Boštjan PODOBNIK

Today Dr. Podobnik is the head of the business unit Development equipment in the international concern LPKG Laser & Electronics AG and the managing director of the LPKF d.o.o. in Slovenia. He became fascinated with lasers during his doctoral work at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana. After joining LPKF’s garage laser development team in 1998, he led the introduction of laser technologies in the processes of prototyping and small-scale production of electronic circuits. Today LPKF is the world’s largest manufacturer of equipment in this field, expanding its markets into the areas of laser micromachining in photovoltaics, microfluidics, nanotechnologies, and others. Innovation, engineering excellence, ecology, qualified staff, and strong cooperation with local and international academic and industrial partners have been the foundations of Dr. Podobnik’s business philosophy all this time.

Direct laser structuring of electronic circuits brings many advantages in terms of flexibility, speed, cost, design non-disclosure, and environmental protection. LPKF’s ProtoLasers have therefore found their way into hundreds of R&D laboratories around the globe.

1967 Born in Ljubljana, Slovenia

1992 Degree, majoring on photothermal deflection spectroscopy, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics University of Ljubljana

1998 PhD on ultrafast spectroscopy of high-temperature superconductors, University of Ljubljana

1998 Head of laser department in LPKF d.o.o.

2010 Managing director LPKF d.o.o.

2015 Head of business unit Development quipmnent in the LPKF AG group.

Izbrana dela

B. Berčič, U. Pirnat, ..., B. Podobnik (2006) Transport properties of Mo-6S3I6 nanowire networks. Applied Physics Letters 88:173103.

B. Podobnik et al. (2013) Verfahren zur berührungslosen Abstandsmessung: DE102012106613, DE Patent und Markenamt.

D. Kovačič, J. Van Aalst, B. Podobnik (2016) Method for partially stripping a defined area of a conductive layer: US9414499 (B2), US Patent and Trademark Office.