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Erol Harvey

Erol HarveyErol Harvey is CEO of MiniFAB (Aust) Pty Ltd and Professor of MicroTechnology at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.

An initiator of the Master of Engineering Course in MicroSystem Technology, Erol also organizes industry awareness seminars designed to inform, promote and enthuse companies, particularly SMEs in microtechnology.

MiniFAB specializes in contract product development, particularly in polymer processes including microfluidic design. Through the MiniFAB facility, new ventures and startups are encouraged in micro, nano and bio technology where 22 new companies are presently being incubated.

MANCEF Contributions

Dr. Harvey is currently a General Board (Asia-Aus-Pac) member, a member of the MANCEF Marketing and Strategic Alliances Committees, and a COMS conference series attendee over the past three years. He has been instrumental in building MANCEF initiatives in Australia including Asia-focused commercialization workshops.

Career

Originally trained as a physicist, his postdoctoral work was as Operations Manager of the SPRITE Ultra high power excimer laser facility of the SERC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford.

In 1990 he moved to Exitech Limited, a spin-out company from the Rutherford Laser Facility, where he was Principal Development Engineer and Head of System Design and Fabrication of the Advanced Excimer Laser Micromachining systems.

In this role he worked closely with customers around the world developing commercial applications of excimer laser micromachining. Examples of some industrial development projects Dr. Harvey worked on include:

  • Ink jet printer nozzles
  • Bio medical devices
  • Thin flim transistor annealing for advanced lap-top computer LCD displays
  • Ultra-high density electronic packaging
  • The first Hubble Space Telescope Rescue Mission
  • 248 / 193 nm lithography for sub-0.18µm Semiconductor fabrication
  • Hard disk fabrication
  • Thin film deposition
  • Solar panels and packaging applications for the pharmaceutical industry

After returning to Australia he was part of the founding team for the CRC for microTechnology, a 7-year $70M collaborative research co-operative involving local and multinational companies, government and universities.

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