Biography
Education
- Ph.D. in Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1973
- M.S. in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1963
- AB Honors Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1962
Professional Experience
- 1995-Present
- President and CEO of Device Concept Inc.
- 1994-Present
- Expert witness in device physics and high technology patent cases before federal court of the U.S.A.
- 2000-Present
- Emeritus Professor, University of California, Davis. Research activities a variety of Ion Cut technologies and structures, in three-dimensional microstructures, semiconductor devices, solid-state sensors and actuators. Direct Bonding and SOI.
- 2003-Present
- Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Physics Dept. Queens University, Belfast University.
- 2008-Present
- Member of the Strategy Advisory Board EPIR Technologies
- 2009-2011
- Senior Director Product Innovation, EPIR Technologies
- 1987-2000
- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. University of California, Davis. Research activities a variety of Ion Cut structures and Technologies, in three-dimensional microstructures, semiconductor devices, solid-state sensors and actuators. Direct Bonding and SOI.
- 2003-2008
- President of Bower Technology Inc. (BTI)
- 1986-1987
- Visiting Professor-Technical university of Munich. Research in biosensors and recrystallized silicon.
- 1979-1985
- Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Served as a Senior Scientist and Manager of Bipolar Device Technology. In this capacity responsible for all new technology and design development and responsible for maintaining yield, reliability and performance standards on existing products in the division. Earlier work in the MOS division included manager of flash and redundancy technologies and development of nonvolatile RAMS.
- 1977-1978
- Associate Professor, Electrical Science and Engineering Department, UCLA. Taught courses in circuit theory, semiconductor devices physics and VLSI methodology.
- 1975-1977
- Mnemonics Inc.-General Partner, Vice President and then President of this CCD memory systems company. This company developed the first 64k CCD memory chips.
- 1970-1975
- Consultant to TRW, Intel, Honeywell, GCA, AMD, Xerox, Hughes, U.S. Army, Universal Design, Nitron, Motorola, Datapoint, ITT, High Voltage Engineering and Eurocil. this consulting work spanned the areas of metal-semiconductor reliability, ion implantation, MOS memories, CMOS, silicon gate processing and CCD development.
- 1965-1970
- Hughes A.C. Assistant Division Manager, MOS Division. Directed engineering and assisted in building MOS business at Hughes, which grew to be the most successful division in this billion-dollar corporation. Manager of the Applied Solid State Research Department of the Hughes Research laboratories. Directed all MOS, Microwave Solid State and Ion Implantation activities. Work in this department led to the commercial use of ion implantation in semiconductor processing. This work provided Hughes with a leadership position in CMOS watch circuitry that allowed them to become the largest producer of watch circuits in the world. The work resulting in the self-aligned gate ion implanted MOSFET was accomplished in this department.
