It also may serve to catalyze other industrial collaborations of philanthropic support for the institute. He holds more than 30 patents in the field of semiconductor process technology and is the author of more than 30 technical publications. Before joining Applied Materials in 1984, he was a research fellow at the Condensed Matter Laboratory at Colorado State University at Fort Collins. At Applied Materials, Law served as a process engineering director and manager, general manager of the Global Product Organization at AKT and senior vice president of AKT responsible for all business and product operations before becoming president in late 1999. Established in 1999, the UB Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics is a multidisciplinary institute that conducts research and development of new products that harness the power of light.
Applications range from telecommunications to cancer therapy.
Prasad feels basic research alone is not enough and is actively collaborating with business and industry. The efforts are taking the product and technology from fundamental research through prototype fabrication and into the marketplace. One is a plastic infiltration technology that allows for colored dyes and coatings to be infused into many kinds of plastic products after they have been manufactured, a potentially enormous cost-savings to manufacturers who currently must dye the plastic during the manufacturing process. Another technology involves a new generation of highly secure identification cards with high-density information storage.