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About newForge Technologies

newForge Technologies is a specialty engineering company focused on providing solutions for cutting edge science and engineering challenges. We excel at taking nascent scientific and technology ideas and making them a reality.

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Engineered for Science

Our team has decades of experience across a broad range of technologies and a track record of delivering effective solutions and products rapidly and efficiently. We are passionate scientists and engineers looking to take on the next big challenge.

Equipped Laboratory

At newForge Technologies, our team occupies several thousand square feet of generously equipped machine shop, engineering, and lab space.  With equipment and facilities for:

  • Optical and Optoelectronics Build and Test
  • Machine Vision
  • Extensive Facilities for Vacuum Testing Solar Cells and Panels
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Areas of expertise

Since 2014, we have been providing a wide range of technological expertise in various electrical domains.

  • Vacuum technology
  • Semiconductors
  • Optics and optoelectronics
  • Photovoltaic technologies, especially space-based PV
  • Electronics
  • Test and equipment automation
  • Data Science (with a focus on signal extraction, image analysis, and modeling)
  • Medical devices (diagnostic and drug delivery)
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Our Clients

We have worked with clients across a wide diversity of industries, providing high-quality and reliable services.

  • Medical devices - both diagnostic and drug delivery
  • Satellite and photovoltaic panels
  • Semiconductors
  • Compound semiconductors
  • Terrestrial solar
  • Telecommunications components
  • Capital equipment for medical and semiconductor manufacturing and test
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Services We Provide

Our team offers engineering design and build of specialty equipment as well as contract research services.

  • Engineering Design
  • Build and Test
  • Test Automation
  • System / Industrial Automation
  • Experimental Design Consulting
  • Machine learning, image processing, signal extraction, and data analysis services
  • Custom Web based visualization and monitoring tools

Our Team

Matthew J. Schurman Ph.D. | Managing Partner

Dr. Matthew J. Schurman has worked for over 23 years in the fields of semiconductors, optical communications, and medical devices.

Matthew J. Schurman

For the last 10 years, he has consulted for a wide range of companies and technical fields from optical sensing, medical diagnostics, data analysis and signal extraction, semiconductors, and spaced based PV technologies.

Managing Partner & Co-founder

Dr. Matthew J. Schurman is the managing partner and co-founder newForge Technologies. He has served at the executive levels of several companies. Dr. Schurman has over 30 technical publications and over 15 patents. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 1996 from Rutgers University and a BA in Physics in 1993 from Franklin and Marshall College.

  • CTO of Grove Technologies, a non-invasive glucose monitoring
  • Founder & CTO of Glucolight Technologies, a non-invasive glucose monitoring
  • Director of Engineering of Qusion Technologies, an optical networking company
  • Director of the Application Lab of Emcore Corporation, a compound semiconductors company
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Richard A. Stall PhD

Dr. Richard A. Stall has worked for over 40 years in the field of compound semiconductors. He has served as a consultant to several companies in the semiconductor and solar energy fields over the last eight years.

Richard A. Stall

During these years as a consultant, his work included studies of UV degradation of solar panels for both space and terrestrial applications.
 

Experienced in Semiconductor Industry

Prior to becoming a consultant, Dr. Richard A. Stall was an executive at Emcore Corporation, a semiconductor company that he co-founded in 1984. He worked at Emcore as a Vice-President, Executive Vice-President, Chief Technical Officer, and member of the Board of Directors from 1984 through 2007. In that time, he directed Emcore’s technical efforts and strategic directions in semiconductor equipment design, solar technology, GaN technology, and fiber optics. Emcore went public in 1997 and reached a peak market capitalization of over $2B in 2000.
 

Commercialization of Research Ideas

Dr. Stall has extensive experience in taking research ideas to commercialization. The MOCVD equipment and the compound semiconductor, solar cell devices that Dr. Richard A. Stall developed with the Emcore technical staff, have grossed over $2B and $900M, respectively, in total sales.
 

Technical Publications

Dr. Richard A. Stall has over 100 technical publications and over 10 patents. In 1980, he graduated with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the age of 23 from Cornell University. He also holds an M.S. from Cornell and B.S. from California Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering.

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Gary D. Hering

Gary D. Hering is a seasoned engineering manager with many years of experience in lean and outsourced manufacturing environments.

Gary D. Hering

He has taken many semiconductor and photovoltaic concepts through engineering design, pilot production, and into volume production. He has a solid background in outsourced manufacturing, including extensive experience in manufacturing in China and Mexico, and has set up numerous efficient manufacturing operations.
 

Founding Member

As a founding member of Emcore TurboDisc and Suncore Photovoltaics, Gary D. Hering has driven the startup businesses to be worldwide leading players in their fields. He has been VP of Suncore Photovoltaics, Direct of Engineering at Veeco Instruments, and Director of Manufacturing of Emcore, Turbodisc. He acquired a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

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Pete Zawadzki

Pete Zawadzki has a 25+ year track record of innovation in development engineering, sustaining engineering, and manufacturing.

Pete Zawadzki

Pete Zawadzki has worked world-wide with customers, vendors, and outsourced manufacturing partners (particularly in China and Mexico).

 

Experienced Leader

With broad experience leading development on a wide variety of projects and technologies from process development of complex semiconductor vapor deposition processes to the development of integrated Opto and mechanical assemblies for concentrator photovoltaic systems, he is a highly flexible hands-on engineer.

 

Chief Scientist

Pete Zawadzki has designed, machined, and built custom mechanical assemblies, built electronic control systems, developed and constructed test equipment. He was a chief scientist as Suncore Photovoltaics and Director of Process Engineering at Emcore Corporation. He acquired his BS of Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

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