Eric J. Carleton Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Silicon Valley, California, United States

"Failure Analysis: High Technology Devices (de Gruyter Stem)" (October 2022)https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9781501524790/htmlhttps://www.amazon.com/Failure-Analysis-Technology-Devices-Gruyter/dp/150152478X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3M959A2XUK9X1&keywords=sullivan+failure+analysis&qid=1657872127&sprefix=sullivan+failure+analysis%2Caps%2C156&sr=8-1

San Francisco Bay Area

Founder, CEO responsible for fostering the development of startup companies in the following industries: biomedical device, consumer electronics, aerospace, and defense. Provide support, analysis, and testimony for failures in all industries that potentially become litigious.Forged and fostered mutual consulting relationships with Duffner Engineering and Parnell Engineering to better serve our mutual clients and to provide extra bandwidth on larger projects when required.Inspected and presented professional opinion for several disparate incidents of common household appliances that were suspected of igniting fires, resulting in some cases indemnification of the client, and in others mutually agreed upon pre-court settlements.Analyzed and identified inaccurately supplied materials through testing and analysis of COCs and BOMs of first and second tier suppliers prior to client delivery of suspect equipment. Resulted in recovery of costs and out of court damages.

Santa Clara, Ca - Shenyang, Liaoning China

Initial establishment and direction of Engineering and R&D department's vision, strategic plans, and goals.Initial conversion of customers' requirements into viable commercial technical solutions.

San Francisco Bay Area

Corporate technical director and advisor for both technical and corporate direction.Directed plating technology for ultra-high reliability electroplated and electroless coatings, for the biomedical, defense ( ITAR / NADCAP ), and precision semiconductor industries.Co–Managed with two other executives +30 employees on 100s of processes on Acid, Alkaline, and Cyanide based electroplating lines with final variable-controlled atmosphere thermal processes. Developed new technology to existing processing lines and incubated 5 start-up companies with novel plating processes and materials, four of which are commercially successful.Created a failure analysis division to expand the company’s technical capabilities to help troubleshoot plating problems both internally and externally for clients and customers.

Menlo Park, Ca

Recruited at a senior level to the Materials and Corrosion Practice as a subject matter expert in optoelectronic devices, electrodeposition processes and deposits, brittle fracture, and familiarity with intellectual property law. Further developed prior contacts resulting in new clients and business contracts for the firm. Managed and directed +25 projects (some in excess of $500K), and up to 10 junior and senior associates and principals in the following areas: optoelectronic device litigation, medical device failure, electronic component failure, electrodeposit failure, electrodeposition processes, thin film deposition processes, cable assembly fracture and fatigue, and ceramic fracture. Nurtured and developed several new and prior business clients and contracts.Provided expert opinion on IP infringement litigation cases for optoelectronic devices.Performed root-cause analysis in a thin film deposition process that resulted in a catastrophic fire.Analyzed and recreated satellite deployment failures.Performed long-term fatigue experiments to validate medical device design modifications as well as recreation events on exemplars of incident devices. Modeled optoelectronic device current distributions and light output with COMSOL and TracePro.

Dublin, Ca - Suwon, South Korea

Directed and coordinated R&D in US with a research team of three R&D engineers and several technical staff in Korea to transfer the developed technology to Korea to scale up to production capability.Provided legal opinion to argue against IP infringement, to secure additional funding, and to preserve company IP portfolio.Developed and improved key process technologies including uniform wafer plating, void-free bonding, and novel wet chemical die separation, leading to production capable LED devices.Modeled current distribution, light output, and areal uniformity in a display backlight waveguide to compare performance versus competitors using COMSOL and TracePro to secure additional funding.

Dublin, Ca - Suwon, South Korea

Initial and primary consultant and research engineer for the development of laser lift-off (LLO) processes of GaN. Improved areal yield of research and demonstration wafers from 0-10% to 75-90%.Improved and developed novel wet chemical die separation processes improving yields of near zero after die bonding to nearly 100% for dies that survived the LLO process.

Berkeley, Ca - Santa Clara, Ca

Consulting which consisted of providing excimer laser lift-off services for GaN LED wafer separation. Subsequent consulting involved developing wet chemical separation processes, low stress / high uniformity electroplating, void-free bonding, and GaN device structure fabrication, development, and optimization.

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

Summer internships working on 1) novel low temperature sealing glasses for microelectronic die packaging, 2) structure/property research of various phosphate glass systems ultimately for use in the vitrification and storage of transuranic radioactive waste materials, 3) design and development of a high sensitivity MEMS accelerometer utilizing sol-gel derived ferroelectric thin films.

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

Assisted in the development of multiple monolithic graded index glass materials including one with a negative dispersion slope for realization of single lens polychromatic focusing (i.e. spectrally invariant lenses).

Ph.D., Materials Science And Engineering

Activities and Societies: President, Berkeley Chapter, Materials Research Society (MRS) Advisors: Professors Timothy D. Sands, Ronald.

M.S., Electronic Materials

Advisor: Professor Wayne Huebner Thesis: Thin Electrode Surface Flashover Behavior and Method for the Enhancement of Switched Polarization.

B.S., Ceramic Engineering

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Eta Sigma, Tau Beta Pi, Keramos, Track and Field - Hammer, Discus Missouri School of Mines.