GT Advanced Technologies Inc
Dr. P.S. Raghavan is GT Advanced Technologies’ Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Raghavan brings over 26 years of industrial and academic experience in crystal growth instrumentation, crystal growth of semiconducting (Silicon, III-V and II-VI) materials, Oxides (Al203, LiNbO3), NLO materials, scintillation detecting materials and advanced electronic and photonic devices. His decades of experience in developing technology and capital equipment has resulted in the successful commercialization of industry leading silicon, Sapphire and silicon carbide crystal growth furnaces for the solar, LED, and consumer and power electronics manufacturing industries.
Prior to joining GT in 2002, he was involved in crystal growth research and held positions as Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, NTHU, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Assistant Professor, Crystal Growth Centre, Anna University, and Reader and Head Instrumentation, Alagappa University, India.
Dr. Raghavan holds a master’s degree in physics, a master of philosophy degree in physics and a Ph.D. in crystal growth of III-V compounds. He worked as postdoctoral fellow at internationally acclaimed laboratories worldwide and has 60 research publications in international journals, 4 patents and 100 publications in national/International conferences. He has co-authored 3 books on crystal growth and has earned several international awards for his contribution to the field of crystal growth technology.
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GT Advanced Technologies Inc
GT Advanced Technologies Inc. is a diversified technology company. The Company is engaged in producing advanced materials and crystal growth equipment for the electronics, solar and light emitting diode (LED) industries. The Company produces sapphire material for precision optics and other specialty industries. Its products include polysilicon technologies and equipment, silicon crystal growth equipment, sapphire crystal growth equipment, advanced sapphire material, silicon carbide crystal growth equipment and Merlin. Its polysilicon production equipment and essential services are used to operate polysilicon production plants. It offers various solutions that help users optimize their polysilicon plant operations at various aspects of production, such as incoming raw material, trichlorosilane (TCS), polysilicon and environmental effluent streams. It offers TCS and silane equipment solution, and basic engineering packages for the production and purification of TCS and silane.