Owner of Materials Characterization Services, a provider of a wide range of laboratory services ranging from bulk materials and polymers to semiconductors, biomaterials, and pharmaceuticals.Expert in materials characterization, with a very broad and in-depth understanding of analysis methods ranging from SEM/TEM to SIMS, RBS, XPS, and XRD. Skilled at choosing the appropriate analysis method needed to determine specific material properties such as composition, impurities, crystallinity, adhesion, and chemical formulation. Understands the strengths and weaknesses of a given technique, and what information it can be trusted to provide.Specialties: Design of materials analysis experiments, RBS, SIMS, XRF, TXRF, XRR, XRD, AFM, XPS, SEM, TEM, and Auger.