic patent analysis. She received her PhD from Cornell University School of Electrical Engineering in 1989 in III-V Semiconductor electronics. Lauren worked at Bell Labs, IBM, Qualcomm and 4 Silicon Valley Start up companies. She was a part of the original team at IBM research developing the first color laptop display, the Thinkpad. She holds 22 issues patents, pending applications and numerous publications in the technical journals. She specializes in manufacturing aspects, equipment and process design, materials, packaging and interconnects in display technologies and biophysics engineering applied to healthcare and product development.
May 2011
Dolf van der Heide joins SmallTech Consulting's Extended Team.
Dr. Dolf van der Heide has a broad experience in computational modeling of fundamental multiphysics problems that span traditional MEMS design of inertial sensors and magnetometers for e-compass applications, biological tissue modeling, medical device development, electronics packaging. Recently, Dolf focuses on the design of energy systems such as lithium-ion battery packs to drive electro-motors and thermal batteries for climate control of electrical vehicles. Dolf has a strong software development background in generation of commercial-grade non linear finite element analysis programs including MARC Analysis Research Corporation, ANSYS and COMSOL. He holds several patents, in the fields of inertial sensors, e-compass and human energy harvesting. Dolf received a Ph.D. from Stanford in the computational mechanics division and earned a M.S. degree in applied mechanics from the University of Technology, Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
May 2011
Geetha Dholakia chairs IEEE conference.
January-March and September-December 2011
Leslie Field teaches a new course in Engineering and Climate Change, EE 292H at Stanford University.
The purpose of this seminar course is to help equip students and professionals with the tools to apply the engineering mind-set to problems that stem from climate change.
March 2011
Geetha Dholakia joins SmallTech Consulting's Core Team.
Dr. Geetha Dholakia brings her broad experience in physics, materials science and instrumentation to SmallTech Consulting. She has been a Sr. Research Scientist and an Adjunct Professor at Santa Clara University, a Sr. Research Scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center. At NASA she was the group lead for the Molecular Electronics Project and the nano-satellite project. Geetha actively participates as the executive committee member of IEEE SF Bay Area Nanotechnology Council, and is a referee for various physics and materials science journals and NASA SBIR, STTR.
December 2010
With deep sorrow, we said farewell to Fritz Stawitcke, who passed on much too soon, at a time of his life when he was immensely enjoying his wonderful family, friends, community involvements, and consulting work. We miss you, Fritz!