PETEC
...The Printable Electronics Technology Centre


The PETEC team

Dr Tom Taylor

Dr Tom Taylor
Director of PETEC

Dr Tom Taylor is a Senior Industrial Innovation Manager with twenty years’ experience of high technology product and business development. Previous roles include: Head of the Chemicals Business at Frost & Sullivan, and senior market and operational roles at ICI, responsible for businesses in the UK, France, and Thailand.. more..

Dr Simon Ogier

Dr Simon Ogier
Research and Development Manager

As lead scientist in the development of PETEC’s capabilities, Dr Simon Ogier is well placed to enable customers to develop industrially compatible routes to the manufacturing of OTFT based products. Simon is specifically interested in developing industrially compatible routes in this area. more...

 
Dr Yong Uk Lee

Dr Yong Uk Lee
Principal Research Scientist

Dr Yong Uk Lee is a Principal Research Scientist with eight years’ experience in flexible and printable electronics. As a founding member of the flexible display project at Samsung Electronics Co., he has a wealth of experience leading key projects. In addition, he worked for the Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) for two years before joining PETEC in 2008. He is leading process development activities for the large area organic devices at PETEC R&D team.

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Andy Bateman

Andy Bateman
Director of Business Development

Andy’s work at PETEC spans the international landscape of corporate business, government bodies, and universities. His focus has been to build advanced partnerships, and structure the complex technology innovation and funding programmes with regional, national, and international institutions. more...

 
Dr Martin Fisher

Dr Martin Walkinshaw
Project Manager

Martin Walkinshaw is a Ph.D. qualified semiconductor device physicist, with 12 years experience working in engineering and R&D. His knowledge spans from scaling-up processes at Plastic Logic’s groundbreaking new flexible electronics facility, applications and equipment engineering for Brewer Science, and working in production and yield improvement at large scale manufacturing companies such as NXP and Filtronic.

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Dr David Bird

Dr David Bird
Electronic Materials Priniting Scientist

Dr David Bird’s expertise is in surface analysis, primarily with AFM, but also with white-light interferometry, SEM and TEM. He is responsible for the formulation of inks for inkjet printing at PETEC. more...

 
Dr Michael Cooke

Dr Michael Cooke
Electronic Device Process Scientist

Michael has a 1st Class Masters degree and a PhD in magnetostrictive thin films and devices. He has many years cutting edge experimental research experience broadly in fabrication. His work has gained interest from international companies and he is well respected within the scientific community. His work has lead to a number of high profile publications, in more than 20 peer reviewed journals.

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John Lampett

John Lampett
Equipment Engineer

John is responsible for the installation and maintenance of PETEC’s state-of-the-art equipment and for improving availability and reliability of equipment sets. more...

 

 
Steve Spruce

Steve Spruce
Research and Development Manager.

Chemistry Trained with an MBA in technology Management and almost 35 years practical experience in innovation delivery. Experienced in both private and public sector operations from Heavy Chemicals to University research. Steve has worked in industries as diverse as cosmetics and toiletries through to pigments, catalysts, coatings and flexible electronics. more...

 
Dr Sharon Louch

Dr Sharon Louch
Senior Scientist

Physics trained with a PhD in Vacuum Coating of Magnetic materials and three years hands-on experience of operating the Roll to Roll Vacuum sputter coater. Sharon is customer focused, and recognised for her expertise applying a high level of scientific understanding to problem resolution.

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Kevin Luxmore

Kevin Luxmore
Engineering Technician

Time served mechanical engineer with over 25 years experience in production and semi-technical operations. Kevin is able to translate technical needs into mechanical reality focusing on cost and timely delivery of results. Kevin designs, fabricates, maintains and improves complex semi technical equipment optimising performance while maximising up-time. more...

 
Steven Edge

Steven Edge
Thin Film Scientist

Physics trained and currently focused on the development of measurement technologies for polymer barrier materials. Steven is well versed in general laboratory techniques and skilled in the operation of complex instrument sets within a cleanroom environment. more...

 
Keri McCall

Keri McCall
Organic Electronic Materials Scientist

Dr. Keri McCall's role at PETEC involves the investigation of organic semiconductor formulations for OTFT applications.  This involves novel material characterisation as well as optimisation of the formulation to improve device characteristics and uniformity. more...

   
Bela Green

Bela Green
Patterning Programme Manager

Bela Green is the Patterning Programme Manager at PETEC. She is responsible for developing the knowledge base and technology assets for the patterning of flexible substrates within the organic electronics sector. more...

   
Mike Clausen

Mike Clausen
Coating Programme Manager

Mike is the Coating Programme Manager at PETEC. He is responsible for developing the knowledge base and technology assets for the coating of flexible substrates, in addition to delivering technology programmes from concept through to innovation within the organic electronics sector. more...

   

Shre Kumar Chatterjee
Process Development Technician

As a member of the Engineering Team in PETEC, Shre Kumar Chatterjee is currently involved with scientists and engineers, towards developing processes for novel products, primarily focussing on OTFT backplanes. more...

   

Dr. Dave Barwick
Coating Scientist

Dr. Dave  Barwick's role at CPI is principally concerned with the formulation and development of organic coatings for use within photovoltaic and OLED applications.

Dave  is chemistry-trained with a masters degree in chemical process technology and a doctorate in surface science from the University of Durham.

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Dr Marco Palumbo
Organic Electronic Materials Scientist

Dr Marco Palumbo has a degree in Materials Engineering from the Universitá degli Studi del Lecce, Italy, and a PhD in Engineering from the University of Durham, UK.  He has also been awarded a Level 5 Award in Management by the Institute of Leadership and Management through the University of Manchester.

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Dr Kevin McAloon
Marketing Consultant
and Director of Business Development, Asia

With 25 years experience in project management and business development in electronic materials and components focussed on Asian clients, Kevin is responsible for setting up and managing co-operations with external industrial partners in the Eastern Asia region. more...

Teruo Tohma
Business Development Consultant for Japan

Over a timescale of more than 30 years, Teruo Tohma has a breadth of experience in project and business management mostly within Pioneer. This includes optical disk manufacture including a 4 year spell managing the business from West coast, USA, R&D Manager in GaN LED blue laser, OLED, etc. more...