Nitta

Scientist Ii @Nitto Denko Technical Corporation

Oceanside, CA, US

Adhesives• Responsible for high performance stimuli-responsive adhesives with a pending patent.• Radical polymerization to produce composite matrix with precisely tuned adhesion characteristics.• Organized and processed large sets of data to identify key structure property trends leading to optimized design of cross-linkers to solve rheological issues.Liquid crystals• Responsible for polymer dispersed liquid crystal for electro-optics with provisional patent pending and WO patent.• Accomplished the best electro-optical performance with designed structure of mesogen by optimizing structure-property relations to thermal, optical, and electrical characteristics.Photopolymers• Responsible for photoresist for metasurface using lithography.• Responsible for master mold creation for customizable metalens for AR/VR/MR.• Proved designed initiator concepts leading to high-resolution metasurface. • Determined root cause of 3D printed structure deformation by SEM observation and organization of its statistical data. • Created metalens through nanoimprinter with collaborators at Nitto Japan using in-house 3D printed master mold to understand metalens fabrication process wholistically.• Initiated collaboration with porous technology team at Nitto Japan for prototyping using laser lithography to validate novel sensor membrane with selective moisture and air permeation.• Resolved unexpected problems with novel 3D printer techniques and communicated solutions to its vendor.Electrical insulators• Won innovation competition for creation of new businesses for Nitto Group. • Responsible for dielectric insulation to be used in high voltage direct current cable. • Delivered high-stability inorganic polymer-based composite sheets to internal and external collaborators.• Involved particle surface modification, formulation, compounding with matrix polymers & extrusion, and sheet fabrication.• Recognized by collaborators as new basic technology with useful properties.