Entrepreneur of the Year Shelby F. Nelson, PhD
Comments Off on Entrepreneur of the Year Shelby F. Nelson, PhDShelby F. Nelson, PhD has been selected as the 2024 Entrepreneur of the Year by the Rochester Section of the American Chemical Society.
This award recognizes Dr. Nelson’s co-founding of Mosaic Microsystems and developing and commercializing innovative glass packaging technology for integration of microelectronic and photonic chips.
Mosaic’s proprietary glass handling technology allows temporary bonding of thin, flexible glass to a rigid handle wafer, to enable high-yield manufacturing of electrical and optical traces and circuits, leveraging industry standard processes normally used for silicon. This technology works with glass even below 100 microns thick.
Mosaic wants engineers who are involved in RF, computing, integrated photonics, and biomedical devices to know the benefits of glass for advanced semiconductor packaging.Glass can be thought of as a very high-performance printed circuit board (PCB) — enabling cutting-edge applications to meet their challenging targets.
Mosaic’s early understanding of the value of glass has been underscored by recent announcements by companies like Intel and Samsung of a drive to incorporate glass in their advanced packaging. Mosaic’s special expertise is in the production of thin glass packaging solutions, with successful (high yield) handling of the floppy and transparent material through the many steps required to produce finished packages.
Mosaic is prototyping thin glass with multi-layer interconnects, along with copper-filled through-glass vias connecting front to back of the glass, and is rapidly moving these to production for both defense and commercial industries.