R. Jacob Baker, Ph.D.
Dr. Baker joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Idaho on the Boise State campus in 1993 after receiving his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Nevada, Reno and completing 8 years of work with EG&G as a design engineer. In 2000, he joined the faculty at Boise State University where he helped establish graduate programs in electrical and computer engineering. He became department chair the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in 2004 and served in that position until 2007. He is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boise State. From 1986 to 2001, Dr. Baker`s research centered on analog circuit design for instrumentation and communication systems (sweep circuits, PLLs, data converters, modem design, fiber optic receivers and transmitters, etc.) In the last few years, he has also worked on applying fundamental digital signal processing techniques to enhance sensing in array structures including: displays, CMOS imagers, and floating-gate/nascent memory technologies (e.g., flash, chalcogenide and magnetic). Dr. Baker`s current research focuses on analog and mixed-signal circuit design for communication systems, synchronization, and data conversion especially using the K-Delta-1-Sigma modulator. His research focuses on finding and electronic replacement for the hard disk drive using nascent fabrication technologies. Dr. Baker holds over 200 granted or pending patents in integrated circuit design. Among his inventions is the K-Delta-1-Sigma modulator topology used in the Baker analog-to-digital converter. He is a member of the electrical engineering honor society Eta Kappa Nu, a licensed Professional Engineer, and the author of the books CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation, CMOS: Mixed-Signal Circuit Design, and a coauthor of DRAM Circuit Design: Fundamental and High-Speed Topics. He received the 2000 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Power Electronics Society and the 2007 Frederick Emmons Terman Award. View Full CV

Richard A. Blanchard, Ph.D.
Dr. Blanchard has over 35 years experience in the semiconductor and electronics industries, with Fairchild Semiconductor, Supertex, Siliconix, IXYS Corporation, Failure Analysis Associates (Exponent), IP Managers and SVEWG. Dr. Blanchard has also served as an independent consultant and expert witness in semiconductor technology, and a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Foothill College. Dr. Blanchard was previously Principal Engineer and Engineering Manager of the Electrical & Electronic Division of Failure Analysis (Exponent) Associates, where he was employed for seven years. As Division Manager, he performed numerous forensic tests and analysis of electronic and electrical systems and of semiconductor devices. These were often subject to legal disputes, particularly those involving intellectual property rights. Dr. Blanchard has testified in court and served on numerous occasions as an expert witness on technologies that include MOS, MOSFET & bipolar device technology; semiconductor device physics; microchip fabrication & analysis; electronic systems; electrical & electronic failures; ESD & EOS failures; semiconductor device/integrated circuit assembly & packaging; CMOS, DMOS & BiCMOS; power IC`s & power electronics; printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing; semiconductor process & control. In addition, he has served as an arbitrator and a "Special Master" to the court. Dr. Blanchard has published several books and numerous articles on semiconductor technology and devices. He holds more than 130 US patents on semiconductor technology and is a member of the IEEE, the Electrostatic Discharge Society, and the International Micro-circuits and Packaging Society. He received his BSEE and MSEE degrees from MIT in 1970 and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1982. View Full CV

John C. Bravman, Ph.D.
Dr. Bravman has over 25 years experience consulting for the computer, semiconductor, consumer electronics and material sciences industries with Fairchild Semiconductor Laboratories, Lockheed, National Semiconductor, Advanced Micro Devices, IBM, Intel and Applied Plasma Laboratories. Dr. Bravman currently serves at Stanford University as the Bing Centennial Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and, by courtesy, Electrical Engineering, the Freeman Thornton Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, and Dean of the Freshman-Sophomore College. Dr. Bravman joined the Stanford faculty in 1984 after completing his B.S. (1979), M.S. (1982), and Ph.D. (1984) degrees at Stanford. From 1996 to 1999 he was Chairman of his department, and from 1992 to 2001 he was the Senior Associate Dean in the School of Engineering. Dr. Bravman has consulted and testified in numerous intellectual property litigation matters in Federal, District and ITC venues concerning integrated circuit (IC) failure processes and phenomena, mechanical behavior of thin films, high spatial resolution materials analysis, microelectronic materials analysis, electromigration phenomena, microelectronic packaging, structures and materials. He has also served the government on many review boards, including the Solid State Sciences Committee, and has served on or chaired the National Advisory Board of the Materials Programs at Sandia National Laboratories and the Chemical and Materials Sciences Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. In 1994 he was President of the Materials Research Society. Dr. Bravman teaches and advises undergraduates at all levels and directs doctoral students in the areas of silicon process technology, the mechanical properties of thin films, and transmission electron microscopy. He is co-author of over 170 research publications. He has won nine teaching and advising awards while at Stanford, served as a Resident Fellow, a University Fellow, and has chaired many university committees on integrated circuit manufacturing. View Full CV

Krishna Shenai, Ph.D.
Dr. Shenai has over 30 years of combined industry, research, academic, consulting and entrepreneurial experience with COMSAT Labs, General Electric Corporate R&D Center, Intel Corporation, The University of Wisconsin Madison, The University of Illinois - Chicago, Utah State University and the University of Toledo. Dr. Shenai has also served as an independent consultant for over 50 Fortune-2000 companies worldwide, and has testified in court on several occasions as an expert witness on matters related to intellectual property litigation. His expertise covers the physics and technology of semiconductor devices and integrated circuits used for signal and power processing, semiconductor manufacturing, low-power mixed-signal and RF/microwave electronics, power semiconductor devices and power electronics, power management, renewable energy and smart power grid, sensors and wireless communication networks, environmental sensing and ecosystem monitoring, medical devices and biomedical instrumentation, robotic surgery, and electronics system failure and reliability. He is a named inventor in 12 issued US patents and over 40 international patents, and has authored or co-authored over 350 peer-reviewed publications of which more than 100 are in IEEE journals. He has edited 3 books and contributed to 8 book chapters. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of AAAS, a Fellow of IETE (India), a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Electron Devices Society, and a member of the Yugoslavian National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Shenai received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics from Indian Institute of Technology - Madras in 1979, a MSEE degree from The University of Maryland - College Park, MD in 1981, and his Ph.D. degree in EE from Stanford University in 1986. View Full CV

1002
Expert has over 40 years of experience in the design of semiconductor products and has a Ph.D. in Computers and Communications. He has more than 10 patents in the areas of CMOS design, cryogenic memory, and memory addressing. He has over 25 engagements as a semiconductor expert witness. His notable career includes early work in the technical areas of color television, moving to solid state electronics, LEDs and photodiodes, developing major CMOS product lines, managing microprocessor business divisions, and new processors for mainframe computers. His later career history includes business and technical management for large and small corporations in the fields of microcontrollers, ASIC and RISC systems. Currently an independent consultant, he works with clients to assist their development, analysis, and launch of new semiconductor products. He has been heavily involved in advanced technology development, operations, applications, process, packaging, marketing and business planning across many different product lines.

• Intellectual Property Research
• Patent Analysis and Evaluation
• Prior Art Search
• Expert Witness
• Litigation Damage Analysis
• ITC Action Support
• Semiconductor Memory
• Microcontroller Technology
• Microprocessor Technology
• Embedded Processors
• RISC Processors
• Digital Circuits
• Analog Circuits
• ASIC
• IP Macros
• Megacells
• DRAM, SRAM. Flash, EEPROM
• IC Packaging
• Semiconductor Process
• Plasma Etch and CVD

1013
Expert has a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering and over twenty years experience in high-speed fiber-optic and electronic component design and manufacturing, semiconductor fabrication, and device physics. His experience includes original theoretical and experimental contributions in the field of optical and microwave semiconductor devices, development of semiconductor device processes and equipment. He has fourteen patents and previous experience as an expert witness with testifying experience.

• Semiconductor lasers
• Microwave semiconductor diodes
• Light-emitting diodes (LED)
• Fiber-optics and devices
• Silicon and compound semiconductor device processing and process characterization
• Semiconductor processing equipment
• Mathematical modeling of electronic and opto-electronic devices, packages, and systems
• Microwave and high-speed optical test equipment and methods

1016
Expert is a professional engineer with experience in execution of engineering programs. He has completed complex product development programs on schedule and within budget while directing a few engineers to multi-disciplinary teams of 50 or more. He has successfully completed several major, highly technical development programs in the semiconductor equipment industry. His industry knowledge includes front-end equipment with Epi, CVD, Etch, PVD, and CMP processes, and metrology equipment including optical tools used for CD, defect and film analyses. He has design experience with high reliability mechanisms, machine design and overall system architecture. He has two patents and has previous expert experience.

• Semiconductor Equipment Design
• New Product Program Management
• Various semiconductor process application including Etch, CVD, CMP and Epi deposition
• Various inspection equipment
• Mechanisms Design for both atmospheric and vacuum application
• Reliability of systems and components
• Manufacturing and Supplier management
• Risk Management
• Business Financial Health

1020
Expert has 30 years of experience establishing and managing technology marketing and sales organizations throughout America, Europe and Asia. He is a management and forensic consultant advising parties involved with contracts between manufacturers` representatives, suppliers, global customers and industrial distributors. His career history includes President, Advanced Micro Devices Japan; President, Components Division of Western Micro Technology; and Vice-President, North American Sales & Marketing for Philips Semiconductors. He has been an expert witness in nine engagements.

• Electronics Inventory Management
• Electronics Manufacturing
• International Marketing and Sales
• Manufacturers` Representatives
• Strategic Planning
• Industrial Distribution
• Public Relations
• Contract Negotiations

1022
Expert has broad experience with the individual processes and the process sequences used to produce Integrated Circuits and with the logistics and economics of Integrated Circuit manufacturing. His initial work in the semiconductor industry was developing specific processes; later he supervised teams that developed many individual processes that were integrated together into a coherent manufacturing flow. He also worked in wafer fabrication factories as an engineer, engineering manager and manufacturing manager with the responsibility of utilizing, maintaining and improving individual processes. He has been responsible for product development and quality and product manufacturing. His duties have included general management of the U.S. operations of a memory chip company. He is an experienced expert witness and has been deposed.

• CMOS Manufacturing Process
• IC Manufacturing process Control
• Integrated Circuit Manufacturing
• Microchip Fabrication & Analysis
• Microelectronics Fab Operations
• Quality Assurance of IC Products
• Semiconductor Memory
• Semiconductor Process
• Electrical failure

1023
Expert has over 25-years of experience in technologies related to device physics and materials science. He has a proven record of original development and inventions that cover materials for displays, optoelectronics, integrated circuits and optical recording devices. In recent years, he has demonstrated leadership in assisting emerging new companies with issues related to technology and enterprise development.

• Device Physics
• III-V Materials
• Materials Science
• Optoelectronics
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• Semiconductor Memory
• Superconductor Materials
• Superconductor Electronics
• Flat Panel Display Technology
• Thin Film Cathode Technology
• Optical Recording Technology

1037
Expert has over 35 years of experience and is a senior semiconductor operations, engineering and facilities safety director. He has hands-on technical and management expertise in the specification, development and operations of clean rooms, microelectronics assembly, chemical, gas, gas safety, and alarm technologies. His manufacturing experience includes automatic testing & control and component electronics from IC/logic design to yield engineering, communications, and major computer systems. His previous positions include Director of Plant Engineering and Risk Management, Vice-President of Manufacturing Engineering, Director of Test and Assembly, and an Endowed Chair of Process Engineering for a new Microelectronics Processing Engineering Program at a Silicon Valley university. Currently he consults and performs audits on technical operations, facilities, safety systems, and personnel selection. He has previous expert witness experience.

• Automatic Testing and Control
• Clean Room Design
• Semiconductor Chemical Gas & Gas Safety Technology
• Semiconductor Fab Operations
• Semiconductor Facilities Management
• Semiconductor Yield Engineering

1039
Expert has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University with over 20 years of research experience. He has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Group Leader for Extreme UV Lithography at a major California university for over 10 years. His research interests include: deep sub-micron silicon VLSI technology, fabrication, and device physics; Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography; Optical metrology; Interferometry and Fourier optics; and ultrafast carrier dynamics in electronic materials. He previously worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories for 13 years as a researcher and group leader responsible for optical and laser science, and later for creating technologies relevant to silicon IC manufacturing for a horizon of the next ten years. His numerous major research accomplishments include development of small nanometer gate-length MOSFET devices and MOS devices fabricated with ultraviolet lithography. He has 3 patents and has prior expert witness experience from 8 previous engagements.

• Device Physics
• Nanotechnology
• Laser Technology
• Microchip Fabrication
• Optics
• Semiconductor Physics
• Semiconductor Process
• VLSI Technology

1088
The expert has extensive experience with laser and optical systems, manufacturing process control, instrument design, analytical methods, and related techniques.

• Laser and Optical Systems
• Laser CVD Technology
• Laser Texturing
• Manufacturing Process
• Optical Inspection Mythology
• Rigid Disk Media
• Rigid Disk Surface Texturing
• Rigid Disk Teratology

1095
Expert has over 30 years of industry experience. He is a consulting professor in the Electrical Engineering department at a prominent university. He provides technical advice and support to various professors and students regarding all aspects of semiconductor technology. He is an experienced expert witness with numerous expert witness assignments including deposition and trial testimony.

• Semiconductor fabrication processes
• Silicon thermal oxidation
• Silicon wafer cleaning and etching
• Semiconductor surface physics and chemistry
• Semiconductor physics

1118
This expert has over 30 years experience in laser physics, laser applications, and optical systems. He is well published in his field and worked within both the public and private sectors. Although he spent the majority of his career working at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, he has spent the last 10 years as a consultant and litigation support expert.

• Lasers (all types), Electro-Optical and Optical Systems
• Lasers in Wafer Processing
• Lasers for Medical Applications
• Light Scattering and Optical Inspection methods
• Optical Chip Technologies using Waveguides, Diode Lasers & Optical Fiber Technology
• Modeling & Analysis
• Software & analysis for product performance and optimization
• X-Ray Projection Lithography
• UV Lasers for Fusion
• Laser System Design & Performance Optimization
• Laser Safety

1145
This expert has over 10 years of experience in semiconductor processing and manufacturing. He has a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering. He is extensively published, holds numerous patents, and has extensive litigation support experience.

• Semiconductor Processing
• Semiconductor Equipment
• Low k dielectric films
• Plasma Processing
• Diamond Like Carbon (DLC)
• Thin Film Characterization
• Ultra High Purity Gas and Chemical Delivery Systems
• Vacuum Systems
• Corrosive Gas Technology
• Finite Element Analysis
• Project Turnaround
• Related Market Segment Analysis

1154
This expert the Director of the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at major California research university. He is now a part-time Professor in the departments of General Engineering, Materials Engineering, and Electrical Engineering, teaches courses in the field of Integrated Circuit Processing, and manages the IC Labs. He is well known in Integrated Circuit educational circles for running the National Science Foundation (NSF) Microfabrication Laboratory Workshop, a series of one-week workshops for undergraduate faculty, sponsored by the National Science Foundation on IC laboratory education. In addition, this expert has held over 60 sessions of a three-day laboratory course on microfabrication in the IC Labs entitled the Microfabrication Laboratory Short Course. This short course focuses on wafer manufacturing technology for Integrated Circuits, testing and packaging technology and the chemistry and materials science of wafer fabrication processes. Both Bipolar and MOS technologies are included along with issues related to factory management, microcontamination, yield, and other related topics.

• Microchip Fabrication
• Semiconductor Process
• Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment
• Plasma CVD
• Contamination Detection
• Selective Tungsten Deposition
• Antifuse Link Technology
• Programmable EPROM Failure Mechanisms
• Silicon Interstitial Defects
• Silicon Trench Etch

1157
With over 35 years experience, this expert has held a wide range of senior technical and marketing positions in the semiconductor, semiconductor equipment, and aerospace industries with more than twenty publications and patents.

• CVD
• Exhaust Gas Treatment
• Litigation Support
• Materials Science
• Plasma Etch or Dry Etch
• Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment
• Semiconductor Process
• Silicon Epatoxy

1160
This expert has over thirty years of R&D and Engineering contributions to the semiconductor capital equipment industry in the areas of thin film deposition, vacuum system design and plasma processing of materials. He has been a pioneer in the development of magnetron sputtering hardware and processes for the metallization of silicon integrated circuits. He has also been instrumental in the development of cluster tool and 300mm interface standards for semiconductor fabrication equipment.

• Physical metallurgy
• Thin film metallurgy
• Planar and hollow-cathode magnetron (HCM) sputter source design
• Vacuum system design
• PVD thin film process and process control
• Electrostatic chuck technology
• Magnetic modeling
• Cluster tool design and interfaces
• Semiconductor manufacturing Equipment
• SEMI Standards

1161
This expert has over 30 years of experience in the communications, optical devices and semiconductor device industries. He has served as the leader of large research and development departments, government contract programs and commercial component manufacturing teams. He is a professionally recognized speaker with service on several university industrial advisory boards and professional conference committees. He has authored over 50 papers in the professional literature and holds 39 US patents. He is currently a consultant and advisor to industry regarding properties of materials, commercialization of manufacturing processes, intellectual property and precision packaging of optical and optoelectronic components.

• Optical fiber alignment
• Photonics and optoelectronics packaging
• Epitaxial crystal growth
• MEMS development
• Telecom systems analysis
• High speed IC design
• Semiconductor fabrication
• Laser and detector technology
• Optical switch development
• Power semiconductor devices
• Flat panel displays, electronics
• Light source technology
• O and OE integration
• Microwave electronic

1163
This expert has over 18 years of experience in materials science and semiconductor processing. He has experience in all common deposition methods including CVD, ALD, MOCVD, and PVD. She has experience in both metallization and dielectric layers. Expert also has extensive experience in the development and management of IP portfolios and IP strategy.

• Technical IP Asset Analysis
• Thin films and diffusion
• Semiconductor processing
• Materials science
• Technology Due Diligence
• IP Strategy
• Deposition technology

1197
This expert has over 30 years experience in semiconductor manufacturing and display devices. This experience includes significant time in industry and academic environments. He has been involved in litigation support and consulting for over 10 years. He holds numerous patents in his field, is extensively published, and frequent presenter at conferences.

• Semiconductor Processes
• Electronic Packaging
• Liquid Crystal Displays
• Electrochemical devices: batteries and fuel cells
• Electrodeposition

1263
Expert is a digital development engineer with 21-years experience performing and directing the development of complex digital systems from system architecture to component level and semi-custom LSI and VLSI implementation. He is an experienced patent litigation expert.

• ATM & Frame Relay
• Data Communications
• Data Multiplexing
• Optical Communications
• T-Carrier, SONET and SYNTRAN
• Transmission
• VLSI, ASIC Design
• X.25, TCP/IP and Ethernet Protocols

1276
Expert has a Ph.D. in Physics and has broad experience and depth of expertise in the various processes, process sequences, associated equipment, and manufacturing process control systems essential to competitiveness in the semiconductor and also the broader microelectronics industry, including displays and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). His current research includes new programs in biomaterials, biomedical MEMS, and combinatorial materials science, as well as ongoing work related to semiconductors (equipment, Si and GaN materials and processes, sensing, simulation, advanced process control, environmentally benign manufacturing) and to simulation-based learning systems for education and technical training. He is able to serve as an expert witness in the following: Semiconductor & microelectronics manufacturing, Materials & processes for semiconductor technology - Si, SiGe, GaN, Process integration & yield, Chemical vapor deposition - dielectrics, metals, semiconductors, Plasma etch & deposition, Advanced interconnect technology - Cu, low-K, Damascene, Real-time, in-situ chemical sensing, Metrology & advanced process control. Process sequences & integration for CMOS, displays, and MEMS, Ultraclean & cluster tool processing, Advanced equipment design, Optical properties & sensors, Silicides, contacts, diffusion barriers, Packaging technology, soft materials, Modeling, simulation, & optimization, Hardware/software co-design, Biomaterials, MEMS & biotechnology, Surface, interface & thin film science.

• Semiconductor & microelectronics manufacturing
• Materials & processes for semiconductor technology - Si, SiGe, GaN
• Process integration & yield
• Chemical vapor deposition - dielectrics, metals, semiconductors
• Plasma etch & deposition
• Advanced interconnect technology - Cu, low-K, Damascene
• Real-time, in-situ chemical sensing
• Metrology & advanced process control
• Process sequences & integration for CMOS, displays, and MEMS
• Ultraclean & cluster tool processing
• Advanced equipment design
• Optical properties & sensors
• Silicides, contacts, diffusion barriers
• Packaging technology, soft materials
• Modeling, simulation, & optimization
• Hardware/software co-design
• Biomaterials, MEMS & biotechnology
• Surface, interface & thin film science

1292
Expert`s experience involves micro-electronic manufacturing processes. These include chemical processing of materials, tool selection and clean room development. He has prior expert experience.

• CMP integration
• New Product Introduction
• Cleanroom Development/Construction
• Chemical Processing
• Training/Mentoring Staff
• Microelectronic Manufacturing
• Tool selection/Supplier Dev
• Nanotechnology