Michael J. Burns

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Additional info, including a CV, can be gathered from my Boston College Website.

I am sometimes available for consulting, depending on the rules imposed by my employer. My technical specialty started out as Solid State Physics with special emphasis on thin film process development and electronic & optical properties of materials & devices. Over the years I've applied these to a number of industries & application areas which is why the list below is so broad. I have hourly, daily and weekly rates with substantial discounts for the courser time granularity. Obviously, I can sign a Non-disclosure Agreement (NDA) if needed.  Topics I can help on include but are not limited to:

• Solar Cell Technology
• 3D electromagnetic simulation using tools such as CST Microwave Studio, a Finite Integral Technique (FIT) as well as frequency domain tool, and the MIT finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) tool called MEEP.
• Nano-Imprint Lithography (NIL)
• Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) technology, particularly mico/MEMs SOFC technology
• MEMs both in silicon technology and soft lithography
• SOFC electrochemistry
• Optical devices
• Infrared (IR) devices
• Organometallic chemistry
• Thin film process development (advisory as well as hands-on)
• Deposition system design such as sputtering (HV & UHV), e-beam & thermal evaporation (HV & UHV), molecular beam epitaxy (UHV), laser CVD
• Laser microchemical etch (design & hands-on), visible & IR
• Electronic circuit design projects
• Software projects, especially LabView and Visual Basic
• Cryogenic & cryoelectronic projects
• X-ray detectors
• Superconductivity projects (low & high Tc)
• SQUID (Superconducting Quantum Interference Device) projects
• Laser-material interaction projects, visible & IR
• Ink jetting of chemicals
• Automated (robotic) dispense of chemicals & pastes (e.g. Asymtek)
• Electrochemistry
• Plant physiology
• VC technical & business plan due diligence

I have broad experience delineated in my bio, my publications, and patents. Please look them over and email me at if you have any questions, including questions about my rates.

Past consulting clients have included:

Albany Nanotech Center (instrument circuit design & cryoelectronics)
Conductus, Inc. (thin film process development, electronic instrument design, cryoelectronics, deposition system design, SQUID technology)
Fronesis Technology (solar energy load controller technology)
Great Bay Ventures (technical & business plan due diligence)
Harvard University OEB (electronic physiology instrument design & fabrication)
Solasta (solar cell technology, thin film process development)
Star Cryoelectronics (thin film process development, patent due diligence as well as software, electronic instrument design, x-ray detectors, SQUIDs, cryogenics & cryogenic sensors)
Varioscale (laser CVD & lasers, and laser-material interactions, thin film process development, laser CVD, laser etching)

Other collaborations, as an individual or while working as part of a larger organization, have included:

Boston College (solar cell technology, nanostructures, photonic band gap, 3-D Electromagnetic Simulations)
Caltech (superconductivity, plant physiology)
Cambridge Nanotech (atomic layer deposition)
Carnegie Mellon (MRI, plant physiology)
Harvard University (optical physiology measurements, plant physiology, TDR of soils, ichthyology)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (laser processing of materials)
MicroContinuum (Nano Imprint Lithography (NIL))
QD Vision (quantum dots, solar cell technology)
Stanford University (plant physiology, TDR of soils)
University of Florida (thin film process development, electrophoresis, superconductivity, plant physiology, TDR of soils)