From soft TIMs to CVD diamond: join our Thermal Live Fall 2026 session on thermal conductivity measurement
Laser Thermal CTO Daniel Schmidt will give the Day 1 keynote at the 2026 Albany Nanotechnology Symposium, October 22 to 23 at UAlbany’s ETEC Building in Albany, New York. His talk is titled “Keeping the AI Era Cool: Thermal Metrology for Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing.” It covers a growing problem: AI processors produce more heat, and the materials and interfaces that carry that heat away need to be measured, not estimated.
The symposium brings together the Albany Nanotech Complex community, including UAlbany, IBM, Tokyo Electron, Applied Materials, NY Creates, GlobalFoundries, and RPI. This year’s program focuses on metrology and the role of AI in semiconductor manufacturing.
About Daniel
Daniel has more than 20 years of experience in semiconductor metrology. Before joining Laser Thermal, he worked on metrology development for EUV lithography at GlobalFoundries. He then led a team at IBM Research in Albany building measurement solutions for next-generation manufacturing. At Laser Thermal, he leads technology strategy and focuses on turning thermal measurements developed in the lab into tools that work in the fab. He is a Senior Member of SPIE and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Micro/Nanopatterning, Materials, and Metrology. Connect with Daniel on LinkedIn.
Our instruments
Laser Thermal builds instruments that directly measure how heat moves through materials and architectures:
