Speaker: Dr. Ravi Prasad, Chief Technology Officer, Vitriflex
Title: Transparent Ultra-Barrier Films for Optoelectronic Devices
Abstract: Vitriflex has developed transparent ultrabarrier film technology for protection of environmentally sensitive optoelectronic devices. We will present our current results including scale-up of optically tuned barrier films, together with some potential applications in OLEDs and flexible solar modules.
Speaker Biography: Dr. Prasad has over 25 years of experience in research and managing development of high gas barrier packaging films, membranes, advanced polymers and MEMS. He began his career as a process engineer in the petrochemicals industry at Shell, and he subsequently worked in engineering and management at Hoechst-Celanese Corporation. Dr. Prasad later joined HP’s Imaging and Printing Group, where he was CTO of the New Business Group. In addition to his large company experience, he has a strong entrepreneurial bent. He has over 25 issued US patents and numerous patents pending, has coauthored over 20 technical papers and contributed chapters in the Membrane Handbook and Membrane Separations in Biotechnology. He holds a BTech with distinction in Chemical Engineering from Univ. of Madras, India, and MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey.
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