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The Phononic Devices Team |
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Anthony Atti, Ph. D. |
An experienced clean energy investor and entrepreneur, Dr. Atti has demonstrated expertise and leadership in venture financing, business development, start-up growth and operations, and negotiating joint venture relationships. As a former Director at MHI Energy Partners, a seed and early stage energy private equity fund, Dr. Atti managed deal flow networks, conducted due diligence, structured venture financing transactions, and provided direct portfolio company leadership as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Dr. Atti earned his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute at the University of Southern California under the direction of Dr. G.K. Surya Prakash and Dr. George A. Olah; the former a world-renowned fluorine chemist and the latter a winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. As a Post-Doctoral member of the Electrochemical Technologies team, he conducted research on hydrogen and methanol fuel cells at the NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Dr. Atti also holds an MBA from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry from Ithaca College. |
Patrick J. McCann |
Patrick J. McCann received his B.S. in engineering physics from UC Berkeley in 1981 and his Ph.D. in electronic materials from MIT in 1990. From 1981 through 1984 he worked for IBM in Burlington, Vermont, where he was on the team that developed the world’s first one megabit DRAM. He has been a faculty member in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Oklahoma since 1990. His research group has published over 100 articles in the fields of IV-VI semiconductor epitaxial crystal growth, laser fabrication, and chemical sensing using mid-infrared laser absorption spectroscopy. Recent accomplishments include demonstration of mid-infrared light emission at room temperature from nanostructured epitaxial layers, demonstration of improved active region heat dissipation from epitaxial layers removed from growth substrates and development of laser spectrometers for exhaled breath analysis. Research Interests |
