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Florian Solzbacher, Ph.D.

Besides working as a general MEMS service provider for on and off campus partners, Florian Solzbacher’s core focus in research is in Harsh Environment MEMS, i.e.
  • materials (SiC (on Si), SOI, GaN),
  • metallisation systems for high temperatures and aggressive ambient conditions,
  • silicon fusion bonding and packaging issues.
The current objective is to team up with industrial partners who will set the specifications and test conditions (and carry out some of the tests) while working towards a better understanding and subsequently better properties on materials together with partners in the USA and Europe.

Contact

MEB 3116
Tel.: 001 801 581 7408
Fax: 001 801 581 3601
Email: solzbach @ ece.utah.edu
 

Publications

Publications by Florian Solzbacher 		 

Positions

Branch Laboratory for Harsh Environment Microsystems and Materials of the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM, Germany; located at the University of Utah (as of 03/06)

Adjunct Assistant Prof. Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (12/04 - present)

Adjunct Assistant Prof. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah (03/04 - present)

Assistant Professor (tenure track) Director Microsystems Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (01/04 - present)

Co-Founder and Partner BBI Invest Ltd. UK, offering investment and consulting for SME companies with focus on technology transfer (11/02 - present)

Advisor to the executive board FIRST SENSOR TECHNOLOGY GmbH, Berlin (01/03 - present)

Co-founder and shareholder FIRST SENSOR TECHNOLOGY GmbH, Berlin (08/99 - present)

Executive Vice President Sales/Marketing FIRST SENSOR TECHNOLOGY GmbH, Berlin (08/99 - 01/03)

Research Engineer Research Center for Microperipheric Technologies, Technical University Berlin, Germany, (project manager micro gas sensors) (08/97 - 04/00)

Visiting Scholar at the Department of Materials Science, University of Utah (11/96 - 06/97)

Research Intern Research Center for Microperipheric Technologies at the Technical University Berlin (07/96 - 10/96)

Research Assistant Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT, St. Ingbert, Germany (02/95 - 04/95)
  

Appointments and Honors

Board Member review panel for Excellence Initiative in System Engineering and Computer Science, DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, German Research Foundation) (10/05 - present)

Chairman AMA association (AMA is the national and international representative of German sensor companies) (05/03 - present)

Board Member MEMS expert advisory board to the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF (Gesprächskreis MST) (11/01 - present)

Member of the executive board AMA association (05/01 - present)

Member of the advisory board Center for Microtechnologies (Zentrum für Mikrotechnologien) ZEMI, Berlin, Germany (03/01 - present)
 
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