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Dr. Harris has played a leadership role in the advanced ceramic materials and electronic packaging industry over the past 20 years. Dr. Harris is currently the President of CMC Interconnect Technologies, a materials analysis and consulting firm which specializes in helping clients develop new materials and optimize manufacturing processes to improve throughput and yield. CMC Interconnect Technologies has a broad range of in-house material characterization capability including microstructural analysis (SEM), thermal analysis (Laser Flash Thermal Conductivity), Mechanical Characterization and Electrical Characterization. CMC also has an engineering staff with broad experience in materials development and volume manufacturing requirements. CMC's clients range from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. Prior to founding CMC Interconnect Technologies in 2003, Dr. Harris was President of CMC Wireless Components, a high thermal performance ceramic packaging company which served the telecommunications, optics, and medical industries. CMC Wireless Component's core technology was the ceramic material aluminum nitride (AlN). CMC Wireless developed a wide range of technology which allowed the successful utilization of AlN in packaging applications. These technologies included: production of high thermal conductivity substrates, development of a co-fired multilayer AlN materials set, thick film post-fire metallization of AlN, thin film metallization of AlN, and plating of AlN ceramics. CMC scaled up to produce approximately 2 million AlN based packages per year. Prior to his involvement with CMC Wireless Components, Dr. Harris held various positions in the advanced ceramics industry. These included: Technology Director for Carborundum Microelectronics (Phoenix Arizona), Technical Leader of a Joint Technology Development Project between Carborundum Microelectronics and IBM Microelectronics (East Fishkill, NY), and Member of the Technical Staff at BP America (Cleveland Ohio). Dr. Harris received his doctorate in Solid State Physics from Brown University (Providence, RI) in 1983. He is the author of over 50 publications and book chapters and has 20 US Patents. | 