Daniel K. Weber

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Daniel K. Weber (born 1959) pioneered the worldwide market for point-of-use gas purification devices used in semiconductor fabrication. He introduced both the Nanochem and MonoTorr, organometallic and getter based technologies.[1] In the 1990s he became CEO of SAES Pure Gas, Inc.[2]

Weber holds several patents [3], three recent ones plus his first issued in 1991 titled, "Method and Apparatus for Removing Oxygen from a Semiconductor Processing Chamber." [4]

He lectures part-time at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California.[5]

He is an ordained minister of the Roman Catholic Church [6], and serves as Catholic Chaplain at the Atascadero State Hospital in California, a maximum security facility designed to house the criminally insane.[7]