Robert J. Visser, PhD

VP CTO Group
Applied Materials
Menlo Park, California

Robert Jan Visser is vice president of the CTO group of Applied Materials, Inc. He is responsible for creating business opportunities in new and adjacent markets related to future displays, optics for AR and VR, advanced IC packaging, bio-engineering, and quantum information technology. For more than 30 years, Visser has pioneered the research and commercialization of display technologies related to thin-film transistors, LCD materials, barrier films (including encapsulation materials), OLEDs, and flexible displays. Prior to joining Applied in 2009, he was CTO of Vitex Systems from 2002 to 2009, where he worked on thin-film encapsulation of OLED displays. The company was sold to Samsung. Visser also spent 18 years in various roles at Philips Research, including as CEO and CTO of the polyLED business. He received his Ph.D. from Leiden University (NL) in physical chemistry in 1984 and his M.S. in theoretical organic chemistry and physics in 1979. In 2015 he and his Vitex and PNNL colleagues received a Flexi Award for their work on thin-film encapsulation. He received a Special Award from the Society for Information Display in 2016 for his work on OLED and thin-film encapsulation and was elected a fellow of the SID in 2020.

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Presentation(s):

• 69 - Materials and Processes for Flexible Displays

  Friday, May 13, 2022
  9:00 AM – 10:20 AM

• 72 - Machine Learning for Failure and Artifact Detection

  Friday, May 13, 2022
  10:40 AM – 12:00 PM