Study Group: Thermal Processing Experts(?)
Council Members in this Study Group: 16
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Leading Experts in this Study Group
Mel BurksFounder / Senior Partner
Tech Quest Research, LLC
Mel Burks is currently Founder and Senior Partner at Tech Quest Research, LLC. Mr. Burks has over 25 years of experience in process engineering and semiconductor manufacturing from the Front-end to the Back-end. He is experienced in all wafer fabrication processes and knowledgeable on advanced process...
President
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation Americas (SMIC)
Sam Wang, Ph.D., is the President at Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation Americas, a wafer foundry. He is also the venture partner of Asenqua venture, a venture fund based in the Silicon Valley. He serves as the Board Advisor of Sunsil Inc., a semiconductor firm representing wafer...
Managing Director
ISB Ventures
Israel Beinglass, Ph.D., is the Managing Director at ISB Ventures. He was most recently (until 2006) the Chief Technology Officer & Chief Marketing Officer at Applied Materials. He is now working as an independent consultant to the industry. Dr. Beinglass has over 25 years of experience in semiconductor...
Senior Partner
McLaughlin Consulting Group
Steve Jurichich, PhD, is a Senior Partner of Display and Solar Research in McLaughlin Consulting Group, a display & solar market consulting firm. Previously, Dr. Jurichich was Director of Display Technology in DisplaySearch. He has over 20 years of experience in marketing, engineering, supplier quality...
Member of Technical Staff
Spansion LLC
Ankur Agarwal is a member of technical staff at Spansion, a former subsidiary of Advanced Micro Devices specializing in flash memories. He has authored patents in process technology. He specializes in dielectric etch and advanced etch process development and is experienced in developing new etch processes...
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With the skyrocketing cost for developing new processes more and more semiconductor companies are joining the IBM alliance the pre competitive process is getting less and less. NEC is just the last one from a parade of the companies that already joined the alliance. Looks like we are having only...
Development of silicon and III-V compound semiconductor nanostructures offers yet another path for low cost production and increased photovoltaic efficiencies. The real question is when how soon these advanced methods will become commercialized. The decisive factor for the success and production of...
This acquisition is not Lam Research’s first step into wet processing but will be the most significant and application intensive. A very good match considering the industry is in the transitional phase for new materials and device structures at and below the 65nm node and requires an in-depth understanding...
The sluggish memory market combined with the credit crunch changes the dynamic for bank funding of the Intel, STMicroelectronic and Francisco Partners joint venture agreement. This delay could impact select semiconductor capital equipment vendors. Competitor Spansion won’t likely benefit from a 3-month...
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