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Past Events:

October 27, 2005
September 22, 2005
August 25, 2005
July 28, 2005
June 23, 2005
May 26, 2005
April 28, 2005
March 31, 2005
February 24, 2005
January 27, 2005

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Date: Thursday - October 27, 2005
Time: 6:00-6:30pm - Refreshments
6:30-7:30pm - Presentation
Location: SEMATECH (view map)
Room 3-D
  Note: The visitor lobby is open until 6 pm. Anyone arriving before 6 can go there to sign in. Park in the second parking lot on the right and enter near the flag pole, north side of building in the middle. After 6 pm everyone needs to enter through the east lobby. Park in the first parking lot on the right and enter through the door with the ATDF sign over it. For either entrance you will need to sign in and call for an escort.
Topic: Silicon Nanocyrstals
Speaker: Dr. Ramachandran Muralidhar, Freescale Semiconductor
Minutes: Available
Slides: Presentation Slides (zip)

Date: Thursday - September 22, 2005
Time: 6:00-6:30pm - Refreshments
6:30-7:30pm - Presentation
Location: SEMATECH (view map)
Room 3-D
  Note: The visitor lobby is open until 6 pm. Anyone arriving before 6 can go there to sign in. Park in the second parking lot on the right and enter near the flag pole, north side of building in the middle. After 6 pm everyone needs to enter through the east lobby. Park in the first parking lot on the right and enter through the door with the ATDF sign over it. For either entrance you will need to sign in and call for an escort.
Topic: ULK integration issues for 45nm and beyond
Speaker: Dr. Dorel Toma, Tokyo Electron Limited
Minutes: Available
Slides: Presentation Slides (pdf)

Date: Thursday - August 25, 2005
Time: 6:00-6:30pm - Refreshments
6:30-7:30pm - Presentation
Location: SEMATECH (view map)
Room F-C
  Note: The visitor lobby is open until 6 pm. Anyone arriving before 6 can go there to sign in. Park in the second parking lot on the right and enter near the flag pole, north side of building in the middle. After 6 pm everyone needs to enter through the east lobby. Park in the first parking lot on the right and enter through the door with the ATDF sign over it. For either entrance you will need to sign in and call for an escort.
Topic: Metamorphosis: Going From One Non-Human Life Form to Another
Speaker: George R. Meyer, Attorney at Law with Toler Larson & Abel
Speaker Bio: George Meyer has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois. He worked at Cypress Semiconductor while attending law school at Santa Clara University, from which he received his Juris Doctor. George is licensed to practice law in California, Texas, and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is a registered as a Professional Engineer in California. George is familiar with transitions from engineering to law, as he is responsible for training at his current law firm of Toler, Larson & Abel.
Slides: Presentation Slides (ppt)

Date: Thursday - July 28, 2005
Time: 6:00-6:30pm - Refreshments
6:30-7:30pm - Presentation
Location: SEMATECH (view map)
Room F-C
  Note: The visitor lobby is open until 6 pm. Anyone arriving before 6 can go there to sign in. Park in the second parking lot on the right and enter near the flag pole, north side of building in the middle. After 6 pm everyone needs to enter through the east lobby. Park in the first parking lot on the right and enter through the door with the ATDF sign over it. For either entrance you will need to sign in and call for an escort.
Topic: 2005-2006 Semiconductor Market Overview
Speaker: Ken Davis, Chief Economist Freescale Semiconductor
Slides: Ken Davis' Presentation (ppt)
Minutes: Available

Date: Thursday - June 23, 2005
Time: 6:00-6:30pm - Refreshments
6:30-7:30pm - Presentation
Location: SEMATECH (view map)
Room 3-D
  Note: The visitor lobby is open until 6 pm. Anyone arriving before 6 can go there to sign in. Park in the second parking lot on the right and enter near the flag pole, north side of building in the middle. After 6 pm everyone needs to enter through the east lobby. Park in the first parking lot on the right and enter through the door with the ATDF sign over it.
Topic: Atomic Design of Advanced Gate Stacks for CMOS Technology
Speaker: Prof. Alex Demkov, University of Texas, Dept of Physiscs
Speaker Bio: Dr. Alex Demkov joined the faculty of the UT Physics Department in January of 2005. He is a theoretical physicist, and from 1997 till 2005 he has worked in Motorola R&D Organizations focusing in the area of high performance transistor materials development. He is Adjunct Professor of Physics at Arizona State University where he has received his Ph.D. in 1995. Dr. Demkov has authored and co-authored over 60 publications, contributed to two scientific books, and edited a book on high-k dielectrics, he holds three U.S. patents. He served as chairman and organizer of several national and international meetings. In 2002-2004 he served as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B. Currently, he serves on the program committee of the 2006 American Physical Society March Meeting. He is a member of the ItrS Emerging Research Devices working group, and of the NSF High Performance Computing Resource Allocations committee.
Slides: No slides will be posted.
Minutes: Available

Date: Thursday - May 26, 2005
Time: 6:00-6:30pm - Refreshments
6:30-7:30pm - Presentation
Location: MER160, Room 2.114 J.J. Pickle Research Campus
10100 Burnet Road, Building 160 , Austin, TX 78758 (view map)
Topic: Noise and Reliability of High-k Gate Stacks
Speaker: Zeynep Celik-Butler
Minutes: Available

Date: Thursday - April 28, 2005
Time: 6:00-6:30pm - Refreshments
6:30-7:30pm - Presentation
Location: MER160, Room 2.114 J.J. Pickle Research Campus
10100 Burnet Road, Building 160 , Austin, TX 78758 (view map)
Topic: High Power Photodiode for Antenna Applications
Speaker: Paul K. L. Yu
Slides: Paul Yu's Presentation (zip)
Minutes: Available

Date: Thursday - March 31, 2005
Time: 6:00-6:30pm - Refreshments
6:30-7:30pm - Presentation
Location: MER160, Room 2.114 J.J. Pickle Research Campus
10100 Burnet Road, Building 160 , Austin, TX 78758 (view map)
Topic: Characterization Techniques for High-k gate Dielectrics
Speaker: Chadwin Young
Speaker Bio: Chadwin D. Young received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996. He then went on to receive a M.S. and Ph.D. from the North Carolina State University in 1998 and 2004, respectively. He has held several internships during this time until 2001 when he joined SEMATECH. Here, he completed his dissertation research on high-k gate stacks. He now continues this research at SEMATECH as a project engineer specializing in pulse-based characterization methodologies for the evaluation of charge trapping properties in high-k gate stacks.
Slides: Chadwin Young's Presentation (ppt)
Minutes: Available

Date: Thursday - February 24, 2005
Time: 6:00-6:30pm - Refreshments
6:30-7:30pm - Presentation
Location: MER160, Room 2.114 J.J. Pickle Research Campus
10100 Burnet Road, Building 160 , Austin, TX 78758 (view map)
Topic: Common Mistakes of Parametric Testing
Speaker: Bill Verzi
Slides: Bill Verzi's Presentation (ppt)
Minutes: Available

Date: Thursday - January 27, 2005
Time: 6:00-6:30pm - Refreshments
6:30-7:30pm - Presentation
Location: MER160, Room 2.114 J.J. Pickle Research Campus
10100 Burnet Road, Building 160 , Austin, TX 78758 (view map)
Topic: 2005 Semiconductor Market Overview
Speaker: Ken Davis, Chief Economist Freescale Semiconductor
Slides: Ken Davis's Presentation (ppt)
Minutes: Available

   
           

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