Jeremy A Theil, Ph.D.
Principal and Founder
Dr. Theil is an experienced technical leader who manages research and commercialization programs and develops advanced materials in the clean energy and semiconductor sectors. He is currently Senior Director of 3DIC External Programs for Invensas a division of Xperi Corporation, focusing on zero-clearance hybrid bonding for 3D integrated circuits.
In clean energy technologies, he is an expert in process integration and development. He is an industry expert in thin-film photovoltaic materials and successfully managed multiple development programs, at companies such as First Solar and Alta Devices. Dr. Theil is recognized as an expert in all production-proven thin-film photovoltaic technologies (CdTe, CIGS, GaAs, and a‑Si:H). He has spearheaded successful government research, developing materials for record-breaking efficiency solar cell technology. He developed Quantumscape’s thin-film commercialization strategy and solid-state electrolyte technology for high-density and high-rate energy storage, demonstrating technical solutions to multiple mission critical problems. Additionally, he has taught chemical engineering for renewable energy at San Jose State University.
In the semiconductor and sensor fields, he developed advanced materials and novel products. At Hewlett-Packard Laboratories he worked on CMOS process integration and materials development including advanced low‑κ materials for advanced BEOL interconnect. He also pioneered a world-class photodiode array technology for CMOS image sensors using α‑Si:H. In his role as in-house entrepreneur at Agilent Technologies, he took on a business development role for novel highly-integrated and low-cost sensor concepts. He has also developed process equipment for thin film applications such as sputtering, evaporation, and PECVD. At Philips-Lumileds, he high-efficiency III‑V light-emitting diode (LED) material systems, (AlInGaP and InGaN).
His education includes a Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in plasma chemistry and silicon-based materials; a M.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in sputtered vanadium oxide films, both in Materials Science and Engineering; and a B.S. from Carnegie-Mellon University in Metallurgical Engineering. He authored 43 papers, including two review articles, received 51 patents, and 12 patent applications. Professionally, he is an active member in several societies including the Materials Research Society (MRS), and Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) where he is a Senior Member. Currently, he is Chair of the IEEE Silicon Valley Sustainability chapter, and Associate Editor for Materials for Energy and Sustainability at MRS Advances. In 2015, he was chair of the Spring Materials Research Society Meeting in San Francisco. He is also a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and from 2015 until 2020 he has been treasurer of the Silicon Valley Photovoltaic Society (SVPVS). He was on the Technical Program Committee for the 2017 and 2018 IWLPC (International Wafer-Level Packaging Conferences).
See his personal website at jtheil.com.